Author: Mordicai Gerstein
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Keywords: country, old
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2006-09-05
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 159643192X
ISBN-13: 9781596431928

From the winner of the 2004 Caldecott Medal comes a memorable new work, a novel of singular insight and imagination that transports readers to the Old Country, where "all the fairy tales come from, where there was magic -- and there was war." There, Gisella stares a moment too long into the eyes of a fox, and she and the fox exchange shapes. Gisella’s quest to get her girl-body back takes her on a journey across a war-ravaged country that has lost its shape. She encounters magic, bloodshed, and questions of power and justice -- until finally, looking into the eyes of the fox once more

Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: men, old, country
Number of Pages: 309
Published: 2006-07-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0375706674
ISBN-13: 9780375706677

In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law–in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell–can contain.As Moss tries to evade h

Author: Nelson DeMille
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Keywords: country
Number of Pages: 736
Published: 2007-11-06
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0446177938
ISBN-13: 9780446177931

Now in trade paperback for the first time, this sensational novel by #1 New York Times bestseller Nelson DeMille features the return of Army investigator Paul Brenner from Nelson DeMille’s previous New York Times bestseller, The General’s Daughter.

Author: David Plante
Publisher: Beacon Press
Keywords: novel, country
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2004-12-08
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0807083798
ISBN-13: 9780807083796

First published in 1981 to wide acclaim, a haunting family novel by “a daringly skillful writer.” (Philip Roth)Foreword by Mary GordonPraise for The Country:“Mr. Plante’s understanding of the complicated, often perverse configurations that familial relationships can form remains unerring. By mapping out the ways in which beliefs, resentments and hopes are handed down, generation to generation, the ways in which love can mutate into hatred, neediness into rebellion, he creates a portrait of a family that is as uncompromising as it is moving.” —Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Book Revi

Author: Amanda Rondeau
Publisher: SandCastle
Keywords: something, country
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2004-01
List price: $19.93
ISBN-10: 1591975735
ISBN-13: 9781591975731

Author: Hisham Matar
Publisher: The Dial Press
Keywords: men, country
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-01-30
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0385340427
ISBN-13: 9780385340427

Libya, 1979. Nine-year-old Suleiman’s days are circumscribed by the narrow rituals of childhood: outings to the ruins surrounding Tripoli, games with friends played under the burning sun, exotic gifts from his father’s constant business trips abroad. But his nights have come to revolve around his mother’s increasingly disturbing bedside stories full of old family bitterness. And then one day Suleiman sees his father across the square of a busy marketplace, his face wrapped in a pair of dark sunglasses. Wasn’t he supposed to be away on business yet again? Why is he going into that s

Author: Nelson DeMille
Publisher: Vision
Keywords: country
Number of Pages: 880
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0446611913
ISBN-13: 9780446611916

The last thing Paul Brenner wanted to do was return to work for the Army’s Criminal Investigative Division, an organization that thanked him for his many years of dedicated service by forcing him into early retirement. But when his former boss calls in a career’s worth of favors, Paul finds himself investigating a murder that took place back in Vietnam thirty years before. Now, returning to a time and place that still haunts him, Paul is swept up in the battle of his life as he struggles to find justice.