Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Ne=6660&N=7322+6669+3+5189 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1582368 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1307123 When it comes to sex, what do women want? In this eye-opening collection, Erica Jong reveals that every woman has her own answer. Susan Cheever talks about the excruciating hazards of casual sex, while Gail Collins recounts her Catholic upbringing in Cincinnati and the nuns who passionately forbade her from having carnal relations. Jennifer Weiner explores how, in love, the body can play just as big a role as the heart. The octogenarians in Karen Abbotts sharp-eyed piece possess a passion that could give Betty White a run for her money. Molly Jong-Fast reflects on her unconventional upbringing and why a whole generation of young women have rejected free love in favor of Bugaboo strollers and Mommy-and-me yoga. Sex, it turns out, can be as fleeting, heavy, mundane, and intense as the rest of life. Indeed, as Jong states in her powerful introduction: the truth is--sex is life.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1558341 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1154829 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1154833 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1129561 In celebration of the 50th anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird (June 8, 2010), an American classic that sells almost a million copies per year, Scout, Atticus, and Boo features interview selections with prominent figures including Oprah Winfrey, Tom Brokaw, Wally Lamb, and Anna Quindlen on how the book has impacted their lives-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1043292 A volume of seventeen essays explores various aspects of the authors life, including his childhood in colonial Nigeria, encounters with the African-American diaspora, his family life, and the symbolism of Barack Obamas election. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1008981 The best-selling author of Downtown Owl and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs takes a humorous look at expectations versus reality in pop culture, sports, and media, in a book that explores such questions as: Why is pop culture obsessed with time travel?; What do Kurt Cobain and David Koresh have in common?; and much more. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1059828 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=743801 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=632639 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=684373 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=611880 This anthology offers a rich and diverse selection of works from more than one hundred and forty prominent Arab writers of fiction. The collection reflects Arab writers formal inventiveness as well as their intense exploration of various dimensions of modern Arab life, including the impact of modernity, the rise of the oil economy, political authoritarianism, corruption, religion, poverty, and the Palestinian diaspora. Salma Khadra Jayyusi, a renowned scholar of Arabic literature, has included short stories and excerpts from novels from authors in every Arab country. Modern Arabic Fiction contains writings stretching from the pioneering work of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century authors to the novels of Naguib Mahfouz and the stories of contemporary Arab writers. In addition to familiar names such as Mahfouz, the anthology presents excerpts from writers well known in the Arab world but just beginning to find an audience in the West, including early-twentieth-century writer Jurji Zaydan, whose historical epics influenced the moral attitudes of several generations of Arab readers; Yusuf Idriss complex and brilliant portraits of Egypts poor; Abd al-Rahman Munifs searing exploration of the ecological and social impact of oil production; and Palestinian writer Ibrahim Nasrallahs bold postmodern examination of alienation in contemporary Arab life. Jayyusi provides biographical information on the writers as well as a substantial introduction to the development of modern Arabic fictional genres that considers the central thematic and aesthetic concerns of Arab short story writers and novelists.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=611103 My Dear Mr. Stalin is the first publication that contains the complete correspondence between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin. This collection of more than three hundred hot-war messages, never before fully available in any language, is an invaluable primary source for understanding the relationship that developed between these two great world leaders during a time of supreme world crisis. The correspondence, secret at the time, begins with a letter Roosevelt wrote to Stalin offering aid to the Soviet Union following Hitlers surprise attack in 1941. It ends with a message that was an attempt to minimize the differences between the two leaders, approved by Roosevelt only minutes before his death in 1945. The book traces the evolution of their unique relationship, revealing the statesmanship of the two men and their thinking about the grave events of their time. An informative introduction to the volume and generous annotations set the letters in context.