Search Results for: The New Valley
Josh Weil
Josh Weil was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his novella collection, The New Valley. A National Book Award “Five Under Thirty-Five”…
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Born in New Mexico of Indio-Mexican descent, Jimmy Santiago Baca was raised first by his grandmother and later sent to an orphanage. A runaway at age 13, it was after…
Hettie Jones
…Star Fallin’ Mama (Five Women In Black Music), selected in 1974 by the New York Public Library as one of the twenty best new books for young adults. Reissued in…
Throwim Way Leg
by Tim Flannery…to their magnificent land. . . . [Flannery’s] evocations of the New Guinea landscape carry you away.” –D. J. R. Bruckner, The New York Times Book Review (front cover review)…
The Pyramids
by Miroslav Verner“This comprehensive volume details everything you ever wanted to know about pyramids–and the cultural and technological world from which they arose.” –Boston Herald…
The Titled Americans
by Elisabeth Kehoe“Both a remarkable achievement and a real treat . . . written with elegance. . . . American and British readers interested in genealogy and the world of social connections…
Wagons West
by Frank McLynn“Fascinating. . . . McLynn, an Englishman, is new to the West, but he turns this seeming liability into a strength. . . . McLynn does a fine job, too,…
Jacqueline Susann
Jacqueline Susann is a legend in American publishing. Her debut novel, Valley of the Dolls, published in 1966, has sold over 40 million copies in thirty languages. Susann was the…
The Journal Keeper
by Phyllis Theroux“I loved this singularly honest and graceful book. The Journal Keeper reminds us that there is no such thing as an ordinary moment, and certainly no such thing as an…
The Fruitful Darkness
by Joan Halifax“An exceptional piece of work—large, mythic, specific, personal, rooted, wild, hungry, full of open heart.” —Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones…
