Coming Soon
Adam the King
Written by Jeffrey Lewis
Coming in May 2008The wedding of billionaire Adam Bloch and Maisie Maclaren is the event of the year in Clement’s Cove, Maine—a town in which the mansion-like “cottages” of the summering elite sit side-by-side with the modest homes of working-class locals. Adam, a shy, tentative man with a terrible tragedy in his past,…
Kafka Comes to America
Written by Steven T. Wax
Coming in June 2008
A public defender’s dedicated struggle to rescue two innocent men from the recent Kafkaesque practices of our vandalized justice system
“Our government can make you disappear.” Those were the words Steven Wax never imagined he would hear himself say. In his twenty-nine years as a public defender, Wax had never…
The Open Door
Written by Elizabeth Maguire
Coming in June 2008
“The story is the journey, not the destination. Or so the philosopher’s say. But this is my story, and it has a beginning, a middle, and an end….”
The Open Door is a luminous and profoundly moving novel inspired by the life of Constance Fenimore Woolson, one of the most widely-read…
Julien Parme
Written by Florian Zeller
Coming in June 2008
The Catcher in the Rye with a French accent.
Even if it blows your mind, I want to tell you about this unbelievable thing that happened to me last year. I’m not bragging, but things as unbelievable as the one I’m going to tell you about don’t happen every day,…
The Ethics of the Lie
Written by Jean-Michel Rabaté, Translated by Suzanne Verderber
Coming in July 2008
Pinocchio knows: the unconscious knowledge of the conscious lie.
From little white lies to the deepest, darkest ones, it is an accepted fact that we—like the boy who cried wolf—lie very often, at least three times a day. The thesis of this erudite and entertaining book is that lies…
