Louisa Meets Bear - Lisa Gornick

Each of these exquisitely crafted stories is a stand-along gem; read together, characters interlock in ways that continuously surprise. Gornick infuses this narrative of love, loss, and yearning with a nuanced complexity that perhaps only a former psychotherapist could bring to her writing. The lifelong tension that binds Louisa and Bear, lovers who first meet in college but have chosen different paths resolves—or does not resolve at all—in such a quietly affecting manner that one may need a moment of quiet reflection—or a box of Kleenex—after turning the final page.

Louisa Meets Bear: Stories By Lisa Gornick Cover Image
$23.00
ISBN: 9781250094704
Availability: Not On Our Shelves—Ships in 1-5 Days
(This book cannot be returned.)
Published: Picador - July 12th, 2016

Fire Shut Up in My Bones - Charles M. Blow

The visual op-ed columnist for The New York Times since 2008, Charles M. Blow first made his name using charts as a form of opinion journalism. Since 2014 he has published more conventional-looking, if no less distinctive, columns. Now this astute commentator on public events tells his own story with Fire Shut Up in My Bones (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27). This wrenching yet ultimately luminous memoir takes its title from a Bible verse, which continues ...and I am weary of holding it in, and I cannot endure it; accordingly, this coming-of-age narrative, set in 1970s Gibsland, Louisiana, a small, segregated community, unfolds with a powerful urgency. Although reviews, as well as interviews with the author, have often focused on the sexual abuse Blow suffered as a young boy, and on the sometimes violent episodes of fraternity hazing he was subject to in college, the memoir is multi-textured, featuring vivid characters and lyrical small-town settings. The story of Blow’s mother’s reinvention and of his own remarkable career path are among the many reasons to read this inspiring book.

Fire Shut Up in My Bones By Charles M. Blow Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780544228047
Availability: Special Order—Subject to Availability
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - September 23rd, 2014

Fire Shut Up In My Bones By Charles M. Blow Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9780544570115
Availability: Not On Our Shelves—Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Harper Perennial - September 1st, 2015

The Country of the Pointed Firs - Sarah Orne Jewett

An unnamed narrator spends a summer in a small town on the rocky coast of Maine. The narrator is a writer who explores the natural landscape as well as the local inhabitants. While the plot, like the writer, meanders and The Country of Pointed Firs is full of moving writing and enduring New England characters.

The Country of the Pointed Firs (The Art of the Novella) By Sarah Orne Jewett Cover Image
$10.00
ISBN: 9781935554103
Availability: Special Order—Subject to Availability
Published: Melville House - August 31st, 2010

Pages