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by Elizabeth Shepard

A mysterious, funny, and deeply affecting debut novel--told entirely through letters--of a troubled child's inner life

To his mother, twelve-year-old Benjamin Sherman is an object of pity and anxiety. To his...

Macbeth in Venice

by William Logan

One of the most technically gifted poets of his generation, William Logan here presents four sequences, each of which is haunted by the battered history of the enchanted city of Venice: two refugees from Nazi...

Selves

by Philip Booth

Booth's eighth poetry collection, with its evocations of compassion, tenderness and invading darkness, implies that redemption will come only from having loved well and wisely. PW remarked, "Booth is a traveler...

Highways to a War

by Christopher J. Koch

"Pick any highway, I was told: all of them go to the war. I thought it was a joke, at first."

Ray Barton travels to war-ravaged Southeast Asia to search for his missing friend Michael Langford, a brilliant, risk-taking...

Nerve Storm

by Amy Gerstler

Nerve Storm is easily as fine a collection of poems as Gerstler's last collection, the award-winning Bitter Angel. Her images are surprising and evocative; for example, in her poem "A Hypochondriac's Account...

The Portable Cervantes

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Contains Don Quixote, in Samuel Putnam's acclaimed translation, substantially complete, with editorial summaries of the omitted passages; two 'Exemplary Novels, 'Rinconete and Cortadillo' and 'Man of Glass';...

Borrowed Love Poems

by John Yau

In John Yau's new collection of poetry, the reader encounters artists (Hiroshige and Eva Hesse), poets (Marina Tsvetayeva and Georg Trakl), actors (Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre), and memorable figures (a retired...

Medicine

by Amy Gerstler

Amy Gerstler has won acclaim for complex yet accessible poetry that is by turns extravagant, subversive, surreal, and playful. In her new collection, Medicine, she deploys a variety of dramatic voices, spoken...

Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea

Aunt Dimity #11

by Nancy Atherton

The eleventh cozy mystery featuring everyone's favorite phantom-detective

Nancy Atherton 's Aunt Dimity novels have enchanted thousands of readers, and this new addition to the series is likely to broaden the...

God

by Debora Greger

God has retired to Florida, like everyone else. He can't sleep. He watches TV. In the long poem that opens Debora Greger's sixth book, God, he has retreated to the swamps, where, in the lush particulars of the...

Sanskrit of the Body

by William Keckler

In this mesmerizing debut collection, chosen by Mary Oliver for the National Poetry Series, W.B. Keckler crafts an expansive travelogue of the human spirit that moves thoughtfully through multiple ages, cultures,...

Lives of the Animals

by Robert Wrigley

Lives of the Animals takes us to that place where the boundaries between predator and prey, the observer and the observed, merge, reverse, become re-imagined. We find ourselves inside a story of death and life,...

Comics to Classics: A Guide to Books for Teens and Preteens

by Arthea J. S. Reed

In this guidebook, Arthea Reed shows parents how to choose books for adolescents of every skill and maturity level--and how to help expand their reading interests by building upon their existing tastes. Reed...

Queer and Loathing: Rants and Raves of a Raging AIDS Clone

by David B. Feinberg

"This is as close to the truth as I can get," writes David Feinberg in what he calls his "personal Portrait of the Artist as a young Diseased Jew Fag Pariah"--a collection of autobiographical essays, gonzo journalism,...

Meditations for Cats Who Do Too Much

by Michael Cader

As America's favorite pets, cats are showered with attention, both at home and in the media. Until now, no one has faced the impact this celebrity has on the cats themselves: the truth is, felines are succumbing...

Aunt Dimity Digs In

Aunt Dimity #4

by Nancy Atherton

The latest in this enchanting and fast-selling series, featuring the beloved ghost Aunt Dimity, opens in a picturesque English cottage where the lovable Lori Shepherd is up to her elbows in pureed carrots and...

The House of Bilqis: A Novel

by Azhar Abidi

A haunting novel about a mother and son and the emotional consequences of leaving home

The matriarch Bilqis Khan, a widowed university professor, is dismayed when her only son Samad marries Kate, a white Australian...

The Land of Little Rain

by Mary Austin

Mary Austin calls it the Country of Lost Borders--the desert and foothill lands between Death Valley and the High Sierras. To most travelers it is a parched, empty territory, unwelcoming and unforgiving. But...

Travels with Charley in Search of America

by John Steinbeck

To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the tress, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country...

Aunt Dimity's Good Deed

Aunt Dimity #3

by Nancy Atherton

Nancy Atherton's growing number of fans will certainly be delighted by Aunt Dimity's latest appearance in the honey-colored English cottage she bequeathed to her "niece," Lori Shepherd. Thanks to Aunt Dimity,...