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His twentieth collection of poetry, Back Room at the Philosophers' Club evidences Buckley's continued and rightfully-earned place in American letters.

In a novel of dazzling suspense and excitement, Robert A. Shearer demonstrates the mastery of craft in this historical novel. Based on actual events that occurred after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and set in a small Texas town, Swift is a fictional account of lives altered in a time of war.

Kelly Cherry has long been a writer whose work has remained vital and, due to her diligence, fresh. In this Reader, she collects a body of work, much of it no longer in print, and allows us to remap and re-explore where her writing has come from, where it has gone, and where it is bound yet to go, it reacquaints long-time fans and invites new readers to discover the importance of her work.

In the same vein as Paul Theroux and Robert Olen Butler, some of these stories take place in foreign countries—Zaire (Congo) and Greece—and centre on interactions between a host nation and an American visitor. Others are set in the US in the modes of Alice Munro and Tobias Wolff, focusing on human relationships. Each story reveals a main character's moral centre in the face of unexpected events.

Covers the life of civil rights activist and civic leader Wendell H. Baker Sr. This newly edited edition of Baker's If Not Me, Who? includes materials from two other authors - retired Texas Southern University scholar Naomi W. Lede, whose work originally was also published in Baker's original book, and political leader and consultant James A. Baker, who learned from Wendell Baker and his brother that they were distant cousins.

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Part entrancing fable, yet based on historical fact, Sleeping Giant is by turns alarming and endearing. It is the story of the last remaining Montowese Indians around the mountainous formation called Sleeping Giant in Southern Connecticut.

Kim Addonizio's latest collection of poetry is an amazing work. Featuring woodcuts by book artisan Charles D. Jones, My Black Angel is both an auditory pleasure and visual feast.

A stunning collection of autobiographical narratives that propel us into the life and mind of a literary genius.

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There is cinema... and there are the movies. This is a book for movie junkies: salutes to the once great but now forgotten stars, to the acknowledged behind-the-scenes movers and shakers, and to the movies themselves - the classics major and minor, the overlooked gems, the guiltiest of guilty pleasures.

Explores the rich and complex food history and culture of the Choctaw-Apache Community of Ebarb in western Louisiana. The corn complex is an indispensable component of Choctaw-Apache food traditions. Corn was such an important part of the tribe's culture that, according to Rhonda Remedies Gauthier, many families grew two seasons of corn every year.

Presents a collection of personal essays about healthcare and healthcare reform. Although the content of these essays is factual, the authors utilize literary techniques to create an interesting narrative that conveys an intentional message. The essays in this collection often have a familiar tone and are characterized by authorial introspection and a personal struggle for honesty.

From the author of Swift comes a new and suspenseful realistic novel of war, love, and survival during the attack on Sportplatz in Julich, Germany, in the early part of December 1944. The book explores the highest levels of human intensity and experience: intense visceral combat, random and violent death, deep love and commitment, and remarkable and painful survival and recovery.

A collection of short fiction about the changing world of la frontera/the borderlands of the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. The stories centre around contemporary times when the political upheavals of Mexico began to effect peoples lives on both sides of the border.

In Edge of the Wind, a 25 year-old black man is off his meds and has begun hearing voices. For months, he has done nothing but read and write poetry. One day, he is convinced writing poetry is his calling. James Cherry holds nothing back as he tackles mental illness and the importance of relationships in this debut novel.

Presents a collection of the writings of famed African American teacher and scholar. These works ere published over a lengthy period of time, early 1920s to mid-century.

With deceptively pellucid language, Dangerous Bodies offers precise, jewel-like crystallizations of understanding that illuminate the craggy and often harrowing emotional terrain of a family gone wrong. Out of abandonment and incest, the wounded child turns to the long building of a self she can rightfully claim as her own.