Fiction. In 1930, in the waning days of the Weimar Republic, an experiment in democratic government and workers' rights, as well as various forms of sexual liberation, it was still possible for upper-class hostess Ilse Webber to invite a Social-Demo...
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Poetry. Latinx Studies. Environmental Studies. The Japanese tea ceremony is an attempt to impart meaning to that which would otherwise go unnoticed. After all, what is so different about serving, pouring, drinking tea, than the brushing of one's tee...
Poetry. Music. Translated by Syed Ahmed Shah. Edited by Syeda Jebeen Sabira Shah. Bhupen Hazarika (1926-2011), also known as the Bard of the Brahmaputra—after the river that runs through Assam—was a legendary singer, lyricist, music composer, schola...
Fiction. Three generations of the Howell family, originally from California, manage to get in trouble with everyone from the CIA to the Mexican mob to Big Nuclear in a wild, farcical romp through the time zones, inviting us to reflect on the mess th...
Fiction. Children's Literature. This is Cool Grove Press's first children's book, a story that provides a fresh direction for kids and adults dealing with loss. Aimed at kids 4-8, BILLY AND THE SECRET SHIP is about the loving connection between a bo...
Fiction. Drama. Eaddon Towers had been through incarnations as a mogul's mansion, a nursing home and for over sixty years a haven for its long time multicultural tenants. That is, until its choice location and river views gain the attention of real ...
Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Short Stories. Prepare to discover the unexpected in each of the fifteen short stories of this debut anthology. In lucid, English prose with an Indian touch we are treated to delectable flashes of human behav...
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Animal Studies. We live on a rapidly urbanizing planet, ever more enmeshed in technological artifacts, electronic communication devices and disembodied "virtual" worlds, far more separated from the natural world than any...
Poetry. "Louise Landis-Levi's pure intentions, and her uncompromising, heroic effort to realize the true nature of mind, make her poems a continuous stream of wisdom"—John Giorno.
Fiction. Martin Seward's sojourn in the country is about to take an unexpected turn for the better, at least for those last golden, sunlit days of summer. However, the fateful intersection of his cousin Alicia and his neighbor Dacron Redstone will e...
Literary Nonfiction. Political Science. Media Studies. In DELUSIONS OF NORMALITY: SANITY, DRUGS, SEX, MONEY AND BELIEFS IN AMERICA, J. P. Harpignies argues convincingly that many of the unspoken assumptions underlying our media's discourse about our...
Fiction. African American Studies. PATHS OF SANCTUARY is a magical-realism novel which traces the life of an African-American family from enslavement in 1796 through post reconstruction to its eventual settling in Sanctuary, a small mountain village...
Fiction. In this novel the haute monde behave badly in a wildly comic, high-speed ride down the slippery slope of wealth and power in New York City. The GREAT WALL OF NEW YORK is an antic examination of how the other one percent lives. Romance, intr...
DEATH OF NEW YORK CITY culls a selection of Nina Zivancevic's work from five books of poetry. Charles Simic writes in his forward to the book that in spite of Zivancevic's strong connections to Paris, New York and Belgrade (her birthplace), "the voi...