The Tall Boy

Biographies & Memoirs

Gregg, Jess

Regional U.S.

The Permanent Press

Discusses how to handle honesty, blame, rejection, sexual problems, aggression, parental relations, social problems, and mourning

The do-it-yourself psychotherapy book

Self-Help

Shepard, Martin

Happiness

From the war-torn Jordan Valley to our nation's capital, Exiles reaches into the life of one man and one woman to explore one of the longest-lasting and most painful situations in our time: the displacement of the Palestinians and the unceasing turmoil in the Middle East. This is a story about the search and battle for identity of a people who have paid the price of no peace in the land of the Bible, who are expected to pay a debt to the dead and disinherited, and who are fated to act out decisions made by others long ago. When Harry Mann arrives in Amman for a tour of diplomatic duty in 1969, he finds a nation heading for upheaval and he sets about to put it right. His Chicana wife, Mercedes, fresh out of an alcoholic treatment center, is discontent to play the empty and unfulfilling role of a Foreign Service Officer's wife. She is, in many ways, as displaced a person as are the Palestinian refugees who now life in Jordan. Nabil Dajani is one of those Palestinians who now serves as Minister of Public Works in King Hussein's cabinet. Like Mercedes, he is a man in great conflict: torn by the inner struggle between his liberal, internationalist outlook and the confines of traditional and provincial Islamic fundamentalism. Alienated from his wife, it is only a matter of time before he and Mercedes seek, in one another, some solace for their discontents. In its careful evocation, Exiles transports us to a land that resonates with ancient majesty and today's heartaches and joys. One rads not only to discover the fate of its characters, but also to gain a growing understanding of the complex changes occurring in the Islamic world.

Exiles

Literature & Fiction

M. Cruz

United States

Gulf Stream North

Captain Crother, the white owner of the fishing ship Moona Waa Togue, and his Black crew struggle to earn a living catching herring in the waters of the North Atlantic

Earl Conrad

The Wars of Love

Mark Schorer

Hermanos

The Spanish Civil War was the last in Europe to be fought for idealistic reasons. When it ended, idealism had been totally and tragically defeated. Hermanos! is about the men and women who came to Spain as volunteers from every corner of the world - Germany, Ireland, the USA and Britain - to join the International Brigades in what they saw as a crusade against fascism. It is about the cruel war they fought, and the terror and murderous fury of the battles in which most died. It is also about the politics of international socialism and of those who infiltrated into Spain and intrigued for power, and the weapons - distortion, secret police, terror, death - they used in a ruthless and cynical exploitation of idealism for their own ends. And it is about those who fought in the streets, crying, 'Unios! Hermanos proletarios!' William Herrick's Spanish Civil War is far different from Hemingway's. Equally tragic, equally conscious of the dignity and nobility of the men involved, nevertheless it reveals the harsh and painful reality of the workings of politics. It is also memorable for the passionate story of Jacob Starr and Sarah Ruskin, and for its battle-scenes in which Herrick manages to convey, in his sharp, idiosyncratic and sardonic style, the hope and optimism that turned to despair and inevitable defeat.

William Herrick

Professor Pirooz, a Iranian-American who is despairing of his life and the state of today’s world, flies from New York to Phoenix, wanders into the desert at night, and hopes to die. As he pours his heart out to nobody, two cactus plants engage him in conversation. They are the reincarnations of the great Persian poets Hafez and Rumi. 
They not only try to dissuade him from his plan, but urge him to return to New York, where they appear again to offer their support: Hafez as a 30-something taxi driver and Rumi in a variety of forms. Along the way we learn a great deal about both historical and contemporary Persia (Iran) and about love, as Hafez falls in love with a precocious 14-year-old he takes on as a fare. 
This playful and illuminating novel-in-verse not only brings these two great Persian poets to life, but also serves as a wonderful introduction to their work. Manoucher Parvin’s imaginative love story – part contemporary fairy-tale, part mythology – not only touches the heart, but critically reflects contemporary mores, morals, philosophy, and society.

