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It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a…
WRITING POETRY is intended to be an all-purpose poetry writing textbook, a fount of inspiration and informtion on the writing…
For an entire generation that came to maturity in the 1960s, LSD, the hallucinatory drug which promised liberation of human…
A mysterious sculpture of a beautiful and erotic Madonna holds the key to the Fornarini family`s secrets. When Raikes, a…
Directing his polemics against the pedantry of his time, Galileo, as his own popularizer, addressed his writings to contemporary laymen.…
Elizabeth Gaffney`s magnificent, Dickensian "Metropolis captures the splendor and violence of America`s greatest city in the years after the Civil…
We are in Oxford in the 1660s - a time, and place, of great intellectual, scientific, religious and political ferment.…
"This is a book that will last and last." THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Here is a stunning collection of five stories…
AN OVERFLOWING IN-BOX...AN OVERFLOWING SINK FULL OF DIRTY BREAKFAST DISHES...IS THIS WHAT THE EXPERTS MEAN BY "HAVING IT ALL"? You`ve…
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner AwardAmerican Booksellers Association Book of the Year AwardSan Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a…
The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black…
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of…
Before the creation of Earth, God`s realm is peaceful and tranquil, and Lucifer is a trusted advisor of angels. Then…
A thirteen-year-old boy describes the poverty and discontent of eighteenth century Osaka and the world of puppeteers in which he…
"Ginsberg has been one of the most influential poets in America in our time. . . . It has been…
Maybe the Moon, Armistead Maupin`s first novel since ending his bestselling Tales of the City series, is the audaciously original…