A deeply reported account of life inside Burma in the months following the disastrous Cyclone Nargis and an analysis of the brutal totalitarian regime that clings to power in the devastated nation. On
Jazz . . . Booze . . . Boys . . . It’s a dangerous combination.?Every girl wants what she can’t have. Seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody wants the flapper lifestyle—and the bobbed hair, cigarettes, and
Jazz . . . Booze . . . Boys . . . It’s a dangerous combination.?Every girl wants what she can’t have. Seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody wants the flapper lifestyle—and the bobbed hair, cigarettes, and
Gardens have often been used as metaphors for spiritual nurturing and growth. Zen rock gardens, monastery rose gardens, even your grandmother's vegetable garden all have been described as places of
Self-defense expert and former Navy Seal Tim Larkin presents a complete guide to unique self-protection methodology for the everyday person in any situation.Approximately 1.9 million women are physica
Girl meets dog in this effervescent "feel-good debut" (People) by the author of Why Can't I Be You Savannah "Van" Leone has been in love with Peter Clarke since their first day of college. Six years
What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison’s words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be ‘universal’ or race-free"? How has bla
Wordsworth and Coleridge: Promising Losses assembles essays spanning the last thirty years, including a selection of Peter Larkin's original verse, with the concept of promise and loss serving as the
The poems in My Scarlet Ways are, most often, attempts at self-destruction by any means necessary--love, sex, language, God, and ultimately, fantasies of motherhood. With piercing passion and linguist
After all the bliss and generalized euphoria we might experience along our spiritual path, what’s left are the karmic knots of conditioning that still need unraveling. Untying them is the work of spir
The reappearance of Philip Larkin's Required Writing will be welcomed by the late poet's many readers and admirers. The book's first two parts, "Recollections" and "Interviews," provide autobiographic
A hard-hitting story about mental health and living with depression and anxietyI watch the train emerge from the tunnel. It will be quick. It will be efficient. It will be final.Declan seems to have i
