Soldier, Settler, Sinner


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Turtle Point


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"Can good people bury bad events in their past?" Turtle Point, explores this possibility. Benny Dupree, the main character, lives with the constant threat of the exposure of a deed committed thirty years in the past. Set in beautiful Sanibel-Captiva, Pine Island, Florida, Turtle Point will captivate the mystery/suspense reader.




The Portrait of Zélide


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Starred review in P.W. for this Bloomsbury-era biography of Isabella "Zelide" Van Tuyll.




Notes on André Gide


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Andre Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize, is a revered figure in French literature. The quirky, intimate and fascinating portrait drawn in these notes' can be relished by someone who has never heard of, or even read, andre gide. Gide's friendship with Roger Martin Du Gard lasted over 38 years. In his journal, Gide wrote of his friend, 'with him i can let myself go and be perfectly natural. There is nobody whose presence now brings me greater comfort.' A beautiful collection of conversations on which we can eavesdrop.'




Island of the Innocent


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Award-winning poet Diane Glancy's radical approach to the perennial mystery of suffering takes the trials of Job--the just man unjustly punished--into the New World.




STELLA MARIS


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Between the conservative dystopia and the apocalypse with its rising waters there is still a zone of possibility where men trade in their cell phones for smiles and conversation.




Other People's Letters


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This wonderfully spontaneous evocation of a glamorous Proustian world reads like a detective story.




Joan of Arc


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Compiled and translated by Willard Trask, with an historical afterword by Sir Edward Creasy.




Hotel Sarajevo


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A novel on the war in Yugoslavia through the eyes of a gang of children. They commandeer the ruins of a hotel as headquarters from which to raid other gangs. The narrator is Alma, 13.




By Myself


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A daring collaborative celebrity autobiography by two of America's finest poets, D.A. Powell and David Trinidad