Provides a poignant portrait of a small Massachusettes community theater in its seventy-fifth year of operation, as it becomes embroiled in disputes over proposed structural changes and its auditions for it most controversial play to date, M. Butterfly. Reprint.

The Stuff of Dreams: Behind the Scenes of an American Community Theater

Cohen, Leah Hager

Humor & Entertainment

Penguin Group USA

Heart, You Bully, You Punk

Tutoring her star math student at home after the girl is injured, Brooklyn high school teacher Esker reluctantly falls in love with the student's father, despite a conviction that she is destined to remain a lonely spinster. Reprint.

Literature & Fiction

United States

Heat Lightning

The chronicles of a summer in the lives of two sisters who had lost their parents in a boating accident as babies reveals how they trace the unraveling of the mythology that the two girls have created to explain their parents' death

Avon/Books

Once upon a time, we knew the origins of things: what piece of earth the potato on our dinner plate came from, which well our water was dipped from, who cobbled our shoes, and whose cow provided the leather. In many parts of the world, that information is still readily available. But in our society, even as technology makes certain kinds of information more accessible than ever, other connections are irrevocably lost. In Glass, Paper, Beans, Leah Cohen traces three simple commodities on their geographic and semantic journey from her rickety table in the Someday CafÚ to their various points of origin. And through the intimate portraits of three everyday workers--Ruth Lamp, a night-shift supervisor at the Anchor Hocking glass factory in Ohio; Brent Boyd, a third-generation lumberjack from Plumweseep, Canada; and Basilio Salinas, a man who tends the coffee trees at Pluma Hidalgo, Mexico--a whole new world of connections and values are realized as Cohen, Oz-like, draws the reader across time and continents. In prose both sophisticated and stunningly simple, Leah Cohen braids the lives of these three unforgettable workers as she traces the origins, myths, and manufacture of glass, paper, and the beloved coffee bean. An elegant and inspired inquiry into the true nature of things, Glass, Paper, Beans is a classic work on the economy of everyday life. Leah Hager Cohen is the author of Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World, chosen by the American Library Association as one of the best books of 1994. She lives outside of Boston with her husband and son.

Glass, Paper, Beans

Business & Money

Doubleday Business

Late in her twentieth year, Beatrice mails a letter on the sly, sparking events that will change her life forever. The addressee is her grandmother, a legendary stage actress long estranged from her daughter, Bea's mother. Though Bea wants to become an actress herself, it is the desire to understand the old family rift that drives her to work her way into her grandmother's graces. But just as she establishes a precarious foothold in her grandmother's world, Bea's elite Boston home life begins to crumble. Her beloved father is accused of sexual harassment by one of his graduate students; her usually serene, self-certain mother shows signs of fallibility. And Bea is falling in love with someone many would consider inappropriate. Powerfully written and psychologically complex, House Lights illuminates the corrosive power of family secrets, and the redemptive struggle to find truth, forgiveness, and love.

House Lights: A Novel

W.W.Norton&Company

“Tantalizing ... captivating ... provocative.”―Booklist Late in her twentieth year, Beatrice, who dreams of a life on the stage, is confronting a home life torn asunder. She mails a letter on the sly to her grandmother, a legendary actress long estranged from the family, sparking events that will change her life forever. Powerfully written and psychologically intricate, House Lights illuminates the corrosive power of family secrets and the redemptive struggle to find truth, forgiveness, and love.

Portrays the extraordinary teachers, students, and administrators of the Lexington School for the Deaf, who belong to a unique culture and who struggle to make communication possible and accessible. 25,000 first printing.

Train Go Sorry : Inside A Deaf World

Biographies & Memoirs

Regional U.S.

Houghton/Mifflin

A high school girl, her father, and her math teacher. In Heart, You Bully, You Punk, Leah Hager Cohen uses this unlikely triangle to chart the complexities of the human heart. Esker (she prefers to go solely by her last name) is a thirty-one-year-old high school teacher at the Prospect School in Brooklyn who, after various heartbreaks and disappointments, has found a quiet resolve in her lonely spinster routine. But when a mysterious fall leaves her star math student injured and housebound until exams, Esker begins tutoring the precocious teenager at home. And soon, much against her will, she begins falling edgily, haltingly in love with the girl's father. Charged with Esker's own irreverence and wit, Heart, You Bully, You Punk sweeps us irresistibly into her profound and wistful struggle to unite the rest of her self with her unruly heart.

Viking Adult

Provides a poignant portrait of a small Massachusettes community theater in its seventy-fifth year of operation, as it becomes embroiled in disputes over proposed structural changes and its auditions for it most controversial play to date, M. Butterfly. 12,500 first printing.

VIKING

This portrait of New York's Lexington School for the Deaf is not just a work of journalism. It is also a memoir, since Leah Hager Cohen grew up on the school's campus and her father is its superintendent. As a hearing person raised among the deaf, Cohen appreciates both the intimate textures of that silent world and the gulf that separates it from our own.

TRAIN GO SORRY: Inside a Deaf World

Vintage

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The Stuff of Dreams: Behind the Scenes of an American Community Theater

Heart, You Bully, You Punk

Heat Lightning

Glass, Paper, Beans

House Lights: A Novel

House Lights: A Novel

Train Go Sorry : Inside A Deaf World

Heart, You Bully, You Punk

The Stuff of Dreams: Behind the Scenes of an American Community Theater

TRAIN GO SORRY: Inside a Deaf World