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The Great Divorce

by Ilyon Woo

“Modern Americans, bombarded with stories of celebrity divorces, probably assume that the tabloid breakup is a recent phenomenon. This lively, well-written and engrossing tale proves them wrong.” —The New York…

Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America’s Xanadu

by Les Standiford

The full and colorful history of the American resort town that redefined class, wealth, and celebrity, by Florida’s preeminent historian and bestselling author

Pass Over

by Antoinette Nwandu

From an extraordinary new voice in American theater, a startling play that examines the cyclical ravages of racial injustice and violence on two young black men.

Twelve Bar Blues

by Patrick Neate

…shifting between continents like an old pro stamping through key changes and tackling 200 years of intermingling African, American and British history along the way.” –Mark Rozzo, Los Angeles Times…

Transit Authority

by Tony Sanders

…and what is so remarkable about these poems is that under the sign of doubt, art and truth become one. When, since Huck, has this been true about American palaver?…

Things Change

by David Mamet

This screenplay is a humorous burlesque of the American Dream tinged with bitter irony. It is the second film to be directed from his own original script by playwright David…

Steps

by Jerzy Kosinski

…has few equals among American novelists born to the language. And I have also become convinced, after reading Steps, that he is one of the most gifted new figures to…

The Other Side of Power

by Claude Steiner

“Many people who have fulfilled the ‘power dream’ found it empty and have given it up; the American Dream has become a dead-end street.”—Dr. Claude Mr. Steiner, 1981

Mukiwa

by Peter Godwin

“From time to time a book comes out of Africa that is so good it grips American readers by their hearts. This should be one of them.” –The Washington Post…

Keys Cuisine

by Linda Gassenheimer

“Linda Gassenheimer has brilliantly filled in a missing piece of the regional American food jigsaw puzzle–amusing and delicious, well-researched food from the seductive Florida Keys.” –Barbara Kafka, author of Microwave…