Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S. – förlag

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection.A story of love and loss, and the evolution of farm life as the 20th century unfolded, narrated by a feisty farm woman as she reflects on her life.

A conservative Republican examines how and why America is losing the war against illegal drugs - and presents a case for carefully controlled legalization.

Not since A Separate Peace has the world of prep school and tortured adolescence been portrayed with the sensitivity and authenticity that distinguish this novel by a former headmaster of the prestigious Lawrence-ville School, near Princeton. All loves Excelling is a story of the fierce competition for admission to select colleges, of the equally fierce ambition of parents and school authorities—and how they combine to wreak havoc on one teenager and her family.

A witty tale of marriage and midlife longing, as a taken-for-granted wife pursues a fantasy love via e-mail.

In this moving first novel, a Korean-American family faces not only intergenerational cultural conflicts between immigrant parents and their Americanized daughters, but also the results of a terrible prophecy, made by a fortune-teller 20 years earlier to Chinhominey, the long-estranged grandmother.

The story of a family and its small Illinois town from 1925-50.

Set against the devastation of post-World War II Europe, Sunrise Shows Late is a love story about a young Polish Underground veteran, Manya who flees anti-Jewish violence in her country for a displaced-persons camp om Germany where she must make an anguished choice.

Blindside, written by a former Navy legal officer, is the story of Commander Neal Olen, 44, an intelligence officer who faces charges of adultery and possibly leaking secrets. It is an insider's look at the archaic and potentially crushing machinery of military justice. Olen's troubles begin in 1999 when he is recognized as the officer on whom a fictional character is based in a salacious, tell-all novel. Its author is a woman with whom he had a weekend affair five years earlier while separated from his wife. Information about the nation's reconnaissance satellites somehow found its way into her novel. Olen finds himself a pawn of the author, hoping to hype her book and the Navy, eager to make an example of him in its push for "zero tolerance" of sex scandals and for airtight security on intelligence information. He grapples with the ethical dilemma: When caught in an unjust system, is honesty still a virture?

A new edition of the mid-20th century popular classic of a Spanish nobleman who accompanies Cortez to conquer Mexico.

Set in Renaissance Italy, this classic of American popular fiction is the story of Andrea Orsini, a peasant boy who rises to perform delicate political, military, and romantic missions for Cesare Borgia.

This book examines the impact of immigration on U.S. society - on schools, social services, jobs, taxpayers. This book offers alternatives to present policies.

Abou Ben Adhem, a Palestinian, copes by day with village political intrigue, Arab-Israeli violence and his own family turmoil, interspersed with nightly conversations with an angel named Cohen about the roots of mankind's behavior through the ages, in this poignant and ironic novel set in Gaza in 2001.

Diane Morris, 33, a divorced single parent, balances work and home responsibilities as she drives Louisiana's rural highways to negotiate oil-drilling rights with a feisty widow, a black farmer and a self-important autocrat—neighboring landowners whose conflicting claims embroil Diane in intrigue and intimidation, mystery and arson.

When a land developer is found floating face down in a water hazard on the golf course of an exclusive Long Island country club, local homicide detective Karl Kanopka is called in to investigate.

This book is the story of the struggle for reconciliation by three men who return to their changed hometown along very different paths - Cappy Giberson from journalism school, Drayton Hunt, his biological father, from prison, and Tick Giberson from a traveling evangelist's life.

A young, modern farm woman observes with a poetic and appreciative eye the transformation of the plant and animal life on her land through the changing seasons - and through the enroachment on the environment of residential development.

This is the story of the emotional awakening of a perceptive and precocious 14-year-old English girl, Tatum, while on vacation with her family in Tanzania.

A newcomer to New York searches for a boy he believes has been kidnapped and imprisoned in a box. When he tries to enlist help he's treated with indifference or disbelief.

A tavernmistress in 1777 unravels a puzzle that involves stolen diplomatic letters, spies and avaricious traitors, while trying to find the killer of an overnight guest.

A tender story of mother-daughter relationships over three generations unfolds amid secrets and revelations.

A dark comedy in which Danny Burke, a shy, destined-to-be-gay 11 year old produces a Catholic School play that goes hilariously awry.

This novel is set against the backdrop of Iran's turbulent modern history, is a saga of an indentured servant's devotion and love for his masters during the years 1928 to 1981.

Written in a tone of suppressed eroticism and infused with surprising revelations of false identities, Find Courtney is a psychological thriller that keeps the reader guessing up to its startling climax.

A soldier's story, one particulary timely amid the news of abuse in Iraq. It is the beautifully and poignantly told story of Gabriel Cuttman, an aging Korean War veteran, a good man who has done bad things and is struggling by a terrible secret.

House Work is the lyrical history of a family of five in working-class Pittsburgh.

The short stories in this collection are about contemporary women, the frontiers they must cross to sustain close relationships, and their struggles to balance society's expectations with their own needs. The relationships examined in these stories are with husbands, lovers, parents, children, friends. Present at the same time are other relationships with careers, with the subtleties of corporate life, with parental and spousal obligations, with aging and the passage of time. The recurring issue: What happens when obligations to one's self collide with obligations to others and society's norms?

Still Life with Books is a novel of a doomed love affair, by young English author Simon Lane. Is is set in Paris. Lane's voice is fresh and hilarious, as welcome an addition to the postmodern landscape as Jay McInerny or Martin Amis.

On Becoming A Grandparent is an engaging, practical guide to the reality of an important rite of passage.

A witty satire of baseball and bigotry, about the major leagues' first all-gay baseball team.