Looking for Alibrandi

Melina Marchetta

For as long as Josephine Alibrandi can remember, it's just been her, her mom, and her grandmother. Now it's her final year at a wealthy Catholic high school. The nuns couldn't be any stricter--but that doesn't seem to stop all kinds of men from coming into her life. Caught between the old-world values o...

Fever Pitch

Nick Hornby

A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity and About A Boy.   In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that's before the players even take the field.   Nick Hornby has been a football fa...

Maoism: A Global History

Julia Lovell

"Revelatory and instructive . . . [a] beautifully written and accessible book" --The Times (London). For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao's revolution in favour of authorit...