New Books

The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey by Salman Rushdie In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman Rushdie brings to the forefront the... More about this book »	Shame by Salman Rushdie In this brilliant novel, Salman Rushdie masterfully combines history, art, language, politics, and religion. Set in a country “not quite Pakistan,” the story... More about this book »
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear Hailed by NPR’s Fresh Air as part Testament of Youth, part Dorothy Sayers, and part Upstairs, Downstairs, this astonishing debut has already won fans from coast to... More about this book »	Birds of a Feather: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear Maisie Dobbs is back and this time she has been hired to find a wealthy grocery magnate’s daughter who has fled from home. What seems a simple case at first becomes... More about this book »
Pardonable Lies: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear In the third novel of this bestselling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful World War I... More about this book »	Messenger of Truth: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear In Winspear’s winning fourth historical to star British psychologist and P.I. Maisie Dobbs (after 2005’s Pardonable Lies), Georgiana Bassington-Hope, a pioneering... More about this book »
Catskill Crafts: Artisans of the Catskill Mountains by Jane Smiley This book reveals the special qualities that have enabled artisans of the Catskill region to develop and sustain a remarkable craft tradition, and it details all... More about this book »	I Left My Back Door Open by April Sinclair “I am not young, or thin, or white, or beautiful,” says the narrator of Sinclair’s worldly-wise and entertaining new novel. Gun-shy after several catastrophic... More about this book »
The Motherhood Manifesto: What America's Moms Want - and... by Joan Blades A straightforward agenda by political activists Blades and Rowe-Finkbeiner advocates a seriously thought-out, workable scheme for empowering mothers at home and in... More about this book »	The Satanic Verses: A Novel by Salman Rushdie Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable... More about this book »

When I Remember by Sharon Edwards He was the love of her life. And he had turned his back on her when she had needed him most. She had tried to hate him—and convinced herself that she did. So then,... More about this book »	Depth of Deception (A Titanic Murder Mystery) by Alexander Galant The year is 1982, and a beautiful young woman, dressed in Edwardian clothing, is found floating unconscious in the North Atlantic with a 1912 boarding pass... More about this book »
An Intimate Retribution by Ren Powell Forfatteren benytter i denne samlingen det shakespearske blankverset og en rekke orientalske diktformer - i første rekke ghazal'en med sitt særegne mønster av... More about this book »	THE PRINCE'S GAMBLE by Caridad Pineiro Prince Alexander Ivanov is scrambling to save his reputation and his livelihood. One of the Russian Nights Casino’s hostesses has disappeared, and his... More about this book »
Jenny Cussler's Last Stand by Bess McBride Social worker Jenny Cussler has a number of Native American veterans in her caseload and is attracted to their culture. When given the opportunity to attend a... More about this book »	Kaylee's Ghost by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro Grandmother Miriam, thrilled that her granddaughter, Violet, seems to be psychic, wants nothing more than the chance to mentor her way her own Russian grandmother... More about this book »
The Mounting Storm by William Thompson Ong "The Mounting Storm"—the multi-layered saga of dark and sinister doings that thriller lovers have been waiting for. It’s the first volume in the delicious... More about this book »	Trace Evidence by Robert Banfelder Trace Evidence is inspired by Long Island, New York’s first death penalty case in nearly a quarter century—the Robert Shulman serial killer trial—1998. On a daily... More about this book »
Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women... by Lisa Suhair Majaj Co-edited by Amal Amireh and Lisa Suhair Majaj. By investigating the undertaking of reading and writing about third world women and their narratives, Going Global... More about this book »	Encounters (translation) by beverley bie brahic "Isn't it … particularly difficult to 'speak' of your work?" Frédéric-Yves Jeannet asks Hélène Cixous in this fascinating book of interviews. "[I]t's only in... More about this book »