The Library of Impossible Books: Mysteries of Lost, Forbidden & Alien Tomes is a guided tour through strange, controversial, unreadable, hidden, and allegedly supernatural books that challenge ordinary ideas about language, history, knowledge, and reality.
This collection of twelve short stories and one essay by Vietnamese writers reveals the tragic legacy of Agent Orange and raises troubling moral questions about the physical, spiritual, and environmental consequences of war.
Four scorching billionaire and mafia romances of enemies to lovers heat, secret pregnancies and revenge that burnsItalian Devil's Baby byHeidi RiceKidnapped for the mafia king's heir!
Roger McGough is one of Britain's best loved poets and this collection 'charts [his] passage from youthful exuberance to the wry reflection of his later years.
A rich, exquisite and original anthology that illuminates Japanese travel writing over a thousand years'Oh journey upon journey, my life is a brief moment, and I cannot hope that we will meet again'Roaming over mountains and along perilous shores, this anthology illuminates over a thousand years of Japanese travel writing.
NATIONAL BESTELLER * Finalist for the Kirkus Prize and the New American Voices Award * Named a Best Book of Summer by Time and Oprah Daily From the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Cuba: An American History comes an "e;intimate"e; (Time) memoir about migration, separation, and the love of one family forcing its way through the fissures of history.
Serving Time Too: A Memoir of My Son's Prison Years is the universally accessible story of a mother and son: what she knew about him; what she will never understand; how she helped him, and when she needed to let him go.
Ever since feminist scholarship began to reintroduce Harriet Beecher Stowe's writings to the American Literary canon in the 1970s, critical interest in her work has steadily increased.
Ever since feminist scholarship began to reintroduce Harriet Beecher Stowe's writings to the American Literary canon in the 1970s, critical interest in her work has steadily increased.
Serving Time Too: A Memoir of My Son's Prison Years is the universally accessible story of a mother and son: what she knew about him; what she will never understand; how she helped him, and when she needed to let him go.
Fragments for Those Who Kept Living is an intimate collection of literary reflections about emotional exhaustion, loneliness, family wounds, fear, friendship, and the quiet act of continuing when life has not been fully resolved.
How a fascination with animal consciousness, perception, and intelligence shaped American fiction in the twentieth centuryAnimal Minds, Other Minds upends a common assumption: that the minds encountered in fiction are always in some sense fundamentally human.
Beginning with the writings of Samson Occom, and extending through a range of fiction and nonfiction works by William Apess, Sarah Winnemucca, Zitkala-Sa, N.
Her freedom depends on himRory Harris witnessed her husband's murder on their wedding night, but no one believed her story-and she went to prison for it!
The Lady on the Drawingroom Floor with Selected Poetry and Prose, by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, seeks to reclaim Coleridge's reputation as a novelist, poet, critic, and educator by featuring familiar works alongside unpublished or out-of-print works.
This volume situates My Antonia as a novel that stands the test of time by including in its pages an extraordinarily wide range of historical, cultural, literary, psychological, thematic, perceptual, and stylistic issues.
How a fascination with animal consciousness, perception, and intelligence shaped American fiction in the twentieth centuryAnimal Minds, Other Minds upends a common assumption: that the minds encountered in fiction are always in some sense fundamentally human.
Structured into four main parts, this book navigates the intersection between food and functionality of plant-based products and provides insight into the nutritional composition of some key elements of plant-based diets.
This is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own autonomous cell phone networkwithout help from telecom companies or the government.
This is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own autonomous cell phone networkwithout help from telecom companies or the government.
In his exciting new book, based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Maurice Magaa considers how urban and migrant youth in Oaxaca embrace subcultures from hip-hop to punk and adopt creative organizing practices to create meaningful channels of participation in local social and political life.
Beginning with the writings of Samson Occom, and extending through a range of fiction and nonfiction works by William Apess, Sarah Winnemucca, Zitkala-Sa, N.