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|  | Fat City by Leonard Gardner
Billy Tully and Ernie Munger are two second-rate boxers who live in a backwater town in California and seem unable to stop their steady slide into mediocrity and despair. Billy works as a hired hand and drinks away whatever little money he gets; Ernie makes an unhappy marriage and slips into depression. They meet through their manager, Ruben Luna, and never manage to become friends or competitors. Bleak and depressing, `Fat City` serves well to portray two of the countless lost souls of Leonard Gardner`s bleak world. AUTHOR: Leonard Gardner
PUBLISHER: University of California Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Crime and Punishment by Constance Garnett, Constance Black Garnett, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George Gibian, James McConnell
This 1866 novel is Dostoevsky's great fictional study of the criminal mind, in the character of the student Raskolnikov, who murders an aged pawnbroker. Initially, Raskolnikov believes that the killing was entirely justified, but as the novel proceeds he becomes tortured by his guilt, and begins to question all his most passionately held beliefs. Eventually, while the wily police inspector Porfiry Petrovich simply waits, Raskolnikov--prompted by Sonia, a prostitute who is devoted to him--breaks down and confesses. Despite its bleak subject matter, the novel holds out the possibility of redemption; it is also an indictment of the social conditions in which the action unfolds. AUTHOR: Constance Garnett, Constance Black Garnett, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George Gibian, James McConnell
PUBLISHER: N A L
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Hasta No Verte Jesus Mio by Deanna Heikkinen, Elena Poniatowska
A fictionalized version of the colorful and turbulent life of Jesusa Palancares de Aguilar, who was born in Oaxaca in the early days of the 20th century, served in the Mexican Revolution, and went on to live a precarious postwar life in Mexico City. Originally published in 1969, this novel is a Mexican literary classic. AUTHOR: Deanna Heikkinen, Elena Poniatowska
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | What's Eating Gilbert Grape? by Peter Hedges
Description not available.Faced with an obesely overweight mother, a mentally retarded brother, an affair with an older married woman, and a budding new love with a young woman his own age, Gilbert Grape stands stressed out at the crossroads of his life. Reprint. NYT. AUTHOR: Peter Hedges
PUBLISHER: Pocket Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Who Knew There'd Be Ghosts? by Bill Brittain, Michele Chessare
Tommy and his friends are aided by some ghosts when they try to stop a mysterious stranger from destroying an abandoned mansion. AUTHOR: Bill Brittain, Michele Chessare
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Planets Around the Sun by Seymour Simon
Description not available.Presents a simple introduction to the nine planets of our solar system. AUTHOR: Seymour Simon
PUBLISHER: SeaStar Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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