Fiction. Jewish Studies. A serio-comic novel that tells of Shmulik Gafni, a professor of Yiddish. Two narratives contrast: One: Gafni's extended search in Poland for the man who murdered his father in
Fiction. African & African American Studies. Travis Hemperly is estranged from his Southern roots Who defines history, anyway? Is it our school systems? Is it our popular media? Our literature? Our se
Fiction. A disgraced poet accused of fabricating Nazi death camp poems breaks a 34-year silence when he tells a woman about his student year in Paris, his entanglement with a right- wing politician, h
Set in the slums of New Orleans, among clusters of crack houses and abandoned buildings, Dirty Little Angels is the story of sixteen year old Hailey Trosclair. When the Trosclair family suffers a stri
Fiction. California Interest. Very few know the role women played in the early years of car racing. THE ARTICHOKE QUEEN tells the story of a beautiful driver and her dizzying career and relationships.
Fiction. A dentist from New Jersey, marooned at midnight in the Florida swamps, makes the mistake of falling into the clutches of a hilariously depraved family of amateur surgeons devoted to a 17th-ce
Fiction. Unabashedly funny—at turns dirty, revolting, tender and sarcastic—Daniel S. Libman's stories bring us a new style that is part inner dialogue, part comic monologue—Grace Paley meets Charles B
Fiction. IF is a novel of ideas. You, the reader, are the nameless protagonist, a young dreamer from northern California. At the end of each chapter, you must make a pivotal decision. These choices sh
Fiction. ROBERT WALKER is homeless. He awakes one morning in his box to find half his face paralyzed. In anguish, he walks to mimic normality. He also walks because walking for him is life. Eventually
Fiction. Winner of the Tartt First Fiction Award. TALES FROM WEBSTER'S uses a simple premise: Take a dictionary, choose a word, then faithfully follow each sequential word to construct a narrative, em
Fiction. Five teenagers attempt to swim the East River from the Bronx to Queens. One boy drowns and the body of the only girl is never found. The survivors vow silence. Five years later, they find the
"Iced is a an intriguing story of a disgruntled college professor who just slops his way through his job, uninterested that he's about to be fired. Until he remembers a half baked plot from a recently
Fiction. AS GOD LOOKED ON is a dark comedic narrative with threads that begin on a bus ride to Daytona and along a mountainside in southern Mexico: one young woman running from a murder and away from
When the body of a university administrator is discovered in his office, the Chancellor, fearing scandal, appoints Robert Cory, a wealthy donor, to conduct an internal investigation—with unforeseen re
When the body of a university administrator is discovered in his office, the Chancellor, fearing scandal, appoints Robert Cory, a wealthy donor, to conduct an internal investigation—with unforeseen re
