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|  | My Antonia by Charles W. Mignon, Grover Gardner, James Woodress, James Woudress, John J. Murphy
This novel about the friendship between two Nebraska children, Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda is considered Cather`s masterpiece. The fortunes of the two families are opposed: the Burdens thrive while the Shimerdas decline, a downfall that culminates in the suicide of Antonia`s father, which forces the girl to work in the fields and then as a servant. Throughout all her trials, Antonia`s strength, humor, and goodness sustain her and her family--and Jim, for whom she is a lifelong inspiration and mentor. Willa Cather called this novel the best thing I`ve done. AUTHOR: Charles W. Mignon, Grover Gardner, James Woodress, James Woudress, John J. Murphy
PUBLISHER: Tuttle Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Christopher & His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
This slice of autobiography covers 10 years in the writer's life--from 1929, when Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to the beginning of 1939, when he arrived in New York to start a life there. Isherwood left Berlin in 1933, after Hitler came to power. For the next four years, he wandered around Europe--through Greece, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, and France--with a German boy named Heinz. Other characters included here are W. H. Auden, E. M. Forster, and the literary circles of Somerset Maugham and Virginia Woolf. AUTHOR: Christopher Isherwood
PUBLISHER: University of Minnesota Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Breaking Ice by John Edgar Wideman, Terry McMillan
A striking collection of works from authors both established and emerging, this is the first original anthology of African-American writing in over a decade. Featured contributors include: J. California Cooper, Marita Golden, Gloria Naylor, Darryl Pinckney, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Ishmael Reed, Terry McMillan, and many others. AUTHOR: John Edgar Wideman, Terry McMillan
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Ragtime by Angela Praesent, E. L. Doctorow, William Lavelle
Doctorow`s novel takes place in turn-of-the-century New York, and mingles real-life and fictional characters. The plot involves the Evelyn Nesbit-Stanford White intrigue, but also includes a black musician and his girlfriend, a Jewish peddler on the Lower East Side, and a coterie of wealthy Anglo-Saxons in pursuit of wealth. Time magazine called RAGTIME one of the 10 best books of the 1970s, and it was made into a successful musical. AUTHOR: Angela Praesent, E. L. Doctorow, William Lavelle
PUBLISHER: Chelsea House Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Bermuda Grass by Keith Miles
Description not available.Alan Saxon's plan to spend his time designing a golf course in Bermuda with his beloved daughter Lynette are thwarted by Lynette's arrogant sexpot friend Jessica, a murder on the course, and the abduction of both Lynette and Jessica. AUTHOR: Keith Miles
PUBLISHER: Poisoned Pen Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
Description not available.The love affair, marriage, and disintegrating relationship between two unnamed people is revealed throught the voice of the woman in twenty-nine interrelated tangos of narrative verse that explores such themes as desire, beauty, love, and betrayal. By the author of Men in the Off Hours. Reprint. 17,500 first printing. AUTHOR: Anne Carson
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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