 The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and Americas Response
by Peter Balakian '80
A History of International Human Rights and Forgotten Heroes Non-fiction Perennial/HarperCollins - $14.95 [BUY NOW] |  Peninsula of Lies: A True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love
by Edward Ball '80
Peninsula of Lies is nonfiction mystery, set in a haunting gothic locale and peopled by fascinating and eccentric characters. Non-fiction Simon & Schuster - $13.00 [BUY NOW] |
 Chasing Vermeer
by Blue Balliett '78
Called The DaVinci Code for kids, this delightful debut features sixth-grade sleuths on the trail of a stolen Vermeer. Fiction Scholastic Press - $16.95 [BUY NOW] |  Madeleine Is Sleeping
by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
2004 National Book Award finalist.
Part fairy tale, part coming-of-age story, this enchantingly inventive novel follows Madeleine as she leaves home, joins a gypsy circus, and falls into an unexpected triangle of desire and love. Fiction Harcourt - $16.95 [BUY NOW] |
 The Dew Breaker
by Edwidge Danticat '93 MFA
From the universally acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and Krik? Krak!, comes a brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction. Fiction Vintage - $12.95 [BUY NOW] |  The Maverick Room: Poems
by Thomas Sayers Ellis
In one poem, Thomas Sayers Ellis prognosticates, "Pretty soon, the Age of the Talk Show / Will slip on a peel left in the avant- gutter." The result is The Maverick Room, the testing ground of determination and serendipity, where call-and-response becomes Steinian echo becomes Post-Soul percussive pleasure becomes a bootlegged recording hustled out of a D.C. go-go club. Poetry Graywolf Press - $14.00 [BUY NOW] |
 The Persistence of Memory
by Tony Eprile '79
"I was enthralled by his gorgeous prose, his genius for transforming pain into art, and not least, by the fiercely comic gift of his unforgettable, and unforgetting, narrator," writes Margot Livesey about this long-awaited first novel. Fiction W. W. Norton - $24.95 [BUY NOW] |  Middlesex: A Novel
by Jeffrey Eugenides '82
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Here is the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family. Fiction Picador - $15.00 [BUY NOW] |
 The Geographer's Library
by Jon Fasman '97
When a twelfth-century Sicilian cat burglar snatches a sack of artifacts from the kings geographers library, the tools and talismans of transmutation-and eternal life-are soon scattered all over the world. Nine hundred years later, a young Connecticut reporter finds evidence that someone is collecting them again. Fiction Penguin Press - $24.95 [BUY NOW] |  102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
by Kevin Flynn '79
written by Jim Dwyer & Kevin Flynn.
The dramatic and moving account of the struggle for life inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, when every minute counted. Non-fiction Times Books - $26.00 [BUY NOW] |
 The King of America: A Novel
by Samantha Gillison '89
Part love story, part adventure yarn, part family tragedy, The King of America traces the short, brilliant life of Stephen Hesse, firstborn son of one of Americaís wealthiest, most powerful men.
Fiction Random House - $21.95 [BUY NOW] | Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress
by sarah jane gilman
From the author of Kiss My Tiara comes a funny and poignant collection of true stories about women coming of age that for once is not about finding a date. Non-fiction Warner Books - $12.95 [BUY NOW] |
 The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel
by Andrew Sean Greer '92
Born with the physical appearance of an elderly man, Max grows older mentally like any child, but his body appears to age backwards, growing younger every year. Fiction Picador - $14.00 [BUY NOW] |  The Know-It-All: One Mans Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
by A. J. Jacobs
"Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A. J. Jacobs hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopedia Britannica from A to Z." Non-fiction Simon & Schuster - $25.00 [BUY NOW] |
The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures
by Frans Johansson
Why is it that so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin, after all, was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs. Non-fiction Harvard Business School Press - $24.95 [BUY NOW] |  Blow Out the Moon
by Libby Koponen
This exuberant coming-of-age story follows very American Libby to her boarding school deep in the English countryside. Fiction Little Brown & Co. - $16.95 [BUY NOW] |
 The Last Prophecy
by Jon Land '79
The seventh novel in the popular series featuring U.N investigators Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea is loaded with action.
Fiction Forge Books- $7.99 [BUY NOW] | The Lichtenberg Figures
by Ben Lerner '01
These poems mimic and explore the complex juxtapositions of contemporary culture through permutation, repetition, and collage. Poetry Copper Canyon Pres - $14.00 [BUY NOW] |
 Home Land
by Sam Lipsyte
What if somebody finally wrote to his high school alumni bulletin and told...the truth! Here is an update from hell, by the novelist whom Jeffrey Eugenides calls "original, devious, and very funny". Fiction Picador - $13.00 [BUY NOW] | Two Percent Solution
by matt miller
This program for fixing Americas most serious domestic problems has been called stimulating and constructive by the Los Angeles Times and is now updated to address the new administration. Non-Fiction Perseus - $14.00 [BUY NOW] |
Light and Liberty
by Eric S. Petersen (Editor)
In an astonishing feat of editing, Eric S. Petersen has culled the entirety of Thomas Jeffersonís published works to fashion thirty-four original essays on themes ranging from patriotism and liberty to hope, humility, and gratitude. The result is a lucid, inspiring distillation of the wisdom of one of Americaís greatest political thinkers. Non-Fiction Modern Library - $17.95 [BUY NOW] | Blue Clay People : Seasons on Africa's Fragile Edge
by William Powers
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An elegantly written memoir of a young mans life-changing sojourn in a world of immeasurable poverty and instability: Charles Taylors Liberia.
Non-fiction Bloomsbury USA - $ 24.95 [BUY NOW] |
Gilead: A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson '66
Gilead is the long-hoped-for second novel by one of our finest writers, a hymn of praise and lamentation to the God-haunted existence that the protagonist Reverend Ames loves passionately, and from which he will soon part. Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux - $23.00 [BUY NOW] | Name All the Animals: A Memoir
by Alison Smith
A luminous, true story, Name All the Animals is an unparalleled account of grief and secret love: the tale of a family clinging to the memory of a lost child, and of a young woman struggling to define herself in the wake of his loss. Non-fiction Scribner - $13.00 [BUY NOW] |
 My Old Man
by Amy Sohn '95
From the New York Times bestselling author and one of the citys most provocative columnists comes a hip, contemporary novel about love, lust, and living in the same neighborhood as your parents. Fiction Simon & Schuster - $23.00 [BUY NOW] | The Position
by Meg Wolitzer '83
Crackling with intelligence and original humor, The Position is a masterful take on sex and the suburban American family at the hilarious height of the sexual revolution and throughout the thirty-year hangover that followed. Fiction Scribner - $24.00 [BUY NOW] |
