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Set in the world of day-time TV cook shows, a wonderfully funny black comedy about the real highs and lows of everyday life.

Singing the City is a celebration of a landscape that through most of its history has been unabashedly industrial. Laurie Graham returned to Pittsburgh in the fall of 1990 after two decades of near cataclysmic decline in the city's steel and other heavy industries. She felt grieved at the loss suffered by the area's working- and middle-class communities dull distressed that, as a nation, we let our industrial places go with such equanimity.Con...

Dot Allbones had no beauty, and few prospects, but luckily she has one lucrative talent - she can make people laugh. Now the queen of London's music hall stage, Dot feels she's not done badly. She has her audience, her independence, and enough money for champagne: a good life. Pretty, popular orphan Kate Eddowes was an unlikely childhood friend for Dot. The older girl's beauty was bound to take her places, and sure enough Kate soon left, lured...

A tone-perfect elegiac meditation on the impossibility of engaging with painful history and the necessity of doing so." - Margaret Atwood, Thomas Morton Memorial Prize for Poetry In the stunning poems of Settler Education, Laurie D. Graham vividly explores the Plains Cree uprising at Frog Lake -- the death of nine settlers, the hanging of six Cree warriors, the imprisonment of Big Bear, and the opening of the Prairies to unfettered settlement...

Filled with warmth, wit and wisdom, `The Future Homemakers of America' takes us to the heart of female friendship. A novel fans of `Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood' will not be able to resist.

As a participant observer at Subaru-Isuzu Automotive, Laurie Graham conducted extensive covert research. Her findings will interest all those concerned about Japanese management strategies, the auto industry, and the American worker's experience of lean production.

FICTION / General

In the tradition of "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, " this moving novel, filled with warmth, wit, and wisdom, is about a group of women who discover--over the course of 40 turbulent years--the nature of true friendship.

A celebration of Pittsburgh's industrial landscape and an eloquent tribute to a way of life largely disappearing in America. Laurie Graham's hymn to family history, hard physical labour and and the love of place reveals a rich human story too often lost amidst the landscape of industry.