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These spare, sometimes lyric essays explore the legacy of race in America, artfully revealing in intimate detail how families, schools, and neighborhoods participate in preserving racial privilege. Faced with a disturbing past and an unsettling present, Biss still remains hopeful about the possibilities of American diversity, "not the sun-shininess of it, or the quota-making politics of it, but the real complexity of it."
In Deb Olin Unferth's debut novel, a man with a dented head named Meyers embarks on an impulsive quest, full of misadventures, through Central America in search of an old college acquaintance with a brain tumor named Gray, the man he blames for the disillusionment of his marriage. In the meantime, a young woman seeks out her biological father, a man who steals dolphins and releases them back to the wild. Unferth's writing is first-rate, strange, exciting, haunting and structurally imaginative. This book draws you in with its characters, and surprises you sentence after sentence. Worth checking out.
In these tight economic times it’s always a challenge to budget…so start cooing more at home and enjoy this new cookbook with outstanding recipes.
“The Dark is Here” is a short collection of poems from the young poet, Kiki Petrosino, and is illustrated by Philip Miller. The pieces are sound-disciplined and driven by a layering of simple images that simultaneously make a face smile and heart ache. This beautiful little blue book is a must read.
State of Wonder is the kind of book you want to take around with you to keep you company when you're stuck waiting places. Immediately engaging, there is a lot to enjoy about this book.
Evans' fresh and forceful biography hacks hrough half a century of misconception and smokescreen obscuring essential truths about Iowa's most famous artist, Grant Wood. Thoroughly researched, generously illustrated and vastly readable Evans' book helps us decode not only Wood the individual's art and life (particularly the effecs of his closest homosexuality) but also the fascinating rise and fall of the American Regionalist Movement that Wood came to symbolize. Evans exposes the conflicting agendas that the art world, themedia and the gerneral public wanted this supposedly all-American home-grown art-and artist-to serve.
It’s great to find a frank voice that shares your concerns when you are facing the challenges of caring for aging parents. In this eloquent book, New York Times writer Jane Gross relates her own experiences of caring for her mother. and lays out a lot of information about trends dealing with the emotional, health and economic issues of the elderly and their families.
American novelist Howard Norman has made a career of writing beautiful novels set in the Maritime Provinces of Canada. In another of those wonderful books, he gives us Wyatt Hillyer, a seventeen-year old boy, who is orphaned when his parents commit suicide on the same night over their unrequited love for the same woman. A huge pleasure to read.
In Beckett's trilogy, he almost writes without characters, scenes or plots, relying instead on each sentence to propel these novels forward into the oblivion of the writer's imagination. Perfect for a serious yet sensitive laugh, as readers might expect from a writer who was stabbed in the heart by a pimp in his younger years.
This is a brief, but beautiful little novel made from the simplest stuff. The narrator is a bartender in late middle age. The suburban bistro he works at is falling apart and over the course of a few days he tries to patch things together. In the process he ruminates over his position and life in general. This is Fabre’s ninth novel but the first in English translation.
A true-life tale of man and horse literally leaping over inconceivable hurdles to fulfill their dreams. This is the story of immigrant Harry de Leyer and his rescued plow horse Snowman and their quest to win the jumping championship in the prestigious National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden. This is one of the most heart-felt stories of the bond between a man and his horse that I have ever read and I've read them all. Great reading for anyone in search of that rush you get watching anyone succeed against impossible odds.
Following his two amazing short story collections, Mr. Van Booy's first novel has arrived! This tale of three friends in Athens charts the joy and hearbreak of love, and the difficult task of finding the wherewithal to move forward and begin again. Displaying an uncanny ability to convey emotions, spirituality and humanity within the simplest of sentences, Mr. Van Booy's skill with language and imagery is unparalleled -- this book is so finely written it will leave you breathless. Highly recommended.
A fun novel set in a bleak future where most of the world's population spends its time in the virtual universe of OASIS. The death of OASIS's creator sets off a quest to find the golden easter egg that will give the winner control of the company. The solution to the puzzle requires a deep and vast understanding 70's and 80's geek culture.
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