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Known By Heart: Collected StoriesAuthor: Ellen Prentiss CampbellPublisher: Apprentice HousePublication Date: May 01, 2020Number of Pages: 202 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Set in Paris shortly after World War II, L'Amerique recounts the fortitude of one Parisian family in a nation humiliated by defeat and torn by recriminations. It is above all the story of Jeanot, a...

Selected pieces of the student literary magazine, Forum, have been assembled into this compilation - timeless stories ranging from such topics as racism to multiculturalism; from living with AIDS to...

Lengthening God's Arm: A Jesuit's Life and ThoughtsAuthor: James L. Connor SjPublisher: Apprentice HousePublication Date: Jun 01, 2020Number of Pages: 216 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

"I want you to be fully present in your own life, a change agent who is not afraid to dare to be who you are. I wonder though, my dear sweet child, how I can mother you when I have not been able to...

Like the man himself, the columns in this book are often big-hearted, whimsical and self-deprecating. They're keenly-observed slices of everyday life-to my mind the very best gift a general columnist...

Set in the 1970s, the book centers on Charmaine "Maine" Upshaw who is about to graduate from junior high, after achieving valedictorian status. However, she is not able to read her grad speech to her...

Think of Lady Gaga; think of Cher. Now multiply their audacity by a thousand. In a sequence of poetic monologues, Mata Hari: Eye of the Day dramatically portrays the life and trials of Margaraetha...

Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka brings to life in English the magical realism in the poetry and prose of Poland's Lidia Kosk, entwining fairytale and real life, innocence of youth and instantaneous maturity,...

Miraculous MedalAuthor: Adrian KoestersPublisher: Apprentice HousePublication Date: May 01, 2020Number of Pages: 246 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1627202544ISBN-13: 9781627202541

It is 1919, and France is beginning its recuperation from the ravages of World War I. Henri Désiré Landru, seducer and murderer of war widows, has just been caught and is in prison, plotting his...

Author: Jessica O'DwyerPublisher: Apprentice HousePublication Date: Oct 01, 2020Number of Pages: 306 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 162720315XISBN-13: 9781627203159

The first book to analyze and celebrate Baltimore's underappreciated jazz tradition, Music at the Crossroads shines new light on legends such as Eubie Blake and Cab Calloway, honors neglected figures...

In My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I am Melting in Extinction, Ron Riekki presents a collection of non-fiction, short stories, and poetry about the Karelian- and Saami-American experience. In...

Katherine Cottle received her BA from Goucher College and her MFA from the University of Maryland at College Park. Her work has appeared in such literary journals as Eclipse, The Greensboro Review,...

Washington, D.C., 1985 - Peter, a gay dancer, dying of AIDS, thirsts for forgiveness for causing the death of a young man with whom he had sex. Martin, a straight college professor, grieves over the...

Shortly after graduating high school, Megan purposefully conceives a child in one of many failed attempts to secure the acceptance she desperately wants from anyone who would offer. She soon finds...

Author: Dorothy van SoestPublisher: Apprentice HousePublication Date: Dec 01, 2020Number of Pages: 292 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1627202927ISBN-13: 9781627202923

Old Too Fast, Smart Too Late Illustrates the life of an imprisoned person, in a country that imprisons more of its citizens than any other. This book reveals an uncomfortable truth -- that prisoners...

About the Book> One Nation Taken Out Of Another is a joyride through the Five Books of Moses on the back of a strange chimera - with an American head, a Yiddish heart, and all manner of...

Author: Nancy BurkePublisher: Apprentice HousePublication Date: Oct 01, 2020Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1627202897ISBN-13: 9781627202893

Thematically, these stories range widely, from adultery to first love, from the humorous to the nearly-tragic, and they include central characters of an equally wide spectrum: a child, a teenager, a...

The book is the culmination of work by Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake's Peace by Piece initiative. The contributors to this book are Jewish, Christian, and Muslim children aged 5 to 17 who...

Philosophy Sketches is a collection of published op-ed essays that provide philosophical perspectives on many local and current events. Some of the topics have received wide-spread attention--such as...

Philosophy Sketches is a collection of published op-ed essays that provide philosophical perspectives on many local and current events. Some of the topics have received wide-spread attention--such as...

More than 50 million children participate in some form of youth sport, but nearly 73% will drop out by the time they are thirteen years old. Playing Time is the first book about youth sports written...

Journalist Brian Wendell Morton has spent more than eight years documenting Washington, D.C.'s Oz-like world in weekly columns for Baltimore's City Paper titled, "Political Animal." Eric Engberg of...

"Seed Hope. Flower Peace." Decades after the end of the Vietnam War, and years since the start of the Iraq War, these words by Jesuit priest, poet, peace activist, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee...

For all Tom Marquardt knew, Ramon Escara was just an unhappy reader. What he didn't know was that Escara was about to become a mass murderer.Marquardt, the former editor of Capital Gazette newspapers...

For all Tom Marquardt knew, Ramon Escara was just an unhappy reader. What he didn't know was that Escara was about to become a mass murderer.Marquardt, the former editor of Capital Gazette newspapers...