The most comprehensive collection of modern Chinese poetry in English translation available today This volume--a completely overhauled and updated version of Michelle Yeh's 1992 classic Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry--brings together modern poetry...

The ancient traditions and contemporary experiences of Native Americans are reflected in a collection of stories which includes contributions by established authors as well as new writers

"Funny, sad, and tender... Mimi Herman has written a novel that possesses a true and hard won understanding of the South." —David SedarisLonglisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and North Carolina Center for the Book Selection for the...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNamed a most-anticipated summer book by USA Today, People, E! News, Cosmopolitan, PureWow, CNN.com, New York Post, CrimeReads, POPSUGAR, and more The bestselling author of Final Girls and Survive the Night is back...

A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of the land. In this new collection, her skewed imagination...

"Gerstenblatt's distinctive tale, a triumph in storytelling, celebrates the courage and tenacity of women." --Booklist, starred review Set against Nantucket's Great Fire of 1846, this sweeping, emotional novel brings together three courageous women...

First of two volumes describing the life and work of Wordsworth.

Not Yet by Stanley Moss is best described metaphorically: it is a freight train loaded with poetry that includes Poems on China (Stanley Moss taught English in China thirty years ago), a compartment of Two Raw Fish Poems from Japan, then there's an extra...

"Ovid's Metamorphoses is the original source for classical mythology. Combining the best-known versions of tales from Icarus to Medusa, Ovid's epic compendium of Greco-Roman legend has exerted an influence on European art and culture rivaled only by the...

56pp. Signed & numbered (No.33) w/ inscription by author on the last page. Very Good w/ ex-owner's name on back of front cover, minute edge wears & minute fading on cover edges. Very Good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. 56 p. port. 22 cm. A Haystack...

Book by Carter, Angela

A collection of short stories, representing more than fifty years of literary endeavor, interweaves tales of the small Illinois town of Draperville at the turn of the century with other stories

In this special edition of Jericho Brown's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Tradition,you are invited to participate in an urgent dialogue--sparked by poetry--about what it means to be human. Including a discussion guide and an interview with the author, The...

"My father is black and my mother is white and my brother is a vegetable." When Emma Boudreaux's older brother winds up in a coma after a freak accident, she loses her compass: only Bernie was able to navigate--if not always diplomatically--the terrain...

This collection of captivating tales displays Twain's characteristic energy, imagination, and sense of fun, as well as the darkly satirical edge that marks so much of his work. His targets range from the difficulty of learning German (explored in a...

Phineas Finn is a novel by Anthony Trollope and the name of its leading character. The novel was first published as a monthly serial from October 1867 to May 1868 in St Paul's Magazine.[1] It is the second of the "Palliser" series of novels. Its sequel,...

A futuristic thriller about climate change by the acclaimed screenwriter of First Cow, Meek’s Cutoff, and HBO’s Mildred Pierce.The year is 2052. Climate change has had a predictably devastating effect: Venice submerged, cyclones in Oklahoma, megafires in...