The United States of Paranoia

An engaging and bizarre history of America’s most notorious conspiracy theories, from the suspicious assassination attempt of President Andrew Jackson to the panicked Red Scare of the mid-20th century.

The Last First Day by Carrie Brown

The Last First Day A NovelWritten by Carrie BrownHardcover, 304 pages | Pantheon | Fiction – Literary; Fiction – Contemporary Women; Fiction – Family Life | $24.95 | September 17, 2013 | 978-0-307-90803-2 (0-307-90803-8)From the author of The Rope...

Ticket to Fly

September 17: “The ward is a factory for the Combine. It’s for fixing up mistakes made in the neighborhoods and in the schools and in the churches, the hospital is.”  

The Gamal

A group of Irish adolescents keeps a terrible secret of their tiny, claustrophobic village in this inventive novel in the vein of J.D. Salinger.