Literary Fiction | Fiction
Feb.29.2008
When David Walton, a little-known American playwright, abandons his wife, his three-year-old daughter, and his unborn child for Sarah Cope, a renowned star of the English stage and screen, it causes an international scandal. Though not for the same reasons, his behavior shocks even the person who...
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Feb.29.2008
Beyond a handsome face and perfect body, Frankie Ferraro has few assets, but that doesn't stop him from having big ambitions. Young and romantic, he finds the life led by his immigrant father, his adoring mother, his hard-working sister, by his entire extended family, to be ordinary, and dull. He...
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Feb.29.2008
On a rainy April night in 1917, a passing vagrant sees a young woman fall (or is it jump?) into New York City's Hudson River. He tries to save her, but fails. The police tentatively identify the woman as Lily Canning, twenty-five years old, from Minuit, a town in the Hudson Valley.
But is it Lily?...
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Feb.28.2008
In Book Savvy, Cynthia Katona has compiled a complete handbook for students and lovers of literature. Based on Katona's thirty-one-year career of teaching introductory literature to college freshmen, this book aims to teach not only how to read literature but also how to actually enjoy reading it....
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Feb.26.2008
A sometimes funny, sometimes magical first novel, The Wishing Box explores the surprising and unintended consequences of getting what you ask for. Julia, an almost-30 single mom whose life is mostly together, lives in Oakland with her seven-year-old son. Never suspecting it will actually work, she...
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Feb.25.2008
Nestled in the deep mountains of Appalachia is Leatherwood, Tennessee, home to the Flint family—Pentecostal Holiness preachers who spread the word of the gospels with poisonous snakes and lye. Charles, a preacher and the Flint’s patriarch, believes that his 10-year-old son Jacob is a prophet....
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Feb.23.2008
"A treat for any fiction lover...a poignant, lovely read."--Library Journal
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Feb.20.2008
The story of Rainer Maria Rilke, author of the beloved "Letters to a Young Poet" and "The Duino Elegies," and one of the most uniquely sensitive artists of the modern age.
From Rilke's troubled beginnings--reared as a girl until age six, then sent to military school for five...
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Feb.17.2008
A dark and funny tiki-styled retelling of Macbeth set in South Florida.
You take some "surf's up" magic realism, a dead body, a little Buddhist philosophy, a Barry Manilow impersonator with a dog named Mandy, and Danni "Queen of Scream" Keene (the unflappable goddess of horror...
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Feb.15.2008
Chet Griffin, convicted computer hacker and San Francisco’s fastest rollerblading messenger, is given a simple assignment. But that delivery turns deadly. On a routine run, Chet’s messenger co-worker is murdered, and Chet barely escapes with his life. Turns out the package Chet was carrying...
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