Harpercollins. 06/01/2005. Reprint. 431 pgs. Echo Terrace, a downtown New York condo building, is inhabited by a diverse group of characters--people from many nations and of many different professions. What unites them is not only their address but the observations of their concierge, a Rumanian émigré named Farro Fescu. Fescu, who knows the intimate details of their lives, is the narrator of their stories--and his own sad one. The events of 9/11/01 and the way they impinge on the world of Echo Terrace form a considerable part of the story. BETWEEN TWO RIVERS--of course, they are the Hudson and the East River--is a sweeping panorama of life in the city, but it is also a penetrating look into the psyches of the people who inhabit it, and the myriad ways in which they interconnect. Originally published at $14.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Houghton Mifflin. 04/01/2004. 304 pgs. John Barth's minimalist third story collection consists of 11 tales, one told on each day after the World Trade Center disaster by a writer and his muse, as they ponder the implications of 9/11 and the impact of terrorism on life and literature. Barth's collection recalls not only the tales in the ARABIAN NIGHTS but also Bocaccio's DECAMERON, in which the characters flee a city terrorized by the plague. Originally published at $24.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 07/01/2005. Reprint. 369 pgs. Carol Lea Benjamin's seventh mystery starring New York PI and volunteer pet therapist Rachel Alexander is the first in the series written in the post-9/11 era, a setting which permeates the book. When Detective Timothy O'Fallon dies after an apparent accident cleaning his service revolver, Rachel is shocked to learn that she's the executor of the victim's will. After all, she barely knew O'Fallon, a mostly silent member of a 9/11 support group where she and her pit bull Dashiell did pet therapy. Although most assume the death was a suicide, Rachel wonders if it was actually murder, and to that end, pursues various leads, including O'Fallon's shady roommate and the extremely tragic history of O'Fallon's family. Originally published at $6.99 You save 86% off the cover price!

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Hyperion Books. 04/15/2005. 307 pgs. This highly unusual novel by a French writer takes place between 8:30 AM and 10:29 AM on September 11, 2001. Set at Windows on the World, the famous World Trade Center restaurant, it relates the experience of a man who has brought his two young sons there for breakfast. His narrative is paralleled with another, in the author's voice, providing commentary not only on the attack but on many other things. Frederic Beigbeder's novel was a best-seller in France. Originally published at $24.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Bantam Dell Pub Group. 03/29/2005. 289 pgs. Ian McEwan's unusual novel takes place over the course of one day in the life of a successful neurosurgeon named Henry Perowne. Henry is both a happy man and a decent one as, on Saturday, February 15, 2003, in London, he goes about his business--shopping, interacting with his wife, enjoying the day. (George Bush is in London, and the streets are clogged with demonstrators against the Iraq war--a situation McEwan's hero confronts with a rather skeptical eye.) Henry meets up with a mugger named Baxter who, he immediately recognizes, has the degenerative disease Huntington's chorea. Later, when Henry is back home with his family, Baxter turns up again, and this time he is even more threatening. Without sentimentality or preachiness, McEwan provides a picture of a good man living in a complicated world, and of the small acts of kindness and judgment that make the small differences that add up in welcome but unexpected ways. Named one of the 10 Best Books of 2005 by the New York Times. Originally published at $26.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Perseus Books Group. 05/31/2005. 297 pgs. As she walks across the Brooklyn Bridge on her way to work, Renata, the heroine of THE WRITING ON THE WALL, is a witness to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. When they discover that one of the victims is her boyfriend's coworker, Renata and Jack provide a home for Julio, the woman's orphaned baby. The situation brings back painful memories of Renata's sister, Claudia, who drowned at 16, possibly a suicide, after giving birth to a baby, Gianna, who was kidnapped seven years later--an event that still fills Renata with guilt. Now she wonders if a young woman she sees in New York in the days after 9/11 is the lost Gianna. And as the city struggles to process the catastrophe that has engulfed it, the combination of traumas jeopardizes Renata's relationship with Jack. Originally published at $24.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 08/08/2006. Reprint. 288 pgs. In Boston in 2002, Jake and Janet fall in love. Janet, who works for the governor, is terminally ill with cystic fibrosis and may not have long to live. Jake, a carpenter and painter, is still recovering from the death of his girlfriend in the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania on 9/11. As the two are drawn irresistibly together, the author, Roland Merullo, makes their sad story touching and true. Originally published at $13.95 You save 93% off the cover price!

