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Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays
Theatre Communications Group 2009; US$ 16.95The first collection by a major new voice in the American theater. more...
The Clean House and Other Plays
Theatre Communications Group 2006; US$ 18.95The first publication of a major new voice of the American Theatre. more...
The Professor and Other Writings
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 20.99From one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators comes a long-awaited collection of penetrating autobiographical essays and a riveting short memoir, novelistic in style and ambition, about the pathos, comedy, and devastation of early love. Stanford professor and longtime contributor to the London Review of Books , the... more...
Touching the World
Princeton University Press 1992; US$ 33.50Paul John Eakin's earlier work Fictions in Autobiography is a key text in autobiography studies. In it he proposed that the self that finds expression in autobiography is in fundamental ways a kind of fictive construct, a fiction articulated in a fiction. In this new book Eakin turns his attention to what he sees as the defining assumption of autobiography:... more...
Black Radishes
Random House Children's Books 2010; US$ 6.99Sydney Taylor Honor Award Winner Black Radishes is a suspenseful WWII/Holocaust story, in which one boy learns what it means to be Jewish and French at a time when everything is changing. It is March of 1940. The French believe that their army can protect them from Nazi Germany. But is Paris a safe place for Jews? Gustave?s parents don?t... more...
The Waker's Corridor
LSU Press 2009; US$ 9.95?I had a clock it woke all day,? writes Jonathan Thirkield at the outset of The Waker?s Corridor, a book that charts an assiduous attempt to recover lost time. Housed in elaborate and varied formal architectures, these poems navigate the disorder and gaps left by the violence of loss. All measures of time?psychological, personal, historical, numerical?collide... more...
The Prose Elegy
LSU Press 2009; US$ 22.95Traditional English poetic elegists offer both writers and readers hope. After lamenting an individual?s death and confronting the mortality of all living things, these poets seek consolation from religion, philosophy, or culture for the inevitability of death. The modern prose elegy, however, follows a different path? one that determinedly questions... more...
Dictionary of American Young Adult Fiction, 1997-2001
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 116.00Young adult readers have special needs and concerns, and librarians have become increasingly interested in selecting books suitable for them. This reference provides information about 290 books for young adults. These books received major awards between 1997 and 2001, reflect the voices of 242 different authors, and range from new to familiar themes.||Included... more...
Rainbow Party
Simon Pulse 2008; US$ 12.95Rainbow Parties. Are they real? Who's going? GIN and SANDY One's been with all the guys, one's terrified of them. It's Gin's party; she invited everyone. ALLISON President of the Celibacy Club. What's she thinkin'? HUNTER and PERRY Friends...with benefits. JADE Hanging on to it for the right guy. SKYE and ROD Totally... more...









