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Langston Hughes, Bill Cosby
Thirteen poems about the New York City neighborhood of Harlem are teamed with the collage painting, The Block, a celebration of the bustle of Harlem, from the corner grocery store to the local Baptist church.
Linda Raymond
In a neonatal intensive care unit in Ohio, two women from different backgrounds grow closer through the work of caring for fragile infants. Motherhood, loss, and class difference gradually turn into a quiet form of solidarity.
Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon's poetry collection braids personal experience with historical imagination through layered memory and agile wordplay. Longer sequences and lyrical fragments build a voice that keeps changing shape.
John Keene
A play by John Keene that uses Annotations to explore african american families and african american youth, with saint louis (mo.) in view.
Colin Dexter
The Way Through the Woods is a 1992 novel that follows the motives and relationships behind a crime while steadily building tension.
Jonathan Kozol
A report that confronts poverty and racial isolation through the lives of children in the South Bronx.
Alan Hollinghurst
A finely shaded novel set in a Belgian town, following teacher Edward's desire, memory, and loss.
Anita Brookner
A novel about the quiet isolation of a novelist staying at a hotel by the lake. Through conversation and inward reflection, it looks at dead ends and the possibility of starting again.
Madison Smartt Bell
A historical novel set against the Haitian Revolution, depicting the violence and hope of slavery and liberation.
Carolyn Treffinger, Kurt Wiese
Set in a Chinese village, the novel follows Li Lun, a boy afraid of the sea, as he is sent to the mountains and learns courage through hardship, solitude, and perseverance.
Dava Sobel
A science-history nonfiction book about the longitude problem of the eighteenth century and the persistence of clockmaker John Harrison. It presents the breakthrough in marine timekeeping as both a technological achievement and a human story.
Delia Smith, Flo Bayley
Delia Smith's Winter Collection is a joyful celebration of the season rich with autumn fruits and winter vegetables, fish and game, soups and roasts, casseroles and comfort food. Delia seeks to investigate new ways to bring out the fullest flavor of ingredients, whether it is by oven-roasting or grilling to concentrate the essence of a dish, or by her individual blending of flavors to transform even the simplest of recipes. Delia shares her ideas for creamy risottos made in the oven, vegetable combinations to cook alongside main courses, and preserves that eliminate fuss.