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Visible Signs

New and Selected Poems

by Lawrence Raab
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003

A poem by Lawrence Raab is a carefully chosen and precisely rendered moment—a poised and elegant meditation on the nature of memory. This new collection includes a selection from each of Raab's five previous books of poetry, as well as twenty-one new poems. Readers will delight in their wide-ranging...

Ritual

Power, Healing and Community

by Malidoma Patrice Some
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1997

?The stories within these books have the poignancy of new discoveries as well as the unworn imagination of the ancestors. The commentary has the sharp edge of modern thought and the intricacy which results from the intellect being woven through the ritual complexities of tribal life. The purpose of...

Winter Sisters

A Novel

by Robin Oliveira
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018

“Stunning. . . Oliveira writes with feeling.” —The New York Times Book Review “[An] engrossing story. . . that feels utterly timely.” —People, “The Best New Books” New York, 1879: An epic blizzard descends on Albany, devastating the city. When the snow finally settles,...
by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2008

**“A remarkable achievement—a learned yet eminently readable and provocative exploration of the four small books that reveal most of what’s known about the life and death of Jesus.” (Los Angeles Times) Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.** In...
by Terrance Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018

**Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2018 A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning...
by Anna Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011

**From the award-winning author of Leaving Lucy Pear, an unflinching, lushly imagined love story set against the backdrop of the epic frontier Anna Solomon's new novel Leaving Lucy Pear is available now from Viking Books** When 16-year-old Minna Losk journeys from Odessa to America...

Earthly Meditations

New and Selected Poems

by Robert Wrigley
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006

One of his generation's most accomplished poets, Robert Wrigley is renowned for his ironic, powerful, and lucid style as well as his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. Earthly Meditations features nineteen original poems alongside a collection of sixty-one poems chosen from his first six books.
by Patrick Ness
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014

A magical novel, based on a Japanese folk tale, that imagines how the life of a broken-hearted man is transformed when he rescues an injured white crane that has landed in his backyard. George Duncan is an American living and working in London. At forty-eight, he owns a small print shop, is...

What I Was

A Novel

by Meg Rosoff
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2008

**From the 2016 recipient of the Astrid Lindgren award and author of international bestseller  How I Live Now, National Book Award finalist Picture Me Gone, and most recently Jonathan Unleashed Finn was a beautiful orphan. H was a prep school misfit. On a September afternoon many years...

Introducing Aunt Dimity, Paranormal Detective

The First Two Books in the Beloved Series

by Nancy Atherton
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009

An irresistible introduction to everyone's favorite bestselling cozy mystery series. Watch out for Nancy Atherton's latest, Aunt Dimity and the King's Ransom, coming in July 2018 from Viking! Over the course of her New York Times bestselling series, Nancy Atherton's Aunt Dimity has become enormously...

The Signal

A Novel

by Ron Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009

"The Signal accelerates like an avalanche...If men can't be brought back to fiction by books as fine as this one, it's their own damn fault." -The Washington Post Ron Carlson, author of the critically acclaimed Five Skies, is an award-winning writer beloved by booksellers, reviewers, and readers...

S.

S.

A Novel about the Balkans

by Slavenka Drakulic
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001

"S. may very well be one of the strongest books about war you will ever read. . . .The writing is taut, precise, and masterful." Set in 1992, during the height of the Bosnian war, S. reveals one of the most horrifying aspects of any war: the rape and torture of civilian women by occupying forces....

Inside Rehab

The Surprising Truth About Addiction Treatment--and How to Get Help That Works

by Anne M. Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013

An eye-opening tour of the addiction treatment industry explores the gap between what should happen and what does What happens inside drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers and how rehab works are a mystery to those outside the industry – and sometimes even to those inside it. Anne...

The Murderer Next Door

Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill

by David M. Buss
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006

As acclaimed psychological researcher and author David Buss writes, "People are mesmerized by murder. It commands our attention like no other human phenomenon, and those touched by its ugly tendrils never forget." Though we may like to believe that murderers are pathological misfits and hardened criminals,...
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