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I Ain't Scared of You

by Bernie Mac

"My granddaddy would get mad at all of us. He couldn't just get mad at one of us. 'Ain't nobody got...

You know what? Go to bed! All y'all, go to bed!'

It'd be like two o'clock in the afternoon. 'Go to bed!'"...


The Partly Cloudy Patriot

by Sarah Vowell

Sarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell -- widely hailed for her...


The New York Public Library Literature Companion

by Staff of The New York Public Library & Anne Skillion

Pick up The New York Public Library Literature Companion to check the dates of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past or to find out how James Joyce's Ulysses changed U.S. obscenity laws, and you may find...


The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume VIII: The Irish Dramatic Movement

by William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran & Mary FitzGerald

The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume VIII: The Irish Dramatic Movement is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper....


Decoding the Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Expert Guide to the Facts Behind the Fiction

by Simon Cox

Dan Brown's new novel once again features Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, this time in the United States, racing to uncover clues and crack codes involving secrets that are perpetuated to this day. But how...


Fifth Born

by Zelda Lockhart

When Odessa Blackburn is three years old, she sees her grandmother for the last time, and so begins her story as the fifth born of eight children in a troubled family. Molested by her father, Odessa is also...


Fire in My Soul

by Eleanor Holmes Norton, Joan Steinau Lester & Coretta Scott King

Here is the remarkable story of U.S. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton -- impassioned civil rights activist, hard-driving legislator, and one of the most powerful women in American history.

They call her...


Sense and Nonsensibility: Lampoons of Learning and Literature

by Lawrence Douglas & Alexander George

Two widely published humor columnists and "bad boys" of academia take their wit and wisdom to dazzling new lows in this irreverent send-up of highbrow literary culture.

At last, the thinking person's take on...


Feasting the Heart: Fifty-two Commentaries for the Air

by Reynolds Price

In the fall of 1993, Alice Winkler of National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" asked Reynolds Price to write a short story for a Christmas morning broadcast. This assignment would result in NPR's inviting Price...


The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language and Culture

by Ruth R. Wisse

What makes a great Jewish book? What makes a book "Jewish" in the first place? Ruth R. Wisse, one of the leading scholars in the field of Jewish literature, sets out to answer these questions in The Modern Jewish...


Ritz Harper Goes to Hollywood!

by Wendy Williams & Zondra Hughes

As the reigning "Queen of Radio," Ritz Harper has managed to out, ridicule, jack up or mess over everyone and anyone, from hip-hop stars to high-class snobs. So, she's decided to take her career to the next...


Hechinger's Field Guide to Ethnic Stereotypes

by Kevin Hechinger & Curtis Hechinger

Can you differentiate between the Amish and the Hasidic Jew?

Do you know the single, shocking difference between the Redneck and the Appalachian? Can you successfully identify -- and avoid -- the Charismatic,...


Walking Wisdom: Three Generations, Two Dogs, and the Search for a Happy Life

by Francesco Clark

Walking Papers is the incredibly inspiring story of a young man who wouldn't give up. Francesco Clark was a twenty-four-year-old with a bright future when he went to Long Island for the weekend--but a nocturnal...


i before e (except after c)

by Judy Parkinson

Here is an amusing collection of ingenious mnemonics devised to help us learn and understand hundreds of important fact as children and can continue to resonate with us as adults.

Featuring all the mnemonics...


Brooklyn Was Mine

by Valerie Steiker & Chris Knutsen

A tribute to New York City's most literary borough-featuring original nonfiction pieces by today's most celebrated writers. Of all the urban landscapes in America, perhaps none has so thoroughly infused and...


The Complete Idiot's Guide to English Literature

by Ph.D., Jay Stevenson

Explore the canon of great writers.

In this incredible volume, English professor Jay Stevenson teaches readers everything they want-and need-to know about English literature. From Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton,...


The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature

by Laurie E. Rozakis

You're no idiot, of course. You know that Samuel Clemens had a better-known pen name, Moby Dick is a famous whale, and the Raven only said,"Nevermore." But when it comes to understanding the great works of Mark...


Classical Literary Criticism

by Various & Penelope Murray

"This anthology brings together core classical texts for understanding literature. The selections from Plato illustrate the poetic philosopher's surprising exclusion of poets from his ideal republic. In his...


The Begotten

by Lisa T. Bergren

At the height of the Inquisition, a secret half a millennium old is about to be exposed-a lost letter said to have been written by Paul and part of what was to become the foundation of the Christian canon. It...


The Friendly Jane Austen: A Well-Mannered Introduction to a Lady of Sense and Sensibility

by Natalie Tyler

What's so friendly about Jane Austen?

Every generation rediscovers Jane Austen with a renewed enthusiasm for her timeless novels. In recent years, Austen has become more popular than ever as nearly every one...