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Untangling knots of personal identity and family history, Nancy Agabian deftly weaves a narrative alternately comical and wrenching. Moving between memories of growing up Armenian and American in Walpole, Massachusetts, and her later experiences at Wellesley College, then Hollywood and, finally, Turkey, Agabian offers...

One of Darwish's early works. This prophetic book provides the background for the poet's decision to become an exile. Author: Mahmoud DarwishPublisher: Archipelago BooksPublished: 11/05/2010Pages: 175Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.20h x 6.20w x 0.70dISBN: 9780982624647Award: Literary Award - WinnerReview Citation(s): New York Times Book...

The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a "Christian nation." Many on the left contend that the First Amendment was designed to boldly...

One taste and you'll say, "This can't be tofu " But it is.... Nutritionists, doctors, and food authorities everywhere are telling us to eat more tofu. It's an excellent source of high-quality protein and calcium. It contains no cholesterol and is very low in...

*AGATHA AWARD WINNER FOR BEST NON-FICTION!**ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST NON-FICTION!* AUTHOR OVERBOARDPublishing a book can be scary. Figuring out how to promote it can be straight-up frightening. When the seas of book promo make you feel adrift in unfriendly tides, keeping your head...

"Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press"Gene Harris, the "Blues Man From Boise," as the "Wall Street Journal" once called him, died at the start of a new millennium, but he left a legacy of music that will outlive us all....

Brian Brett's farm on Salt Spring Island is affectionately known as Trauma Farm. There, he raises chickens, pigs, cows, sheep, and goats, tends an extensive orchard and vegetable garden, concocts fabulous meals from the bounties of the farm, and has various misadventures. This funny...

From the New York City of Kline and De Kooning to the jazz era of New Orleans's French Quarter, to Ken Kesey's psychedelic California, Prime Green explores the 1960s in all its weird, innocent, turbulent, and fascinating glory. Building on personal vignettes from Robert...

The Nuremberg trials brought to public attention the worst of the Nazi atrocities. Judgment at Nuremberg brings those trials to life. Abby Mann's riveting drama Judgment at Nuremberg not only brought some of the worst Nazi atrocities to public attention, but has become, along...

Untangle the Mystery of Human Hair Listen to a Heart Throb SniffOut Why Stinky Feet Stink SCIENCE THAT REALLY GETS UNDER YOUR SKIN Explore the amazing human body, from the hair on your head to yourstinky feet * Smell like a salmon * Build...

Author: Edmund WhitePublisher: VintagePublished: 10/04/1994Pages: 800Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.95lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.10w x 2.10dISBN: 9780679754794Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - WinnerReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 09/19/1994About the AuthorEdmund White was born in Cincinnati in 1940. His previous books include Forgetting Elena, Nocturnes for the...

If characters die in a mystery novel, and no one reads their story, have they died in vain? Mystery experts -- booksellers, reviewers, genre devotees -- introduce you to personal favorites: obscure classics, up-and-coming new writers, great books that unaccountably disappeared and lesser-known titles...

Ken Jaworowski's Small Town Sins is a gripping Rust Belt thriller that captures the characters of a down-and-out Pennsylvania town, revealing their troubled pasts and the crimes that could cost them their lives. In Locksburg, Pennsylvania, a former coal and steel town whose best...

By day it's cats and dogs, by night it's mice and rats, and if the birds don't get you then the insects will. But hey, that's life at the bottom of the food chain. One normal summer day, every mammal, reptile and avian on...

Pearls of wisdom balance hilarious fun in this shameless exploitation of the chemo lifestyle. Fran Di Giacomo shares the game plan she has used for survival, for quality of life, and to maintain her career as a professional artist. "As a career member of...

Sam Travis lives in a Civil War era farmhouse in Gettysburg, PA, where he awakens one morning to find an old journal with an entry by a Union soldier, Lt. Whiting...written in Sam's own handwriting. When this happens several more times, both at night...

In this breathtaking thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Wish Me Dead, the murder of several politicians at sea shatters the world of a local lobsterman who must prove his innocence and save his own life.​ Israel Pike was...

An Oprah's Book Club Pick#1 New York Times Bestseller"A mystery, a thriller, a ghost story, and a literary tour de force . . . an authentic epic, long and lush, full of back story and observed detail . . . the author exercises a...

ABOUT THE BOOK: Anyone fascinated by true crime and legal thrillers will want to read The Sky's The Limit: People v. Newton, The Real Trial of the 20th Century? In comparing the 1968 trial of Black Panther Party leader Huey Newton to other riveting...

PURA BELPRÉ HONOR WINNER BOOKPAGE TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF 2023 KIRKUS BEST OF THE YEAR Mexico. 1418. Meet Prince Acolmiztli. Puma of the Acolhua People. Heir to his father's throne. Half Acolhuan, half Mexica. Singer. Warrior. Poet. Sixteen years old. And now, betrayed....