Lovesick Budge Moss, middle-aged author on the skids, sails his boat one way to Rock Hall on Chesapeake Bay, with only his cat for company—and then he sells the boat. His wife has left him, his home and possessions are gone, but he’s determined to reestablish his bearings and write a thinly disguised tale about this lonely passage in his life*.*

Love-battered Budge Moss, the once-prominent author now largely forgotten by the reading public, emerges from his crisis of separation and pending divorce under the protective wing of Matty Klein, an elderly widow in whose home—and heart—he now resides.

Svenson documents the dynamic of a village's growth as it coincided with the American experience.In format, the book is similar to "Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground" (by the same author), which was a 1993 National Book Award Finalist and bestseller.The book begins with a consideration of the Iroquois who, after the Revolutionary War, were gradually relegated to marginal status. Canal Commissioner DeWitt Clinton made a fact-finding journey across New York State ...

In Starter Home: Discovering the Past in Central New York, bestselling author Peter Svenson invites readers on a captivating exploration of Fayetteville, NY. This compelling narrative captures the essence of a village that has transformed from a modest 18th-century settlement to a thriving industrial community in the 19th century. With his trademark energy and enthusiasm, Svenson intertwines historical facts with personal anecdotes, painting a vivid picture of the area's evolution...

Although she was one of the leading thinkers and writers of the women’s suffrage movement, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898) was largely written out of history. After working in collaboration with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and after serving as president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, Gage developed increasingly radical views on feminism, religious liberty, and equality under the law. She eventually parted ways with the suffrage movement and founded the more pr...

This "brutal and unflinching" novel of fleeting love in Sin City inspired the film starring Nicholas Cage and Elizabeth Shue (Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City).John O'Brien's debut novel, Leaving Las Vegas, is an emotionally wrenching story of a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it; a powerful tale of hard luck, hard drinking, and a relationship of tenderness and destruction.An avowed alcoholic, Ben drinks away ...

The classic erotic memoir of an intense and haunting relationship that spawned the film.This is a love story so unusual, so passionate, and so extreme in its psychology and sexuality that it takes the reader's breath away. Unlike The Story of O, Nine and a Half Weeks is not a novel or fantasy; it is a true account of an episode in the life of a real woman.Elizabeth McNeill was an executive for a large corporation when she began an affair with a man she met casually...

For the longest time, based on no evidence other than our own insecurity and sense of incompetence, my wife and I were convinced that we were the flat-out, no-question-about-it, least-skilled parents in the country. Furthermore, we were convinced that every other set of parents we knew was perfect. They were more thorough in going over their kids' homework, they set better boundaries than we do, didn't let their kids watch as many hours of TV as we do, raised kids who are unfailingly p...

A "harrowing and hallucinogenic" collection of poems from author of the New York Times–bestselling National Book Award-finalist Citizen: An American Lyric ( Library Journal).Claudia Rankine's book-length poem about rising racial tensions in America, Citizen: An American Lyric, won numerous prizes, including the The National Book Critic's Circle Award. Her new collection of poems—intrepid, obsessive, and erotic—tell the story of a...

A new collection of short fiction by the author of the cult classic Pieces for the Left HandLet Me Think is a meticulous selection of short stories by one of the preeminent chroniclers of the American absurd. Through J. Robert Lennon’s mordant yet sympathetic eye, the quotidian realities of marriage, family, and work are rendered powerfully strange in this rich and innovative collection.These stories, most no more than a few pages, are at ...

Dear Universe ... can you hear me?If Pierra Calasanz-Labrador’s debut poetry collection The Heartbreak Diaries was equivalent to an “ugly cry,” this second volume is an introspective journey, a quiet voice longing to be heard. Like stumbling upon an introvert's secret diary, these fifty poems chronicle fervent wishes, hidden fears, and everyday acts of bravery that may sound uncannily familiar.Whether you are searching for a soul mate, battling self-doubt,...

Ever wonder what's beyond the smile of the person who hands you a half-full bag of stale pretzels? Well, sit back, relax and find out when a working stiff takes you on a pleasure trip packed full of playful and reflective insights into the various people he stumbles upon...and serves up plenty of revelations about himself along the way! Leave your baggage behind and get swept away as you spend 'A Day in the Mind of a Flight Attendant.'