Author: Deirdre McNamer
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: rover, red
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-08-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0670063509
ISBN-13: 9780670063505

A stirring novel about idealism laid waste and the haunting, redemptive bonds of friendship Deirdre McNamer has won praise for the intelligence, beauty, precision, and sweep of her fiction. Her first novel in seven years, Red Rover tells the story of three Montana men who get swept up in the machinations of World War II and its fateful aftermath. As boys, Aidan and Neil Tierney ride horseback for miles across unfenced prairie, picturing themselves as gauchos, horsemen of the Argentine pampas. A hundred miles away, Roland Taliaferro wants only to escape the violence and poverty

Author: Penelope Lively
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: consequences
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-05-31
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0670038563
ISBN-13: 9780670038565

The Booker Prize-winning author’s first novel since The Photograph is a sweeping saga of three generations of women, their lives, and loves A chance meeting in St. James’s Park begins young Lorna and Matt’s intense relationship. Wholly in love, they leave London for a cottage in a rural Somerset village. Their intimate life together—Matt’s woodcarving, Lorna’s self-discovery, their new baby, Molly—is shattered with the arrival of World War II. In 1960s London, Molly happens upon a forgotten newspaper—a seemingly small moment that leads to her first job and, event

Author: Andrew Loomis
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: pencil, fun
Published: 1939-05-08
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0670332356
ISBN-13: 9780670332359

Author: Ahmed Rashid
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: pakistan, afghanistan, central, asia, building, nation, chaos, united, states, failure, descent
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2008-06-03
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0670019704
ISBN-13: 9780670019700

The #1 New York Times bestselling author provides a shocking analysis of the crisis in Pakistan and the renewed radicalism threatening Afghanistan and the West. Ahmed Rashid is “Pakistan’s best and bravest reporter” (Christopher Hitchens). His unique knowledge of this vast and complex region allows him a panoramic vision and nuance that no Western writer can emulate. His book Taliban first introduced American readers to the brutal regime that hijacked Afghanistan and harbored the terrorist group responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Now, Rashid examines the region and the corridors of power

Author: Tom Cain
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: novels, man, accident, novel, survivors
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-03-05
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0670020494
ISBN-13: 9780670020492

The "Accident Man" returns to prevent a global holy warTom Cain’s The Accident Man introduced Samuel Carver-a man hired to make bad things happen-to rave reviews from major newspapers and fellow thriller writers alike. Now, Carver is back in an action packed new adventure that takes him from the war rooms of Washington, D.C., to the merciless Arctic peaks of Norway and from the palaces of the French Riviera to the war-torn Serbian countryside. At the beginning of No Survivors, Carver lies broken and damaged in a Swiss sanitarium after rescuing his lover, Alix Petrova, from her Russian sp

Author: T.E.D. Klein
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: gods
Number of Pages: 259
Published: 1985-07-23
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0670805904
ISBN-13: 9780670805907

Author: Penelope Lively
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: making
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005-10-20
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0670034479
ISBN-13: 9780670034475

Authors of fiction are often asked, "How much of what you write comes from your own life?" This is especially the case for Penelope Lively, whose celebrated works such as The Photograph and the Booker Prize-winning Moon Tiger ring so true that they seem to tread that fine line between fact and fiction. Making It Up is Lively’s engrossing and deftly constructed response. What if her family’s escape from Egypt during World War II had a different outcome? What would her life have been like if she’d become pregnant at eighteen? Or if she had married someone else? As Lively