The job seems easy enough at first for private investigator Andy Hayes: save his client’s reputation by retrieving a laptop and erasing a troublesome video from its hard drive. But that’s before someo
From a poetic career that spans more than half a century and that is still producing poems as fresh and honest as the first, comes James Schevill's New and Selected Poems, redefining the achievement o
This collection of short fiction set in small Midwest and northern California communities during the 1930s and 1940s focuses on the subtle connections between youth and age, despair and hope, and life
This famous book takes you on an extensive gem and mineral collecting tour of Colorado, revealing the interesting places where Nature has stored her treasures.Detailed directions are given for reachin
When you look at a bird, do you see feathers and a beak? Or do you see circles and triangles? Artist Charley Harper spent his life reducing subjects to their simplest forms, their basic lines and shap
Growing up in Ladora, Iowa, Mildred Millie” Benson had ample time to develop her imagination, sense of adventure, and independence. Millie left her small hometown to attend the University of Iowa, whe
A vivid and insightful look at the culture and terrain of Antarctica, as well as the people who choose to live and work there, South × South celebrates and explores life at the extreme edge of our
Christine Brennan, the USA Today sports columnist, author, and commentator, uses her voice to advocate for diversity and equality in the world of sports, and her wisdom to encourage future journalists
Describes various unsuccessful lifestyles that result from a breakdown in the father-daughter relationship and suggests ways women can come to terms with the problem and find a creative and fulfilling
A Spy in the House of Love, whose heroine Sabina is deeply divided between her drive for artistic and sexual expression and social restrictions and self-created inhibitions, echoes Anais Nin’s persona
Uses interviews to trace the history of the Bassett family, who settled on the border of Colorado and Utah, and looks at the family's connection with famous outlaws of the day
This historical novel is the third and final book in American poet and fiction writer Janet Lewis’s Cases of Circumstantial Evidence series, based on legal case studies compiled in the nineteenth cent
In this endearing and beautifully illustrated picture book, a baby river otter learns to swim, dive, and play in her natural habitat. Encouraged by her mother, the little otter soon sets out to explor
The Four-Chambered Heart, Anais Nin's 1950 novel, recounts the real-life affair she conducted with cafe guitarist Gonzalo More in 1936. Nin and More rented a house-boat on the Seine, and under the per
In Animal Purpose, Michelle Y. Burke explores the lives of men and women as they stand poised between the desire to love and the compulsion to harm. In one poem, a woman teaches a farmhand the proper
Follows CIA operative Lucius Burling from 1979 Kabul, Afghanistan to the streets of Shanghai, China months after 9/11, intertwining Burling's life with global politics and military history.
What have been the most significant developmentspolitical, social, economicin South Africa since 1994? How much has changed since the demise of apartheid, and how much remains stubbornly the same? Sho
"On the Desire to Levitate is the first collection of poems by Alison Powell. This striking collection includes vivid, unflinching meditations on aging, mythology, poetry, and family. In tight, elegan
Penumbra?—?Michael Shewmaker’s debut collection?— explores the half-shadows of a world torn between faith and doubt. From intricate descriptions of the rooms in a dollhouse, to the stark depiction of
"Anaeis Nin's Ladders to Fire interweaves the stories of several women, each emotionally inhibited in her own way: through self-doubt, fear, guilt, moral drift, and distrust. The novel follows their i
In The Novel of the Future, Anais Nin explores the act of creation—in literature, film, art, and dance—to arrive at a new synthesis for the young artist struggling against the sterility, formlessness,
Herself a successful writer, Geld remembers growing up with Bromfield (1896-1956), a popular novelist and screenplay writer when he returned to Ohio from France in 1938, but who is best known for a se
In this short story collection, acclaimed author Natalie Petesch reaffirms for us our enduring debt to millions of immigrants who helped build America. Inspired by her own parents’ journey at the turn
