Failed intimacy is the repeated theme in this collection of poignant and yet occasionally comical short stories, winner of the 2003 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Whether between spouses, parents and children, or even friends, intimacy in... Read More

Venus’s white T-shirt had ‘Starlet’ stitched on it with gold thread. Her white shorts were trimmed with gold ribbon. Her anklets had matching lacy gold edges. Jill S. saw her first. ‘Oh, look. It’s Soccer Barbie.’... Read More

In this debut audio novel, the author captures the nuance and language of adolescence with stunning ease. The story opens with the death of Jonas, Nina’s four-year-old brother, in the family pond. Nina’s mother had asked her to keep... Read More

“Magic is making people believe you can do the impossible.” Aspiring magicians of any age will be able to astound their audiences after learning some of the secrets of the magician’s craft, easily explained in this Kids Can! title.... Read More

Willie Lee Reed is eleven when he finds God in his fingers. He has just left the Detroit orphanage and come into the home of Reverend Stockton, a cruel man who nonetheless has the sense to recognize Willie Lee’s gift and present him... Read More

“ ‘New Age’ is a convenient term,“ writes the author, “to describe the rapid growth of mystical and psychic awareness that spread around the world in the late 1960s and has continued to grow, expand, and develop ever since.”... Read More

A common witticism proclaims that every Southern work of fiction has to contain a dead mule. There are no dead mules in this year’s collection of Southern stories, but there is a picture of a mule on the cover, which may be a joke on... Read More

Woody Allen will not win any popularity poll with American moviegoers. Many of his movies saunter into obscurity within weeks after their release to theaters. With the publication of this book, the author, a movie film critic, hopes to... Read More