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=512473 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=451958 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=479325 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=427837 FranzenUs The Corrections was the most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as The HarperUs Essay, FranzenUs controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel. This essay is reprinted for the first time here, along with his personal essays. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=400205 An elegantly designed book is lavishly filled with passionate, sexy, surprising, funny, and historically significant love letters, selected by one of Americas most prestigious autograph dealers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=399422 The editors introduce 19 of Chinas most enthralling writers, to date largely unknown outside their native land. From Shanghai to Beijing, readers meet people whose lives have been transformed by their countrys turbulent history. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=299906 In this collection of essays and articles written over the last fifteen years, Paul Theroux demonstrates how the traveling life and the writing life are intimately connected. Not simply an escape from the mundane, travel has always been a creative act for Theroux. His journeys in remote hinterlands and crowded foreign capitals provide the necessary perspective to become a stranger in order to discover the self. From the crisp quiet of a solitary week spent in the snowbound Maine woods, to the expectant chaos of Hong Kong on the eve of the Hand-over, to a small Pacific island where atomic bombs were detonated, Theroux is the perfect guide - casually informative, keenly observant, wry, and entertaining.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=245474 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=250213 Culled from love letters, poetry, fiction, personal essays, and memories, this anthology celebrates humankinds grandest pastime and obsession: love. Here is a panorama of fine writing about loves many moods and majesties, from all the veils of flirtation, seduction, and marriage to the tempests of suspicions, jealousy, and heartache. Here is a treasury of more than two hundred selections - from Andrew Marvells To His Coy Mistress to Elizabeth Barrett Brownings How Do I Love Thee? to poems by John Ashbery, Louise Gluck, and Jorie Graham. There are excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, Madame Bovary, The Odyssey, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and Ironweed, as well as letters from Baudelaire to Sabatier, George Eliot to Herbert Spencer, and Henry Miller to Anais Nin. A delightful mix of the contemporary and the classic.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=93475 When he died in 1910, Mark Twain left behind more than a legacy of timeless novels and essays. He also bequeathed a wealth of useful - and funny - opinions on style, literary habits, and the writers role in society. Nearly a century later, Twains thoughts still provide information and inspiration for the novelist, essayist, public speaker, or armchair aficionado of the English language. Compiled by veteran Twain enthusiast Mark Dawidziak, Mark My Words offers tips from Twain as true today as when he wrote them. Here youll find the famous essay Fenimore Coopers Literary Offenses, as delightfully malicious as it is instructive, as well as tips for the perfect speech (you must take at least three weeks to write an impromptu speech), the perfect book for children (it must interest not only boys but any man who has ever been a boy) - even the perfect editor (its best to edit while awake).--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=138418 Barbara Kingsolver has entertained and touched the lives of legions of readers with her critically acclaimed and bestselling novels The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, and Pigs in Heaven. In these twenty-five newly conceived essays, she returns once again to her favored literary terrain to explore the themes of family, community, and the natural world. With the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Barbara Kingsolver writes about notions as diverse as modern motherhood, the history of private property, and the suspended citizenship of humans in the animal kingdom. Kingsolvers canny pursuit of meaning from an inscrutable world compels us to find instructions for life in surprising places: a museum of atomic bomb relics, a West African voodoo love charm, an iconographic family of paper dolls, the ethics of a wild pig who persistently invades a garden, a battle of wills with a two-year-old, or a troop of oysters who observe high tide in the middle of Illinois.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=57563 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=144851 According to Cherokee legend, Grandmother Spider brought the light of intelligence to the people. For the first time, Spider Womans Granddaughters brings to light the original American. It is a unique addition to feminist literatire--and a treasure trove for the ever-increasing audience for Native American works. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=7146 Highlighting the legendary civil rights leaders speeches, sermons, and writings, here are 120 quotations, complemented by 16 striking historical photographs, focusing on seven areas of concern the community of man, racism, civil rights, justice and freedom, faith and religion, nonviolence, and peace. Also included is a detailed chronology- of Dr. Kings life and an impressive introduction from Mrs. King on her husbands life and legacy.