Penn State Press interview with Margaret Morton, March 2004. Your books― The Tunnel ; Fragile Dwelling ; Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives ; and now Glass House ―always use a place in their titles and often present photographs of sites throughout New York City. Why these titles? Why so many ...

Coster Avenue, the smallest portion of the Gettysburg National Military Park, marks the site of some of the last fighting on July 1, 1863, the First Day of the great battle. There, in what was then a brickyard, Col. Charles Coster’s Union brigade made a forlorn and futile stand against the two Con...

The life and musical history of Indiana Avenue from 1915 to 2015 is presented for readers from young adults to adults. It shows the robust legacy of music including ragtime, blues, jazz, spiritual, bebop, doo wop, Motown, opera and hip hop. A diverse array of Indiana music legends are represented in...

Imagine if you could have the best debut poetry from the widest variety of up-and-coming poets in one, single place. A compilation of fresh faces from all walks of life, The Central Avenue Poetry Prize assembles a swathe of standout poetry and delivers it straight to your bookshelf.  A collabor...

FBI Special Agent Frank Jankowski and former street thief Ronnie Charles team up once again in New York City, this time to take down John Anthony, suspected money launderer for the Mataderos Cartel who is known for their own brand of evil. Embedded as his live-in butler at the penthouse, Ronnie must...

Imagine having access to the finest debut poetry from a diverse array of emerging poets, all conveniently compiled in a single volume. The second instalment of The Central Avenue Poetry Prize maintains the exceptional standard set by its inaugural edition. This second volume of The Central Aven...

Step into the unforgettable summer of 1972 through the eyes of 11-year-old Mikey, a spirited kid growing up on Elmwood Avenue in Niagara Falls, New York. With his grandparents living next door, a cast of colorful friends up and down the street, and freedom most kids today could only dream of, Mikey�...

THE BELOVED #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER— FROM THE AUTHOR OF HANG THE MOON The extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, “nothing short of spectacular” ( Entertainment Weekly ) memoir from one of the world’s most gifted storytellers. The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and ...

In the dazzling world of New York's elite, four women deftly juggle ambition, love, and the crushing weight of societal expectations.Gigi Moore masterfully curates charity events where the guest lists are as strategic as they are glamorous-all while unraveling the tangled web of her husband's hidden...

In this book and its companion volume, The Subordinate Substitute, Peter Carnley unpicks logical knots and entanglements of argument found today in contemporary expressions of belief in the "eternal functional submissiveness" of the Son to the Father. "Trinitarian subordinationism" and "complementar...

Join Chicago Public Library Foundation award winner Ursula Bielski on a journey along one of the world's most haunted roads! In this volume, native Chicago historian, folklorist and 35-year veteran paranormal researcher Ursula Bielski shares the word-of-mouth tales she first documented more than t...

Reissue of an acclaimed collection of images from photographer W. Eugene Smith’s time in a New York City loft among jazz musicians.   In 1957, Eugene Smith walked away from his longtime job at  Life  and the home he shared with his wife and four children to move into a dilapidated, five-stor...

“Ireland's play slyly makes the case that it is not discrimination that ensures survival . . . but rather the ability to be two opposing things at once: Irish and British, politician and terrorist, even comedy and tragedy. If tragicomedy is the natural Irish form, Ireland makes his own inversion h...

Gerry Adams has disguised himself as a newborn baby and successfully infiltrated my family home. Eric Miller is a Belfast Loyalist. He believes his five-week old granddaughter is Gerry Adams. His family keep telling him to stop living in the past and fighting old battles that nobody cares about any...

Conscious nightmares in regard to the chaotic spinning of our world beyond our capacity to control. A hint of the world to come. Exposing the soft flesh of inquiry. This often hidden representation of the size and shape of the damage done by this absurd intellectual dialogue. We these disillusioned ...

An ominous butterfly house. A sinister legacy. An untraceable killer. In 1921, Marian Arnold, the heiress to a brewing baron's empire, seeks solace in the glass butterfly house on her family's Wisconsin estate as Prohibition and the deaths of her parents cast a long shadow over her shrinking worl...

Sometimes even good people make bad decisions when it comes to affairs of the heart. Blair is an optimistic good girl, turned jaded wife. After ten years of a disappointing marriage, she decides to reclaim her happiness and fill the void left by her wealthy, philandering husband. Just when every...

Vuelve el autor de El tejido de los días con una historia basada en un acontecimiento trágicamente real: la fuga del penal de San Cristóbal «Carlos Aurensanz se nutre de ingredientes que emocionan, atrapan y seducen». - El Periódico de Aragón Carlos Aurensanz firma, con el rigor hist...

When midwife Sarah and detective Frank Malloy’s friend and new partner Gino Donatelli is accused of murder, he and Sarah must catch the real killer to keep him alive, in this enthralling, new novel in the USA Today bestselling Gaslight Mystery series. . . . A young woman is missing in the upp...

“A thrilling read . . . I could not have loved it more.”—LISA JEWELL “Emma Makepeace is a worthy heir to the James Bond mantle.”—JAMES PATTERSON In this “high-octane spy thriller in the Ian Fleming mold” ( CrimeReads ) , a British spy has twelve hours to deliver her asset across Lo...