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Vegetable Literacy by Deborah Madison In her latest cookbook, Deborah Madison, America's leading authority on vegetarian cooking and author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, reveals the surprising... More about this book »	Lydia by Octavio Solis Drama / 4m, 3f Set in the 1970s on the Texas border separating the United States and Mexico, Lydia is an intense, lyrical, and magical new play. The Flores... More about this book »
ROOM FOR EXAMINATION: More than Skin Deep by james channing shaw If there is one thing special about doctors, it is that society has granted us unique privileges. The license to probe the private lives and bodies of people is... More about this book »	I Can't Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays by Elinor Lipman From the beloved and acclaimed novelist, a collection of witty, moving essaysIn her two decades of writing, Elinor Lipman has populated her... More about this book »
The View from Penthouse B by Elinor Lipman Two sisters recover from widowhood, divorce, and Bernie Madoff as unexpected roommates in a Manhattan apartment Unexpectedly widowed Gwen-Laura Schmidt is still... More about this book »	Digital Age Marketing: A Practical Workbook for Entrepreneurs... by Angela C Render The Digital Age offers entrepreneurs and small businesses unparalleled, direct access to consumers and has leveled the playing field between small and big... More about this book »
Death in Slow Motion by Eleanor Cooney When her once-glamorous and witty novelist-mother got Alzheimer's, Eleanor Cooney moved her from her beloved Connecticut home to California in order to care for... More about this book »	Raising Cubby by John Elder Robison The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad’s relationship with his equally offbeat son—complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives... More about this book »
Murder Below Montparnasse by Cara Black A long-lost Modigliani portrait, a grieving brother’s blood vendetta, a Soviet secret that’s been buried for 80 years—Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc’s... More about this book »	Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology by Paul Hoover A new edition of this groundbreaking anthology revisits postmodernism as a twenty-first-century movement. Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology galvanized... More about this book »

Conversations With Maxine Hong Kingston (edited by Paul Skenazy) by Maxine Hong Kingston In this collection of interviews, Kingston talks about her life, her writing, and her objectives. From the first, her books have hovered along the hazy line between... More about this book »	White Like Me: Reflections on Race From a Privileged Son (... by Tim Wise White Like Me is one-part memoir, one-part polemical essay collection, addressing racism and white privilege in the United States. Herein, Wise examines what it... More about this book »
Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White by Tim Wise Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White provides a comprehensive defense of affirmative action programs, especially in higher education, and argues... More about this book »	Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman This richly imagined fiction brings us into the world of Mary Cassatt’s early Impressionist paintings. The story is told by Mary’s sister Lydia, as she poses for... More about this book »
The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi Jessamy “Jess” Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of an extraordinary and powerful imagination, she spends hours writing haiku, reading... More about this book »	Oh The Hell Of It All by Pat Montandon The brutal breakup of Pat Montandon’s seemingly perfect marriage to multimillionaire Al Wilsey and the loss of her son, was the stuff of gossip columnists’ dreams—... More about this book »
Brigid's Cloak: An Ancient Irish Story by Bryce Milligan Brigid's Cloak retells an ancient tale about one of Ireland's most beloved saints. On the day she is born Brigid receives a brilliant blue cloak from a mysterious... More about this book »	Hannah Is My Name by Belle Yang With Chinese-influenced paintings in jewel-like colors, Belle Yang tells an immigration tale that reflects one of the many facets of the American dream. Please... More about this book »
The Adoption Reader: Birth Mothers, Adoptive Mothers, and... by Jacquelyn Mitchard Edited by Susan Wadia-Ells About the Anthology These personal essays and stories are informed by the contemporary adoption movement and raise timely issues... More about this book »	The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky by Tamim Ansary "I was late to school, and that's all I could think about. I started across the field. And then suddenly a fire flashed in my face and the earth seemed to move... More about this book »