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This immensely entertaining debut poses the question, Does a striving child of immigrants have to sever ties with the past in order to move on?, and answers it with wit and compassion.

What the Dormouse Said reminds us that we should never grow so old, or change so much, that we cannot find room in our hearts for the wisdom of children's books. --from the foreword by Judith Viorst From What the Dormouse Said: On Silence: "Perhaps after all it is just as well to speak only once a year and then speak to the purpose." --Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Wiggin On Pleasure: "Believe me, my young friend, ther is nothing--a...

The 1997 volume--the twelfth--of the annual anthology is packed with nineteen entertaining stories by a variety of authors. From a cautionary tale about the difficulties of loving a space alien to a new twist on a young Southerner's struggle in the wilds of Manhattan, these stories range from the hilarious to the poignant.

The origins of over 100 words and phrases we use to discuss love.

A man's wife goes out for dinner. He is lying in bed, waiting at home for her to return. The hours go by, the night deepens, and she does not come back. Soon he is nearly insane with longing for her. He has been trapped in his own intellect - a man who, before he met her, stopped speaking entirely for a year. Then she awakened in him a desire so great that he felt reborn and she joined him in a marriage, where every day was filled with discove...

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In Julie Harmon, a woman of strength, grace, and immeasurable courage, Robert Morgan has created one of the most admirable -- and unforgettable -- heroines in modern American literature.For seventeen-year-old Julie, life in the South Carolina backwoods is, in her plain words, "both simple and hard". Following the deaths of her younger brother and father, Julie takes one look at handsome young Hank Richards and falls in love. The couple's strug...

Janis Arnold's joyous second novel is a story of friendship and family, of big dreams and bad dreams. Julia Salwell seems to have it all - money, a father and brother who are crazy about her, and a rich boyfriend who's co-captain of the football team in tiny Cypress Springs, Texas. But there's something wrong, something eating at Julia, something that keeps waking her up at night, screaming in the dark. When Robin Tilton meets Julia in college...

ýKlezemr has become one of the primary languages of the musical avant-garde.O (The New Yorker) ýThe music of my childhood memories came flooding back through the decades as I read. Maybe, as Seth Rogovoy suggests, itís time for our music to awaken once more to an entirely new generation.O (Arlo Guthrie) THE ESSENTIAL KLEZMER is the definitive guide to an ancient music made new again, mesmerizing dance music that I simultaneously reverential, m...

First love is never easy. But when the new boy in a small town is being secretly abused by his father, first love might be the only thing that can save him. With his mother busy in the kitchen and his drunken father reading scripture in the living room, Nathan can watch his schoolmate Roy from his upstairs bedroom window and dream about a life free from his father's night-time prowling. Nathan feels safer with Roy in the house next door and sa...