The acclaimed, 1979 bestseller is back for a new generation... revealing with humor, heart, and piercing insight what dating, career, and motherhood was like then for working, divorced women...and how, in some startling ways, things haven't changed in forty years.This warm, funny and truthful book is one to reach for in the middle of the night when he knows and she knows the relationship isn't working. Anyone who has ever had to pick up the pieces after it's over and begin again will love this breezy, witty, and yet serious guide to surviving the ups and downs of coupling and uncoupling. This edition includes a new introduction by Marcy Bachmann.PRAISE FOR THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IS CRACKING UP:"Marcy Bachmann & Jan Curran have written a brave and funny book -- joyous reading, not just for single parents but for all of us who at times feel like the world is going to hell in a wicker basket. The Statue of Liberty is Cracking Up never falls into sentiment for sentiment's sake and the humor is real, the kind all of us can identify with." Rod McKuen"It's a sensible, cheerful work about divorce, children, money, sex and how to smile through the agony. The tone is rueful, sentimental, and as down to earth as a family court hearing. Wise, funny and marvelously to-the-point." Los Angeles Times"With warmth, humor, and a great spirit of adventure, this book offers more insight into modern life than any I have read in recent years. Full of wit and wisdom, it speaks to anyone who is, or ever has been, married." Pat Loud, author of Pat Loud: A Woman's Story and one of the subjects of the groundbreaking documentary An American Family"Even if your marraige is safe, Bachmann and Curran will give you plenty of laughs." Newhouse Newspapers"What helps most when a love affair ends? High on the list must be 1) a sense of humor and 2) understanding friends. Authors Bachmann and Curran provide both. A must for lonely nights." Curt Gentry, author of Helter Skelter

The Statue of Liberty is Cracking Up: A Guide to Loving, Leaving and Living Again

Self-Help

Bachmann, Marcy

Curran, Jan

Relationships

Cutting Edge Books

An epic new western in the grand tradition of True Grit and Lonesome DoveOut of nowhere Comanches attack-and sixteen year-old Jane narrowly survives the slaughter of her family and the kidnapping of her baby sister. Driven by grief and fury, she rides headlong into Indian territory, seeking vengeance. But the odds are stacked against a young girl on the trail, and Jane soon realizes she must disguise herself as a boy to join forces with a tough company of cowhands on a cattle drive to Dodge City. The harrowing trek pits her against tough drovers, raging rivers, ruthless soldiers, and ends in a bloody reckoning that forces Jane to discover her surprising capacity for love, survival-and revenge.

The Comanche Kid

Literature & Fiction

Daniels, James Robert

Genre Fiction

A bold, stunning, and critically-acclaimed novel of struggle, injustice, violence and lust, now rediscovered and back in print for the first time in over sixty years."The story is intense, dramatic and powerfully built. Stewart has drawn characters convincingly and well. He demonstrates the consequences of harsh, unthinking actions on an inherently good man." Washington PostJohn Dietche was unjustly imprisoned for a theft he didn't commit. He breaks parole and returns to the upstate New York country where his family once lived...and where his wife, pregnant when he was imprisoned, died in child-birth, his estranged daughter raised by others. It's also where, during WWI, his German-born father was falsely accused of being a spy, leading to a bloody melee by torch-bearing vigilantes that blinded John, then a child, in one eye.Now John is hired. simply for room and board, by an unhappily married couple to work their bleak, struggling farm. He soon begins a heated affair with the sex-starved wife, who threatens to turn him into the law, and send him back to prison, if he doesn't cater to her every whim, physical and otherwise. So he does, suffering a different kind of imprisonment, one every bit as soul crushing as what he escaped. Their strange affair soon escalates into searing violence....and into his tragic history repeating itself."A strange, moody, intense novel. Stewart has a strong and vigorous style, an impressionistic technique, telling his story in swift and vivid scenes. A work of real originality and a high degree of technical skill." The Record (Hackensack, New Jersey)"A very intense and moving book...there are often remarkable insights into the human personality. Stewart has a delicate sense of words and can combine them powerfully." Lexington Herald-Leader"A first novel dealing with hatred and primitive urges. It's intensity, sympathy and vigor make it not only promising, but striking." New York Post"A deeply felt and well-expressed novel." New York Herald TribuneA previously paperback edition, released in 1959, was published under the alternate title Strange Bondage.

