New Books

The Custom-Fit Workplace: Choose When, Where, and How to Work... by Joan Blades Cowritten with Nanette Fondas. Ideas for transforming the workplace to fit today’s workforce In this book, Blades and Fondas offer business professionals an... More about this book »	The Uglies: A Crime Saga by Thomas Burchfield The place: America. The time: closer than we may like to think. Unemployment is in high double-digits. The stench of violent discontent smokes the air. The 1930s... More about this book »
What Steinbeck Left Out, Pseudo Sins and Other Observations by Phil (Philbrick) Bowhay I’m a California kid, great-grandson (on one side) of pioneers, forty-niners, homesteaders, farmers, and fortune seekers, and (on the other) devout New Englanders... More about this book »	Play at the Center of the Curriculum, Ch 12 "Outdoor Play... by Jane P Perry In this fifth edition of Play at the Center of the Curriculum, we reaffirm our commitment to play in the early childhood classroom. The natural link between... More about this book »
Carve This Body into Your Home: Poems and Collages by Judith... by Judith Tannenbaum A book of poems and collages that, as J Ruth Gendler writes in the Foreword, "illuminate our condition, point toward the mysterious and the real, name sufferings,... More about this book »	Awaken Your Senses: Exercises for Exploring the Wonder of God by Brent Bill Perhaps you've been missing out. God has given us five senses and a brain with two sides. Yet we often approach God in one way only: through words that are... More about this book »
Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in... by Evie Shockley Beginning with a deceptively simple question—What do we mean when we designate behaviors, values, or forms of expression as “black”?—Evie Shockley’s Renegade... More about this book »	ISAAC: A MODERN FABLE by Ivan G. Goldman A lively, inventive tale of Isaac that follows him beyond Genesis into the 21st century. After being spared from Abraham's blade, he's been granted eternal youth... More about this book »
The Marriage Gift by Stephen Evans A quest to find the perfect wedding gift for a mysterious cousin leads a Minneapolis couple to question their own ideas and ideals regarding marriage. A humorous (... More about this book »	Gossip.com by Marcia Fine Jean Rubin, a Women and Literature teacher at the community college, has three months to plan her twenty something daughter Lara's wedding... More about this book »

Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist by Marisa P Handler While many people are highly critical of corporate globalization, they don't necessarily know much about anti-globalization movement. But as Marisa Handler has... More about this book »	Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach More about this book »
The Bostons by Carolyn Cooke Carolyn Cooke's stories have been featured in several volumes of Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and The Best American Short Stories. Her debut collection... More about this book »	The Cure by Anthony Marais A young American flees to Wiesbaden, Germany where he develops an obsession with the spa water, leading to a surreal journey into the occult. More about this book »
At Face Value: My Triumph Over A Disfiguring Cancer by Terry J Healey Twenty years old and a junior at the University of California, Berkeley, Terry Healey seldom faced adversity or difficulty. He was confident and not concerned about... More about this book »	A Tall House by Bill Cameron A merging of genre opposites, cozy and noir, and winner of Spinetingler's Cozy Noir contest. Read the story online at Spinetingler Magazine, December 2006. More about this book »
Plateau by Anthony Marais On a lonely road in the wilderness an accident occurs that will change the lives of the people in a nearby town. Ana, a thirteen-year-old, finds the body of a dying... More about this book »	How Not To Become A Philosophical Pervert In Five Easy Steps by Anthony Marais This is a selection of excerpts which will appear in my forthcoming book, Delusionism. In the book, I aim to serve up an irreverent take on self-help literature,... More about this book »
A Woman's Place Is in the Kitchen: The Evolution of Women... by Ann Cooper This book tells a story that needs to be told. In fact, it tells many stories of women in the culinary industry. It is about many women -- chefs and cooks -- who... More about this book »	Who Are We? by Alan Kaufman More about this book »