Street Smart: September 16
Liberty
A Lake Wobegon Novel

by Garrison Keillor
ISBN: 9780670019915
$25.95 Hardcover
Viking Books

National holidays in Lake Wobegon are always gaudy and joyful. But this year people wonder what’s going on between Clint Bunsen and Miss Liberty. This tale shows Lake Wobegon as it's always been--a place where good, loving people drive each other crazy.


 

Of Parrots and People
The Sometimes Funny, Always Fascinating, and Often Catastrophic Collision of Two Intelligent Species

by Mira Tweti
ISBN: 9780670019694
$25.95 Hardcover
Viking Books

There are an estimated 50 million parrots kept as pets the U.S. alone, their numbers surpassed only by dogs and cats. Yet these complex creatures are not the typical domesticated animal, and they remain a mystery to many. An award-winning journalist explores their extraordinary world and the environmental calamity of inhumane parrot trading.


 





 

Street Smart: September 18
The Dharma Bums, 50th Anniversary Edition
by Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780670019939
$24.95 Hardcover
Viking Books

Two ebullient young men search for truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, and "yabyum" in San Francisco's Bohemia to solitude in the High Sierras and a vigil atop Desolation Peak in Washington State.

 



 

Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba
The Biography of a Cause

by Tom Gjelten
ISBN: 9780670019786
$27.95 Hardcover
Viking Books

In chronicling the saga of the remarkable Bacardi family in this unique history of Cuba, Tom Gjelten describes the intersection of business and power, family and politics, community and exile.

 



 

Street Smart: September 18
The Book of Murder
by Guillermo Martínez
translated by Sonia Soto
ISBN: 9780670019946
$23.95 Hardcover
Viking Books

The Argentinean author of The Oxford Murders returns with a gripping tale of revenge and rivalry that poses the question: Can words really kill? Guillermo Martínez's work appeals to fans of both literary fiction and mysteries.