31 lyric poems with the single theme of homesickness.

"Giorgio Bassani's six classic books, collected for the first time in English as the epic masterwork they were intended to be. Among the masters of twentieth-century literature, Giorgio Bassani and his Northern Italian hometown of Ferrara "are as inseparable as James Joyce and Dublin or Italo Svevo and Trieste" (from the Introduction). Now published in English for the first time as the unified masterwork Bassani intended, The Novel of Ferrara brings...

Eleven-year-old Billy Beck is playing a fantasy game in Ravenna Park when a real-life tragedy infects him with a supernatural evil out of Seattle's ugly past. What he saw will leave him changed and vulnerable to a crime of revenge that has gone unpunished-until now.

"A wide-ranging collection, including two novellas and ten stories exploring complex identities, from the acclaimed author of Corregidora, The Healing, and Palmares"-- This new collection of short fiction is only the second in the author's rich career and one that displays her strengths in the genre in many facets. Opening with two novella-length works, "Butter" and "Sophia," this collection features Jones's legendary talents in a range of settings...

Feeling inferior to her talented twin brother, teenaged Isabel is transported to a parallel world that resembles the Italian Renaissance city-state of Ravenna, where she tries to save the city from attack by the fierce Gate people.

When climate changes, roads flood. Hills slide. A dam threatens to break.Meet Ash Ravenna, water-walker, a simple man in a complicated world where the environmental survival of Pittsburgh's many depends on the elemental mastery of a few.Meet Cooper Anneveinen, earth-seer. Water averse like a cat, mysterious like a wolf, hung like a horse.Action. Adventure. Romance!Enjoy this heart-warming addition to the Disorderly Elements series, where talents dwell...

Water-walkers, flood-makers, soul-stealers: your neighbors. In this between-the-books offering in the Disorderly Elements world, Ash Ravenna explores his Czech mother's heritage. While teaches his family new techniques between the banks of Prague's Vltava river, realities of his existence stun him. Among their arcane, secretive skills, forbidden knowledge reigns supreme. As he deals with his people's monstrous heritage, the teacher becomes the student. And...

War is inevitable. But who will win and who will fall depends on what happens next… Ravenna has returned to her people in order to save them from Davorin's impending attack. But what she did not understand is that training a society of peaceful sylphs into the warrior Stormbringers from their distant past will ask more of her than she knew. She must make amends with her sister, the new Chosen Queen. She must play games of politics and tactics. And...

From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity. Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to "How Do We Look" and "The Eye of Faith," the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art. Focusing in Part I on the Olmec heads of early Mesoamerica, the...

Ever since a mysterious, fatal accident in the ravine, university student Pepper Merlino's world has become a place of fear. Her artist neighbor, Joe Strozza, is tormented by nightmares. Eleven-year old Billy Beck, who witnessed the accident, has run from his world of fantasy into the dread horror of an unknown stalker. Pepper tries to concentrate on her studies, but her mother's grief is slowly tearing them apart. The entire neighborhood of Ravenna...