- Beast
Author: Benchley, Peter
Publisher: Random $ 21 ISBN: 0679403558 Date: 1991
 Kirkus
The author of the international bestsellers Jaws and The Deep takes readers back to the sea in his most superbly suspenseful, unputdownable thriller yet. Benchley combines his masterful storytelling gifts with his immense knowledge of the sea to create a brilliant new bestseller.
Updated 2.28.06
- War Babies
Author: Busch, Frederick
Publisher: New Directions $ 15.95 ISBN: 0811211037 Date: 1989
Kirkus
This is a short, powerful moral tale that sheds light upon the insidious nature of evil and the grip history holds on the lives of the seemingly protected innocent.
Updated 2.28.06
- Closing Arguments
Author: Busch, Frederick
Publisher: Ticknor & Fields $ 19.95 ISBN: 0395589681 Date: 1991
Kirkus
Once he was a "Goblin", a ferocious Marine Phantom pilot and escaped P.O.W. Now Mark Brennan carries his former identity with him into his upstate New York law practice. Asked to defend a young woman accused of murdering her lover in bed, Mark becomes obsessively involved with the dangerous Estella, and pilots his life to its outermost edge. The sheer power of Closing Arguments will sweep the reader to its agonizing but inevitable climax.
Updated 2.28.06
- Long Way Home
Author: Busch, Frederick
Publisher: TIcknor & Fields $ 21.95 ISBN: 0395634156 Date: 1993
PW
The author of Closing Arguments presents a stunning new novel that tells of a family under siege. A mother sets out in search of her biological mother, leaving her own child behind in mortal jeopardy. "One of our most powerful and prolific authors in his output and his restless range of manner and themes".--Los Angeles Times.
Updated 2.28.06 - The Children in the Woods: New and Selected Stories
Author: Busch, Frederick
Publisher: Ticknor & Fields $ 21.95 ISBN: 039564724x Date: 1994
PW
Recipient of the 1991 PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story, Frederick Busch confirms his achievement in this unsettling and affecting collection of new and selected stories.
Updated 2.28.06
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Girls: A Novel
Busch, Frederick
Publisher: Harmony Books List Price: $23 ISBN: 0517704552 Date: 1997
Publishers Weekly
Kirkus
PW Best Books of '97
NYTBR Notable
In the unrelentingly cold winter of upstate New York, Jack and Fanny are trying to come to terms with the death of their young daughter. When a 14-year-old disappears from her family's home, Jack finds a new purpose in life. Finding "this" child could be his salvation.
- A Dangerous Profession: A Book About the Writing Life
Author: Busch, Frederick
Publisher: St Martins $ 23.95 ISBN :031219255X Date: 1998
PW
NYTBR Notable
With keen ruminations that recall the critics of yore--Edmund Wilson, Lionel Trilling, and Irving Howe--Busch, in this era of moral indirection, calls on his enduring love of great books to reveal how the literature of the past is the key to the future.
Updated 2.28.06
- Night Inspector
Author: Busch, Frederick
Publisher: Harmony List Price: $ 23 ISBN: 0609602357 Date: 1999
Kirkus
PW
New York City, 1867: Repulsed by the revelation that the conversion
of black souls into merchandise has not ceased after the Civil
War, a veteran finds himself drawn into a steamy underworld of
murderers, whores and sewer and slum dwellers.
Suggested Reading: Historical
Fiction
Stars
- A Memory of War
Author: Busch, Frederick
Publisher: Norton $ 25.95 ISBN: 0393049787 Date: 2003
PW
Kirkus
Booklist
Psychologist Alexander Lescziak has a life of quiet sophistication, until
a new patient declares that he is the doctor's half-brother, the product of
a union between Lescziak's Jewish mother and a German prisoner of war.
Suggested Reading: All Stars
Updated 1.06.03
- Kindred
Author: Butler, Octavia
Publisher: Beacon $14 ISBN: 0807083690 Date: 2004
This 25th anniversary edition, about a modern black woman who is snatched away to the antebellum South, celebrates a classic work with "much to say about love, hate, slavery, and racial dilemmas, then and now" ("Los Angeles Herald Examiner").
