 | The Way It Is
Publication Date: April 15, 1999William Stafford (1914-1993) was an earnest, perceptive, and often affecting American poet who filled his life and ours with poetry of challenge and consolation. The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems gathers unpublished works from his last year, including the poem he wrote the day he died, as well as an essential and wide-ranging selection of works from throughout his career. An editorial team including his son Kim Stafford, the poet Naomi Shihab Nye, and the poet, translator, and author Robert Bly collaborated on shaping this book of Stafford's pioneering car...
 |  | Brand New Human Being
Release Date: June 12, 2012I’m putting the drill back in the safe when my fingers touchsomething unexpected—paper. An envelope. I take it out. Where an addressshould be, my name is written in Gus’s unmistakable, back-slantinghand. Meet Logan Pyle, a lapsed grad student andstay-at-home dad who’s holding it together by a thread. His father, Gus,has died; his wife, Julie, has grown distant; his four-year-old son hasgone back to drinking from a bottle. When he finds Julie kissinganother man on a pile of coats at a party, the thread snaps. Logan packsa bag, buckles his son...
|  | The Search for Fierra (Empyrion, Book 1)
Publication Date: June 18, 1996Orion Treet, an itinerant and often-unemployed writer, is abducted at gunpoint. Then he is offered eight million dollars and the adventure of a lifetime. The mission? To observe and chronicle the growth of a new extraterrestrial colony: Empyrion.Arriving on the planet Fierra, Treet discovers a civilization in decline, fragmented by millennia of mistrust and hatred. To survive, he and his odd assortment of companions must unscramble the mysteries around them . . . before time runs out for the settlement.The Empyrion novels are among Lawhead's most captivating ac...
|  | A Wretched Man - A Novel of Paul the Apostle
Publication Date: March 15, 2010Saint Paul was a sinner. He never met Jesus, but he experienced the famous conversion on the road to Damascus long after the Messiah had been crucified. Paul believed his Damascus experience had healed his guilty soul, but Jesus' own brother doubted Paul's tale. James' rejection spurred Paul to hike the Roman highways of the Mediterranean world to proclaim the truth of Damascus, over and over again, if not for James' approval, then for his own. Had he not been healed at Damascus? And then there was the stinging thorn in his flesh that kept the guilty wound on ...
|  | Train to Trieste (Vintage)
Release Date: August 11, 2009| Series: Vintage In the summer of 1977, seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu falls in love with Mihai, a green-eyed boy who lives in Brasov, the romantic mountain city where she spends her summers. But under the Ceausescu dictatorship, paranoia infects everyone; soon Mona begins to suspect that Mihai is part of the secret police. As food shortages worsen and her loved ones begin to disappear, Mona realizes that she too must leave. Over the next twenty years, she struggles to bury her longing for the past, yet she eventually finds herself compelled to return, determin...
|  | The Visibles: A Novel
Publication Date: May 5, 2009The only piece of information that Summer Davis takes away from her years at Peninsula Upper School -- one of the finest in the Brooklyn Heights-to-Park Slope radius, to quote the promotional materials -- is the concept that DNA defines who we are and forever ties us to our relatives. A loner by circumstance, a social outcast by nature, and a witty and warm narrator of her own unimaginable chaos by happenstance, Summer hangs on to her interest in genetics like a life raft, in an adolescence marked by absence: her beautiful, aloof mother abandons the family withou...
|  | The Jonah Man
Publication Date: August 12, 2000Captain Pollard took command of the ill-fated whaling ship Essex when he was not yet thirty.Raised on a farm, lured by the unknown power of the sea, Pollard commands with great courage and recklessness.When the Essex is sunk by a huge whale and the crew is set adrift, Pollard is forced to implement an ancient custom of the sea -- the sacrifice of one man to save the lives of others.Pollard's obedience to the moral law of the sea, and the consequences of his act when he returns to an unforgiving society, become the heart of this extraordinary exploration of on...
|  | Children of the Mist: The Dramatic 16th Century Story of Alastair MacGregor of Glenstrae
Publication Date: July 1, 1993The MacGregors are a small clan. At the end of the 16th century, Alastair MacGregor, the young chief of the clan, faces the threat of Black Duncan of the Cowl, of the powerful Cambell clan. He must meet the challenge. ...
|  | Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (Vintage Contemporaries)
Release Date: September 20, 2011| Series: Vintage Contemporaries A New York Times Notable BookA Miami Herald Best Book of the YearIn this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who create despite (or because of) the horrors that drove them from their homelands. Combining memoir and essay, these moving and eloquent pieces examine what it means to be an artist from ...
