 | A Different Drummer
Release Date: May 1, 1990Nearly three decades offer its first publication, A Different Drummer remains one of the most trenchant, imaginative, and hard-hitting works of fiction to come out of the bitter struggle for African-American civil rights. ...
 |  | The Brother/Sister Plays
Publication Date: March 31, 2010“McCraney’s richly drawn characters and colloquial poetry . . . manages to sound both epic and rooted in a specific place. Listen closely, and you might hear that thrilling sound that is one of the main reasons we go to the theater, that beautiful music of a new voice.”—The New York Times“Taut, expressive drama, The Brothers Size realizes the potential of theater to elevate the ordinary. . . . McCraney’s writing can be arresting.”—Time Out New YorkThis is the first collection by Tarell Alvin McCraney, a major new...
|  | The Last Campaign
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|  | The Witch of Little Italy
Release Date: March 26, 2013In Suzanne Palmieri’s charming debut, The Witch of Little Italy, you will be bewitched by the Amore women. When young Eleanor Amore finds herself pregnant, she returns home to her estranged family in the Bronx, called by “The Sight” they share now growing strong within her. She has only been back once before when she was ten years old during a wonder-filled summer of sun-drenched beaches, laughter and cartwheels. But everyone remembers that summer except her. Eleanor can’t remember anything from before she left the house on her last da...
|  | Hidden in the Heart
Publication Date: September 15, 2012Everything Claire wants seems to be beyond her reach... After losing her mother to cancer and suffering a miscarriage soon after, Claire Ferguson numbs the pain with alcohol and pills, and wonders if her own life is worth living. Adopted at birth, Claire is convinced she has some unknown genetic flaw that may have been the cause of her miscarriage. She must find a way to deal with the guilt she harbors. But exoneration will come with a price. With her marriage in trouble and her father refusing to answer any questions about her adoption, Claire begins the ...
|  | Red Audrey and the Roping
Publication Date: May 1, 2008“This is a literary gem . . . one of the best books I’ve read this year.”—Ellen Hart"This raw and convincing first novel is narrated by a woman who can’t help testing the limits of her ability to endure pain in her intimate relationships with men and women... the vivid characters and potent emotions keep the pages turning."—The AdvocateOccasionally a debut novel comes along that rocks its readers back on their heels. Red Audrey and the Roping is one of that rare and remarkable breed. With storytelling as accomplished as success...
|  | I Keep Falling in Love with You: A Collection of Poems
Publication Date: September 2001| Series: Love "I believe in our love. It not only fills our present and our future, but it creates our destiny together. We are soul mates, lovers, and friends, and you are the love of my life."- Donna FargoWhen you meet and fall in love with the person of your dreams, the two of you experience many wonderful "first times." The world around you is renewed and infused with a special kind of happiness that can only be understood by hearts in love. You celebrate every new sunrise, make promises, and dream about a future spent together... forever.This beautiful c...
|  | The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez
Release Date: March 24, 2009 The great Persian poet Hafez is so beloved in Iran that almost every family there keeps his Divan close at hand. For some fifteen years, esteemed American poet and author Robert Bly has worked with the great Islamic scholar Leonard Lewisohn to produce this translation, which for the first time captures Hafez's nimbleness, his fierce humor, his astonishing range of thought, and his delight in love—enabling English speakers to fully appreciate the true genius of this master of the ghazal form, one of the greatest inventions in the history of poetry....
|  | Poem and Symbol: A Brief History of French Symbolism
Publication Date: June 1, 1990Wallace Fowlie provides an uncommonly well-written survey of French Symbolism by way of analyzing key poems in relation to the historical and literary contexts in which they were written. The literary symbol, as it has been used since Baudelaire's time, has in Fowlie's view a closer relationship with the religious spirit of humanity than with any practical or didactic use. Symbolism has been a major focus of literary study since Baudelaire's Correspondances, which can be seen as a succinct manifesto. It has provided an aesthetic basis for works that have element...
|  | Just This: Poems
Publication Date: April 1, 2010The poet’s ongoing love affair with his Central Otago home lies at the heart of this rich and compelling new collection that explores the politics of relationships and relationships themselves. Through a combination of people and place that gives the poems color and humor, the volume also examines friendship, politics, death, and the machinations of the modern business world. The mountains and lakes of the central South Island have a strong presence in the imagery, while wry observations of people in that landscape move the collection...
|  | Don DeLillo: The Physics of Language
Publication Date: September 2003Don DeLillo, author of twelve novels and winner of the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the William Dean Howells Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize, has begun to rival Thomas Pynchon as the definitive postmodern novelist. Always thought-provoking and occasionally controversial, DeLillo has become the voice of the bimillennial moment.Charting DeLillo's emergence as a contemporary novelist of major stature, David Cowart discusses each of DeLillo's twelve novels, including his most recent work, The Body Artist (2001). Rejecting the idea that DeLillo lacks...
