New Books

The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou The Heart of a Woman continues Dr. Angelou’s autobiographical work begun in I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, exploring her beginnings as a writer and civil rights... More about this book »	The Water Dancers by Terry Gamble A tale of class and race set in the post-World War II of Northern Michigan. Drawing from the rarely intersecting worlds of the Native American population and that... More about this book »
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of World War II, The Naked and the Dead received unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since... More about this book »	The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (Edited) by Tobias Wolff The thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias... More about this book »
Mighty Opposites: Shakespeare and Renaissance Contrariety by Robert Grudin Analyzes Shakespeare's persistent use of contraries in the light of Renaissance continental philosophy. Special attention to Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of... More about this book »	Mom, There's a Man in the Kitchen and He's Wearing... by Ellie Slott Fisher As a mom re-entering the dating world, how do you balance being a woman with being a mother? In Mom, There's a Man in the Kitchen and He's Wearing Your Robe, Fisher... More about this book »
Dating for Dads. The Single Father's Guide to Dating Well... by Ellie Slott Fisher As a single father, you're ready to begin dating again. But are your kids ready? In this much-needed guide, relationship expert Ellie Slott Fisher comes to the... More about this book »	Time and the Art of Living by Robert Grudin Three hundred sixty-six meditations on time. Called "a classic" by Richard Selzer, Time & the Art of Living has been widely referenced. It was 25... More about this book »
On Dialogue: An Essay in Free Thought by Robert Grudin On Dialogue states and supports the thesis that dialogue and dialogic thinking are the most radical forms of free thought. More about this book »	Attack of the Man-Eating Lotus Blossoms by Justin Chin Attack of the Man-Eating Lotus Blossoms is a collection of these performance art texts, along with documents and scripts, that represent Chin’s performance work... More about this book »

The Ghost of Greenwich Village by Lorna Graham Eve Weldon has just moved to New York hoping to make a new life for herself in the city her late mother loved, and mysteriously left, decades before. Eve’s... More about this book »	To Err is Human by Swarupa Chavan Humans make mistakes…but Malini is a magnet for error. Since moving to Mumbai, her life has turned into a roller coaster—and not all exciting. Along her path... More about this book »
Sugar Zone by Mary Mackey Fierce, surreal, ecstatic, and passionately transcendent, the sixty-two beautifully-crafted poems in Mary Mackey's Sugar Zone offer depth and complexity while at... More about this book »	The Widow's War by Mary Mackey “Mary Mackey gives her readers yet another woman warrior, this one a fighter in the Civil War. We thrill to the story of Carrie Vinton as she courageously takes... More about this book »
Save the Pearls Part One REVEALING EDEN by Victoria Foyt Eden Newman must mate before her 18th birthday in six months or she'll be left outside to die in a burning world. But who will pick up her mate-option when she's... More about this book »	Infinite Vision: How Aravind Became the World's Greatest... by Suchitra Shenoy When a crippling disease shattered his lifelong ambition, Dr. Venkataswamy (better known as Dr. V) chose an impossible new dream: to cure the world of... More about this book »
Wildfire Reader: A Century of Failed Forest Management by Les AuCoin Fire, paradoxically, is an integral part of healthy forest ecosystems. The biggest problem with wildland fire is suppression, not burning. After a century of... More about this book »	Sudden Flash Youth: 65 Short-Short Stories by Mark Budman A unique collection. The only anthology of short-short stories to focus on youth. In these stories of no more than 1000 words, well-known and emerging American... More about this book »
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles In this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through... More about this book »	Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War by T.J. Stiles In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of... More about this book »