SILLY JOKES FOR SILLY KIDS is a children s joke book containing HUNDREDS of funny kids jokes with illustrations.The ill......more
From the creative duo behind the bestselling Me Without You and Happiness Is... comes How to Be a Cat, a lighthearted il......more
Saris and a Single Malt is a moving collection of poems written by a daughter for and about her mother. The book spans t......more
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. It was the cultural ......more
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New England Transcendentalists gives readers insight into the idealism and romanticism running through 19th century Tran......more
From lemons to lemonade; from heartbreak to happiness; from victim to victorious. Have you ever wondered how other peopl......more
A strange woman walks into church in the middle of a prayer - to get out of the rain, reasons Reverend John Ames. Sixty-......more
A Guided Tour Things may not be immediately discernible in what Hemingway writes in part because he seems so transparent......more
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In the 1960s, Latin American literature became known worldwide as never before. Writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabri......more
A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Ind......more
Does your mother call you in a panic whenever there’s a storm warning for your area? Does she act as though it’s her dut......more
"More than 100 years after [Twain] wrote these stories, they remain not only remarkably funny but remarkably modern. . .......more
Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in Boston in 1887, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep. When he wakes up in the......more
Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary fi......more
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Mama Said.is an effort to record, for future generations, the words of wisdom from our ancestors. It is not intended to ......more
Jonathan Ames has drawn comparisons across the literary spectrum, from David Sedaris to F. Scott Fitzgerald to Woody All......more
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David Andrews, Gilbert Sorrentino David Andrews, The Art Is the Act of Smashing the Mirror: A Conversation with Gilbert ......more
Mary McGlynn, Janice Galloway Thomas Cousineau, Thomas Bernhard Nancy Blake, Robert Steiner Chris Hopkins, Elizabeth Bow......more
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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and ......more
Vrest Orton’s loving remembrance of Robert Frost is a touching and masterful piece of work. The book also contains a num......more
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Part of T. S. Eliot’s lofty standing among 20th-century poets is directly attributable to his vast knowledge and deep ap......more
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The claim of The Black Poets to being... an anthology is that it presents the full range of Black-American poetry, from ......more
Vivid poems of breakdown and spiritual disarray. Writing these, Walker says, led me eventually into a larger understa......more
Willa Cather’s first published novel, set in Boston, London, and Paris, is the story of a man unable to resolve the cont......more
This first volume of poetry established Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of the poems in this coll......more
Isabella Valancy Crawford’s short stories represent the best of early English-Canadian prose. In her stories as in her p......more
These poems are about revolutionaries and lovers-about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion......more
"The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, a......more