Jarhead

JarheadAnthony Swofford's grandfather fought in WWII; his father fought in Vietnam; and he a directionless, testosterone battered teenager became a scout sniper in the marines and fought in the Gulf War. His account of that time is also part of a lineage after Wilfred Owen, Norman Mailer, Michael Herr and Tim O'Brien, it brings the raw and searing tradition of soldiers' stories up to date. A harrowing yet inspiring portrait of a tormented consciousness

marbled throughout with astonishing imagery -- have the power both to devastate and to uplift

Octavian falls under Sophie's spell

Its vivid illustrations and simple example sentences help explain the meanings of over 900 of the words children encounter most often in their reading and in daily life

It was praised by the New York Times as "a powerful allegory of our civilization's many maladies

social climbers

chic wall art to playful sundresses

reproduces the genuine features of the hard countenance of the age' Nobel Prize Citation

from the Bedouins of southern Arabia to the nomadic Tsaatan of the Russian tundra

mobilizing them to walk by faith

Henry wants a dog more than anything in the world

the realities of women in midlife today are far different than what our mothers experienced

Ruby’s blood holds a secret