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|  | God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut puts on his reporter's vest for this book of interviews and profiles, but since all his subjects are dead, it's only with Dr. Jack Kevorkian's help that he manages to make contact with them. He hangs around heaven as long as he can, interviewing history's finest, including Shakespeare, John Brown, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and Newton. AUTHOR: Kurt Vonnegut
PUBLISHER: Seven Stories Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Nothing Remains the Same by Wendy Lesser
Rereading classic texts she hasn't visited in 20-plus years, such as ANNA KARENINA, THE TEMPEST, and HUCKLEBERRY FINN, Lesser meditates on the art of reading and reading again, exploring how life changes affect the experience each time. AUTHOR: Wendy Lesser
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Hopscotch by Kevin J. Anderson
Description not available.When inflamatory documents purported by famed diarist Samuel Pepys are found in the U.S., publisher Alex Plumtree and his fiancTe, Sarah, head for America to investigate, but the case soon becomes complicated by threats to the Royal family, violence that rocks London, a missing archivist, and a centuries-old scandal that could bring down the monarchy. Original. AUTHOR: Kevin J. Anderson
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Maggie, a Girl of the Streets by Alfred Kazin, Stephen Crane, Thomas A. Gullason
Originally published privately, under the name Johnston Smith, MAGGIE was written when Stephen Crane was 21 years old. It concerns Maggie Johnson, a tenement girl, who is treated brutally as a child by her alcoholic mother. She eventually escapes to her brother's friend Pete, who seduces her. Because she has dishonored herself, the family disowns her; when Pete leaves her, Maggie becomes a prostitute. Crane intended, in this novel, to show that environment is a tremendous thing in the world and frequently shapes lives regardless. AUTHOR: Alfred Kazin, Stephen Crane, Thomas A. Gullason
PUBLISHER: N A L
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Water Method Man by Dan Lazar, John Irving
John Irving's second novel is about a graduate student--a lost soul who is troubled by, among other things, a urinary tract problem--who is about to marry for the second time. AUTHOR: Dan Lazar, John Irving
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | City Kids by Patricia Hubbell, Teresa Flavin
City kids are waiting to be discovered in this medley of poems about all kinds of kids with all kinds of experiences. AUTHOR: Patricia Hubbell, Teresa Flavin
PUBLISHER: Cavendish, Marshall Corporation
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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