New Books

Enchantment: New and Selected Stories by Thaisa Frank The short fiction of Thaisa Frank has captivated readers for two decades, and now many of those pieces are collected in one volume, along with several new stories... More about this book »	America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't by Stephen Colbert Book store nation, in the history of mankind there has never been a greater country than America. You could say we're the #1 nation at being the best at greatness.... More about this book »
I Am a Pole (And So Can You) by Stephen Colbert Stephen is excited to celebrate the publication of his first children's book, I Am a Pole (And So Can You!). It is the heartfelt tale of a pole searching for... More about this book »	The Way of the Modern Warrior - Living the Samurai Ideal in the... by Stephen Kaufman The Way of the Modern Warrior is an explanation of the ethos of Japan's samurai warriors, practiced for over 1000 years. The author, Hanshi Stephen Kaufman, has... More about this book »
The Poems of Wing Lei by Alex Grant A monk-poet born in the JiangXi province of China in the mid-9th century, Wing Lei was a contemporary of the Chinese poetry masters Li Po, Tu Fu, and Wang Wei. His... More about this book »	Tweakers: How Crystal Meth Is Ravaging Gay America by Frank Sanello More than 250 crystal methamphetamine users and those who treat them were interviewed for this book. One after another, stories were told of lives destroyed by a... More about this book »
City Chronicles: A Tale of Nine Cities by Deborah Cater A Tale of Nine Cities relates the tale of an eye-opening and inspirational trip taken by two 30 year-old friends around Central and Eastern Europe by train.... More about this book »	Haveli by Suzanne Staples The world of Newbery Honor book Shabanu is vividly re-created in this novel of a young Pakistani woman's heartbreaking struggle against the tyranny of custom and... More about this book »
The House of Djinn by Suzanne Staples It has been ten years since Shabanu staged her death to secure the safety of her daughter, Mumtaz, from her husband’s murderous brother. Mumtaz has been raised by... More about this book »	Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Staples The lives of Shabanu and her family are governed by the winds that sweep across the Cholistan Desert and by centuries-old traditions. Like the winds that carry... More about this book »

The 6th Target (co-written with Maxine Paetro) by James Patterson When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women’s Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before... More about this book »	How to Be by Lisa Brown Geared toward small children, helping them imagine themselves as other beings. More about this book »
Baby Mix Me a Drink by Lisa Brown Supposedly written for babies, but really for their parents, this series hilariously suggests that babies can do things like mix cocktails and change car oil if... More about this book »	The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer “We are each the love of someone’s life.” So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other. At his birth, Max’s... More about this book »
The Path of Minor Planets by Andrew Sean Greer In 1965, on a small island in the South China Sea, a group of astronomers gather to witness the passing of a comet, but when a young boy dies during a meteor shower... More about this book »	This War Called Love: Nine Stories by Alejandro Murguia This War Called Love is the second collection of stories by American Book Award-winner Alejandro Murguia (Southern Front). Young Reymundo’s idyllic life in 1950s... More about this book »
Southern Front by Alejandro Murguia A fictionalized account of the experiences of the international volunteers by one participant who fought with the Sandinistas against the Somoza regime in Nicaragua... More about this book »	Volcan: Poems from Central America by Alejandro Murguia “A contact bomb, a volcano ready to erupt” describes not only Central America in the 1980s but—in the conception of its editors—this anthology of contraband poetry... More about this book »
Terciopelo violento (The Violence of Velvet) by Juvenal Acosta More about this book »	The Tattoo Hunter by Juvenal Acosta From the date of its original publication in Spanish, The Tattoo Hunter established itself as a new classic of the city by the Bay. Now in translation, this neo-... More about this book »