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A reporter stumbles on a plot by an international corporation to use genetic technology to monopolize the world's food production and destroy ecosystems. His pursuit of the truth leads him on a vigorous and life-threatening search across the globe.While attending an economic conference in the Austrian Alps, New York business reporter, Ed Decker learns that Naturtek plans to replace traditional crops with their patented "terminator seeds" that ...

Dear Mr. Thoreau is a work of epistolary fiction involving Henry David Thoreau, his real-life friends and family and the fictional Mary Bright and hers. The letters begin when Mary is eleven years old, and end when she marries and moves to London.

Scratch the Itchy Teeth is a becrazed carnival ride, the varietal voices of these mind-altering stories uttering fiery satanic verses. In addition, the book is a psychedelic bottle rocket with an insane genie inside, on a space-age acid-trip to a colorful Weirdsville. It is a literary hallucinogen capable of giving the reader insectean antennae.

Bread & Sentences contains aphorisms gleaned from working notebooks, with a graphic narrative, The Situation, interspersed.

I am constantly amazed by the elegance and surprising disturbance in language and syntax that thrills me in Goldensohn's work, like Melville's "happy toothache"-there are live roots in these lovely, sometimes painful moments, which almost violently win my attention. He's always been, as a poet, a lyric storyteller who writes with clarity, and of course, a brilliant, musical sense of how often a profound solemnity invades our lives, even at thi...

Nicholas Giovanni lives with his family in his childhood home in Somerville. His life revolves around his five-year old daughter Kate. When he isn't driving his taxi, he is taking care of her and her mother Kathleen, whose last involuntary admission to hospital was before Kate was born. When his childhood best friend, Ina, returns next door tensions rise in the house. Already unstable, Kathleen's suspicious of Ina and Nicholas grows until a da...

In Greece Mikis Theodorakis is a national icon. He is the country's most famous composer, and a figure who has spent his life struggling against injustice and oppression in his own country and elsewhere. He has been jailed and tortured for his beliefs, continuing to produce a stream of music and poetry despite his suffering. It is time that his own poetry was recognized as an important element in his creative life. In an age where Bob Dylan ca...

Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke's final collection of poetry, Losing Appetite for Existence, is enormously cohesive, each poem illustrating another aspect of "losing one's taste, one's appetite", a theme apparent from the opening poem, as if the poet wanted to get to the heart of the matter right from the start, to make it clear that a large part of the tastelessness of existence, her loss of appetite for it, was in fact the loss of being personally ...

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These linked stories follow the continued paths of the small Vermont family introduced in Badtime Stories. Ruth, a professor of Environmental Studies, works to preserve their little city. Mac seeks answers on the road. And Harper is just trying to grow up. Stories are always a way to navigate bad times.

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These stories explore a set of lives and events in the white American south -- the desegregation of a school, the insecurity of a divorced worker, the generation gap in a Vietnam-era family, the loss of maternal dreams as her children grow, the search for truth behind an old family tale, and a son's strained loyalty to his estranged parents - all of which reflect the country's surly, growing cultural restlessness.

The handwriting didn't look like his. Neither did the hand. It was so thin. And it was shaking just a little bit. Not like the aspen leaves. Are there still leaves now, so late in the year? He looked down the cold mountain to see and then raised his arm to follow the slope. It was shaking just a little, that hand, like it was afraid, and it was spotted and pale and turned in a sad way. Because it was old. That was something Raymond understood ...

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Zdravka Evtimova's novel You Can Smile on Wednesdays focuses on day-to-day lives of three sisters Luba, Sara and Pirina who live in the small Bulgarian town of Radomir. Pirina sings songs that have no tunes, but can ease loneliness and pain, Sara has numerous boyfriends. One of them builds a church for her in which loners go to pray and soon find love. Luba reads all the time, so much that she absents herself from real world, a fact that makes...

The days go bylife gets shorterand which lightwhich darkness will endureDual language poetry by contemporary Greek poet, translated by American poet living in Greece.

The central figure in many of these stories is the psychically wounded World War II veteran who is absent. Here the definition of the family is changed, and its re-imagining remains problematic. Challenges are posed to characters' ideas about selfhood and their role as daughters, mothers, sisters, friends, wives and lovers. A major theme of the collection is the search for place-within the family, and within the larger context of the post-war¿...

Connecting The Dots To Shangrila is a poetic memoir of maxims and manifestos, intertwining themes of society and culture, the psychodynamics of damage in abnormal psychology, the dysfunctional family unit, role-playing in the workplace and psychosocial environment - sometimes from the point-of-view of a social worker, sometimes a 'wasted and wired' husband or father, and more times than not, a desperate, diehard poet, exploring the absurd and ...

Harper can't sleep. Night after night, she hectors her parents for attention. Ruth and Mac, troubled for their only child, come to call this part of the day "badtime." Can all of them get some rest?These ten linked stories follow the fortunes of this small family, from courtship in Paris to crisis in Vermont. Ruth, a professor of Environmental Studies, works to preserve their little city while living through a health crisis of her own. Mac see...