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Twenty: A Jack Swyteck Novel
Author: James Grippando
Publisher: Harper
Jack Swyteck and his family are caught in the crossfire after a deadly school shooting claims twenty casualties - Florida's fifth mass shooting in as many years - in this provocative and timely thriller from Harper Lee Prize-winner James Grippando that touches on some of the most contentious issues roiling America today.It...

Dearly: New Poems
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Ecco
In Dearly, Margaret Atwood's first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding,...

The Man in the Microwave Oven
Author: Susan Cox
Publisher: Minotaur Books
When her best friend discovers evidence of a grisly crime at a coffee shop, San Francisco newcomer Theo Bogart finds the case complicated by her grandfather's disappearance into the shadowy world of his former life as a British Secret Service agent. By the award-winning author of The Man on the Washing Machine.

The Best American Mystery Stories...
Author: C. J. Box
Publisher: Mariner Books
C. J. Box , #1 New York Times best-selling author of the hugely popular Joe Pickett series, selects the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in this annual "treat for crime-fiction fans" (Library Journal) .

A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems
Author: Lawrence Joseph
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A selection of poems from the celebrated poet and lawyerDrawing from his first book, Shouting at No One, from 1983, and continuing through to his most recent, So Where Are We?, from 2017, A Certain Clarity provides a generous selection of Lawrence Joseph's "poetry of great dignity, grace, and unrelenting persuasiveness"...

Little Hill
Author: Alli Warren
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Award-winning poet explores new formal terrain in seven long poems against the violence of the present political moment."[Warren] has begun writing longer poems, putting her stamp on a running notational mode whose other practitioners include Stephanie Young, Anselm Berrigan, and Jacqueline Waters. I think you can hear...

The Man in the Microwave Oven
Author: Susan Cox
Publisher: Minotaur Books
When her best friend discovers evidence of a grisly crime at a coffee shop, San Francisco newcomer Theo Bogart finds the case complicated by her grandfather's disappearance into the shadowy world of his former life as a British Secret Service agent. By the award-winning author of The Man on the Washing Machine.

The Best American Mystery Stories...
Author: C. J. Box
Publisher: Mariner Books
C. J. Box , #1 New York Times best-selling author of the hugely popular Joe Pickett series, selects the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in this annual "treat for crime-fiction fans" (Library Journal) .

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing...
Author: Heather Clark
Publisher: Knopf
With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials--including unpublished letters and manuscripts; court, police, and psychiatric records; and new interviews--Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant daughter of Wellesley, Massachusetts who had poetic ambition from a very young age and was an accomplished, published writer...

A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems
Author: Lawrence Joseph
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A selection of poems from the celebrated poet and lawyerDrawing from his first book, Shouting at No One, from 1983, and continuing through to his most recent, So Where Are We?, from 2017, A Certain Clarity provides a generous selection of Lawrence Joseph's "poetry of great dignity, grace, and unrelenting persuasiveness"...

These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal...
Author: Martha Ackmann
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
An engaging, intimate portrait of Emily Dickinson, one of America's greatest and most-mythologized poets, that sheds new light on her groundbreaking poetry.
On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, "All things are ready"?and with this resolute statement, her life as a poet began. Despite spending...

Cult Writers: 50 Nonconformist...
Author: Ian Haydn Smith
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Whether pioneering in their craft, fiercely and undeniably unique or critically divisive, cult writers come in all shapes and guises. Some gain instant fame, others instant notoriety, and more still remain anonymous until a chance change in fashion sees their work propelled into the limelight.Cult Writers introduces 50 novelists...

Little Hill
Author: Alli Warren
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Award-winning poet explores new formal terrain in seven long poems against the violence of the present political moment."[Warren] has begun writing longer poems, putting her stamp on a running notational mode whose other practitioners include Stephanie Young, Anselm Berrigan, and Jacqueline Waters. I think you can hear...

Gertrude Stein Has Arrived: The Homecoming...
Author: Roy Morris Jr.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University...
In 1933, experimental writer and longtime expatriate Gertrude Stein skyrocketed to overnight fame with the publication of an unlikely best seller, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Pantomiming the voice of her partner Alice, The Autobiography was actually Gertrude's work. But whoever the real author was, the uncharacteristically...

The Best Presidential Writing:...
Author: Craig Fehrman
Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon...
.From the early years of our nation's history, when George Washington wrote his humble yet powerful Farewell Address, to our current age, when Barack Obama delivered his moving speech on the fiftieth anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, America's presidents have upheld a tradition of exceptional writing....

African American Poetry: 250 Years...
Author: Kevin Young
Publisher: Library of America
Only now, in the 21st century, can we fully grasp the breadth and range of African American poetry: a magnificent chorus of voices, some familiar, others recently rescued from neglect. Here, in this unprecedented anthology expertly selected by poet and scholar Kevin Young, this precious living heritage is revealed in all its power,...

All Heathens
Author: Chan, Marianne
Publisher: SARABANDE BOOKS
All Heathens is a declaration of ownership--of bodies, of histories, of time. Revisiting Magellan's voyage around the world, these poems explore the speaker's Filipino American identity by grappling with her relationship to her family and notions of diaspora, circumnavigation, and discovery. Whether rewriting the origin...