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From Whence
LSU Press 2007; US$ 15.95This new collection of lyric poetry uses the idea of the "threshold moment" as its central metaphor. Chitwood's threshold moments can be anything from the instant when a rock being held up by a frozen pond melts through and makes its plunge to the moment when a child realizes his childhood is lost forever. The poems demonstrate that these... more...
Home Remedies
LSU Press 2009; US$ 17.95In her powerful new collection, Sarah Kennedy draws on the historical record, as well her personal life, to explore relationships and bodies, both physical and textual. Kennedy underscores human frailty in poems that dramatize the lives of British women who kept recipe manuscripts containing both medicinal and culinary receipts during the... more...
The Guide Signs
LSU Press 2007; US$ 17.95In The Guide Signs, acclaimed poet Jay Wright closes a movement he opened with his first book, The Homecoming Singer, in 1971, a movement that takes its design from the ancient people of Mali. Wright continued this theme in subsequent works, all gathered in Transfigurations: Collected Poems, whose eight books represent the eight master signs. The two... more...
The Voysey Inheritance
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 13.95One hundred years after the first publication of The Voysey Inheritance, David Mamet resurrects Harley Granville-Barker?s classic investigation into the capitalist soul in this brilliant adaptation. For generations, the Voysey family business has been secretly skimming money from its clients? accounts. When Edward, designated to take over the firm... more...
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 54.00Self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby epitomizes the decadence of the 1920s Jazz Age in this tale of mobility and decline told with detached curiosity by his neighbor and confidant Nick Carraway. As Harold Bloom suggests, in his introduction to this new edition of full-length critical essays on the work, the novel transcends its own time period in the ways... more...
Katherine Paterson
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 36.00Katherine Paterson was in her 40s and a married mother of four when she sent her first young adult novel, The Sign of the Chrysanthemum, to a publisher. She did not know anyone at the publishing house, nor did she have an agent. Set in 12th-century Japan, the novel was rescued from rejection by an editor who loved her writing and another who had just... more...
Ernest J. Gaines
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 36.00Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for his 1993 novel A Lesson Before Dying, recipient of the National Humanities Medal, and author of the classic The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest J. Gaines is one of America's most respected authors. But when he was a young boy, the possibility of having such a career would have been... more...
The House on Mango Street
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 36.00In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros draws on her own experience as a Hispanic woman writer facing obstacles in a patriarchal community resistant to change. Published in 1984 to instantaneous acclaim, the book is made up of lyrical passages, interconnected vignettes, and meditations and observations that resemble prose poems. Cisneros's... more...
David "Dav" Pilkey
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 36.00Best known for his books chronicling the adventures of "Captain Underpants," Dav Pilkey has built a reputation as one of his generation's most inventive writers and illustrators. Yet as a young boy, he seemed unlikely to ever become a success. Suffering from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, this one-time "class... more...
Heart Journey
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 15.00View our feature on Robin Owens?s Heart Journey . New in the award-winning series of futuristic romance, fantasy, and sensual adventure. Helena, a renowned cartographer, is exploring Celta when she finds out she has a HeartMate. Yearning for a partner, she is drawn to meet him. Actor Raz Cherry is dedicated to his career. Uninterested... more...