|  | Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises: 1923-1934 (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies) (English and English Edition)
Publication Date: December 19, 2008| Series: Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, as most everyone knows, and as we might know The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas or even "Patriarchal Poetry."But Gertrude Stein is far more than her best known words and works, and this monumental study gives us for the first time a finely detailed, deeply felt understanding of both the music and the mechanics of this great modernist master throughout one of her most productive periods. With The Language that Rises, Ulla Dydo, a reader of Stein without equal, makes apt readers o...
|  | Late for the Wedding
Release Date: November 23, 2004New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick returns with a thrilling new venture into romance and mystery, featuring the most unusual, highly compatible--undeniably combustible--pairing of Tobias March and his mesmerizing partner, Lavinia Lake.An invitation to a country house party at Beaumont Castle provides a perfect solution to Tobias and Lavinia’s most exasperating challenge: how to escape the chaos of London for a remote, relaxing--and above all romantic--retreat from prying eyes and wagging tongues. But the lovers’ plans are foiled when the...
|  | A Summer to Remember (Get Connected Romances)
Release Date: March 4, 2003| Series: Get Connected Romances “Matchless storyteller”(Romantic Times) Mary Balogh weaves a tantalizing web of wit and seduction in her new novel—an irresistible tale of two unlikely lovers and one unforgettable summer.Kit Butler is cool, dangerous, one of London’s mostinfamous bachelors—marriage is the last thing on his mind.But Kit’s family has other plans. Desperate to thwart his father’s matchmaking, Kit needs a bride...fast. Enter Miss Lauren Edgeworth.A year after being abandoned at the altar, Lauren has dete...
|  | The Slayer (The Legend Chronicles)
Release Date: April 1, 2012| Series: The Legend Chronicles (Book 2) Brothers Winchester, Remington and Colt know the legends--they were trained from childhood to destroy demon predators, wielding the latest steam-powered gadgetry. It's a devil of a job. But sometimes your fate chooses you. . .CHASING TROUBLEWinn Jackson isn't interested in hunting nightmares across the Wild West--even if it's the family business. Unlike his rakehell brothers, Winn believes in rules. As sheriff of Bodie, California, he only shoots actual law breakers. That's what he's doing when he rescues the Contessa Drosse...
|  | Havana Strike
Publication Date: December 1997Castro is dead--but his legacy lives on. In the vacuum left by Fidel's death, would-be heirs--including his own daughter--battle for power. But as guerrilla rebels threaten to topple the teetering government, there's more at stake than just the island nation. The U.S. military uses all the high-tech resources at its disposal to try to restore stability, only to find that Castro had kept one last card up his sleeve. ...
|  | Jane and the Man of the Cloth: Being the Second Jane Austen Mystery (Being A Jane Austen Mystery)
Release Date: November 3, 1997| Series: Being A Jane Austen Mystery For everyone who loves Jane Austen...the second tantalizing mystery in a new series that transforms the beloved author into a dazzling sleuth!Jane and her family are looking forward to a peaceful holiday in the seaside village of Lyme Regis.Yet on the outskirts of town an overturned carriage forces the shaken travelers to take refuge at a nearby manor house.And it is there that Jane meets the darkly forbidding yet strangely attractive Mr. Geoffrey Sidmouth.What murky secrets does the brooding Mr.Sidmouth seek to hide?Jane su...
|  | The Storm Killer
Publication Date: January 11, 2011When newspaperman Jim Locke’s estranged sister, a wealthy actress, is murdered, the police name him as their primary suspect.The lead detective on the case, Michael Boyle, has a shady reputation and appears willing to do anything to prove Jim guilty.Determined to clear his name, Jim soon discovers evidence connecting his sister and several other murdered actresses to Doctor Henry Greeley.Greeley is a war hero and a respected psychiatrist who is obsessed with Ernest Hemingway.Despite the help of an ex-bootlegger gone legit, an old girlfriend turned law...
|  | WordGirl: The Incredible Shrinking Allowance
Release Date: December 6, 2011| Age Level: 6 and up...
|  | Thumbelina
Publication Date: September 9, 2004It's not easy being small, but in Brad Sneed's lovely newadaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina, at least life is full ofadventure.Soon after being born from a fiery red flower, Thumbelina iskidnapped from home and pursued by many suitors, including a horrible toad, abumbling beetle, and a grumpy mole--until the plucky heroine finds a true lovewho fits her just right. Sneed's rich, detailed watercolors are a true standout, illustrating the animalsand natural world with remarkable realism and vibrancy. The story, lightheartedand lively, has a sim...
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