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Simon & Schuster. 06/07/2005. 278 pgs. In Reynolds Price's 14th novel, a widower named Mabry Kincaid returns to his North Carolina home town when his plane home from Italy is diverted away from New York City on 9/11. He has no idea whether his downtown New York apartment still exists or not. He is also in the first stages of multiple sclerosis. As he confronts his aged and ailing father, Tasker, and finds himself drawn to Tasker's African-American companion, Audrey, Mabry must face aspects of his own life that he's not proud of--and that have contributed to the loneliness that now, in middle age, threatens him in the midst of the trauma of 9/11. Originally published at $26.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Pub Group West. 09/09/2005. 267 pgs. In September 2001, Mike, the 19-year-old hero of THE THIRD BROTHER (2005), returns to New York from a stint in Kong Kong and Bangkok. There he is confronted with not only his alcoholic parents' death in a horrendous fire at their Long Island beach house but, soon after, the smoking ruins of 9/11. Mike's brother Lyle is seriously unstable, and may have caused the fire. Now he may be trapped inside the World Trade Center. This is the second novel by Nick McDonell, whose bestselling first book, TWELVE, was published to great acclaim in 2002, when he was 17. Originally published at $22.00 You save 91% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 09/06/2005. 243 pgs. Patrick McGrath's three long stories all take place in Manhattan and range from 1777, when New York was under siege by the British fleet and the mother of a young boy was hanged for treason; to a doomed class-crossing love story set during the Civil War; to a post-9/11 series of interactions between a very twisted prostitute, the man who is obsessed with her, and the man's psychiatrist--who is in love with him. McGrath, who is known for the eeriness of his fiction, was born in London but has lived in New York for over 20 years. Originally published at $16.95 You save 94% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 01/17/2006. 352 pgs. Set in a trendy New York neighborhood, THE GOOD LIFE resumes the story started in Jay McInerney's earlier BRIGHTNESS FALLS (1992). Corrine and Russell Calloway are undergoing a separation while also coping with the trauma of the attacks of September 11th. Luke McGavock, an Upper East Sider who meets Corrine while both are volunteering at the World Trade Center site, grapples with guilt about his financial success in light of the tragedy as he also tries to mend his troubled relationship with his daughter. THE GOOD LIFE describes a post-9/11 world, capturing the spirit of an era--a McInerney specialty--similar to the way his first novel, BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY (1984) got to the heart of 1980s greed and materialism. Here, during a time of uncertainty, he poses an important question: just who deserves to live the good life? Originally published at $25.00 You save 96% off the cover price!

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St Martins Pr. 03/07/2006. 375 pgs. Nothing is what it seems in this thriller by one of England's most successful novelists. Former politician Jeffrey Archer's first book since his release from jail--he served two years for perjury--FALSE IMPRESSION twists real-life events into a whirlwind, international caper revolving around Van Gogh's "Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear." Dr. Anna Petrescu recently advised a client to sell her prized painting to cover her debt to her employer, Fenston Finance. The client, Lady Victoria Wentworth, is unfortunately murdered before she can finalize the transaction. The next day, after Anna gets terminated from her job for suggesting Lady Victoria sell the Van Gogh--her boss wanted it for his own--she rides the elevator down to the lobby of the World Trade Center as the September 11th attacks occur. Using the buildings' destruction as her cover, Anna slips away to England to help solve Victoria's killing which, she discovers, is related to the masterpiece. Not safe from anyone, Anna remains on the run. Her ex-boss knows something has gone awry, and Lady Victoria's killer follows Anna's every move. Originally published at $27.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 04/18/2006. 320 pgs. Wendy Wasserstein's well-heeled Manhattan women carry on in the post-9/11 era as if nothing had happened. With the exception of Francine "Frankie" Weissman, the neurotic lovelorn pediatrician who slums with the socialites, these women are more concerned with dinner party seating arrangements, bicoastal affairs, and haute couture than impending doom. But the doom finds them anyway, and the second half of the novel shatters their rarified world in the form of illness, death, and an explosion at a Starbucks. Wasserstein's comic powers are at a high gloss, her dialogue bubbles and snaps, her observations are wry and pithy, but, as with her brilliant stage plays, it’s the underlying depth of feeling, and her humanist politics, that make the novel soar. The book's tragic turn is sadly prescient. Wasserstein died shortly before the book was published. It is her first and only novel. Originally published at $23.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 05/23/2006. 512 pgs. Julia Glass, following up her National Book Award-winning THE THREE JUNES, returns with another lengthy and lavish novel. THE WHOLE WORLD OVER follows pastry chef Greenie Duquette as she leaves Manhattan and her passionless marriage to work for the rakish governor of New Mexico. With 9/11 serving as a dramatic impetus, Glass tracks a delicious tangle of characters caught up love affairs and other complicated entertainments. Along the way, Judd never misses an opportunity to riff on a fascinating tangent--it's all part of her unique take on the American cacophony. Originally published at $25.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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Penguin USA. 05/04/2006. 246 pgs. When Claire Frayn's brother Steven is shot to death, the Frayn family begins to fall apart. Claire's father retreats to a shed to build an airplane even though he does not know how to fly it, her mother begins to live in a glass factory, her aunts and uncles become unhinged, and Claire grows obsessively involved with her studies of biology. After a not-so-chance encounter, she begins an unconventional correspondence with a radical activist named Victor who claims to know who murdered Steven. The novel, part thriller and part artful investigation of modern society, takes place in a post-9/11 near-future in which bombings and terrorist attacks are commonplace and the government security apparatus grows increasingly ominous. Susan Richards Shreve's 12th novel delicately balances political machinations with intimate details of the Frayns' lives. Originally published at $24.95 You save 92% off the cover price!

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Harpercollins. 09/01/2006. 326 pgs. A week after 9/11, Brian Remy, a New York City cop, shoots himself in the head, yet somehow survives. After he recovers, he gets a job analyzing bits of debris for the Office of Liberty and Recovery, where he stumbles across a nefarious government plot. This may not sound like comedic material, but in Jess Walter's acerbic and biting novel the most serious events become fodder for satire, and his riotous writing takes on many of the ludicrous and sinister aspects of the post-9/11 world. Originally published at $25.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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