Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Keywords: thinking, power, blink
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-04-03
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0316010669
ISBN-13: 9780316010665

In his #1 bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. In BLINK, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. How do we make decisions--good and bad--and why are some people so much better at it than others? That’s the question Malcolm Gladwell asks and answers in BLINK. Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology, examining case studies as diverse as speed dating, pop music, and the New Coke, Gladwell shows how the difference between good decision making and bad has nothing to do with how much information we can pr

Author: Kate Atkinson
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Keywords: novel, one
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2007-09-10
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0316012823
ISBN-13: 9780316012829

"Atkinson’s bright voice rings on every page, and her sly and wry observations move the plot as swiftly as suspense turns the pages of a thriller."-San Francisco ChronicleTwo years after the events of Case Histories left him a retired millionaire, Jackson Brodie has followed Julia, his occasional girlfriend and former client, to Edinburgh for its famous summer arts festival. But when he witnesses a man being brutally attacked in a traffic jam - the apparent victim of an extreme case of road rage - a chain of events is set in motion that will pull the wife of an unscrupulous real estate t

Author: Evelyn Waugh
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Keywords: revisited, brideshead
Number of Pages: 351
Published: 1999-09
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0316926345
ISBN-13: 9780316926348

Evelyn Waugh’s best-loved novel and the basis for the PBS television production, Brideshead Revisited, the epic story of a great Catholic family in a doomed aristocratic age.

Author: Herman Wouk
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Keywords: novel, carnival, stop, don
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1992-05-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0316955124
ISBN-13: 9780316955126

DON’T STOP THE CARNIVAL is Herman Wouk’s comedy about living out your fantasies on an exotic Caribbean island.Norman Paperman, a successful Broadway publicity agent, has long dreamed of escaping his high-pressure Manhattan life.In a fit of bravado, he chucks it all and buys an old hotel on tiny, primitive, lush Amerigo island.

Author: Walter Mosley
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Keywords: novel, basement, man
Number of Pages: 249
Published: 2005-02-02
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 031615931X
ISBN-13: 9780316159319

Hailed as a masterpiece--the finest work yet by an American novelist of the first rank--THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT tells the story of a young black man who can’t find a job, drinks too much, and, worst of all, stands to lose the beautiful home that’s belonged to his family for generations. All that changes, however, when a stranger offers $50,000 to rent out the young man’s basement, and soon the two men are drawn together into circumstances so bizarre as to be almost beyond imagination.

Author: Denise Mina
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Keywords: garnethill
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2007-09-20
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0316016780
ISBN-13: 9780316016780

"A shattering first novel... You can’t look away from it."--New York Times Book ReviewMaureen O’Donnell wakes up one morning to find her therapist boyfriend murdered in the middle of her living room and herself a prime suspect in a murder case. Desperate to clear her name and to get at the truth, Maureen traces rumors about a similar murder at a local psychiatric hospital, uncovering a trail of deception and repressed scandal that could exonerate her - or make her the next victim."I can’t think of a more interesting - and less likely - crime hero than Maureen O’Donnell,

Author: Denise Mina
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Keywords: exile
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2007-10-10
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0316016802
ISBN-13: 9780316016803

"Stunning. . . . The danger reaches a frightening pitch."--Rocky Mountain News "Mina offers us a complex plot with a shocking ending, all told in an amazingly original voice." -Cleveland Plain Dealer"This is a terrific book." -Dallas Morning NewsA New York Times Notable Book of the YearTrying to escape her own troubled past and the memories of her lover’s murder, Maureen O’Donnell finds refuge working as a counselor at a shelter for battered women. When the body of shelter resident Ann Harris washes up on the banks of the ThamesRiver two weeks later, Maureen vows to discover what h