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Heather Gardner
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 12.99All the rooms reek of lavender and rose petals. Theres something dead about it. Like flowers the day after a ball. Returning to her home town in the house of her dreams, her husband with a new job on the horizon, and a feeling of change in the air. Yet, for Heather, there is only the feeling of boredom, a feeling as futile as it is fatal. A powerful... more...
Paper Dolls
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 12.99"You know, Yossi, we couldnt dress like this in the Philippines... wear earrings, dye our hair, put on make up, lipstick. Its forbidden." In Tel Aviv, Israel, a group of Filipino immigrants work as live-in carers for elderly Orthodox Jewish men. Six days a week they provide dedicated support to their employers. But on the seventh... more...
Thresherphobe
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 18.00In his sixth collection, Mark Halliday continues to seek ways of using the smart playfulness of such poets as Frank O’Hara and Kenneth Koch to explore life’s emotional mysteries—both dire and hilarious—from the perpetual dissolving of our past to the perpetual frustration of our cravings for ego-triumph, for sublime connection... more...
After the Point of No Return
Copper Canyon Press 2013; US$ 14.99?David Wagoner?s study of American nostalgias is as eloquent as that of James Wright.? ?Harold Bloom more...
The Red Thirst (Dark Hunter 4)
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 7.99A six-book series of supernatural horror scares that will hook even the most reluctant readers. The Dark Hunter Mr Blood and his young assistants Edgar and Mary take on a series of terrifying mysteries, dealing with ghosts, vampires, werewolves and even weirder threats. Dark, scary and gripping, these are high-quality, fully accessible stories for... more...
Letters to Yesenin
Copper Canyon Press 2013; US$ 12.99Harrison was suicidal while writing Letters to Yesenin; these poems saved his life. more...
You Would Not Believe What Watches
LSU Press 2013; US$ 29.95This volume is the first of a planned series of casebooks to be published by the Cormac McCarthy Society. It is an expanded and updated version of the fourth volume of The Cormac McCarthy Journal, originally released in 2006 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the novel. The original edition consisted of papers and lectures given at the conference,... more...
James Weldon Johnson's Modern Soundscapes
University of Iowa Press 2013; US$ 45.00James Weldon Johnson’s Modern Soundscapes provides an evocative and meticulously researched study of one of the best known and yet least understood authors of the New Negro Renaissance era. Johnson, familiar to many as an early civil rights leader active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and an intentionally... more...
In the Shadows of a Fallen Wall
UNP - Nebraska 2013; US$ 19.95Growing up, what Sanford Tweedie knew about East Germany was basically . . . nothing. West Germans were our friends; East Germans, the enemy. In 2000, somewhat better informed, Tweedie took advantage of a Fulbright Scholarship to move his family to the eastern German town of Erfurt for the academic year. Far from home and the familiar, with temporary... more...
King of Thieves
Talonbooks 2013; US$ 17.95Slink through 1920s NYC with master criminals and corrupt bankers. Cast of 13 men and 5 women. more...









