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First Edition Club Books: 1996


December (1996)

The Last Family
The Last Family
New York: Bantam (1996)

Former DEA-agent Paul Masterson faces his worst nightmare--an insanely clever, deeply evil man seeking revenge against the agents who are now his sworn enemies. But the killer doesn't want the... (more)

November (1996)

High Lonesome
High Lonesome
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press (1996)

These stories explore lost moments in time with intensity, emotion, and an eye to the past. In "Uncle High Lonesome", a young man recalls his Uncle Peter, whose even temper was marred only... (more)

November (1996)

Bordersnakes
Bordersnakes
New York: Mysterious Press (1996)

Crumley brings his two greatest detectives together in one smashing case. When a fickle twist of fate foils two assassins from snuffing out Detective C.W. Sughrue, Detective Milo Milodragovich joins... (more)

October (1996)

Father and Son
Father and Son
Chapel Hill: Algonquin (1996)

Glen Davis is the bad seed. Before he's been back in town thirty-six hours, Glen has browbeaten his younger brother, threatened his war-crippled father, bent his lover to his will, rejected his son,... (more)

September (1996)

Burning Man
Burning Man
New York: Doubleday (1996)


August (1996)

Servant of the Bones
Servant of the Bones
New York: Knopf (1996)

The creator of vast universes of vampires and witches, the Chronicler of Lestat and the Mayfairs, now takes readers into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem, and... (more)

July (1996)

Edisto Revisited
Edisto Revisited
New York: Henry Holt (1996)

Padgett Powell's fourth work of fiction picks up several years after his first left off, on a strip of coast in the low country of South Carolina, sometime home to Simons Manigault. Simons is now out... (more)

June (1996)

The Runaway Jury
The Runaway Jury
New York: Doubleday (1996)

Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off... (more)

May (1996)

Sunset Express
Sunset Express
New York: Hyperion (1996)

Elvis Cole is back on his own turf in Los Angeles, and embroiled in a controversial high-profile murder case. A wealthy restaurateur is accused of murdering his wife, and his hot-shot defense... (more)

April (1996)

Last Days of the Dog-Men
Last Days of the Dog-Men
New York: Norton (1996)

Watson, in precise and beautiful prose, writes about people and dogs--dogs as companions, as accomplices, and as unwitting victims of human passions--and people responding to dogs as missing parts or... (more)

March (1996)

Atticus
Atticus
New York: Harper Collins (1996)

Ron Hansen's deeply affecting novel opens in winter on the high plains of Colorado, where rancher Atticus Cody receives an unexpected visit from his wayward young son. An artist and wanderer, Scott... (more)

February (1996)

Last Hotel for Women
Last Hotel for Women
New York: Simon and Schuster (1996)

On Mother's Day, 1961, a busload of freedom riders arrived in Birmingham from "up North". A group of Klansmen, armed with pipes and clubs, greeted them. Life in this most segregated of... (more)

January (1996)

Picturing The Wreck
Picturing The Wreck
New York: Doubleday (1996)

In a masterful departure from her earlier work, the author of Playing with Fire and Fugitive Blue tells the story of Solomon Grossman, a once-prominent psychologist who seeks his own redemption by... (more)