This anthology of fourteen autobiographical narratives about growing up in America's diverse society takes us all across the United States: to the Watts barrio and idyllic Hawaii; to rural Alabama an
A centennial volume, with previously unavailable poems, by Turkey's greatest poet. Published in celebration of the poet's one hundredth birthday, this exciting new edition of the poems of the
Haunted by thevoices of those committed to the notorious Virginia State Colony, epicenter ofthe American eugenics movement in the first half of the twentieth century, thisevocative debut marks the eme
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The peerless translations of this hauntedand hauntingHolocaust poet, including ten new poems and an illuminating essay by the translator. Paul Celan is one the twentieth century's most essential poet
Twenty stories, arranged by age of the protagonists, from 4 to 18. Contributors include Barbara Kingsolver, John Updike, Ethan Canin, Ernest J. Gaines, Gish Jen, Alice Walker, Michael Chabon, Toni Cad
26 stories that explore universal rites of passage as well as culture-specific complexities of youth: Nadine Gordimer, Gabriel Garc!a Marquez, Bharati Mukherjee, BenOkri, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Naugui
Here are eighteen compelling stories about young people in cities and ruralareas across the United States—Native, African, Latino, Asian, European,Indian, Arab, and Jewish--some born here, others rece
Following her mother's death, nearly twenty years after her time as a Peace Corps volunteer in Botswana, Sandra Meek began traveling extensively through Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. During thi
The latest volume of this dazzling poet's work, urgent poems in which words, images, ideas, music, and feelings are pushed to their ultimate capacity. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awa
A fifteenth-century instruction book for women provides an inside look at life in medieval France and discusses the role of women on each economic level
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