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|  | The Natural by Bernard Malamud, Ken Howard
One of America's great baseball novels, THE NATURAL is the story of venerable ballplayer Roy Hobbs, who was forced out of the game when he was young but returns to baseball to pull the New York Knights out of their slump. Malamud has said of this novel: Baseball had interested me, especially its comic aspects, but I wasn't able to write about the game until I transformed the game into myth, via Jessie Weston's Percival legend with an assist by T. S. Eliot's WASTE LAND plus the lives of several ballplayers I had read, in particular Babe Ruth's and Bobby Feller's. AUTHOR: Bernard Malamud, Ken Howard
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Washington Square by Cynthia Ozick, Henry James
Tells the story of Catherine Sloper (CS), the plain, obedient daughter of the well-to-do Dr. August Sloper of Washington Square (WS). When a handsome, man-about-town proposes to CS, her father forbids the marriage because he believes the man to be after CS's fortune & future inheritance. The conflict between father, daughter, & suitor provokes consequences in the lives of all three that make this story one of James's most piercingly memorable. This handsomely designed edition includes a portfolio of archival photos that provide a visual & social portrait of WS & lower Manhattan during the era in which James wrote this novel. AUTHOR: Cynthia Ozick, Henry James
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Rise by Van Jordan
Many of the poems collected in this debut volume are set in rural history, populated by sharecroppers and enslaved cotton pickers. AUTHOR: Van Jordan
PUBLISHER: Tia Chucha Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Burr by Edgar Box, Grover Gardner
A memoir of Burr's life, told with typical Vidal-style gossipy detail. Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, an ambitious journalist, is writing an anonymous pamphlet to prove that Martin Van Buren (Jackson's vice-president) is the bastard son of Aaron Burr. Schuyler wants not to harm Burr, but to ruin Van Buren. Burr, thinking that Schuyler is writing a biography, gives him a memoir. The novel combines Schuyler's point of view with Burr's own memoir. Schuyler discovers the truth about Van Buren, but also about himself. AUTHOR: Edgar Box, Grover Gardner
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Four Great American Classics by Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Crane
Novels by Hawthorne, Twain, Crane, and Melville. AUTHOR: Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Crane
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Roscoe by William Kennedy
William Kennedy's Albany is a hard place to be in 1945. The political scene is largely corrupt, and the city seems to be full of criminals and pimps. The sublimely eccentric Roscoe Conway is in love with the beautiful Veronica, whose husband commits suicide. Past and present alternate as the novel explores Roscoe's boyhood, coming of age, young manhood, and present-day existence as a local politician. AUTHOR: William Kennedy
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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