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The friendship between Mary and Nix had endured since childhood, a seemingly unbreakable bond, until the mid-1980s, when the two young women embarked on a summer vacation in Greece. It was a trip initiated by Nix, who had just learned that Mary had been diagnosed with a disease that would cut her life short and who was determined that it be the vacation of a lifetime. But by the time their visit to Greece was over, Nix had withdrawn from their...

One writer's mysterious death, another's relentless quest for fame, and a bitter literary critic's passion for manipulation drive the story of this haunting novel set in a small upstate New York college town in the 1990s.

Wilker marks the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. He captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it means to be a fan of the game.

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Scott trails self-professed Roseaholics as they plan, prepare, and compete in the annual national rose show, documenting how they celebrate the singular satisfaction of cultivating beauty--and, of course, the thrill of victory.

In this powerful and deeply emotional debut novel in the classic Southern tradition of Carson McCullers, Kaye Gibbons, and the young Truman Capote, a terrified young girl clings desperately to childhood while being forced into adulthood years before she is ready.

What if Jesus suddenly appears and announces that he plans to run for president of the United States? Merullo's bitingly clever satirical novel about the state of American politics follows one man's campaign to show that politics as usual is no longer an acceptable option.

George Singleton, who's had many stories published in the best literary journals, has recently burst into the big time with appearances in Playboy, Zoetrope, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine and Book. The stories in his new collection are wild and wooly - or maybe we should say wild and half-wooly. In any case, they're definitely not for the creationist crowd or for the laughter impaired. For example: - A self-described "primitive artis...

Illustrated with 50 pieces of Materson's artwork, "Sins and Needles" is the riveting story of Ray's journey from addiction to a celebrated artist--and of how a broken man manages to put the pieces of his life together in a most unexpected way. Illustrations.

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When author Eliza Thomas realizes suddenly, in her forties, that she has forgotten to make a life or a home, she thinks it's time to find an alternative to her leaky, drafty apartment in Boston. After a few trips to the country, she finds an old Boy Scout cabin in a small valley in Vermont. At first Thomas's one-room cabin doesn't seem like a place where she could live year-round - even with the cabinets and bunk beds that the previous owners ...

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.

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.

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...

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...