Stories deal with a boy's introduction to violence at the resort where his family is about to live and other situations that explore the rituals of maleness, violence, and the dark side of human emoti
Fiction. "Writing in heightened, magical prose reminiscent of Marquez and Toni Morrison, Margaret Benbow has produced the liveliest collection of tales you're likely to read this year, or in any year.
Your Indoor Herb Garden is a comprehensive guide to the techniques and equipment for successfully growing culinary and medicinal herbs indoors. Written by a Master Gardener with five decades of experi
Poetry. Music. 100 poems by 100 poets inspired by the life and works of Bob Dylan. Contributors include Robert Bly, Charles Bukowski, Johnny Cash, Diane di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg
Literary Nonfiction. "The strings of a violin have to be held in place on both ends, and the two poles of Elizabeth Mosier's book are memory (as archaeology) and forgetting (in the very moving passage
A dramatic debut, Real Karaoke People juxtaposes tradition and pop culture to bridge generations and continents in a way both heart-rending and real. Poems and prose engage readers with vivid and emot
“Tim Nolan’s voice is funny and serious at once, sly and direct, wry and heartfelt...Anybody who can turn a poem called ‘Brussels Sprouts’ into a psalm to the strange and compelling beauties of family
Rachel L. Coyne writes about a woman who returns to her Minnesota roots and her dysfunctional extended family in this novel of recovery and redemption. She has to hit bottom and find a way to grieve
Poetry. Women's Studies. LGBT Studies. "Here is poetry of witness and vision, haunted by personal ghosts and those of history. Part lyrical travelogue, part oracular choiring, FLUCHT unfolds in perfec
Fiction. Twenty-one new and emerging authors weave in their stories the harsh, yet wonderful, realities of daily life. The diverse American characters and writers within these pages explore the lives
Fiction. Short Stories. "Vincent Reusch is a magician, and the stories in THE MERCURIAL SCIENCE OF THE HUMAN HEART are like so many rabbits pulled from a hat. At once gorgeously written and enormously
Fiction. "Old 'water hermit' Stu, barely adrift in a world of two–bit marinas, bad choices, and hard times, holds this loosely–linked 'novel in stories' together, and what fine stories they are! Tough
Fiction. From Japan to Germany. From boyfriends to odd family relationships. Twenty authors wield twenty unique stories that capture the very heart of everyone's struggles: love, shame, hope, and disa
Poetry. Women's Studies. "Tara Ballard's opulently beautiful book guides her readers through the glories and tragedies of the people of the Middle East with such vivid language that we profoundly feel
Fiction. "Elizabeth Searle's WE GOT HIM is an ingeniously plotted, suspenseful novel written in blood, mother's milk, and the unintended consequence of rage. It is the story of one family's inherited
"Humorous or brutal, transgressive or redemptive, each story is full of wisdom and beauty."—Kyoko Mori, author of stone field, true arrowRichard Hoffman, author of the acclaimed memoir Half the House
Fiction. "Baron Wormser has done something important with TOM O' VIETNAM in the way that he has identified and precisely embraced a stunningly particular historical moment we casually refer to as 'Vie
Poetry. Women's Studies. "'Nothing stops time and its losses,' these poems attest. A BEAUTIFUL HELL narrates the terrible journey into the profound maw of grief one who has experienced great loss must
An extensive collection of prose poems containing the work of both well- and lesser-known poets, this anthology breaks new ground in defining a hybrid literary form. An extensive historical section sh
Poetry. Women's Studies. "Every poem in Diane Jarvenpa's new collection, THE WAY SHE TOLD HER STORY, has about it a molten rightness, a breathtaking beauty. Based on the voices and histories of Finnis
Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. "ORANGES is a book of quiet, enormous strength, a collection of slow-gathering moments that add up to the story of Michael Dolin, a gay man whose life and loves are shaped by
Lucy Pescitelli is a virgin pushing thirty, working part-time at a funeral home and still living with her mother Marge. A woman so domineering that she forces Lucy to help her commit suicide by follo
Poetry. When a young mother with a traveling husband turns to her five- year-old son and says, `Now you'll have to be the man of the house,' what burdens will that gifted child unwittingly assume? He
Poetry. "When I first read Kinnell and Rich and Snyder as a much younger man I took from each a certain poignant and charged satisfaction, the sense of having come home to a life not mine. Here in thi
Fiction. "Each of these stories is a gem. Susan Daniels manages to pull the rug out from under even the smallest of gestures and the interactions of couples, families, and strangers, revealing over an
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. The hardcover publication (1995) of this "spare, poignant" memoir (Time) resulted in the arrest of a child molester and the headline: "Author's Writing on A
