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"Laux writes gritty, tough, lyrical poems that depict the actual nature of life in the West today."—Philip Levine.

On January 21, 1998, the night before his thirty-eighth birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley N.

This absurdist masterpiece by the author of Rhinoceros—"is explosively, liberatingly funny...a loony parody with a climax which is an orgy of non-sequiturs" (The Observer).

A masterpiece of twentieth-century drama by the iconic author of Our Lady of the Flowers: “ingenious, intellectually exciting, and, yes, still quite shocking” (The New York Times).—In the midst of

This is Thomas King's first literary novel in 15 years and follows on the success of the award-winning and bestselling The Inconvenient Indian and his beloved Green Grass, Running Water and Tr

"Kevin Young has thoughtfully gathered many of these sorrowful perambulations and grievous plummets." -- Billy Collins.

"Jane Kenyon had a virtually faultless ear. She was an exquisite master of the art of poetry." —Wendell Berry.

From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes The Angel’s Game — a dazzling new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession

The Agamemnon of Aeschylus is the first play in The Trilogy of the Oresteia – which deals with the eternal problem of the evil act causing vengeance which wreaks more evil which must be avenged.

Though today he is best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan, British author J.M. Barrie was a playwright with wide-ranging interests and an irreverent sense of humor.

One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize–winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's modern classic about the p

A startlingly original novel from the New York Times bestselling author hailed by Financial Times as “one of the wildest and most entertaining novelists in the world.” “[Tom] Robbins’s comic philos

The New York Times Bestseller by the author of A Man Called Intrepid.

Pulitzer Prize Winner – From one of today's best poets – a stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new free

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), English poet and wife of the poet Robert Browning, is perhaps best known for her remarkable series of 44 love poems Sonnets from the Portuguese.