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Blues for Bird is Martin Gray's stunning, one-of-a-kind biography of Charlie Parker. Written entirely in trimeter, Gray's epic biographical poem runs some 5,400 lines. The work chronicles the life of...

From the best-selling military historian, a thrilling account of the valiant British role in the D-Day invasion. Between 1941 and 1944, the British army contributed relatively little to World War II...

Kommos, a coastal site in south central Crete, has a long history highlighted by a prosperous Minoan settlement and port and a post-Minoan Greek sanctuary. Volume IV of the series documents the...

A nameless rider plods through the desert toward a dusty Western town shimmering on the horizon. In his latest novel, Robert Coover has taken the familiar form of the Western and turned it inside out...

Longlisted for the International Man Booker PrizeA New York Times Top 10 Best Book of the YearAn Economist Best Book of the YearLonglisted for the Best Translated Book AwardThe story of Urbain...

"A fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just mailed his publisher a terrible manuscript, filling him with dread and shame. Shortly afterward, while moping around a park in suburban...

With Death in Holy Orders, P. D. James makes a triumphant return to the genre for which she is best known - the classic English detective story. The story is set in an Anglican theological college on...

The Beaux Stratagem (1707) By G. Farquhar.--theconscious Lovers (1722) By R. Steele.--the Beggar's Opera (1728) By J. Gay.--the Tragedy Of Tragedies (1731) By H. Fielding.--the Stoops To Conquer By O...

On the front lines of the spoken-word poetry movement, Derrick I.M. Gilbert (a.k.a. D-Knowledge) has become one of today's most influential and talked-about young performers. HennaMan is the debut...

A delightfully witty and original graphic biography of Kafka, published to coincide with the centenary of the author’s deathThis bold and sharply funny new look at Kafka is told through Nicolas...

The concept of democratic freedom refers to more than the kind of freedom embodied by political institutions and procedures. Democratic freedom can only be properly understood if it is grasped as the...

"B is for Basil assaulted by bears. C is for Clara who wasted away. D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh. . . " A striking small-format illustrated edition of one of Edward Gorey's "dark...

Essays by respected military historians, including Stephen Ambrose, David McCullough, James McPherson, and John Keegan, consider the consequences if history had turned out differently, such as if the...

Product DescriptionEntre littérature et dictature, aucun compromis ne paraît possible. Des préjugés fascistes sur l''art dégénéré aux implacables exclusions staliniennes, le pouvoir totalitaire a...

A new novel from the celebrated author of Surveys, set in the Michigan suburbs of the early 2000s.Installed alongside the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, Alexander Calder’s public...

An incantation of strength and solace for persisting in twenty-first-century America "History doesn't repeat, it rhymes." In his sweeping third collection, Charleston brings a poet's ear for echo...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Heat, Travel Team and Million-Dollar Throw.Playing shortstop is a way of life for Hutch—not only is his hero, Derek Jeter, a shortstop, but so was his...

A manufactured and pre-programmed serial killer; a suicidal robot; a romantic necrophiliac; and an archaeologist who feeds the perverse desires of aficionados of the apocalypse--Francisco García...

In this 2007 book, Kate Chedgzoy explores the ways in which women writers of the early modern British Atlantic world imagined, visited, created and haunted textual sites of memory. Asking how women's...

The last book-length work of fiction by J. D. Salinger published in his lifetime collects two novellas about "one of the liveliest, funniest, most fully realized families in all fiction" (New York...