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|  | Trial by Breon Mitchell, E. M. Butler, Edwin Muir, Franz Kafka, Geoffrey Howard
Kafka's exploration of the psychological terror inherent in everyday life is both allegorical and stunningly realistic. A bank employee named Joseph K. is accused of a crime he not only did not commit but doesn't even understand. He is released, but thereafter enslaved to a legal system that requires him to continue to go to court to defend his innocence in a case that is never explained, never resolved. Try though he may to take control of the situation, the hero's life, revealed in all its barrenness, disintegrates not only at the bank where he works but in his relationship with a young woman and with his landlady. Finally, in a last absurd twist, he is executed. Kafka expressed the wish that THE TRIAL never be published, but thanks to the intervention of his literary executor, Max Brod, it appeared posthumously. It is considered a classic of modernist literature, an early existential work that has had enormous influence on most serious 20th-century writers. AUTHOR: Breon Mitchell, E. M. Butler, Edwin Muir, Franz Kafka, Geoffrey Howard
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General 
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 | One Small Dog by Diane DeGroat, Johanna Hurwitz
When 10-year-old Curtis's parents divorce, he's completely devastated. Hoping to make things better, his mother agrees to get Curtis a dog at the local shelter. But when the dog begins biting people, Curtis has a new problem on his hands. AUTHOR: Diane DeGroat, Johanna Hurwitz
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Long Silence of Mario Salviati by Catherine Knox, Etienne Van Heerden
Ingi Friedlander travels from Cape Town to a remote area known as the Karoo to buy a sculpture for the museum she works for. Once there, she becomes embroiled in the history of the place and finds that an old passion--to be an artist herself--is reinvigorated by her experiences there. AUTHOR: Catherine Knox, Etienne Van Heerden
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Story of a Bad Boy by A. B. Frost, David Watters, Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Thomas Bailey Aldrich`s classic tale of a rascally young man. AUTHOR: A. B. Frost, David Watters, Thomas Bailey Aldrich
PUBLISHER: University Press of New England
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | A Sort of Homecoming by Robert Cremins
A young Irishman has just finished blowing his inheritance on six months of debauchery all over Europe. Now he's home, broke and chastened, to visit his family in Dublin, where he finds that his relatives hate him, his old girlfriend is engaged to another man, and all his friends are thugs. He seeks comfort in drugs, but gradually, as the alternately comic and bitter story reveals, we see that beneath his hipster persona he is a sad, insecure, shy boy whose real passion is literature. AUTHOR: Robert Cremins
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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