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A new collection by the award-winning writer of Love Poems evaluates poignant and tragic experiences from the past decade, from the losses of a mother and sister to the shooting at Virginia Tech, where she works as a professor of English. 50,000 first printing.

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An illustrated profile of one of America's best-loved writers pays tribute to the life, illustrious theatrical and literary careers, and activism of Maya Angelou, providing a remarkable scrapbook of an extraordinary woman who is renowned as a poet, author, playwright, and humanitarian. 100,000 first printing.

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On the sixtieth anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv section of Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article on this dark episode during World War II and embarks on an investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah, a young girl caught up in the raid. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

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Traces the author's attempt to travel the world with her friend armed only with the collected works of Nietzsche, an astrology book, and their wits; a misadventure that culminated in astonishing culture shock on the streets of communist China.

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Illustrated in full color. Open the barn door and take a tour around the barnyard to find out just who's making all those wonderful animal sounds.

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Evaluates the ways in which the mid-twentieth-century novelist reflected American culture and influenced literature, in a portrait that includes coverage of her relationships with such contemporaries as Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, and James Dickey.

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Broadway, the main street that runs through Robert Pinsky's home town of Long Branch, New Jersey, was once like thousands of other main streets in small towns across the country. But for Pinsky, one of America's most admired poets and its former Poet Laureate, this Broadway is the point of departure for a lively journey through the small towns of the American imagination. Thousands of Broadways explores the dreams and nightmares of such small towns--their welcoming yet suffocating, warm yet prejudicial character during their heyday, from the early nineteenth century through World War II. The citizens of quintessential small towns know one another extensively and even intimately, but fail to recognize the geniuses and criminal minds in their midst. Bringing the works of such figures as Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Alfred Hitchcock, Thornton Wilder, Willa Cather, and Preston Sturges to bear on this paradox, as well as reflections on his own time growing up in a small town, Pinsky explores how such imperfect knowledge shields communities from the anonymity and alienation of modern life. Along the way, he also considers how small towns can be small minded--in some cases viciously judgmental and oppressively provincial. Ultimately, Pinsky examines the uneasy regard that creative talents like him often have toward the small towns that either nurtured or thwarted their artistic impulses. Of living in a small town, Sherwood Anderson once wrote that "the sensation is one never to be forgotten. On all sides are ghosts, not of the dead, but of living people." Passionate, lyrical, and intensely moving, Thousands of Broadways is a rich exploration of this crucial theme in American literature by one of its most distinguished figures.

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Provides a close-up look at the witty, colorful mural created by Edward Sorel for New York's Greenwich Village landmark, the Waverly Inn, capturing forty key figures from Greenwich Village's past--including Walt Whitman, Andy Warhol, Willa Cather, Norman Mailer, and others--accompanied by portrait vignettes of their lives. 20,000 first printing.

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A comprehensive history of American women writers explores the contributions of more than 250 female authors--both famous and little-known--to every field of literary endeavor and reflects on their role in the evolution of our American literary heritage. 35,000 first printing.

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From Sappho to Shakespeareto Cole Porter--a marvelous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry.

The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico Garcia Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine Cavafy, Elizabeth Bishop, W. H. Auden, and James Merrill. Their poems of love are among the most perceptive, the most passionate, the wittiest, and the most moving we have. From Michelangelo's "Love Misinterpreted" to Noel Coward's "Mad About the Boy," from May Swenson's "Symmetrical Companion" to Muriel Rukeyser's "Looking at Each Other," these poems take on both desire and its higher power: love in all its tender or taunting variety.

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Everyone's favorite holidat tale is brought to vivid life again--this time by artist Cheryl Harness. Her lovely, old-fashioned scenes of a Victorian home positively brimming with holiday cheer fill these eye-catching pages, along with old St. Nick as he comes to pay a late-night visit.

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Literally millions of readers embraced The Book of Virtues as the definitive treasury of great moral tales. This new edition, beautifully illustrated by acclaimed artist Michael Hague, is just right for parents to read comfortably to their young children, and for children to learn to read on their own. 112 color illustrations.

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A mysterious manuscript discovered in the tomb of Charlemagne sends Cotton Malone on a perilous international quest that takes him and twin sisters with their own agenda from an ancient German cathedral to the harsh, unforgiving world of Antarctica in pursuit of the truth about the death of his father on a classified sub mission beneath Antarctica. 350,000 first printing.

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Critical essays discuss Elie Wiesel's autobiographical novel about his time spent in Auschwitz as a teenager.

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"This very hungry caterpillar literally eats his way through the pages of the book--and right into your child's heart" (Mother's Manual). "Gorgeously illustrated, brilliantly innovative".--The New York Times Book Review. Full color.

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