The Tribe: Eine Neue Welt

LouAnne Johnson

Dangerous Minds: They Were Problem Kids with One Last Chance . . . Her

A fiesty female ex-Marine teaches a class of inner-city high school students about self-respect, courage and success. What had been called "the class from hell" went on to defy everyone's expectations, and proved that LouAnne Johnson's unorthodox technique worked. Soon to be a major motion picture from Disney/Buena Vista Pictures starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Andy Garcia.

Charles Bukowski

Factotum

3, Charles Bukowski's posthumous legend continues to grow. Factotum is a masterfully vivid evocation of slow-paced, low-life urbanity and alcoholism, and an excellent introduction to the fictional world of Charles Bukowski. One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next. "The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."--Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author "He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."--Leonard Cohen, songwriter

John Whitman

Trinity

Based on the hit FOX television show, this third novel in an original series finds CTU operating out of Los Angeles, and facing its first major crisis: the disappearance of a large amount of plastique explosive just as powerful representatives of the world's major religions gather for a conference. Original.