The author describes his experiences growing up in Nazi Germany and recounts how his parents sent him to safety in the Netherlands

When Time Ran Out

Zeller, Frederic

Biographies & Memoirs

Permanent Press

From: Alashka: The Ground of Our Great Admiration of Nature

Literature & Fiction

Nathaniel Tarn

Janet Rodney

Poetry

New Voice of Old-Five Centuries of Puerto Rican History

Acosta, Ursula

"Mother Who Lost Son Seeks Son Who Has Lost Mother," read the advertisement in The Village Voice.Those who replied, the curious, the disturbed, the opportunistic were writing to Mrs. Harrington-Smith Evans, one of the ten wealthiest women in the world whose only child, a teenage boy, had died a mysterious death.Pretentious, theatrical, wantonly self-dramatized, increasingly deranged in her grief, Mrs. Evans indulges in all the extravagant expressions of bereavement that money can buy: a seamless glass coffin; an embalming secret the pharaohs of ancient Egypt must have dreamed of; and a tomb so costly and exquisite, Shan Jahan's ghost surely groaned in its envy.Finally, the ad: in retrospect so silly and embarrassing she needn't kill herself to die. But if she found him, a surrogate son might ease her grief, forestall her encroaching madness.From the many respondents, her choice narrows down to three: Angel, an illiterate boy from New York's Spanish ghetto; Martin, a handsome, fatally ambitious young actor; and disarming Bruno, barely eighteen, an aspiring novelist who writes her perfumed letters in an absurd 19th century prose.The Rivalries, the passions, the bizarre events that follow this strange entourage include murder, suicide, and a "haunting" like no other in this world or the next.As he did in Lovers Living Lovers Dead, the author, tongue-in-cheek, mixes "comedy and ancient terror" in a lyrically layered style that critics call "a frightening lightness of tone...as eerie as the plot itself." But Bereavements also has its serious side. As its final pages chill us with the supernatural-as-metaphor, it is clear we are nearing the end of an extraordinary love story: one not eros but agapeone that distinguishes movingly between a love that is love, and a love that is Love.

Bereavements

Richard Lortz

Jason Kole, an orthodox Jewish student living in Brooklyn in 1969, comes to terms with his heritage

Damaged Goods

Lortz, Richard

Friedmann, Thomas

Children's Books

The story of Sands, who was elected a member of Parliament while imprisoned by the British government and died after a sixty-six day hunger strike, describes the background of the crisis in Northern Ireland

Bobby Sands and the Tragedy of Northern Ireland

John Feehan

Historical

Set in England, Boston, and the Caribbean, this Pinteresque, artfully crafted story describes a relationship between Justine, a young dancer, and Roy, her philosophy teacher at Oxford. It is a story of love and sex, pain and intellect, and ultimate redemption. The story is narrated bu Justine, who chronicles her own awakening from disciple to equal, from blind yet innocent masochism to full personhood, from student/lover/wife to emancipation from Roy a tormented, though brilliant man, obsessed with the question of free will and his own intense, yet twisted sexuality.Ultimately, this first novel describes a spiritual journey which leads Justine and Roy beyond pleasure, beyond renunciation, to a transcendent knowledge of the deepest meanings of love and loyalty.

Give My Heart Ease

Grace Andreacchi

United States

It's a hot summer night in a small town in North Carolina. A pretty girl named Anna Shockley has arrived in the emergency room after a drug overdose.And so, David Livingston, emergency room orderly, fledgling artist, and incorrigible romantic, meets the obsession of a lifetime.When he moves into the communal house where Anna lives, David soon discovers that Anna Shockley is dangerous to herself and others--and that there are those around her, drawn by the "doomed shout" of her beauty, who are far more dangerous.Winner of a New American Writing Awards, Maybe I'll Call Anna is a novel of obsession and suspense in which madness, betrayal, and the machinations of a cunning, powerful murderer keep the reader turning pages as a compelling story of love and revenge unfolds.

Maybe I'll Call Anna

William Browning Spencer

Romance

Studied Madness

The author recounts his career in the theater and offers his observations on acting, television, motion pictures, and human nature

Heywood Hale Brown

Transvaal Episode

Set in the fictional town of Nelstoom, in the Transvaal, during the Apartheid era in South Africa, this powerful novel concerns itself with relations between the Africans who live in the town's "Location" and their white neighbors.One day Walter Mabasso comes to live in the Location, and his arrival causes new currents, new tensions, and new emotions to stir in the shabby streets and houses.The Location superintendent, Hendrik du Toit, is a serious and hardworking civil servant who not only tries to please his employers, the Town Council, but the Location people as well. He would have been amazed to know that his honest, earnest and elevated motives make him seem a tyrant to the natives.These two men - Mabasso as Du Toit - also come to symbolize and bear responsibility for what follows, when a tiny incident in the life of the Location grows into a conflagration that engulfs the entire town and all of its inhabitants.

Harry Bloom

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