Arts & Entertainment Books

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Nancy and Peter bury some beads in the sand and this becomes a bond that brings them together.

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The author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe returns with a heartwarming comic novel about Dena Nordstrom, America's most popular female newscaster, and the hometown that tells her story.

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For the first time in paperback--the selected work of the legendary singer, poet, and performer. Stranger Music presents a magnificent cross-section of Cohen's work--including 11 previously unpublished poems--and demonstrates definitively that Cohen is a writer of dazzling intelligence and a force that transcends genres.

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After making it in Hollywood, twenty-eight-year-old "Flyy Girl" Tracy Ellison returns to her old Philadelphia neighborhood, but her homecoming is bittersweet as she confronts the things and people she left behind.

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Hendrik Hofgen is a man obsessed with becoming a famous actor. When the Nazis come to power in Germany, he willingly renounces his Communist past and deserts his wife and mistress in order to keep on performing. His diabolical performance as Mephistopheles in FAUST proves to be the stepping-stone he yearned for: attracting the attention of Hermann Goring, it wins Hofgen an appointment as head of the State Theater. The rewards--the respect of the public, a castle-like villa, a favored place in Berlin's highest circles--are beyond his wildest dreams. But the moral consequences of his betrayals begin to haunt him, turning his dreamworld into a nightmare.

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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The hero of this sensational first novel is an alto-sax virtuoso trying to evolve a personal style out of Coltrane and Rollins. He also happens to be a walking, talking, Blake- and Shakespeare-quoting bear whose musical, spiritual, and romantic adventures add up to perhaps the best novel, ursine or human, ever written about jazz.

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The author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe returns with a heartwarming comic novel about America's most popular female newscaster, and the hometown that tells her story. Reprint. NYT.

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Deciding to become a haiku poet in 1884 Japan, Yuko Akita embarks on a journey to the side of his new master, a blind artist, and along the way becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman who has frozen to death.

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"Freddie's" is the familiar name of the Temple Stage School, which supplies London's West End theaters with child actors for everything from Shakespeare to musicals to the Christmas pantomime. Its proprietress, Freddie Wentworth, is a formidable woman of unknown age and murky background who brings anyone she encounters under her spell -- so common an occurrence that it is known as "being Freddied." At her school, we meet dour Pierce, a teacher hopelessly smitten with enchanting Hannah; Jonathan, a child actor of great promise, and his slick rival Mattie; and Joey Blatt, who has wicked plans to rescue Freddie's from insolvency. Up to its surprising conclusion, At Freddie's is thoroughly beguiling.

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Joanna's holiday on the little Greek island of Santorini was meant to be a solitary one in which she would recover from the bitterness of the Greek war and her mothers's death--until she adopted Ulysses, the mistreated little donkey.

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Instantly mesmerized by the dancing techniques of two renowned mambo leaders at a shabby Bronx dance studio, Catalina Ortiz Midori immerses herself in their world and discovers a passionate link to her own heritage, in a tale that brings readers from New York to Miami and Cuba. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

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Fervently pursuing the life of an artist, a young music student leaves behind her small midwestern town existence and comes to know the elation and heartache of a life in the creative world. Reprint.

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<B>Irish actress Harriet Smithson, inspiration for Hector Berlioz's<BR><I>Symphonie Fantastique</I>, is also the muse for this mesmerizing novel.</B><BR>Christine Balint reimagines the bittersweet life of Harriet Smithson, the tragedienne who brought Shakespeare to the French. Born in County Clare, Ireland, in 1800, Harriet is left in the care of the elderly priest Father Barrett, and is brought up on Lamb's Shakespeare, lime-sherbet sweets, and prayer. A child of traveling players, her ultimate inheritance is Covent Garden, London, the green room, and the theater's rough magic.<BR>With the arrival of Charles Kemble's English Theatre troupe in Paris in 1827, the Od&#233;on Theatre is awash with the drama and music of Shakespeare. Harriet is Ophelia. The French Romantics swoon, traffic stops, and the high-society women plait straw in their hair in honor of her mad Ophelia. The fiery composer Hector Berlioz falls in love.<BR>In <I>Ophelia's Fan</I>, Balint re-creates the texture and breadth of the nineteenth century and brings alive Harriet Smithson&#151;the actress and the woman, her roles and her loves.

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Jessica Pruitt is one of Hollywood's most alluring and admired actresses, but her love life is a shambles, until, in Venice filming a movie of The Merchant of Venice, she is transported back in time to meet her soulmate, a young Will Shakespeare.

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