House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America's Urban NeighborhoodsNot long ago, neighborhoods such as the South Bronx, South Central Los Angeles, and Boston's Roxbury were crime ridden wastelands of vacant lots and burned out buildings, notorious symbols of urban decay. In House by House, Block by Block, Alexander von Hoffman tells the remarkable stories of how local activists and community groups helped turn these areas around. For sixty years, federal policy has attempted with little success to solve the problems

Polly Maggoo

He's finally figured out how to escape from his rabbit hutch in order to find more food

One of American’s most distinctive poets

In the not-so-distant future

New York: Doubleday & Co

Ananda Devi relates the tale of four young Mauritians trapped in their country's endless cycle of fear and violence: Eve

” ―Peter Cole

Daniel Johnston inspired musicians and listeners for decades

has hardly been read since first being published in 1969

Elizabeth Murray and Louise Fishman

Gabriela Cabezón Camara’s new novel finds glimmers of hope for the future in the brutal history of colonial Latin America

told in the unforgettable voice of 14-year-old Mattie Ross as she sets out to avenge her murdered father in a quest that brings her out of her native Arkansas and into the wilds of the Choctaw Nation of the 1870s