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The Gift by H.D

by Nelly Heitman

For those scholars, poets, students of feminist literature and other followers of Hilda Doolittle’s poetry comes the definitive publication of her autobiographical work—finally available in its uncut, minimally revised form. The Gift... Read More

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Murderously Incorrect

by Nelly Heitman

Detective Alex Rada never had a high-class clientele until Dr. Katherine Raines, a political science professor from N.Y.U., entered his office and hired him to locate her missing graduate assistant, Susan Blake. Problems arise, however,... Read More

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The View from Below

by Nelly Heitman

Nothing cuts through the veil of illusion quicker than a sharp stab of reality, especially the stabbing pain of loss—be it death, exile or innocence. It is human nature to deny that anything bad could happen to oneself or friends or... Read More

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A River In Flood

by Nelly Heitman

Known as the grande dame among the pantheon of Florida writers, famous author of The Everglades: River of Grass (1947) and missed sorely by all familiar with her and her work as a passionate environmentalist and writer, Douglas died this... Read More

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Only Human

by Nelly Heitman

Three years after publishing his first collection of short stories (Booing the Bishop, 1995), Collins? penetrating yet humorous look into human frailties and foibles is back. Each of these concisely written stories center upon a male... Read More

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The Sin Eater

by Nelly Heitman

With the vividness of description found in Fairy Tale (1998), and with a mind-shattering use of symbolism only understood after looking back upon the story as a whole, Ellis takes her readers through a weekend of events not soon... Read More

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Birth Mark

by Nelly Heitman

The philosophy of reincarnation is used as the major plot line in this work, and comes from the Sanskrit text, the Mahabharata, the world’s most ancient written document and the foundation of Hinduism. Rowe and Cooper have taken this... Read More

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The Sanctified Church

by Nelly Heitman

She may have died broke and virtually unknown in 1960, but the marker that Alice Walker had erected on Hurston’s grave rightly declares her “Genius of the South.” These two anthologies, a small portion of Hurston’s writings over... Read More

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