New Books

A Doctor's Visit: The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov (... by Tobias Wolff More about this book »	Strange Attraction: The Best of Ten Years of Zyzzyva (edited by... by Peter Coyote Peter Coyote's essay, "Carla's Story," is featured in this collection. More about this book »
Hey Lew (edited by Magda Cregg) by Peter Coyote Peter Coyote contributed to this homage to Beat poet Lew Welch, friend of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Cassidy, to name a few. Edited by Magda Cregg, it's a collection of... More about this book »	European Poems and Transitions: Over All the Obscene Boundaries by Lawrence Ferlinghetti More about this book »
The Secret Meaning of Things by Lawrence Ferlinghetti These poems show a progressive continuity and clarity of perception that apprehends the hard reality and luminous irreality in everyday phenomena. More about this book »	The Language of Threads: A Novel by Gail Tsukiyama Readers of Women of the Silk never forgot the moving, powerful story of Pei, brought to work in the silk house as a girl, grown into a quiet but determined young... More about this book »
Ordinary Love and Good Will by Jane Smiley Two novellas: Ordinary Love At a reunion with her grown children, a woman recalls the long-ago affair that ended her relationship with their father—and changed all... More about this book »	Good Faith by Jane Smiley The introduction, discussion questions, suggested reading list, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your group’s reading of Jane Smiley’s Good... More about this book »
The Last Song of Dusk by Siddharth Shanghvi When the astonishingly lovely Anuradha moves to Bombay to marry Vardhmaan, a charming young doctor, their life together has all the makings of a fairy tale. But... More about this book »	Old School by Tobias Wolff The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has... More about this book »

Kashi by Terin Miller Kashi is a tale of clashes of cultures, relationship experiments and religious and moral differences in the holiest of Hindu cities, just at the time India’s... More about this book »	The Embroidered Corpse by Brian Kavanagh Two startling murders that replicate the death of a mediaeval English king and the discovery of a mysterious ancient tapestry lead Belinda Lawrence and her... More about this book »
Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems by Robert Wrigley A powerful new collection from an award-winning poet Robert Wrigley has become one of his generation's most accomplished poets, renowned for his irony,... More about this book »	Listening: New and Selected Works by Charles Entrekin Enlightenment, it can be said, is a stringing together of momentary blissful connections. Each of these poems is indeed such a moment. As a book they string... More about this book »
Red Mountain, Birmingham, Alabama, 1965 by Charles Entrekin Set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, Red Mountain: Birmingham, Alabama, 1965 is the coming of age story of Eddie and Chrissy, young white... More about this book »	The Culture of Possibility: Art, Artists & The Future by Arlene Goldbard We are in the midst of seismic cultural change. In the old paradigm, priorities are shaped by a mechanistic worldview that privileges whatever can be... More about this book »
The Wave by Arlene Goldbard The Wave was written to answer a question Arlene Goldbard is often asked: You say we are on the cusp of a paradigm shift, a radical change in worldview that... More about this book »	The Iris Covenant by Betty Byron A young nuclear scientist is found dead in the parking lot of a Virginia laboratory. The briefcase he was carrying has disappeared. A hero abroad and at home... More about this book »
Sick Justice: Inside the American Gulag by Ivan G. Goldman The U.S. holds 2.3 million of its people behind bars. That’s a population about the size of Houston’s, the country’s fourth-largest city. The number far exceeds... More about this book »	Zero Separation by Philip S. Donlay Donovan Nash has a secret he'll do anything to keep. But he's the prime suspect after someone steals a fifty million dollar executive jet, and FBI agent... More about this book »