Dan Austin’s hilarious and thoughtful TRUE FANS: A Basketball Odyssey details the journey Dan, his brother, and his best friend started when they headed east from the pickup court at Venice Beach- pointed towards the NBA Hall of Fame. It was a pilgrimage, a search for enlightenment under the net. With them they carried a basketball, on which they collected the signatures of those who helped them on their journey. A ball that they hoped to see housed in the Hall of Fame itself.

Rick (The Ice Storm) Moody’s THE DIVINERS is a hilarious, generous novel of folly and the tyranny of buzz. During the autumn of 2000 film-business strivers are focused on getting a piece of an elusive, but surely huge, T.V. saga that opens with Huns sweeping through Mongolia and ends with a Mormon diviner in the Vegas desert. Moody’s latest work is a cautionary tale of how pointless ambition, sex, money, politics,family, work and addiction interlock in the modern American dream.

Funny, gritty Dahlgren Wallace is a former college football star, a veteran of the first Gulf War, and a former member of the Marine Corps elite. He thought he had put the world of intrigue behind him by becoming a fly-fishing guide in Montana. But when a guest he is guiding is bludgeoned to death, Dahlgren is suspected. Full of action, suspense, and surprising characters—from a Jewish deli-owner/scholar to a former Miss Utah—BLOOD ATONEMENT is a winner.

From Sonia Chernoff, an elderly widow looking for closure, to Elaine, a divorce lawyer with a vengeance for her husband’s lover, Ronna Wineberg’s SECOND LANGUAGE is home to a rich and memorable collection of characters who have one thing in common: choices. These characters are confronted with the need for change, heading in various directions that range from forgiveness, to anger, to regret.

Buffalo, New York, July 1929: On the kind of peerless summer day for which she waits all year, Sadie Feldstein gets the kind of news that no one wants to hear: her older sister, Goldie, has vanished. From the Great Depression to the years immediatly following the war, as Sadie and her family struggle with reasons for Goldie’s disappearence, Nancy Reisman’s eloquent THE FIRST DESIRE portrays the loves, desires and deceptions that bind together one American family.

Alston Purvis began to investigate his father’s story after his own son was born. THE VENDETTA is an intimate and brutal portrait of good guys and bad. In 1934, Melvin Purvis was second only to FDR in national fame. He had just completed a sweep of the great “Public Enemies” of the Depression. America finally had a hero. But every new success added to one man’s bitter resentment. J. Edgar Hoover’s jealousy was immense, and he was determined to bring Purvis down.

Considered one of the most influential artists of the last 50 years Judy Chicago’s work often highlights women’s achievements, most notably in The Dinner Party. Now she gives us a rare glimpse into her private life in the groundbreaking work KITTY CITY: A Feline Book of Hours. Kitty City is a celebration of a life with cats, lavishly designed as contemporary version of an illuminated manuscript, including 36 original watercolors. This is a work of both love and art.