Congratulations to Natasha Trethewey, our 19th U.S. poet laureate!
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
Native Guard won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2007.
Soseki Natsume
Written over the course of 1904-6, Soseki's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the follies of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary... (read more)
Cambridge School Classics Project
The Cambridge Latin Course is a well-established introductory course developed by the Cambridge School Classics Project.... (read more)
Michael Martone
In this one volume, readers have access to the two decades of Hoosier mythology created by Michael Martone, one of Indiana's most recognized voices. This book collects work from Martone's first five books: Alive and Dead in Indiana, Safety Patrol, Fort... (read more)
Michael Dorris
An engaging and masterful collection of essays that vividly captures the author's diverse work as award-winning writer, activist, parent, scholar, professor, anthropologist, critic, and traveler.... (read more)
Hector Manuel Gutierrez
Te entrego, lector, lectora, mi primer libro. Y si te intrigara saber qui n soy antes de leerme, me permito la arrogancia de entreg rtelo como un esbozo personal de mi retrato.CUARENTENAS es un breve compendio de poes a y otras cosas, donde abro peque as... (read more)
Dick Couch
A major motion picture starring Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Alan Bates and Michael Byrne! Peace may finally be at hand in the Middle East—as Deputy Director of the CIA Jack Ryan lays the groundwork for a peace plan that... (read more)
Nora Roberts
Born in fire -- Born in ice -- Born in shame.... (read more)
Bob Fenster
From the genius of funnyman Bob Fenster, who brought you Duh!, They Did What!?, and Well, Duh!, comes another in real-life idiocy. The Duh Awards honors the intellectually challenged and utterly inept. From historical explorers to politicians to... (read more)
