Book by Morgan, Robert

With a quiet eloquence, the poems in Long Walks in the Afternoon follow “the deep imagination’s long tap into the dark”―inward toward the still and radiant center of the self. But Margaret Gibson’s poetry is not self-serving or isolationist. She writes...

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Poems deal with marriage, love, music, travel, mortality, myth, nature, and the past

A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year.A searing and wildly entertaining love letter to New York City from the bestselling author of Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude.  Chase Insteadman, former child television star, has a new role...

Best known for his political fairy tale, The Prisoner of Zenda, which saw four major screen adaptations, including the acclaimed 1937 incarnation starring Ronald Colman, Anthony Hope was one of the few novelists to achieve wide popular and critical...

"Ms. Beattie's people-the battered emotional casualties of the 1960s and the hip survivors of the Me generation-are teetering now on the margins of middle age, and the aging process has made them somewhat less careless about their lives... The stories in...

17-year-old Aksel Morander encounters Amalie and it proves a turning point in his life. Not only does he fall in love for the first time but is introduced to a world unfamiliar and unconventional, that places everything around him in a new light. Finding...

Inspired by a shotgun blast in the seat of his breeches, young Karli Van Cleef quits his native Holland to seek his fortune. He arrives in early Victorian London and soon he is turning a pretty profit. But Karli sees that true opportunity flowers in...

Book by Krysl, Marilyn

ALIVE AND TAKING NAMES is vivid in its imagery and metaphor. Mature in insight and frequently angry and daring, the collection is an appropriate sequel to Inez' award-winning THE WOMAN WHO LOVED WORMS, described the the New York Times as “Innovative,...

Book by Madden, David

Fay Weldon lets her incisive wit loose on a hot issue facing many modern families -- child care, and what can happen when that involves having a nanny under your roof. Hattie and Martyn are the proud parents of newborn Kitty; both are in their early...

Poems deal with snow, the family, mortality, grief, torture, history, warfare, food, travel and vanity

A poignant and beautiful debut novel explores a man's quest to unravel the mystery of his wife's death with the help of the only witness -- their Rhodesian ridgeback, Lorelei.

Poems consider time, language, children, artists, history, nature, and dreams

Russia, 1910. Leo Tolstoy lies dying in Astapovo, a remote railway station. Members of the press from around the world have descended upon this sleepy hamlet to record his passing for a public suddenly ravenous for celebrity news. They have been joined...