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|  | Selected Poems of W. H. Auden by Edward Mendelson
The author has restored the early vision of some 30 of his greatest poems, generally considered to be superior to the later versions. Edited by Edward Medelson. AUTHOR: Edward Mendelson
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Court Vision by Ira Berkow
Description not available.A portrait of American basketball and its top players is presented from the viewpoints of celebrity fans Woody Allen, Tom Brokaw, Saul Bellow, Walter Matthau, Nikki Giovanni, Donald Trump, Sharon Stone, and others. AUTHOR: Ira Berkow
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Thinking of Home by James G. Watson, William Faulkner
Long unavailable, these letters by the young Faulkner, written when he was in his 20s, are a fascinating and eloquent testimony to his growth and development as a writer and a man. AUTHOR: James G. Watson, William Faulkner
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Daughter of Fortune by Blair Brown, Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden
During the California Gold Rush, Eliza Sommers, raised as an adopted daughter in a wealthy Chilean family, follows her flamboyant lover to California--partly as a way of beginning her life over again. Allende's historical adventure novel touches on feminist themes such as the repressed upbringing of girls in Chile, the disgraceful treatment of Chinese prostitutes in America, and the rough life of frontier women. AUTHOR: Blair Brown, Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Publishers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Live from Golgotha by Edgar Box
Gore Vidal's corrected version of the story of Jesus. Here Vidal introduces time-travel, technology (a live TV report at the moment of Jesus's crucifixion) and the mayhem of local news. A computer hacker retroactively deletes the records of the Gospels. Through rifts in time, 20th-century television is engaged in a near-brawl over broadcast rights to the crucifixion. AUTHOR: Edgar Box
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Walden Pond by Bonnie McGrath, Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written. The bible of the environmental movement, WALDEN vividly portrays Thoreau's reverence for nature, and his understanding of the idea that nature is made up of crucially interrelated parts. AUTHOR: Bonnie McGrath, Henry David Thoreau
PUBLISHER: Memoirs Unlimited
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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