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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...
Leaving Before It's Over
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 12.99A deeply compelling novel that explores the true meaning of family, Leaving Before It?s Over is masterful and provocative fiction from Jean Reynolds Page, the author of The Space Between Before and After and The Last Summer of Her Other Life . Fans of Jodi Picoult and Jacquelyn Mitchard will be moved and enthralled by Page?s Leaving Before... more...
Chosen
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 12.99In Chosen , a young caseworker becomes increasingly entangled in the lives of adoptive and birth parents, with devastating results. It all begins with a fantasy: the caseworker in her "signing paperwork" charcoal suit standing alongside beaming parents cradling their adopted newborn, set against a fluorescent-lit delivery-room backdrop.... more...
Displaced Persons
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 12.99Moving from the Allied zones of postwar Germany to New York City, an astonishing novel of grief and anger, memory and survival witnessed through the experiences of "displaced persons" struggling to remake their lives in the decades after World War II In May 1945, Pavel Mandl, a Polish Jew recently liberated from a concentration camp, lands... more...
Ideal Cities
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 11.99?These poems are so generous, so bright and sharp, so funny and winning, they feel immense.? ?Paul Guest ?Erika Meitner is the new voice of intelligent and emotional poems. Good for poetry. Good for poetry lovers. Good for the rest of us, too.? ? Nikki Giovanni Exploring themes of pregnancy, motherhood, ancestry, and life... more...
The Gentleman Poet
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 11.99? The Gentleman Poet is the best kind of historical novel?well researched, beautifully written, and wildly entertaining.? ?Daniel Stashower, author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl The Gentleman Poet , author Kathryn Johnson?s novel of love, danger, and Shakespeare?s The Tempest, is a wonderful story that imagines a series of astonishing... more...