Dardedel: Rumi, Hafez & Love in New York

Comics & Graphic Novels

Parvin, Manoucher

Graphic Novels

Dylan Klein, having come into some money during his last case, has given up his distinguished career as an insurance investigator to pursue his dream as a writer. But like stray light near a black hole, Klein is sucked into the vacuum of a deadly love triangle by the appearance of a mysterious woman and her subsequent execution.Klein, alarmed that his best friend - ex-New York City detective Johnny MacClough - might be involved, temporarily turns in his pen. With the questionable assistance of an alcoholic newspaper woman and a notorious criminal lawyer, Dylan Klein plunges headlong into the quicksand of organized crime and the powerful men behind it.Klein faces enormous problems in his quest, not the least of which is Johnny MacClough's stubborn refusal to cooperate. If anything, the ex-detective appears bound and determined to sabotage the efforts being made on his behalf. Further complicating Klein's travails is the potential fallout from a tragic love affair. Left unresolved and dormant for over two decades, it threatens to explode like some forgotten time bomb left ticking in the attic. Can Klein defuse the situation or will it blow up in his face?Little Easter is a novel about the falls we take and the ways in which we recover if we recover at all. Join Dylan Klein's forays into the clandestine worlds of the Mafia, New York's Diamond Exchange, and behind the police department's blue wall of silence. Meet the fallen and the tall.

Little Easter

Reed Farrel Coleman

This is a story about starting over, something many women have thought about but fewer attempt. After all, when you are living in a grand house in Santa Rosa, California, have two young daughters, many friends and all the accoutrements of wealth, how many people would throw all that away to escape from an abusive husband who will not grant you a divorce? And how do you explain this to your children, particularly when you have to go into hiding, are close to penniless, can afford nothing more expensive than quarters in the Oasis, a seedy motor court in a disreputable part of Tucson? And how does one deal with a child's anger over this fall from what she considered to be grace? It's a story told in the voices of five women: There is Leslie, starting over, and her daughters 11 year-old-Sam (Samantha) and her older sister Audrey; Dee, the 400 pound Jesus-loving manager of the Oasis; Eden, a topless dancer neighbor who befriends Leslie and her bi-racial daughter Chablee who tries to teach Audrey the ropes. All of these women do what they must to get by, all prove to be survivors, and each has a distinct voice. This unlikely cast of very real characters manages to form their own family unit and rise, supportively, from individual isolation after severing ties with their painful pasts, by putting one foot in front of the other as they rebuild their collective lives.

A Garden of Aloes

G. Davies Jandrey

When Doll, a British painter just out of art school at Slade, arrives in New Mexico in 1924, she is certain only of her faith in the man who invited her: social philosopher Abe Bronstone, who has left Britain to found a model society in Taos. Doll has renounced her own aristocratic roots to join the high desert household of Abe and his wife Vera (a scandalous German divorcÃ©e). Doll's narration of events moves backward to her childhood in Victorian London, and forward to her solitary life in 1963 Taos, solitary until she meets the much younger Akbar ("He doesn't know how much younger and I don't plan to tell him"). As the community around Abe which loosely incorporates East Coast heiress Janie; her Native American husband, Junior; local Indians from the reservation; and a war-traumatized Chicago poet and his wife unravels, Doll's affair with Akbar, the most fulfilling of her life, intensifies, but it puts her in small-town conflict with Akbar's mother, protective of her sweetly ne'er-do-well son. Inspired by events in the life of the British painter Dorothy Brett, who ventured to Taos with D.H. Lawrence and his wife in the years after World War I (and, unlike the Lawrences, stayed to brave it out), A Richer Dust finds in Doll's life the convulsive shift from the Victorian to the Modern, as aesthetics and sexuality found explosive new forms. It is the story of a woman who remains open to life despite discouragement and disappointments, and whose self-discovery of her art, her body, and her mind is as unceasing as it is unaffected. The Taos landscape, through Doll's eyes (and through the rest of her keen senses, except for her damaged hearing), is vivid and breathtaking, and serves as a magnificent canvas for sketching the arc of her life.

A Richer Dust

Amy Boaz

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