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For serious readers of ecocriticism, the theories of human geography, and literary essays, and for fans of Rebecca Solnit, Susan Sontag, or Wendell Berry Lessard is a national bestselling author whose book will benefit communities, organizations, or jurisdictions in the process of trying to curate, conserve, or plan the environment and understand the issues at play in their landscape. During the 2018 American immigration crisis and #KeepFamili...

Essential for the aspiring filmmaker, " this revised and updated edition is an inspiring, tell-all look at the independent film business from one of the industry's most passionate supporters (Todd Solondz, director of Welcome to the Dollhouse)Hope for Film captures the rebellious punk spirit of the indie film boom in 1990s New York City and its collapse two decades later to its technology-fueled regeneration and continuing streaming-based evol...

This Washington Post "Best Book of the Year" grapples with the complexities of the second-generation American experience, what it means to be a woman of color in the workplace, and a sister, a wife, and a mother to daughters in today's America. When a woman-known only as Mother-moves her family from Atlanta to its wealthy suburbs, she discovers that neither the times nor the people have changed since her childhood in a small Southern town. De...

By means both wry and warm, Michael Downing elucidates the meaning of the classroom-its space for reflection, rumination, and pause-in a world that doesn't seem to be stopping. Still in Love reminds me why he was one of my favorite professors ever." -Melissa Broder, author of The Pisces This is your chance to enroll in English 10 at highly rated Hellman College-if you can find a place to sit in the fantastically overcrowded classroom. Mark S...

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The Wish Child is a love letter of sorts to the city of Berlin, a love letter and a lament for what children in particular must endure to survive a war like WWII A widely appealing and accessible historical novel, this would be an excellent Costco Pennie's Pick or Target Club Pick title For fans of The Book Thief and its focus on the transformative power of language, The Wish Child offers a darker take on this theme, more concerned with the w...

For readers who prefer their true crime blended with history, for fans of Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief or Catch Me if You Can, and for those readers who cannot get enough of profiles like those on Fake Heiress Anna Sorokin, or the lying author Dan Mallory (WOMAN IN THE WINDOW) The latest book by the award-winning biographer Adam Sisman (whose prizes include the NBCC for biography). Sisman's last book was the very well-received JOHN LE C...

From the author of The Seed Collectors comes a darkly comic take on power, privilege, and the pressure put on young women to fit in-and be thin-at their all-girls boarding school It's already the second week of term when Natasha, the daughter of a Russian oligarch, arrives at a vast English country house for her first day of boarding school. She soon discovers that the headmaster gives special treatment to the skinniest girls, and Tash finds ...

This biographical meditation explores the life of one of the 20th century's most compelling and famous artists, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). The prose poem brings together parts of Kahlo's biography, her letters, medical documents, and her diaries with language that is often as erotic and colorful as Kahlo's paintings.

Playfully, poetically unstable . . . What compels a woman to turn to the wilderness? What brings one, after a decade of caregiving, to exchange a terminal parent's final vigil for the company of strangers? Goldblatt poses these questions with great assurance." -Lisa Locascio, The New York Times Book Review Denny works nights as a tech in a labyrinthine facility outside of D.C., readying fruit flies for experimentation. Her life's routine is s...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "To read Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is to regard the human heart through a magnifying glass." -Claire Luchette, O, The Oprah MagazineNobody has written so powerfully of the relationship between and within India and the Western middle classes than Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. In this selection of stories, chosen by her surviving family, her ability to tenderly and humorously view the situations faced by three (so...

Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary world.

In a time where dividing lines--in politics, in religion, in science--are drawn quickly and sharply, Sheldrake's book offers a timely alternative to division. It is a blending, a choice to draw from multiple sides and angles, and an opportunity to bury a false dichotomy and observe the ways in which the fields of science and spirituality enrich one another Written both for believers and atheists alike, Sheldrake illuminates a search for meanin...

If you've ever wondered how a messed up kid like you or me might master the wisdom of Zen, One Blade of Grass is the adventure for you. It's great company-and after reading it, you might recognize that you're further along than you imagined." -David Hinton, editor and translator of The Four Chinese Classics and author of The Wilds of Poetry One Blade of Grass tells the story of how meditation practice helped Henry Shukman to recover from the ...

Following her National Book Award-nominated debut novel, A Kind of Freedom, the author returns with this equally elegant and historically inspired story of survivors and healers, of black women and their black sons, set in the American South.

The author of Living the Secular Life deconstructs the arguments for a morality informed by religion, urging that major challenges like global warming and growing inequality are best approached from a framework of secular morality.

A look at life in contemporary Palestine through the lens of its literary culture. Using the form of a political-literary travelogue, Di Cintio explores what literature means to modern Palestinians and how Palestinians make sense of the conflict between a rich imaginative life and the daily tedium and violence of survival.

Elizabeth is a gifted surgeon--the only female consultant at her hospital. But while operating on a young woman with life-threatening blood poisoning, something goes horribly wrong. In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons' performance, her colleagues begin to close ranks, and Elizabeth's life is thrown into disarray.rray.

An adventure novel upended by grief and propelled by the aberrant charm of its narrator, Hard Mouth explores what it takes to both existentially and literally survive.

The author portrays the struggles of a Cambodian farming family against the extreme patriarchal attitudes of their society and the cruel and dictatorial family father, set against a rural community that is slowly being exposed to the modern world and its values. The book spans the period from 1973, just before the Khmer Rouge genocide, to 2015.