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A Common Pornography: A memoir by Kevin Sampsell
Category: Biography | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
A Common Pornography explores the fragmented world of youthful memories in a style at once spare, haunting, and uncomfortably nostalgic. Kevin Sampsell's daring and creative style of memoir is peppered with insightful (perhaps distracting) footnotes by Mike Daily and ethereal photo-colleges by Melody Ow ...Show more
BEL CANTO by ANN PATCHETT
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band ...Show more
BLACK POWER by WRIGHT RICHARD A
Category: Culture | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Originally published in 1954, Richard Wrightâ²s Black Power is an extraordinary nonfiction work by one of Americaâ²s premier literary giants of the twentieth century. An impassioned chronicle of the authorâ²s trip to Africaâ²s Gold Coast before it became the free nation of Ghana, it speaks eloquentl ...Show more
Bad Kid - A Memoir by David Crabb
Category: Biography | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Filled with the music and popular culture of the late-eighties and early-nineties, this refreshingly honest and hilarious coming-of-age memoir from comedian, storyteller, and The Moth host David Crabb tells a universally resonant story about growing up gay and Goth in San Antonio, Texas. In the summer o ...Show more
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
In this ambitious book, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker--the child, the woman, the fated celebrity and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice startling, intimate, and rich, Norma Jeane tells her own story, that ...Show more
Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cecile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her father a handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eye for a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Par ...Show more
City of Refuge by Tom Piazza
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
In the heat of late summer, two New Orleans families--one black and one white--confront a storm that will change the course of their lives. SJ Williams, a carpenter and widower, lives and works in the Lower Ninth Ward community where he was born and raised. Across town, Craig Donaldson, a Midwestern tr ...Show more
Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age by Amanda MacKenzie Stuart
Category: Biography | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
When Consuelo Vanderbilt's grandfather died, he was the richest man in America. Her father soon started to spend the family fortune, enthusiastically supported by Consuelo's mother, Alva, who was determined to take the family to the top of New York society--forcing a heartbroken Consuelo into a marriage ...Show more
Coronado: Stories by Dennis Lehane
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
From Lehane, the award-winning author of "Mystic River" and "Shutter Island" comes a brilliant collection of five short stories and a play. At turns suspenseful, surreal, romantic, and tragically comic, these tales journey headlong into the myths about class, gender, freedom, and violence.
DEVIL SENT THE RAIN MUSIC AND WRITING IN by PIAZZA TOM
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Tom Piazza's sharp intelligence, insight, and passion fuel this new collection of writings on music, literature, New Orleans, and America itself in desperate times. For his first book since his award-winning novel City of Refuge and his stunning and influential post-Katrina polemic Why New Orleans Mat ...Show more
Dessa Rose: A Novel by Sherley A Williams
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Sherley A. Williams' highly acclaimed historical novel details two women's fierce strength of will and an unlikely bond despite racial barriers in the pre-civil war south"Having this treasure of a book available again for new and more readers is not only necessary, it is imperative."-Toni MorrisonIn 182 ...Show more
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
Category: History | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost h ...Show more