| Trade paperbacks are slightly larger and have bigger type than their cheaper, ‘mass market’ cousins. They are less expensive than hardcovers and generally easier to read than ‘drugstore’ paperbacks. Here are some of our favorites. |
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
Stephen King While Jake, Father Callahan, and Oy struggle to free Susannah Dean, whose body is possessed by a demon-mother named Mia, Roland and Eddie find themselves swept by magic to East Stoneham, Maine, in the summer of 1977, where they encounter a terrifying and dangerous world, one inhabited by the author of a novel called 'Salem's Lot. Suggested Retail Price $16.95 |
At Knit's End
Stephanie McPhee-Harlot Knitting finally takes its rightful place on the spectrum of personal obsessions, alongside golfing, fishing, and gardening. The tangled life of the knitter is the subject of inspired nuttiness in these 300 tongue-in-cheek meditations from the self-proclaimed yarn harlot, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee. Suggested Retail Price $9.95 |
Blue Blood
Edward Conlon A portrait of life as a police officer in the NYPD chronicles the author's life as a cop, from growing up with a police officer father, to his first day on the beat in the South Bronx and to his rise to detective. Suggested Retail Price $16.00 |
The Island at the Center of the World
Russell Shorto A history of the Dutch role in the establishment of Manhattan discusses the rivalry between England and the Dutch Republic, focusing on the power struggle between Holland governor Peter Stuyvesant and politician Adriaen van der Donck that shaped New York's culture and social freedoms. Suggested Retail Price $14.95 |
Eventide
Kent Haruf Returning to the high plains region around Holt, Colorado, an evocative, profoundly moving novel of small-town life follows the challenges, emotional upheaval, tragedies, struggles, and intertwined destinies of the local inhabitants as they cope with the changes they encounter. Suggested Retail Price $13.95 |
Truth & Beauty
Ann Patchett The author of Bel Canto describes her intimate twenty-year friendship with the late Lucy Grealy, tracing their introduction at a writer's workshop, the integral part their friendship played in their writing careers, and her witness to Grealy's medical deterioration. Suggested Retail Price $13.95 |
The Jane Austen Book Club
Karen Joy Fowler As six Californians get together to form a book club to discuss the novels of Jane Austen, their lives are turned upside down by troubled marriages, illicit affairs, changing relationships, and love, in a comedy of contemporary manners. Suggested Retail Price $14.00 |
Scribbling The Cat
Alexandra Fuller The best-selling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight details her unique friendship with a banana farmer, one of her parents' neighbors in Zambia, a white African, veteran of the Rhodesian war, and born-again Christian, and their mutual odyssey back in time through Africa to revisit scenes of the war, meet other veterans, and come to terms with the horrors of warfare. Suggested Retail Price $15.00 |
Ugly Americans
Ben Mezrich The best-selling author of Bringing Down the House presents a fascinating morality tale with global financial implications as he documents the exploits of a group of elite hedge fund cowboys who used their talents to amass vast personal wealth and redefined the rules of international finance and the concept of the American Dream. Suggested Retail Price $13.95 |
Sam's Letters to Jennifer
James Patterson Returning to the resort village of her childhood, Jennifer discovers a cache of letters that reveal a beloved relative's decades-long relationship with a secret love, a correspondence from which Jennifer draws comfort and wisdom when she falls in love herself and experiences a painful hardship. Suggested Retail Price $13.95 |