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Former Senator Paul Simon delivers stirring eveidence of a catastrophic water crisis which will explode upon the global community unless drastic measures are taken in all corners of the world, including in our own backyards.

Set in a working-class suburb of Dublin in the 1940s, this novel tells the story of the Kelly family, and young Jackie Kelly's journey towards physical exile.

An epic novel of a painter's tumultuous life of friendship, love and exile in China and France. A bestseller and winner of a major prize in France, "The River Below" is a work of startling lyricism and beauty.

This is not your standard political biography. the core of this book is--incontrovertibly and inescapably--Rudy Giuliani in his own words, being himself.

Faces along the Bar is a masterful tale of a community swept up in the volatile racial and social tensions of 1950s New York, and a profound questioning of the reality and validity of the American dream.

Soars above the world of mundane reality and lures its readers into a world of sinister fantasy and haunting unreality.--Orville Prescott, The New York TimesR

An enduringly original literary presence, unquestionalby Cuba's most important living writer.--Alistar Reed, The New York Review of Books

At once genuine and coy, rapturous and despondent, from the ecstasy of the first declarations of love to the desperate mournful whisperings of a heart broken, ec

The International opera authority, Charles Osborne, is renowned throughout the world for his writing, broadcasting and lecturing on opera. With nearly 300 composers and 800 singers, as well as conductors, producers, set designers, librettists, and others, this book provides authoritative comments by the author on composers.