The Bride Stripped Bare by Anonymous
In writing The Bride Stripped Bare, the author decided to remain anonymous so she would feel absolutely free to explore a woman's inner world. As she writes in her afterword, "That doesn't mean this book is a memoir; it's many things to me, fiction and nonfiction, fantasy and fact, a quilt pieced together not only from my stories but those of my friends." Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow
Art is a member of the Eastern Standard Tribe, a secret society bound together by a sleep schedule. Around the world, those who wake and sleep on East Coast time find common cause with one another, cooperating, conspiring, to help each other out. Or perhaps not. Cory Doctorow's second novel, Eastern Standard Tribe, is nothing if not misleading.
Working Fire by Zac Unger
Zac Unger didn't feel like much of a firefighter at first. His fellow recruits seemed to have planned for the job all their lives; he was an Ivy League grad responding to a help-wanted ad. He couldn't keep his boots shined, and he looked horrible in his uniform. Working Fire is the story of how Zac Unger came to feel at home among this close-knit tribe. The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle Vol. 2) by Neal Stephenson
The Confusion, the second book of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle trilogy does not disappoint as he picks up his characters where he abruptly dropped them at the end of Quicksilver. Join Stephenson amidst a vast and intricate historical backdrop in Volume Two of The Baroque Cycle. Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle Vol. 1) by Neal Stephenson
Volume I of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, Quicksilver, is history, adventure, science, truth, invention, sex, absurdity, piracy, madness, death, and alchemy. It sweeps across continents and decades with the power of a roaring tornado, upending kings, armies, religious beliefs, and all expectations. Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
Cayce Pollard inhabits a world in which disembodied voices speak to each other in elevators and data is encrypted within graphical content. Is Pattern Recognition yet another William Gibsonian info-trash cyber-realm? No. Cayce Pollard's world is our own with its present-day setting marking a significant departure for Cyberpunk Godfather, William Gibson. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Shadow of the Wind seems born of a different time. An ode to its own genre, a love song to itself, the story of a boy who is shown the power of a book, one so powerful that it threatens to destroy everything and everyone he loves. Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins has been dishing out metaphor-rich and metaphysically-playful novels since 1971 when he delivered Another Roadside Attraction. His latest work, Villa Incognito, begins with 3 American MIAs who choose to remain missing after the Vietnam war, but as is always the case with a Tom Robbins' work, careens gleefully into untold realms of myth and imagination. The Hornet's Nest by Jimmy Carter
In this the first work of fiction by a President of the United States, Jimmy Carter brings to life the Revolutionary War as it was fought in the Deep South. The Hornet's Nest follows a cast of characters and their loved ones on both sides of this violent conflict -- including some who are based on the author's ancestors. Global Village Idiot by John O’Farrell
John O’Farrell is a columnist with the Guardian as well as a writer for the TV show Spitting Image and a joke writer for Tony Blair. Global Village Idiot is a reprinting of many of his Guardian columns over the period of time beginning with George W. Bush on the campaign trail and ending on the desert trails leading to Baghdad.
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