1219 results for '"FRANK,A"'

"Intelligence, heart, wit . . . Laura Lee Smith has all the tools and Heart of Palm is a very impressive first novel."--Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls Utina, Florida,...

An Instant New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller! A Next Avenue Influencer in Aging 2021#1 Canadian BestsellerJust as she did in her...

The prize-winning book of advice about racism from the bestselling author to his daughter, introduced by Bill Cosby.When Tahar Ben Jelloun took his ten-year-old daughter to a street protest against...

"[A] concise, meticulously researched, century-spanning chronicle of queer life on Fire Island captures, with a plain-spoken yet lyric touch, the locale’s power to stun and shame, to give pleasure...

An illuminating introduction to the influence of architecture on the world, the environment, and human livesArchitecture matters. It matters to cities, the planet, and human lives. How architects...

A revelatory new theory of consciousness that returns emotions to the center of mental life.For Mark Solms, one of the boldest thinkers in contemporary neuroscience, discovering how consciousness...

A poem is often read as a set of formal, technical, and conventional devices that generate meaning or affect. However, Lucy Alford suggests that poetic language might be better understood as an...

Fighting for marriage and family rights; protection from discrimination in employment, education, and housing; criminal law reform; economic justice; and health care reform: the LGBT movement is...

An erotic journal in poems, from a rising star in the American poetry scene, author of the highly acclaimed collection Second Empire. “A book of love poems that consciously and subversively hearken...

500 Years Later offers a thrilling deep dive into the creation of the revered PlayStation RPG Final Fantasy VII. Comprising of over thirty interwoven voices, this beautifully produced book offers...

"As the final book in the beloved Mercy Watson universe, this will lure fans like a certain pig sniffing out buttered toast." --Booklist (starred review) When Mercy Watson the pig goes missing, all...

Essays on imagining a better world in dark times, from one of our most esteemed scholars of fairy tales Fairy tales take us to a world where magic is commonplace, where wishing works, where the...

How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature,...

Lisa Moore's wickedly fresh first novel--a Canadian best seller, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canadian and Caribbean region), and a Globe and Mail Book of the Year--moves with the...

Author of the acclaimed The Face of Battle, and, most recently, Intelligence in War, John Keegan now brings his extraordinary expertise to bear on perhaps the most controversial war of our time.The...

Twaynes English Authors SeriesSeries Editors: Frank Day, Clemson University Joseph M. Flora, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Pattie Cowell, Colorado State University Ruth K. MacDonald A...

From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, a stunning novel illuminating Somalia's tragic civil warIt is 1987 and Hargeisa waits. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds, but still...

Between French Modernism and the New York School: The idiosyncratic art of the pioneer of American Pop Art. The American painter, musician, and filmmaker Larry Rivers (* 1923 in New York City; † 2002...

Critics across the country have raved about Joyce Carol Oates’s ground-breaking memoir A Widow’s Story, lauding its blazing honesty and raw emotion, calling it “immensely moving,” “searing,”...

The best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series deftly escorts Jane Austen’s beloved, meddlesome heroine into the twenty-first century in this delightfully inventive retelling...