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|  | Road Trips, Head Trips & Other Car-Crazed Writings by Jean Lindamood Jennings, P. J. O'Rourke
Featuring contributions by Dave Barry, Calvin Trillin, Allen Ginsberg, David Halberstam, Jim Harrison, Jack Kerouac, Joyce Carol Oates, S.J. Perelman, Hunter S. Thompson, and a wealth of others, this book comprises a riotous anthology that fully explores the American love affair with the automobile. AUTHOR: Jean Lindamood Jennings, P. J. O'Rourke
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | E by Matt Beaumont
Consisting entirely of e-mails, this epistolary novel for the new millennium chronicles the humorous adventures (and mishaps) of an ad agency desperately trying to land the Coca-Cola account. AUTHOR: Matt Beaumont
PUBLISHER: Dutton/Plume
FORMAT: Other
CATEGORY: General
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 | It Wasn't All Dancing & Other Short Stories by Mary Ward Brown
This collection of stories explores themes of race, friendship, and the social changes that transformed the American South in the 20th century. AUTHOR: Mary Ward Brown
PUBLISHER: University of Alabama Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | House of Stairs by William Sleator
Five 16-year-old orphans (Peter, Lola, Blossom, Abigail, and Oliver) find themselves placed in an unusual house. No other people are present, and as far as they can see they are surrounded by stairs, stairs that lead nowhere except back to a small machine that sometimes gives them food. Slowly they begin to realize that the machine rewards them with food whenever they are cruel to one another. Will hunger and fear cause them to give into the strange will of whoever is controlling the machine? AUTHOR: William Sleator
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Museum of Useless Efforts by Cristina Peri Rossi, Tobias Hecht
In the first of these 30 fable-like stories, a museum catalogues an inventory of useless human efforts. The efforts displayed at the museum, such as a prostitute's attempt to find a different job and a man's attempt at unassisted flight, attest to differing degrees of human futility. This volume was initially published in Spanish in 1983. AUTHOR: Cristina Peri Rossi, Tobias Hecht
PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Mystery of the Roman Ransom by Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Fritz Biermann, Henry Winterfeld
Description not available.The purchase of a slave for their teacher leads a group of schoolboys in ancient Rome to discover that the slave is a messenger with a demand to assassinate a Roman senator who happens to be the father of one of the boys. Simultaneous. AUTHOR: Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Fritz Biermann, Henry Winterfeld
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Children's Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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