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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
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
Dessa Rose: A Novel by Sherley A Williams
Category: Accessories | 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
Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Rebecca is young, lost, and beautiful. A gifted artist, she seeks solace and inspiration in the Mediterranean heat of Athens--trying to understand who she is and how she can love without fear. George has come to Athens to learn ancient languages after growing up in New England boarding schools and Ivy ...Show more
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. : Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson
Category: Performing Arts | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
The Sleeper Hit of the Summer... Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audrey -- dainty, immaculate -- is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. The first complet ...Show more
Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon by Pablo Neruda
Category: Gift | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Mitchell, widely known for his original and definitive translations of spiritual writings and poetry, has taken the work of Neruda (1904-1973), whose poems are passionate, humorous and exceptionally accessible, and brought them to life for a whole new generation of readers. Mitchell has selected nearly ...Show more
GENTELMEN AND PLAYERS by HARRIS JOANNE
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a fixture there for more than thirty years. This year, however, the wind of unwelcome change is blowing, and Straitley ...Show more
I'll Fly Away : Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison by Wally Lamb
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
In 2003 Wally Lamb--the author of two of the most beloved novels of our time, "She's Come Undone" and "I Know This Much Is True"--published "Couldn't Keep It to Myself," a collection of essays by the students in his writing workshop at the maximum-security York Correctional Institution, Connecticut's on ...Show more
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son by Michael Chabon
Category: Biography | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
A Best Book Of The Year "Time - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Kansas City Star San Francisco Chronicle - NPR - Seattle Times" A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, "Manhood for Amateurs" is the first sustained work of personal writing f ...Show more
Mind of the Raven by Bernd Heinrich
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close, Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a "raven father," as well as observing them in their natural habitat. He studies their daily routines, and in the process, paints a ...Show more