2012 National Book Award Fiction Finalists
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
$27.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
This astonishing, brilliantly written book brings us to places we could otherwise never go as it unfolds a riveting contemporary drama: a group of remarkable people striving to better their lives, in an age of bewildering global... Buy or find out more→
The Round House
$38.95 – Hardback / Harper
One Sunday in the summer of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to reveal the details of what... Buy or find out more→
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56
$49.99 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
Once the Nazis were defeated in 1945, the people of Central and Eastern Europe expected to recover the lives they had led before 1939. Instead, they found themselves subjected to a tyranny. This book explains how Communism was... Buy or find out more→
Meme
$26.95 – Paperback / University of Iowa Press
A meme is a unit of thought replicated by imitation. Occupy Wall Street is a meme, as are internet ideas and images that go viral. But what could be more potent memes than those passed down by parents to their children? Susan... Buy or find out more→
Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
$26.95 – Paperback / The University of Chicago Press
To read David Ferry’s Bewilderment is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and originality of Ferry’s prosodic daring works astonishing transformations that... Buy or find out more→
Heavenly Bodies
$23.95 – Paperback / Southern Illinois University Press
In this blistering collection of lyric poems, Cynthia Huntington gives an intimate view of the sexual revolution and rebellion in a time before the rise of feminism. Heavenly Bodies is a testament to the duality of sex, the... Buy or find out more→
Night of the Republic
$30.95 – Hardback / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
In Night of the Republic, Alan Shapiro takes us on an unsettling night tour of America’s public places―a gas station restroom, a shoe store, a convention hall, and a race track, among other locations―and in stark, Edward... Buy or find out more→
Fast Animal
$20.95 – Paperback / Etruscan Press
The newest collection from one of America’s foremost African-American poets threads the journey from youthful innocence to the whittled-hard awareness of adulthood. Along the way it immerses the reader in palpable moments―the... Buy or find out more→
Bomb: The Race to Build--And Steal--The World's Most Dangerous Weapon
$27.95 – Hardback / Flash Point
In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned three... Buy or find out more→
Endangered
$24.95 – Hardback / Scholastic US
When Sophie has to visit her mother at her sanctuary for bonobos in Congo, she’s not thrilled to be there. It’s her mother’s passion, and Sophie doesn’t want to have anything to do with it. At least not until Otto, an infant... Buy or find out more→