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|  | The Floating City by Pamela Ball
In the 1890s, Eva Hansen, a European woman living under an assumed name in Hawaii, finds a dead boy on the beach--a body that goes missing as soon as it is reported to the police. As a suspect herself, Eva becomes involved in Hawaiian power politics in which annexation by the U.S. has become an option and the once lush island paradise is threatened on all sides. AUTHOR: Pamela Ball
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Man Made of Words by N. Scott Momaday
A collection of essays, travel writing, and occasional pieces by the celebrated Native American writer. AUTHOR: N. Scott Momaday
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | I'll Take You There by Rosamond Smith
Joyce Carol Oates's 30th novel, which takes place in the early 1960s, is about a young woman (nameless) who grew up on a farm and wins a scholarship to an upstate New York college. In the course of trying to understand the effect on her of her highly dysfunctional family, which includes an absent father, she becomes involved with a black intellectual who treats her badly. And when she re-encounters her father, it is only to lose him again. AUTHOR: Rosamond Smith
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Stories, Poems, & Other Writings by Sharon O'Brien, Willa Cather
Cather's lyrical, economical stories--often about artists and their relationship to an insensitive and uncomprehending world--are renowned for their sense of place, and for their incisive depiction of the effects of that place on a newcomer. This collection covers Cather's life from her earliest writing to her great later works. Among the short stories in represented are On the Divide, Paul's Case, The Sculptor's Funeral, Coming, Aphrodite! and A Death in the Desert. AUTHOR: Sharon O'Brien, Willa Cather
PUBLISHER: Library of America, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Black on White by David R. Roediger
An anthology of folktales, slave narratives, fiction, and essays on white people by over 50 black writers such as Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, bell hooks, Amiri Baraka, W. E. B. DuBois, and others. AUTHOR: David R. Roediger
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Fata Morgana by Leo A. Frankowski
Description not available.Two skeptical, modern engineers find their lives turned upside down when they accidentally stumble upon the legendary Western Isles, the mythical home of King Arthur's father, Uther Pendragon. AUTHOR: Leo A. Frankowski
PUBLISHER: Baen Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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