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Reading Group Gold
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The Devil Amongst the LawyersA Ballad NovelSharyn McCrumbIn 1935, when Erma Morton, a beautiful young woman with a teaching degree, is charged with the murder of her father in a remote Virginia mountain community, the case becomes a cause célèbre for the national press. -
PoisonA Novel of the RenaissanceSara PooleIn the simmering hot summer of 1492, a monstrous evil is stirring within the Eternal City of Rome. The brutal murder of an alchemist sets off a desperate race to uncover the plot that threatens to extinguish the light of the Renaissance and plunge Europe back into medieval darkness. -
Our BoysA Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center RedmenJoe DrapeThe football team in Smith Center, Kansas, holders of the nation’s longest high-school winning streak, embrace a philosophy of life taught by their legendary coach, Roger Barta: “Respect each other, then learn to love each other and together we are champions.”
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Murder at Mansfield ParkA NovelLynn Shepherd"Nobody, I believe, has ever found it possible to like the heroine of Mansfield Park."--Lionel Trilling -
The RomanticsGalt NiederhofferNow a major motion picture starring Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel, and Anna Paquin, in theaters September 24th, 2010 -
This Must Be the PlaceA NovelKate RacculiaA sudden death, a never-mailed postcard, and a longburied secret set the stage for a luminous and heartbreakingly real novel about lost souls finding one another -

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We are pleased to announce that Rivka Galchen’s Atmospheric Disturbances has won the 2010 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing in the fiction category. Additionally, Maryalice Huggins’ Aesop's Mirror (Sarah Crichton Books / FSG) is a finalist for the prize in the nonfiction category.
Intended to encourage new or emerging writers and honor the Saroyan literary legacy of originality, vitality and stylistic innovation, the Saroyan Prize recognizes newly published works of both fiction and non-fiction.
For more information and a complete list of winners and finalists please visit Stanford's site.
Dead Space literary prequel novel in-stores today
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