His greatest battle is just beginning . . .Captain Harry Lidge has done his duty. After losing too many good men on the battlefield, he's ready to put his responsibilities behind him and live a life f
The study of early cookery books can tell the reader much more than just the history of food, or of one particular recipe. As the essays in this collection demonstrate, cookery books can be the sourc
“One of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature—honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it.”—Dennis CooperEileen Myles has written thousands o
This story is true. It takes place now, in the present. It began in the late 1950s when two teenagers fell in love in Atchison County, Kansas. Approximately three years ago I experienced something
HE HIDES HIS TRUE COLORS . . . Miss Grace Fairchild is under no illusions about her charms. Painfully plain, she is a soldier's daughter who has spent her life being useful, not learning the treacher
Olivia Grace has secrets that could destroy her. One of the greatest of these is the Earl of Gracechurch, who married and divorced her five years earlier. Abandoned and disgraced, Grace has survived
Exams frighten almost everyone.Fear of failure (and fear of success) can inhibit learning. Students will always perform better if they have the necessary emotional resources in the run-up to their exa
She doesn’t trust cops . . . Veronica Osborne has had enough problems with the police, thanks to her volatile father. So when tall, strapping Sergeant Zach McKnight shows up at her door, she’s prepare
"One of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature?honest, jokey, paranoid, sentimental, mean, lyrical, tough, you name it."?Dennis Cooper"[Myles' writing] comes across simul
Eileen Apperson has always felt a visceral reaction to landscapes. The one she lives in has been compromised and altered, making her relationship to this place all the more complicated. The San Joaqui
Warrior Soul is a collection of poems written over a period of twenty five years. It mirrors a woman who was faced with a debilitating illness and the challenge of building a life on a trail not taken
Poetry. The poems in THIS COUNTRY OF GALE-FORCE WINDS present what may at first glance seem in fact to be a multiplicity of countries. Here are poems about the country of our here-and-now: the places
Eileen M. Wirth never set out to be a groundbreaker for women in journalism, but if she wanted to report on social issues instead of society news, she had no alternative. Her years as one of the first
A romp through historical 18th century England and France during the formative years of Sydney Carton, adult hero of the Dickens' classic, "A Tale of Two Cities." How did this brilliant, compassionate
In the minds of most people, the home has stood apart from the world of work. Bringing the factory or office into the home challenges this division. From the 1870s, when New York cigarmakers attem
