Current Paperback Reprints

A Special Valor: The U.S. Marines and the Pacific War, Richard Wheeler (NAL Books). History of the Marines and their military campaigns fought in the Pacific.

Magician, Raymond E. Feist (Doubleday). First volume of fantasy, introducing the imagined kingdom of Midkemia.

The Command and Control of Nuclear Forces, Paul Bracken (Yale). Examines the way in which “crisis stability,” as the author calls it, is nonexistent.

Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong (Harper & Row). Explores the life of the teacher, writer, social activist and Trappist monk.

The Whole Duty of a Woman: Female Writers in Seventeenth-Century England, Angeline Goreau (Doubleday). A collection of feminist texts, poems and essays from a period when women’s rights were hotly contested.

The German Army: 1933-1945, Albert Seaton (NAL Books). A balance sheet of the initial gains and ultimate losses brought when Hitler reorganized the German military into his army.

The Politics of Euromissiles: Europe’s Role in America’s World, Diana Johnstone (Verso). Arguing that U.S. strategy is designed to exploit international rivalries within Europe, study analyzes the effects on internal politics and relations among European nations.

The Problem is God: The Selection and Care of Your Personal God, C. Alan Anderson, Ph.D. (Stillpoint). A theoretical and how-to-do-it book on personalizing one’s God.

Faded Glory: Presidents out of Power, James C. Clark (Praeger). Scrutinizing the ex-Presidents; from George Washington’s retirement in Mount Vernon to Jimmy Carter’s life in Plains.

White Collar Crime, Edwin H. Sutherland (Yale University). Corporate crimes in America--corporate looting, price-fixing cartels, union busting and wartime profiteering--are brought to light in this uncut version.

A Pagan Place, Edna O’Brien (Graywolf). Novel of a young girl’s world in the Irish countryside.