A blue straggler is a star that appears to be disconnected from those stars surrounding it in its globular cluster and has an anomalous blue color and high luminosity relative to those stars that surround it.But this is not a story about ...

The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

The author recounts his youth in the Big Thicket region of eastern Texas during the 1940s and 1950s, and describes the distinctive way of life in the area and some of the people that lived there.

In Elegy for Iris, Bayley attempts to uncover the real Iris, whose mysterious world took on darker shades as she descended into Alzheimer's disease.

NOW A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER A love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney paints a portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a changing America: from the Jazz Age to ...

Drawing on both extensive demographic data and compelling case studies, this powerful book reveals the depths of the educational crisis looming for Latino students, the nation’s largest and most rapidly growing minority group.Richly ...

A collection of short stories examining the lives of suburbanites seeking solace and gratification in food, sex, work, and love.

Relationships and extreme adventures collide with deadpan humor and female wisdom in Pam Houston's transcendent follow-up to her bestselling Cowboys Are My Weakness.

... Kathleen Bailey , email message to author , June 30 , 2020 ; author interview with CIA officer stationed in New Delhi at time of AIDS disinformation , February 12 , 2019. Fletcher Schoen and Christopher J. Lamb , “ Deception ...

... Bailey and Roberta Glenn Bailey , A History of the Navajos : The Reservation ... in author's possession . 5. M - Z Employee Cards 1930-1942 , from ... Kathy M'Closkey , Swept under the Rug : A Hidden His- tory of Navajo Weaving ...