The Permanent Press Ord: 139 books

“. . . Tomorrow is our anniversary. Tomorrow we have been married at least one thousand years.” How does a woman move from one life to another? Can she? In this lyrical and often very funny novel, thirty-seven-year old Dore Dover searches for answers both in the familiar territories of old friendships...

A Kafkaesque novel set in an unnamed Eastern European country, centers around Petir, a clerk in a state-run banking/insurance business, whose job it is to prevent handicapped people from collecting disability or insurance payments by tying them up in bureaucratic doubletalk and red tape. One of his...

The scene is a small town in Maine in the 1950s. Louisa Fisher, called “Fish” by her friends, yearns for true love. She also wants to be a writer, hoping for a bestseller before she is twenty. Unnerved by the boys at school with their leering question “What Do Cowboys Like?”, Fish is afraid...

The sins of French collaboration with the Nazis effect the next generation.

Jonas Lippman—father, husband, successful psychiatrist, provider, and respected community member—seems to have everything. Why, then, does he risk all of this during an encounter with one of his sexually repressed patients? What prompts such a man? Is it done solely for his own gratification or are more complex motivations involved? Is he idealistic, simplistic, or simply a seducer?

When Hali’s father asks her to help him commit suicide to spare the family the misery of a long illness, she reluctantly agrees. Hali’s family insists on letting “God’s will” decide. Hali, brooding upon the idea of predetermination and an afterlife in a way that is both challenging and deeply...

A retired Foreign Service officer and a young state department security officer are hired to protect an Arab-American who may be the target of a terrorist threat. As these two very different men travel together into the intifada, a gigantic terrorist plot unfolds which will change both of their lives forever.

David is a refugee from the late sixties and early seventies, now teaching at a community college in Western Massachusetts. Committed to helping his working-class students, he is also a part-time father who is trying to raise his son in a responsible and loving way. When he meets an old lover...

Sexy, funny, painful, and wise—The Stepman probes a broken family and a modern marriage. At its unusual and disturbing conclusion, it pins an ordinary man in the trap of his own personality.

“Shelby Lewis is a 20-year-old pre-med student at the University of British Columbia who drops out of school to “find himself,” only to discover that the journey is as complex and incomprehensible in the ’90s as it was in the ’50s and ’60s.” —Publisher’s Weekly

“Debbie Lynn McCampbell tells the story of a young Kentucky girl’s search for identity and independence from a family whose ever-increasing needs threaten to thwart her personal development.” —The Washington Post

When Sarah Crawford Brighton turns forty, she buys a horse and heads west with her veterinarian. A year later and a thousand miles from her Carolina home, she still isn’t sure why. Neither is Jack Brighton, her husband. Nor is the Crawford family.

The End of It is a novel about an American fighting in Italy during World War II.

Monk and Jo are a suffering pair who came together one night on Hotline Heaven. She was the caller, he was the voice up there. That was five years ago, before he became Home-Mart Man of the Month and she became the baker at The Cake and Coffee.