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Uncle Cleans Up
By J.P. Martin
Illustrations by Quentin Blake

Uncle and his friends defend the labyrinthine regions of castle Homeward from the Badfort baddies. "A classic of British nonsense.... And a most elegant nonsense it is, utterly silly and deeply sophisticated at the same time." —Newsday
Justice at War: The Men and Ideas that Shaped America's War on Terror
By David Cole

David Cole takes a critical look at John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, John Yoo, and David Addington, the men who made the decisions that shaped America's war on terror. Cole argues that America can prevail against the threat of terror not by dismantling the checks and balances that guarantee the fairness of our justice system, but by restoring them.
Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage
By Tim Robinson
Introduction by Robert Macfarlane

Mapmaker Tim Robinson moved to the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland in the 1970s and fell in love with their geography and history. In Pilgrimage, he walks the perimeter of Árainn, its largest island, and the result is "a loving anatomy...in which the point where nature and culture meet in the island is observed with great beauty and precision." (Colm Tóibín)
Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States
By George R. Stewart
Introduction by Matt Weiland

Organized thematically (sample chapters: "Yankee Flavor," "America Discovers Columbus," and "How Names Were Symbols of Empire") this lighthearted book will be a delight for anyone who ever wondered how their hometown, or (more likely) the next town over, could be called that.
The Inverted World
By Christopher Priest
Afterword by John Clute

The City is pulled along on tracks, forever at risk of slipping back in space and time, and threatened on all sides by hostile tribes. Christopher Priest's classic of hard science fiction is as mind-bending as it was when it was first published thirty years ago.
My Fantoms
By Théophile Gautier
Translated and with an introduction by Richard Holmes

The famed biographer of Shelley and Coleridge, Richard Holmes, compiles fantastical stories of love and death and from France's leading Romantic, friend of Hugo, and dedicatee of Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal. "It is in Gautier that we first seem to find and authentic French sense of the the unreal world...[it] is recognizable at once as something alike genuine and profound."—H.P. Lovecraft
Miami and the Siege of Chicago
By Norman Mailer
Introduction by Frank Rich

1968 was one of the most tumultuous in American politics and society, the effects of which reverberate today. Norman Mailer was on the ground, covering Nixon's relentlessly stage-managed nomination in Miami as well as the Democratic convention in Chicago—where the violence at the heart of the American dream exploded on the streets.
Victorine
By Maude Hutchins
Introduction by Terry Castle

A sexual awakening novel like none other, mixing elements of Adleran psychology, surrealism, and the American pastoral. "Maude Hutchins writes like a lascivious Ivy Compton-Burnett.... Somehow she manages to remain irreverent and even lighthearted about the transgressions she describes."—Time
The 13 Clocks
By James Thurber
Introduction by Neil Gaiman
Illustrations by Marc Simont

Satirist Thurber takes on the fairy tale and the results are captivating. "There are spys, monsters, betrayals, hair's-breadth escapes, spells to be broken and all the usual accouterments, but Thurber gives the proceedings his own particular deadpan spin." —Los Angeles Times
The Military Error: Baghdad and Beyond in America's War of Choice
By Thomas Powers

Why did George W. Bush invade Iraq? Thomas Powers uses a broad perspective to examine the American tendency to respond to political crises with military force. An expert on CIA intelligence, Powers explains how the Bush administration made its case for war, using faulty intelligence to argue that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and posed a mounting threat to the Middle East.
Grief Lessons (Paperback): Four Plays by Euripides
By Euripides
Translated and with introductory essays by Anne Carson

"Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief." Celebrated contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson presents new translations of four plays by Euripides.
In Hazard
By Richard Hughes
Introduction by John Crowley

The author of A High Wind in Jamaica is at his best on the high seas, where man's furious nature is matched—perhaps outpaced—by the intensity of the natural world. "A small masterpiece of lyric terror about a cargo ship that runs into a hurricane, but also about the rest of life." —Simon Schama
The Queue
By Vladimir Sorokin
Translated from the Russian by Sally Laird

An average day in the Soviet Union, hundreds of people are lined up for . . . nobody knows quite what, but the rumors are flying. Sorokin's most approachable novel is told in snatches of dialogue that are in turn poignant and uproarious.
Alien Hearts
By Guy De Maupassant
Translated and with an introduction by Richard Howard

Maupassant's last completed novel is the story of three lovers bound by bitterness and infatuation. Richard Howard's new English translation of this complex and brooding psychological novel reveals the final, unexpected flowering of the great French realist's art.
The Chrysalids
By John Wyndham