Search Results for: American

Asa Akira

Asa Akira is a Japanese American actress working in the adult film industry. She has been named Performer of the Year at the AVN, XRCO, XBIZ, AEBN VOD, and Urban…

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

Uncle Vanya

by Anton Chekhov

“An act of deconstruction designed to exhume the living energies of Chekhov’s writing from under the heavy weight of ‘masterpiece topsoil.’” –Robert Brustein, American Repertory Theatre…

Trip to Bountiful, Tender Mercies, To Kill a Mockingbird

by Horton Foote

A collection of Horton Foote’s best-known and most-loved screenplays, revealing the deep currents of American society through the simplest details of daily life….

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…

How I Became Hettie Jones

by Hettie Jones

“This is a story every American ought to read; written by someone who is generous and loving. The writing is easy, effortless, honest, like a letter from a friend, but…

Terrence McNally

…of TV scripts, including Andre’s Mother, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award. He received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, and a citation from the American Academy of…

Crown

by Evanthia Bromiley

…A suspenseful, lyrical debut novel tracking three days leading up to the eviction of a pregnant single mother and her nine-year-old twins from a trailer park in the American Southwest….

A Flock of Fools

by Kazuaki Tanahashi

“Translator Kaz Tanahashi and storyteller Peter Levitt have given these stories a subtle American-Zen flavor, and although this collections has a 1500-year pedigree . . . its messages ring clear…

Conviction

by Elizabeth Winthrop

The story of a young, American woman’s misguided journey to join ISIS and the grief of the mother she leaves behind—a gripping and thought-provoking exploration of loss, empathy, and hope…