Hoping to escape her evil, doughy foster father, Emma Drinkwater sneaks into Kokonino County, the human-free home of the New Muses. She quickly finds herself embroiled in the Great Pie War launched by
America's millionaire goddess of media domesticity, Maggie Darling's perfect life is dissolved by matrimonial meltdown, thanks to her unfaithful investment banker husband, and she embarks on a year of
At the End of the Ridge Road traces Joseph Bruchac's path from "nature nut" to jock to writer, to his home at the end of Ridge Road near where he was raised by his grandparents. This colorful memoir f
NOW IN PAPERBACKIn November of 2000, after the presidential election but before the final results had been handed down by the Supreme Court, John Daniel climbed into his pickup, drove to a remote loca
A collection of twenty-seven essays by the author takes on a wide range of literary topics, including short fiction, essays, poetry, and translation, covering a lifetime of writing. Reprint.
Follows the daring 1943 attempt by resistance fighter Youra Livchitz and a pair of new recruits to rescue Jewish captives from a transport train destined for Auschwitz, an effort that resulted in the
Traces the 1986 passage and subsequent application of the False Claims Act, describing the unlikely team of advocates that worked to revitalize a public interest law that had been thwarted by lobbyist
Flower Gardens is a personal treatise by one of England's foremost garden writers, a guide to choosing the best flowering plants for any garden and arranging them harmoniously in their setting.Penelop
Two characters, a reclusive professor of psychiatry and a brilliant, erratic student, are thrown together by circumstances beyond their control. Each has a theory of mind, gradually revealed and put t
Collects stories, essays, articles, and interviews by the late author of Women in Their Beds, in a treasury that includes her personal thoughts on the art of writing and her acceptance speech for the
In the popular Windy series, photo-illustrated by Robin Mitchell-Cranfield and Judith Steedman, Snowy and Chinook are planning a birthday party for their friend Tulip on a cold winter morning. The pup
One of the most comprehensive accounts to date, Noise of the World is the authentic story of a burgeoning world music scene, as told by its most seminal artists. Drawing on 20 years of original interv
Brought to the kitchen table by Hip Mama managing director Bee Lavender and editor Maia Rossini, Mamaphonic collects confessions and conversations about the exhilarating, entertaining, and difficult a
Written by one of the most respected riders and trainers in the world, this book is a comprehensive guide to training the horse and rider for all disciplines, from novice to advanced levels. Destined
Here is a new and unique way of introducing children to communicating and playing with angels. Each delightful page offers the opportunity to create from the heart by taking pencils, paints, felt tips
What happens when, one day, a dropped bean is devoured by ten flies, and hundreds of dogs eat cheese fallen from a truck, and thousands of runners begin gulping air, and all the people at home that mo
San Antonio in Color contains ninety paintings of San Antonio landmarks, neighborhoods, and local attractions painted by Trinity alumnus Bill Thompson ('88). Thompson uses flamboyant colors to paint a
Marc leaves London in search of a new life on an island off the coast of India where he falls in love with Uva, an eco-warrior who has been targeted by kidnappers. Reprint.
A collection of plays by the screenplay writer and coproducer of Queer as Folk takes readers into a Greenwich Village apartment where couple Michael and Tom meditate on moving to the suburbs while fri
When Orlie Breton shows up in June of 1979 to work as a paramedic in New York City’s 911 system, she finds herself plunged into a violent and magical world, populated by medics who are not terribly di
An Our Town for our times, The Mammoth Cheese is beautifully crafted and driven by warm, vibrant characters as it follows the residents of rural Three Chimneys, Virginia, on their journey to re-create
Drawn largely from luminous presentations given at the annual Bioneers Conference, this pathfinding book--the first in a new Bioneers Series published by Sierra Club Books--focuses on pragmatic soluti
A collection of essays by the critically acclaimed author of Woodcuts of Women explores what it means to be a Mexican-American artist in the literary world at large in his own native Texas borderland,
The Pornographer's Poem is an edgy, important novel that tests the lines between pornography and art, exploitation and exploration. Introduced at the age of 16 to adult cinema by an eccentric teacher,
Americans are not living as well as the citizens of the world's wealthiest and most powerful nation should. Part of the reason: their government has been hijacked by the right third of the political s
Recounts the author's decision to educate his three children about the world by taking them on a three-month tour of several countries, including Thailand, India, Israel, France, and England, a trip d
In the heart of Cinecity, the frozen meta-city where Lucky Pierre plies his trade, Lucky Pierre, a part clown, part porn star who is literally defined by his films, takes on a wide range of sexual rol
Todd Haynes is a fiercely intelligent writer/director who has received massive acclaim. Each of his films breaks stylistic barriers in exhilarating, unexpected ways. With an introduction by Haynes him
Overwhelmed by debts despite the success of his Pacific Northwest restaurant, Jeremy Papier agonizes over turning control over to a family friend who would bail him out of his troubles despite the fir
Popularly known as the ?winter blues,” Seasonal Affective Disorder is an often misdiagnosed disorder that is caused by a lack of natural light. It can become so disabling that it affects the sufferer’
We live in an age dominated by the cult of efficiency. Efficiency in the raging debate about public goods is often used as a code word to advance political agendas. When it is used correctly, efficien
Drawing from the traditions and teachings of the Prophet, Imam Muhammad Shirazi offers solutions to the issues faced by countries worldwide, especially issues of war and peace, nonviolence, social jus
The author shares her personal journey from urban life to a simple, more joyous existence that caused her to rediscover her Quaker roots, forcing her to confront her past plagued by childhood anxietie
A collection of stories by the great short story writer spans fifty years between 1929 and 1977 and reveals the author as one of the great literary craftspeople of the century.
Howard Katz is a new play by Patrick Marber, who has been called "the greatest British playwright to have emerged in the 1990s." (The Financial Times) Following on the success of his
Elizabeth Mann, plagued by self-destructive habits, thinks leaving New York will solve her problems. Taking a travel-writing assignment to London, she encounters the skeleton of the famous 18th-centur
A richly textured and powerful novel of a family and a nation torn apart by war follows Kate Fenn, who marries a young left-wing Italian doctor and moves to Tuscany, where she becomes imprisoned withi
A sparkling, brilliantly written novel by the Booker Prize-winning novel Moon Tiger brings a small village to life as they struggle with the sudden and tragic death of one of their own. Reprint.
Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "a luscious Victorian thriller" that "sends two characters from Wilkie Collins's 1860s novel [The Woman in White] on a brilliant literary mission," James Wi
Bruce Weigl's poetry has been acclaimed by C. K. Williams as "powerful and frightening, poems [that] force us to repudiate our comfortable uncertainties, our drowsy vagueness," and Carolyn Forche has
