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Hope and other dangerous pursuits

2006
Two men and two women are brought together as they risk their lives to travel across the Strait of Gibraltar in search of a new life in Spain.

The joy of keeping score

how scoring the game has influenced and enhanced the history of baseball
1997
A guide to keeping score at baseball games, discussing the history of scoring and presenting information on how and why to score, and the various scoring systems.

Candyfreak

a journey through the chocolate underbelly of America
2005
Examines the modern candy industry with both objectivity and humor, investigating the influence of corporate power on what sorts of chocolate bars survive and why many "quirky" ones perish.

Words fail me

what everyone who writes should know about writing
1999
Offers hundreds of sensible, useful tips designed to help people become better writers.

Her blue body everything we know

earthling poems, 1965-1990 complete
2003
A collection of Walker's new and unpublished poems with all her earlier poems, offering a historical perspective on the political and spiritual issues of the last three decades.

A Room of one's own

2005
Virginia Woolf's classic essay that explores the reasons why women do not have the same influence, power, and wealth as men do.

Meridian

2003
As the old rules of Southern society collapse, Meridian fights a lonely battle to reaffirm her own humanity and that of her people.

Abraham Lincoln

the prairie years and the war years
1982
A biography of Abraham Lincoln, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sandburg in 1925, covering the years Lincoln spent in the Midwest prior to being elected president.

All the king's men

2002
Willie Stark, a well-intentioned, idealistic, back-country lawyer is unable to resist greed for power and lust for politics during his rise and fall as an American demagogue.

Don Juan

comedy in five acts, 1665
2001
Translates Moliere's 1665 play, "Don Juan," about a seducer who follows beauty--usually in the form of a woman--wherever it takes him, while he fights the pull of Hell.

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