McGraw-Hill. 06/01/1973. This novel takes place during World War II. Leni Pfeiffer is German, and her secret lover is a Soviet prisoner of war; the relationship is both sustaining and threatening. Her story is told--to an anonymous author/investigator--by people ("informants") who know her, and a complete portrait emerges, not only of Leni but of German life under the Nazis--one of Böll's recurring themes. Originally published at $8.95 You save 89% off the cover price!

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Harcourt. 05/01/1981. This novel is an oblique tribute to the Gruppe 47, a loose association of politically committed writers founded by Hans Werner Richter. His membership in the group gave Gunter Grass the confidence to write his first novel, THE TIN DRUM. MEETING AT TELGTE is set during the Thirty Years War, and its heroic main character is based on Richter. Originally published at $9.95 You save 90% off the cover price!

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Random House Inc. 09/13/2005. 363 pgs. E. L. Doctorow digs deeply into American history once again in this epic tale of Sherman's march to the sea--a 60-mile trail of death and destruction--toward the end of the Civil War. Mingling real historical figures with imagined ordinary people, Doctorow offers a panoramic view of the South and of the war in a story that encompasses a dedicated battlefield nurse, a black ragtime pianist, a young and beautiful slave named Pearl, a brutal good ol' boy addicted to violence--and, of course, the hot-blooded Sherman and his scorched-earth military tactics that, for all their brutality, may have hastened the end of the Civil War and the emancipation of the slaves. Originally published at $25.95 You save 96% off the cover price!

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