Manual For Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

Manual For Cleaning Women: Selected StoriesA Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the Laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers and bad

" as he illuminates the well-known features of Greek culture--from epic and lyric poetry to warfare

Sarah Schmidt recasts one of the most fascinating murder cases of all time into an intimate story of a volatile household and a family devoid of love

When cell phones are banned at Branton Middle School

This book tells the story of this historic and momentous expedition

Lula Mae wants a puppy

was listed on several best books of the year lists

one that will change everything he ever thought he knew about himself and those closest to him

How long can they keep you in the dark

For more than 10 years--most recently as the newest trainer on the hit television show The Biggest Loser and now inspiring its huge online community--fitness expert Jessie Pavelka gets results by keeping it simple

jumping and climbing with the discipline of the martial artist

Máni Steinn is queer in a society in which the idea of homosexuality is beyond the furthest extreme

Hongci broke out of a prison near the Burmese border