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|  | Sketchbook, Nineteen Sixty-Six to Nineteen Seventy-One by Geoffrey Skelton, Max Frisch
A work of exceptional range, by the noted author of I'm Not Stiller, this sketchbook combines a fascinating variety of material, part fictional, part autobiographical, part Socratic. It constitutes a new art form, immensely stimulating through its shifts of prism, including: A series of startling questions that probe attitudes toward marriage, women, friendship, property, death, and so on (Are you afraid of the poor? Why not?) Interrogations about the use of violence for political ends Reports on a society for self-determined euthanasia A number of short stories Impressions of trips abroad, two to Russia, two to America (the last of which describes lunch at the White House with Henry Kissinger) Recollections of meetings with Bertolt Brecht as well as a series of candid portraits of Gunter Grass, before and after fame. Frisch, a Swiss, considers contemporary society with the mind of a highly intelligent, observant, and troubled liberal, sharply, wryly, reflectively. Hailed as a masterpiece by German critics, the book became an instant and long-lived best-seller in the original edition. AUTHOR: Geoffrey Skelton, Max Frisch
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Trade Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry by J. D. McClatchy
McClatchy`s selections include Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O`Hara, Adrienne Rich, Rita Dove, Sharon Olds, Mark Doty, and many more. AUTHOR: J. D. McClatchy
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Anthem by Ayn Rand, Chris Lane, Leonard Peikoff, Paul Meier
A novel about a man who lives in the dark ages of the future, in a loveless world where it takes courage to love the woman of his choice and pursue knowledge. Writing in opposition to the collectivist sentiments of modern times, Rand sought to illustrate the threats to human liberty inherent in social notions of altruism and charity, and in Anthem she creates a picture of an entire world sunk into barbarism through a misplaced sense of social obligation. AUTHOR: Ayn Rand, Chris Lane, Leonard Peikoff, Paul Meier
PUBLISHER: Dutton/Plume
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Strong Motion by Jonathan Franzen
Description not available.Louis Holland falls in love with a seismologist who discovers that recent Boston earthquakes had human causes, in a novel that deals with such issues as environmental pollution, religious fundamentalism, abortion, and the threat of the apocalypse. Reprint. AUTHOR: Jonathan Franzen
PUBLISHER: Picador
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Cowboy Bebop, Vol. 2 by Hajime Yatate
Description not available.Follows galactic bounty hunters Spike, Jet, Faye, Ed, and Ein as they deal with an ambitious news reporter, a cardshark wanted by the ISSP, an assassin gunning for Ed, and a vagabond singer who wanders into Spike's heart. AUTHOR: Hajime Yatate
PUBLISHER: TOKYOPOP
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Song by Brigit P. Kelly
Kelly's second book of poems won a Lamont Poetry Prize, and several of the poems were chosen for the BEST AMERICAN POETRY anthologies in 1993, 1994, and 1995. In the title poem, neighborhood bullies kill a girl's pet goat and hang it in a tree; that night the goat's head starts to sing a song that haunts the whole town. AUTHOR: Brigit P. Kelly
PUBLISHER: BOA Editions, Limited
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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