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	A Place to Call Home: A Memoir in Novel Form  Peter James Stelling '65 and May Ellen Stelling When Lenore de Quincy's father gives her the key to a bank box containing a fortune in cash and then dies, she realizes she is no longer under constraints to remain unhappily married. She abandons her husband, taking her daughter, Angela, with her from a provincial town in western Pennsylvania to the bright lights of Manhattan. A Place to Call Home is a novel inspired by true stories set against the First World War, the Roaring Twenties, and the Great Depression. It centers around two well-to-do families joined by an arranged marriage. The action is seen through Angela's eyes as she struggles with the effects on her life of her parents' divorce, a thing viewed in the 1920s as scandalous and tragic. ISBN #W710 $24.95
	A Side Order of Truth  Robert L. Payne Payne's characters are so alive they sizzle. They do what people do: cheese it around until they think they know everything. The girl wants to bring home and KEEP everything. The middle sibling, a wild rebellious kid, wants to boss everybody. The oldest, a boy, wants to discover meaning everywhere. Readers won't be able to: predict the directions the characters take. : see the surprises taking shape. : tell a soul what's at stake. : put the book down for a coffee break. Readers can expect to find ...a cult but not many adults; a big dog; a cabin of logs; court scenes; pipe dreams; a deep cave as a way to be brave; a border ready for double-crossing; a haunted house full of cat-and-mouse; astral flights; lots of crazy sights. ISBN #W1937 $34.99
	A Special Time  Paul J.B. Murphy, Jr. '49 "A Special Time", set in England during the 1980's, is a book within a book in which Alex Blakely recounts his experiences and adventures during his college years, which he has come to look back upon as a special time in his life. Infatuation, betrayal, true love, physical conflict, good times and tragedy are all events which during this time of young adulthood, help mold him into the man he finds himself today. Arching over all of this is his friendship with college mate, Sean Creedon, a relationship, sometimes quiet, sometimes intense, sometimes humorous, and reaching a depth which will bond the two young men for a lifetime. ISBN #W477 $12.95
	All the Truth  Laura Brodie, Visiting Assistant Professor of English "One night can alter a life forever... " Emma Greene enjoys living in rural solitude with her husband and five-year-old daughter, Maggie, far away from her college students in Jackson, Virginia. But late one night, with her husband away and her daughter upstairs in bed, some of Emma's students trespass on her property. The ensuing confrontation changes Emma and Maggie's life forever. Nine years later, still plagued by nightmares from that evening, Maggie is living with her father in the same small town, and entering her first year of high school. She develops problems in class when her math teacher, a strange and lonely woman, begins to exhibit an odd interest in her. In order to let go of the past, Maggie begins to piece together all the truth of what happened that night--and discovers a story of anger, guilt, and redemption. ISBN #W1525 $15.00
	Ambition and Survival  Christian Wiman class of 1988 Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet, by Christian Wiman class of 1988, is a collection of stirring personal essays and critical prose on a wide range of subjects: reading Paradise Lost in Guatemala, recalling violent episodes from the poet's youth, traveling in Africa with an eccentric father, as well as a series of penetrating essays on poets, poetry, and poetry's place in our lives. The book concludes with a portrait of Wiman's diagnosis with a rare cancer, and a clear-eyed declaration of what it means-for an artist and a person-to have faith in the face of death. Courtesy of Copper Canyon Press. ISBN #W1386 $18.00
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