CROW

Stewart, Donald

Literary

The Mistress of Orion Hall

Romance

Nicole, Claudette

Historical

Canyon Killers

Scott, Bradford

Go back in time to the 1980s, and visit the sets of movies like Back to the Future, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and A View To a Kill, where young journalist Lee Goldberg, years before he was a #1 New York Times bestselling author (Lost Hills, True Fiction, etc) and TV writer/producer (Monk, Diagnosis Murder, SeaQuest, etc), interviewed Michael J. Fox, William Friedkin, Wes Craven, Chevy Chase, Robert Zemeckis, Roger Moore, and many others actors, directors, producers and screenwriters.These informative, fascinating, and trivia-packed interviews offer a revealing look at film-making in the 1980s, while also exploring the long careers of established talents like Kurt Russell and director Fred Schepsi at the top of their game...and introducing newcomers like Johnny Depp and director W.D. Richter, some of whom went on to greatness, and others who disappeared into obscurity.Lee Goldberg put himself through college by writing freelance articles, primarily about movies, TV and publishing, for publications like Starlog, American Film, Cinefantastique, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He didn't do it just to pay his tuition and support himself... he also saw it as a way to get a graduate school education in all aspects of the entertainment industry...learning lessons he's still benefitting from today.

The Joy of Sets: Interviews on the Sets of 1980s Genre Movies

Humor & Entertainment

Goldberg, Lee

Movies

A Matter of Adultery

Lee, Don

The Comanche Kid rides again in James Robert Daniels’ sprawling, ambitious sequel to his wildly acclaimed and beloved debut, a Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist for Best Western Novel.\nIt’s been years since the brutal ordeal that earned teenage Jane Fury the nickname The Comanche Kid. Her violent, tragic past is a secret now, one she’s tried to forget herself. But then a simple, chance encounter in a small, Texas town brings it all back in ways she never expected. To save everything and everyone she holds dear, Jane straps on her guns again and rides into Mexico with an inexperienced posse, a handful of Texas Rangers and her head-strong, 15 year-old daughter. It’s an epic journey that will push Jane to the limits of her endurance, her brutality and her compassion…and force her to discover who she really is.\n"Jane Fury is a gal to ride the long trails with, flipping pages till deep in the night. It was amazing. Classic western storytelling in such a free and easy style. It really brings the Southwestern and Mexican culture to life. Another blazing winner from the gifted newcomer, James Robert Daniels!" Peter Brandvold, multiple Spur Award-winning author of the Bloody Joe Mannion series\n"Jane Furyis well-written and filled with fascinating, colorful, well-developed characters. We really get to know the people in this classic Western tale, and their lives are important to us. It manages to be funny and heartbreaking at the same time, and the action scenes are superbly done and very effective. This is certainly one of the best books I’ve read in recent years. -- James Reasoner, New York Times bestselling author of the Outlaw Ranger series

Jane Fury (The Comanche Kid)

A Gothic Horror Classic is Back!Pirie DuChamps fears for her own life, but she can't leave Moonwater, their ancestral home, because of her sister Peely's grave illness...one that causes Peely to see horrific, ghostly reflections of herself and terrifying visions of the future. Most disturbing of all, Peely can see Pirie being brutally murdered. Their housekeeper Valonia believes the visions are real, that Peely is seeing her own "astral double," and won't let anyone but an old bayou doctor of folk medicine treat her. But Pirie wants to get her sister to a real doctor....before someone kills them both.

Moonwater

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