New Fiction
September 2013
In one of Robert Heinlein's most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in
the Universe--and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind's most frightening enemy.
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On an ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia awakes to discover that something has happened to the rotation of
the earth. The days and nights are growing longer and longer; gravity is affected; the birds, the tides, human behavior, and
cosmic rhythms are thrown into disarray. In a world that seems filled with danger and loss, Julia also must face surprising
developments in herself, and in her personal world—divisions widening between her parents, strange behavior by her
friends, the pain and vulnerability of first love, a growing sense of isolation, and a surprising, rebellious new strength. With
crystalline prose and the indelible magic of a born storyteller, Karen Thompson Walker gives us a breathtaking portrait of
people finding ways to go on in an ever-evolving world.
For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by their warrior ancestors.
But the ThunderClan cats are in grave danger, and the sinister ShadowClan grows stronger every day. Noble warriors are
dying--and some deaths are more mysterious than others. In the midst of this turmoil appears an ordinary house cat named
Rusty . . . who may turn out to be the bravest warrior of them all.
We now have the first three in the series.
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Rick Bass brings a lyrical lushness to the harsh backdrop of West Texas in his masterfully crafted fourth novel. All the Land
to Hold Us is a sweeping tale of those who live on the desert’s edge, where riches—precious artifacts, oil, water, love—can
all be found and lost again in an instant.
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Now in paperback.
Oct. 11th, 1943-A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the
girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun.
When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy
territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a
grisly execution.
Set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace, The Dark Tower features one of Stephen King’s most powerful
creations—The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages, from ancient
myth to frontier Western legend. As Roland crosses a desert of damnation in a macabre world that is a twisted image of
our own, he moves ever closer to the Dark Tower of his dreams—and nightmares.
Box Set
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Barbara “Babie” Bunting is constantly mistaken for her sisters, but she’s determined not to end up like her family. She
doesn’t plan to stick around Shallow Pond after graduation, and she certainly won’t be ruined by a broken heart. That is,
until fellow orphan Zach Faraday walks into the picture, and Babie can’t deny their chemistry.
Twenty years ago, teenager Tara Martin disappeared in the dense English forest known as the Outwoods, leaving her
parents and her brother, Peter, to fear the unthinkable.
But on Christmas Day, the doorbell rings and there Tara stands—disheveled, unapologetic, and not looking a day over
sixteen. It’s a miracle, but Peter is skeptical, especially when Tara claims that she was abducted by fairies. As those who
loved and missed Tara attempt to understand where she’s been for two decades, they begin to ask the same question: Has
Tara lost her sanity … or have they?
In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego
Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. "The Lacuna" is a poignant story of a
man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities.
Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico--from a coastal island jungle to 1930s
Mexico City--Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on his thrilling odyssey. Life is whatever he
learns from housekeepers who put him to work in the kitchen, errands he runs in the streets, and one fateful day, by mixing
plaster for famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. He discovers a passion for Aztec history and meets the exotic, imperious
artist Frida Kahlo, who will become his lifelong friend. When he goes to work for Lev Trotsky, an exiled political leader
fighting for his life, Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution, newspaper headlines and howling gossip,
and a risk of terrible violence.
August (Auggie) Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school—until
now. He's about to start 5th grade at Beecher Prep, and if you've ever been the new kid then you know how hard that can
be. The thing is Auggie's just an ordinary kid, with an extraordinary face. But can he convince his new classmates that he's
just like them, despite appearances?
Anne Boleyn is the odd girl out. Newly arrived to the court of King Henry VIII, everything about her seems wrong, from
her clothes to her manners to her witty but sharp tongue. So when the dashing poet Thomas Wyatt offers to coach her on
how to shine at court—and to convince the whole court they’re lovers—she accepts. Before long, Anne’s popularity has
soared, and even the charismatic and irresistible king takes notice. More than popularity, Anne wants a voice—but she also
wants love. What began as a game becomes high stakes as Anne finds herself forced to make an impossible choice between
her heart’s desire and the chance to make history.
It’s the spring of 1939, and the prospect of war in Europe looms large. The United States has no intelligence service. In
Washington, D.C., President Franklin Roosevelt may run for an unprecedented third term and needs someone he can trust
to find out what the Nazis are up to. His choice: John F. Kennedy.
It’s a surprising selection. At twenty-two, Jack Kennedy is the attractive but unpromising second son of Joseph P.
Kennedy, Roosevelt’s ambassador to Britain (and occasional political adversary). But when Jack decides to travel through
Europe to gather research for his Harvard senior thesis, Roosevelt takes the opportunity to use him as his personal spy.
The president’s goal: to stop the flow of German money that has been flooding the United States to buy the 1940
election—an election that Adolf Hitler intends Roosevelt lose.
A labor strike at a lumber mill divides a town based on the author’s hometown of Aberdeen, Washington. The Land of
Plenty portrays the blue-collar workers’ struggle for existence and depicts, with sensitivity and compassion, workers and
owners alike in their poverty, depravity, and their ultimate goodness. The Land of Plenty created a political firestorm when it
was published to great success in 1935. Long out -f-print, one of the most graphically exciting novels of the Thirties and a
lost classic of American history is available again through Pharos Editions.
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow privateschool mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a
best friend and, simply, Mom.
Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to
Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle—and people in general—has made her so agoraphobic that a
virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic.
From an early age, Kate and her identical twin sister, Violet, knew that they were unlike everyone else. Kate and Vi were
born with peculiar “senses”—innate psychic abilities concerning future events and other people’s secrets. Though Vi
embraced her visions, Kate did her best to hide them.
Now, years later, their different paths have led them both back to their hometown of St. Louis. Vi has pursued an eccentric
career as a psychic medium, while Kate, a devoted wife and mother, has settled down in the suburbs to raise her two young
children. But when a minor earthquake hits in the middle of the night, the normal life Kate has always wished for begins to
shift.