John Clellon Holmes

Archie Shepp

This novel vibrates to the beat of Jazz. Edgar Pool, kown as the Horn, is the hero, a man who is a legend because of the way he blows a tenor saxophone. But he is about to be outplayed.


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New Jersey

Finally outplayed in a jam session, Edgar Pool, a tenor saxophonist known as the Horn, looks back on his long career as a jazz musician

The Horn

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Patricia Highsmith

Tom Ripley wants to be like Dickie Greenleaf---exactly like him. Ripley stops at nothing---certainly not only one murder---to accomplish his goal.


In order to convince his son to come home, Herbert Greenleaf, a rich shipbuilder, sends Tom Ripley to Italy, but is unaware of his son's friend's criminal activities

The Talented Mr Ripley

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Richard E. Crabbe

Seven former Confederate soldiers turned saboteurs have worked for years to destroy the newly opened Brooklyn Bridge. In exactly five minutes, it will fall unless Sergeant Detective Tom Braddock can stop it.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

"Suspension" is a riveting historical thriller filled with fascinating details of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, chosen as one of the year's best by the "San Francisco Chronicle."

Suspension

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Mark Helprin

Freddy and Fredericka of the British royal family and heirs to the throne because they caused public relations disasters, are sent on a tour through a strange and barbarous land---in this case, America.

A New York Times bestseller by Mark Helprin, author of Winter's Tale, which is now a major motion picture starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Russell Crowe, William Hurt, and Jennifer Connelly “Freddy and Fredericka is a vast, sprawling book of Homeric proportions and design in which Helprin exploits to the fullest his powers of invention as well as a lesser known talent for comedy.” —Bookreporter.com Mark Helprin’s legions of devoted readers cherish his timeless novels and short stories, which are uplifting in their conviction of the goodness and resilience of the human spirit. Freddy and Fredericka—a brilliantly refashioned fairy tale and a magnificently funny farce—only seems like a radical departure of form, for behind the laughter, Helprin speaks of leaps of faith and second chances, courage and the primacy of love. Helprin’s latest work, an extraordinarily funny allegory about a most peculiar British royal family, is immensely mocking of contemporary monarchy and yet deeply sympathetic to the individuals caught in its lonely absurdities.

Freddy and Fredericka

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Joseph Heller

More than 3 decades after Catch-22, Closing Time revisits Yosserian, Milo Minderbinder, Chaplain Tappman, and others, facing not only the end of a century, but the approaching close of their lives.

The Sequel to Catch-22

A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22. In Closing Time, Joseph Heller returns to the characters of Catch-22, now coming to the end of their lives and the century, as is the entire generation that fought in World War II: Yossarian and Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, and such newcomers as little Sammy Singer and giant Lew, all linked, in an uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Germans this time, but The End. Closing Time deftly satirizes the realities and the myths of America in the half century since WWII: the absurdity of our politics, the decline of our society and our great cities, the greed and hypocrisy of our business and culture -- with the same ferocious humor as Catch-22. Closing Time is outrageously funny and totally serious, and as brilliant and successful as Catch-22 itself, a fun-house mirror that captures, at once grotesquely and accurately, the truth about ourselves.

Closing Time

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Kathryn Harrison

As a child, Ann Rogers ess her photographer father's model. His daring pictures of her stunned the world. And they secretly, tragically shaped her life.


In luminous, provocative prose, Harrison tells the harrowing story of a woman poised on the edge of a psychological nightmare. As a child, Ann was her photographer father's muse, and his controversial photographs of her shocked the world. Now, years later, a museum retrospective causes her controlled existence to unravel.

Exposure

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The daughter of a poor Spanish silk grower and the neice of a French king are born on the same day.       
Though their lives barely touch, their twin destinies spiral inexorably toward disaster.

Francisca de Luarac, the daughter of a poor Spanish silk grower, is a dreamer of fabulous dreams. Marie Louise de Bourbon, the niece of Louis XIV, dances in slippers of fine Spanish silk in the French Court of the Sun King and imagines her own enchanted future. Born on the same day--in an age when superstition, repression, and the Inquisition reign--the lives of these two young women unfold in tandem, barely touching. Each hoards the memory of her adored lost mother like an amulet. Francica's obsession with her lover, a Catholick priest, will shaper her fate. Marie Loouise is yoked by political expediency to the mad, imptoent Carlos II of Spain. But even as their twin destinies spiral inexorably toward disaster, both Queen and commoner cultivate a dangerous, secret life dedicated to resistance, transcendence, and love. Written in gorgeous prose that has the sheen of silk, Kathryn Harrison's POISON vividlyreminds us of the persistence of desire, the passion that exists between mothers and daughters, and the sorcery of dreams.

Robert Marazas

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The Horn

Patricia Highsmith

The Talented Mr Ripley

Richard E. Crabbe

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Joseph Heller

Closing Time

Kathryn Harrison

Exposure

Kathryn Harrison

Poison

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John Clellon Holmes; Archie Shepp

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Patricia Highsmith

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Closing Time

Kathryn Harrison

Exposure

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