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Sometimes There Is a Void: Memoirs of an Outsider
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Moving, funny... Here is a man looking back on his life and country with joy and sorrow.--John Freeman, The Boston Globe South African …
Diary of One Who Vanished: A Song Cycle by Leos Janacek of Poems by Ozef Kalda
A Cycle of Love Songs Translated by the Nobel Laureate"Dappled woodland light, Spring well chill and bright, Eyes like stars at night, Open knees so white.Four things death itself …
Thinking Points
Offers an understanding of the progressive worldview by seeking to answer such questions as "What is the progressive vision of America?", "Why are progressive values America's …
7 X 9 = Trouble!
Wilson Williams worries about passing his times-table tests Wilson has a hard time with math, especially with Mrs. Porter's timed multiplication tests. If only he were as quick as …
Silverchest
A bracingly beautiful new collection from the author of Double Shadow After the afterlife, there's an afterlife. In Silverchest, his twelfth book, Carl Phillips considers how our …
Heads or Tails: Stories from the Sixth Grade
From the Newbery Medal winning author of "Dead End in Norvelt," eight more hysterical semi-autobiographical Jack Henry stories about a sixth grader's trials and tribulations Jack's …
Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories
Isaac Bashevis Singer's first collection of stories, "Gimpel the Fool," is a landmark work that has attracted international acclaim since it was first published in 1957. In Saul …
Poems the Size of Photographs
"Brief, that place in the year""when a blossoming pear tree""with its sweet laundered scent""reinhabits wooden roads""that arch and diverge up""into electronic snow city."--"Brief, …
Leon's Story
Leon's Story is a powerful, wonderful thing -- Nikki Giovanni I remember that as a young boy I used to look in the mirror and I would curse my color, my blackness. But in those …
Black Mamba Boy
Yemen, 1935. Jama is a "market boy," a half-feral child scavenging with his friends in the dusty streets of a great seaport. For Jama, life is a thrilling carnival, at least when …
Solomon the Rusty Nail
Here, in the great tradition of Sylvester and the Magic Pebble and Caleb and Kate, is another tale of magical transformation from William Steig, the creator of Shrek. Its hero, …