Updated 2.28.06
- Parable of the Sower
Author: Butler, Octavia
Publisher: Seven Stories $ 19.95 ISBN: 1888363258 Date: 1993
PW
Parable of the Sower is the odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of "Paints, " people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape and murder. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18 year old black woman, sets off on foot, moving north along the dangerous coastal highways. She is a "sharer, " one who suffers from a hereditary trait called "hyperempathy, " which causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own. Parable of the Sower is both a coming of age novel and a road novel, set in the near future, when the dying embers of our old civilization can either cool or be the catalyst for something new. - Publisher Marketing
Updated 2.28.06
- Parable of the Talents
Author: Butler, Octavia
Publisher: Seven Stories $ 24.95 ISBN: 1888363819 Date: 1998
PW
LJ
Nebula Winner | VOYA Best Genre Books
In this long-awaited novel, Butler revisits familiar themes to tell of a society
in 2032 whose very fabric has been torn, and where the basic physical and
emotional needs of people seem almost impossible to meet.
Suggested Reading: African American Stars | Dystopian Stars
- Fledgling
Author: Butler, Octavia E.
Publisher: Seven Stories $ 24.95 ISBN: 1583226907 Date: 2005
Kirkus Booklist
Butler's first new novel in seven years is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire.
Updated 10.24.05
- The Fountain of Age
Author: Friedan, Betty
Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 25 ISBN: 0671400274 Date: 1993
Booklist PW
Booklist Editors' Choice
Friedan's The Feminine Mystique changed forever the way women thought about themselves and the way society thought about women. Today, she changes forever the way all of us, men and women, think about ourselves growing older and the way society thinks about aging.
Updated 2.16.06
- Life So Far
by Friedan, Betty
Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 26 ISBN: 0684807890
Date: 2000
Booklist
Kirkus
With the same unsparing frankness that made The Feminine Mystique
one of the most influential books of the century, Friedan looks
back and reminds readers what it took and what it cost to change
the world.
- Smallbone Deceased
Author: Gilbert, Michael Francis
Henry Bohun, the new lawyer at Horniman, Birley and Craine, had expected to work on insurance cases, but when a partner opened one of the deed boxes for papers relating to a trust, what he found was one of the trustees--Marcus Smallbone--very dead.
Updated 2.16.06
- Roller-Coaster
Author: Gilbert, Michael Francis
Publisher:Carroll & Graf $ 19.95 ISBN: 0881849960 Date: 1994
Booklist
Michael Gilbert, the Grandmaster of literate crime fiction, exhibits all his considerable skills in this, his latest spellbinder. Roller-Coaster finds police detective Patrick Petrella installed behind a desk as superintendent of the East London docklands. - Publisher Marketing
Updated 2.16.06
- Ring of Terror
Author: Gilbert, Michael Francis
Publisher: Carroll & Graf $ 20 ISBN: 0786701935 Date: 2006
PW
This beautifully written new mystery from Grand Master Michael Gilbert is sure to delight his many fans. Young, ambitious, Russian-speaking police officer Luke Pagan is assigned to observe three leading Russian revolutionaries after a series of violent events succeeds in spreading unease throughout Edwardian London.
Updated 2.28.06
- By the Lake
Author: McGahern, John
Publisher: Knopf $ 24 ISBN: 0679419144 Date: 2002
Kirkus
Widely considered to be one of the finest Irish writers of fiction at work
today, McGahern now renders a novel that brings to vivid life the world and
the people of a contemporary Irish village with insight, humor, and deep sympathy.
Suggested Reading: Irish Stars
Updated 1/24/02
- The Sisters Rosensweig
Author: Wasserstein, Wendy
Publisher: Harcourt $ 17.95 ISBN: 0151826927 Date: 1993
PW
Wasserstein, who won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for The Heidi Chronicles, writes of three Jewish middle-aged sisters-Sara, Gorgeous, and Pfeni-who come together in London to celebrate Sara's birthday. Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award.
Updated 2.28.06
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