|  | Chasing After The Wind . . . And Then?: Autobiography/Inspirational and Fun Poetry
Publication Date: August 24, 2012This book takes on the ordinary, everyday routine of the simple life during the time of the Great Depression. God wants us to experience the small stuff on our journey and the elegant as well. God works in my life through my personal devotionals and everyday Bible reading. God desires that we gain wisdom and friendships that are long-lasting. He wishes that we be kind to others and "laugh it up" on occasion. He wants us to make choices that are proper and worthwhile. God is our judge, and he is the fairest one I shall ever meet. It is God's grace that makes m...
|  | En la posada de J. Babel (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 20, 2011Mención Única del Premio Nacional de PoesíaMinisterio de Cultura, 2010, Colombia.“En la Posada de J. Babel es un libro que se destaca por su unidad, por la ficción que pone en juego y por la riqueza de su lenguaje. El tiempo interno de los poemas atrapa al lector por su densidad metafórica. Es una obra distinta dentro de la tradición lírica colombiana”.Ramón Eduardo Cote, María Baranda, Juan Felipe Robledo, Elkin Restrepo y Eduardo Chirinos (Jurado). ...
|  | Shorskie geroicheskie skazaniia: Kan Pergen, Altyn Syryk (Pamiatniki folklora narodov Sibiri i Dalnego Vostoka) (Russian Edition)
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|  | Samuel Ferguson
Publication Date: December 10, 1990| ISBN-10: 0389209279 | ISBN-13: 978-0389209270This book provides a critical assessment and examination of the prose and poetry of Ireland's Samuel Ferguson. It presents a clear understanding of the shape and purpose of Ferguson's career as a writer, which extended over half a century. The scholarly sources from which Ferguson extracted many of his themes are carefully examined, as are the times during which Ferguson lived and wrote. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Irish literature, and the politics and history of ninetee...
|  | Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture: The Game of Slipknot (New Americanists)
Publication Date: July 1, 1999| Series: New Americanists Keith L. Walker traverses the traditionally imposed boundaries of geography and race as he examines the literary culture produced by French speakers and writers born outside France. Focusing on the commonalities revealed in their shared language and colonial history, Walker examines for the first time the work of six writers who, while artistically distinct and geographically scattered, share complex sensibilities regarding their own relationship to France and the French language and, as he demonstrates, produce a counterdiscourse to t...
|  | Dream a Little Dream
Release Date: February 1, 1998A Desperate Young Mother Rachel Stone's bad luck has taken a turn for the worse. With an empty wallet, a car's that's spilling smoke, and a five-year-old son to support, she's come home to a town that hates her. But this determined young widow with a scandalous past has learned how to be a fighter. And she'll do anything to keep her child safe—even take on. . .A man With No Heart Gabe Bonner wants to be left alone, especially by the beautiful outcast who's invaded his property. She has a ton of attitude, a talent for trouble, and a child who brings back ...
|  | Frankenstein
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|  | The Giant Cabbage: An Alaska Folktale
Release Date: March 4, 2003| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | One Potato, Two Potato
Release Date: August 8, 2006| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Mr. and Mrs. O’Grady are so poor they have just one of everything to share – one potato a day, one chair, one blanket full of holes, and one gold coin for a rainy day. After digging up the last potato in their patch, Mr. O’Grady comes upon a big black object. It’s a pot – no ordinary pot, for what they soon discover is that whatever goes into it comes out doubled! Suddenly the O’Gradys aren’t destitute anymore. But what they really long for is one friend apiece. Can the ...
|  | The Little Red Ant and the Great Big Crumb
Publication Date: March 22, 1999| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up This distinctly Mexican version of an old fable found in Spain, Portugal, and France is retold and updated by a well-known storyteller. The little red ant has found a wonderful crumb, but she's not strong enough to carry it all the way home. Going from one creature to the next, asking for help, the little red ant is surprised to discover who is the strongest of all. Spanish words add to the text's Mexican flavor, and bold, playful illustrations, hinting at what's coming next, make this story a real "page-turner." ...
|  | Viking Pride (The Viking Saga, Book 1)
Release Date: June 23, 2003| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up Fourteen-year-old Zack Gilman is not what you'd call a happy kid. The mild-mannered son of the world's biggest Minnesota Vikings fan, he is doomed to spend his days being dragged to football games, where he's forced to sing fight songs and make bratwurst runs for his dad's boisterous posse. The problem is, Zack hates all organized sports. The other problem is, he's six-foot-three, weighs 250 pounds, and his dad sees him as the next Vikings football MVP.It starts out as an ordinary day at the Minnesota Metrodome. When...
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