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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 »

Shopping for Faith: American Religion in the New Millennium by Don Lattin In Shopping for Faith: American Religion in the New Millennium, Richard Cimino and Don Lattin identify the trends shaping American religion. They bring together the... More about this book »	Water Music by T. Coraghessan Boyle T.Coraghessan Boyle’s first novel, Water Music is a funny, bawdy, extremely entertaining tale of imaginative and stylistic fancy that announced to the world Boyle’s... More about this book »
Without a Hero by T. Coraghessan Boyle A critic once said of T. Coraghessan Boyle, “More happens in one of Boyle’s stories than in most post-Victorian novels.” This is precisely the case in Without a... More about this book »	Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American... by Terry McMillan A striking collection of works from authors both established and emerging, this is the first original anthology of African-American writing in more than a decade.... More about this book »
Baby Cat-Face by Barry Gifford From Barry Gifford comes a “wild, wacky, funny, well-written, and surreal” novel (Kansas City Star) about a woman struggling to make her way in “a New Orleans so... More about this book »	Beautiful Phantoms: Selected Poems, 1968-1980 by Barry Gifford Eighty pages of Barry Gifford’s poems, spanning a little more than a decade. More about this book »
Hotel Room Trilogy: Tricks/Blackout/Mrs. Kashfi by Barry Gifford Plays in three episodes, which take place in the same New York City at three different times. More about this book »	Salman Rushdie Interviews: A Sourcebook of His Ideas by Salman Rushdie Pradyumna S. Chauhan collects and annotates published and broadcast interviews with Salman Rushdie to deliver the author's comments about his art and harrowed life... More about this book »
Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery by Norman Mailer Mailer opines that Lee Harvey Oswald was a sincere Marxist, a nihilist and an inveterate liar who was motivated to assassinate John F. Kennedy in order to shake up... More about this book »	The Cool Eye: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Talks to Alexis Lykiard by Lawrence Ferlinghetti The Cool Eye contains texts from two interviews (including two poems read by the author), and two new poems published here for the first time, as well as a cover... More about this book »