Trethewey is the nation's first laureate to hail from the South since 1986, when Robert Penn Warren was named the first U.S. poet laureate by the Library of Congress. She is also Mississippi's top poet and will be the first person to serve simultaneously as poet laureate for a state and for the nation at large. Natasha's collection of poems
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swifts brilliant work of satire puts forth a simple solution for the crop failure and dearth of essential goods in 18th-century Ireland: the impoverished populace should sell their children as food to the wealthier classes. Far from legitimately... (read more)
Debbie Macomber
Chapter One Her first mistake was agreeing to attend this Christmas party. Her second was downing a glass of champagne and then, for courage, another. Her third error in judgment was remembering Michael. The only reason Linette Collins had agreed to come... (read more)
Anna Beguine
After five years as a Chosen, nothing touches Rosemary Ames. She's gotten used to being a ghost in the normal world, and if she can't quite let her Keeper fully into her mind, it doesn't matter. They have time, right? Wrong. Rose's Keeper, Michael, has... (read more)
Glenn Meade
A secret that must never be revealed. . . . An evil never meant to be repeated. . . . Seventy years ago, the greatest crime against humanity was committed. Today it’s only a heartbeat away from happening again. In Paraguay, an elderly businessman... (read more)
Junji Ito
With their town devastated by titanic hurricanes, the citizens of the spiral-haunted town of Kurôzu-cho--including Shuichi, Kirie and her family--find themselves cut off from the outside world. Reporters and rescue teams cross the mountain range... (read more)
Elmer Kelton
“The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.”—Elmer Kelton Rio Seco was too small to... (read more)
Sara Douglass
The first book in Douglass's bestselling fantasy series of the same name is now available at a special introductory price to coincide with the release of the new hardcover in the series, "Crusader," in August 2006. Reissue.... (read more)
Jeremy J. Smith
This book enables both students and more advanced scholars to develop a comprehensive understanding of Older Scots, the form of Scots which survives in records up to around 1700. It provides the means of understanding the language's essential... (read more)
Congratulations to Natasha Trethewey, our 19th U.S. poet laureate!
