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L'Affaire by Diane Johnson Amy Hawkins, a young dot-com executive from California who has made her fortune at the top of NASDAQ, sets off for Europe to find culture, her roots, and maybe a... More about this book »	Natural Opium: Some Travelers' Tales by Diane Johnson A collection of ten travel essays. Johnson's destinations include the Great Barrier Reef and Serengeti National Park. All the while, Johnson brings her trademark... More about this book »
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The story of a young boy, Amir, who juggles to establish a closer rapport with his father and cope with memories of a haunting childhood event. The novel is set in... More about this book »	Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of... by Diane Johnson The Paris Left Bank neighborhood of St. Germain is most often connected to the era from the 1940s through the 1960s, when Sartre, de Beauvoir and others gathered in... More about this book »
Solitaire by Aimee Liu SOLITAIRE A Memoir of Anorexia Originally published when Liu was just 25, Solitaire is America's first memoir of anorexia. Liu describes her battles with food,... More about this book »	Hawai'i One Summer by Maxine Hong Kingston In this collection of eleven pieces, originally issued as a limited hand-printed edition, Maxine Hong Kingston does not attempt to capture Hawai’i but “instead and... More about this book »
China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here’s a storyteller’s tale of what they endured... More about this book »	To Be the Poet by Maxine Hong Kingston “I have almost finished my longbook,” Maxine Hong Kingston declares. “Let my life as Poet begin ... I won’t be a workhorse anymore; I’ll be a skylark.” To Be the... More about this book »
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men)... More about this book »	The Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston A long time ago in China, there existed three Books of Peace that proved so threatening to the reigning powers that they had them burned. Many years later Maxine... More about this book »

Dark Before Dawn by Stacy Juba Dawn Christian has been psychic since she was seven years old and has always considered herself an outcast. Even her own mother discourages her talent, so Dawn... More about this book »	Sink or Swim by Stacy Juba Ambitious personal trainer Cassidy Novak has gained national fame for starring on Sink or Swim, nicknamed SOS, a hit game show set aboard a Tall Ship. She hopes... More about this book »
Finger's Breadth by M Christian Look at your hand: four fingers and a thumb, right? But what if you woke one morning and rather than four fingers and a thumb you are ... short? ... More about this book »	Hitler's Silver Box by Allen Malnak Every family has a secret, but Uncle Max’s could wreak havoc on the world. Dr. Bruce Starkman, chief ER resident at Chicago’s Cook County Hospital, is... More about this book »
The Oddball English: an irreverent romp through the nation... by Annie Harrison The English nation is lying prone on the analyst’s couch, ready to unburden itself. It could really do with a gin and tonic, or some quiet time... More about this book »	Of Little Faith by Carol I Hoenig (Available for purchase at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.) The Vietnam War is on the nightly news and women are burning bras in the fast-changing world of the 1960s... More about this book »
Model Home by Eric Puchner Warren Ziller moved his family to Southern California in search of a charmed life, and to all appearances, he found it: a gated community not far from the beach,... More about this book »	How to be Death: A Calliope Reaper-Jones Novel by Amber Benson All Calliope Reaper-Jones ever wanted out of life was a fabulous job in New York City and a really hot boyfriend. But now, she's the brand-new President of Death... More about this book »
The Bootlegger's Nephew by Sarah U. Wisseman A gunshot wound in the middle of the night—the last patient in a long tiring day for Dr. Earl “Illinois” Junker or Doc Junker to the little town of Big Grove,... More about this book »	Gift by Andrea J. Buchanan High school sophomore Daisy Jones is just trying to get by unnoticed. It doesn’t help that she’s the new girl at school, lives in a trailer park, and doesn’t... More about this book »