An emotional exploration of the Philippines, these novels illustrate the connection between a people and their beloved native land. With deep insight into contemporary Philippine culture, this collection captures a nation attempting to reinvent itself in the eyes of the world. More

"'Tell us the truth!' we demand of a book, and this one does with calculated vivacity, spiked with galling humor, wit, and felicity of language that gives the Filipino novel a new stature."

- Nestor (N.V.M.) Gonzales, author, THE BAMBOO DANCERS

When Ken Kesey burst on the literary scene in 1962 with his groundbreaking novel, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST, and scarcely two years later followed this feat with SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION, his literary future seemed assured... More

"A fascinating hybrid…an excellent cultural history that will also stand, perhaps ironically, as a valuable companion to the very book that inspired him to take drugs, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test."

Publishers Weekly Starred Review: August 23, 2010

A vivid, gripping account of the author Bill Carter's four summers spent in grueling and exhilaratingly hard work as a commercial salmon fisherman in a remote eskimo village in Alaska, and his rugged co-workers, particularly his crew-boss Sharon, who live by the credo: do the work or leave... More

"A wonderful book about a rare subject, the mysterious pleasure of brutally hard work. Bill Carter proves once again that he is a first-rate mystery writer in the fascinating tradition of Junger and Krakauer."

-- Jim Harrison

A REVISED REPRINTED EDITION WITH PREFACE BY CHARLES BOWDEN AND EPILOGUE BY THE AUTHOR

People borrow this book and then never bring it back. I have learned to write this off as the cost of living. Generally, the most avid readers and book thieves are in their twenties and thirties. Given the nature of the tale, this at first surprised me... More

"Dante's Inferno for the MTV Generation. What a guide Bill Carter turns out to be to the hell of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. Oddly, and inspiringly, he finds some heaven there."

-- BONO

Drawing on three decades of songwriting, performing and arranging with the Mingus Big Band, Joe Lovano Nonet, Lionel Hampton Big Band, Carla Bley, Ray Barretto, and many others, world-renowned saxophonist and Grammy Award-winning musician, composer and arranger Steve Slagle demonstrates that it is with the understanding of the song in all its aspects that the creative musician will open the door to composition and improvisation.More

"An impassioned book, like diving inside the composer's brain, a unique approach among the important books on this subject."

Olivier Hutman, acclaimed Parisian jazz pianist/composer

BRAND NEW CHERRY FLAVOR marks the welcome and timely return to print of an overlooked paranormal thriller and literary classic. Set in the sex, drugs and film world of Los Angeles in the late 1990's, this novel is a brilliant pastiche of horror, noir and magic realism in which a young actress and aspiring director, Lisa Nova, seeking vengeance on a manipulative producer, turns to a mysterious leader of a ghoulish band of bikers, named Boro and gets more than she bargains for.More

“Brand New Cherry Flavor is, hands down, one of the most spectacular novelistic events of the ‘90’s!”

-- The Oregonian

Originally published in the late 1990s, Todd Grimson's "Stainless" breaks fresh ground for the supernatural thriller genre by setting a vampire novel in contemporary Los Angeles, the pleasure dome of sex, drugs and rock n' roll culture, in which a 400 year-old female vampire, Justine, becomes entwined in a very human relationship with...More

“In Stainless, Todd Grimson set out to write the 'ultimate, final vampire novel'—and succeeded. . . . Stainless is a novel waiting to be rediscovered.”

-- Damien Walter, www.Guardian.co.uk

AN HONEST AND REVEALING ACCOUNT OF A LIFE LIVED WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS AS TOLD FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE EXAMINING TABLE.

This dual memoir by a doctor and his longtime patient suffering with a chronic illness explores their unique relationship and bond based on trust, respect and honesty formed over two decades. More

"An extraordinary meditation on illness, a poetic, powerful and groundbreaking work that illuminates the resilience and strength of the human spirit. A remarkable book."

DAVE ISAY
Executive Director of the StoryCorps, and editor of LISTENING IS AN ACT OF LOVE

"A ROLLICKING PAGE-TURNER THAT ENGROSSES THE READER FROM PAGE ONE. A UNIQUE, HIP, URBAN WHODUNIT THAT USHERS IN A NEW VOICE TO THE MYSTERY GENRES" - JOHN BURDETT, Bestselling Author of BANGKOK 8

In this crackling fiction debut, Marc Blatte casts a cool eye on the gritty streets of New York City, and spins a mystery that is, in the words of "Law & Order"... More

"I flew through it immediately ... What fun! Blatte may have written the first truly wonderful hip-hop noir. The Albanian Kosovar characters come alive with lively originality and their notion of race and big money in the US is brilliantly rendered. It's hard to believe this is his first novel. Blatte has a terrific future."

Paul Ingram
Bookseller, Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, Iowa

THE FIRST EVER PUBLISHED COLLECTION OF BOXING JOURNALISM BY NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINATED FICTION WRITER KATHERINE DUNN

Most readers of Katherine Dunn know and love her for her groundbreaking, National Book Award-nominated, bestselling novel GEEK LOVE; few, however are familiar with her journalistic work... More

"One of the most readable and talented writers of "The Sweet Science," Katherine Dunn understands the sport instinctively and writes about it intuitively in this rich collection of her work. Not to coin a cliche, "One Ring Circus" is a "Knockout"!"

Bert Randolph Sugar
Boxing Hall of Fame Writer & Historian

AN UNFORGETTABLE ACCOUNT OF COURAGE AND SURVIVAL IN GERMAN OCCUPIED WARSAW DURING WWII.

As a Jewish boy in Poland at the outbreak of World War II, Yehuda Nir was nine years old when he witnessed his father being herded into a truck - never to be seen again - the first of countless relatives, friends, and neighbors murdered by Nazis during the Holocaust. Forced to flee to Warsaw and live in disguise as Catholics for the next five years literally under the noses of the Nazi SS and the suspicious Polish neighbors... More

"For readers who have gone stale on the Holocaust, Nir's record of a child pusued will reawaken fresh awareness, shock, understanding, and conscience."

Cynthia Ozick, National Book Award finalist

A GROUNDBREAKING EARLY BIOGRAPHY OF THE LEGENDARY POET BACK IN PRINT AFTER THIRTY YEARS

Few modern poets have generated as much controversy as Sylvia Plath. In the aftermath of her suicide in 1963 at the age of thirty, Plath's popularity and stature have steadily increased due to her powerful, self-revelatory imagery... More

"Butscher documents, thoroughly and convincingly, Plathos unbelievable and pathetic success-drive, and explodes, once and for all, the romantic myth of Sylvia Plath as 'extremist poet' who died for the sake of her art - the very opposite seems to be true."

Jonathan Yardley, Wasington Post Book World

A SERIO-COMIC NOVEL OF THE AIDS CRISIS IN AFRICA AND A DOCTOR WHO DARES TO BUCK THE SYSTEM IN ORDER TO SAVE LIVES.

Father Michael's Lottery is a portrayal of the fight against AIDS as seen through the eyes of Dr. John Morgan, the leading doctor of a motley crew of surgeons and nurses in a fictional rural community hospital in southern Africa. Yet, his opponent is not only the disease itself: Morgan must also contend with the apathetic administrators... More

"An important, must-read book."

Ian McEwan
Bestselling author of ATONEMENT, SATURDAY, ON CHESIL BEACH

"A fine debut novel, a startling and humane medical epic."

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