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The Best of Sarah Bird
When Sarah Bird arrived in Austin in 1973 in pursuit of a boyfriend who was “hotter than lava,” she found an abundance of inspiration for storytel...
A Literary Reference to His Life and Work
Offers critical entries on Hawthorne's novels, short stories, travel writing, criticism, and other works, as well as portraits of characters, includin...
Art and Friends
"Bloomsbury on the Mediterranean," is how Vanessa Bell described France in a letter to her sister, Virginia Woolf. Remarking on the vivifying effect o...
A novel
In her most ambitious, moving, and provocative novel to date, Sarah Bird makes a stunning departure. Above the East China Sea tells the entwined stori...
A Novel
"You'll be swept away by the passion and power of this remarkable, trailblazing woman who risked everything to follow her own heart." – Kristin Hann...
Sarah Bird’s gutsy, sharp, and touching new novel opens at full speed. Bernadette "Bernie" Root, military brat, speaks. She has never really noticed...
Sonja Getz of Dorfburg, Texas, who upon reaching her 30th birthday decides to go in search of her long-lost father. She shares this odyssey with reluc...
Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a novel about one woman—and a nation—struggling to be reborn fro...
How timebanking is transforming healthcare
GIVE AND TAKE TELLS THE THOUGHT-PROVOKING STORY OF HOW ONE BIG IDEA COULD TRANSFORM HEALTHCARE BY UNLEASHING OUR GREATEST UNTAPPED RESOURCE – OURSEL...
Timeless photos offer a rare portrait of the jubilant, vibrant, vital, nearly hidden, and now all-but-vanished world of small-town Black rodeos. Long ...
What is it that distinguishes Texas women—the famous Yellow Rose and her descendants? Is it that combination of graciousness and grit that we revere...
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, two young women become entranced by young flamenco guitarist Tomás Montenegro and decide to dedicate themselves to the di...
A single mom and her seventeen-year-old daughter learn how to let go in that precarious moment before college empties the nest....
The Making of a Connoisseur
The first book-length critical analysis of its kind, Edith Wharton's Travel Writing is an engaging study of Wharton's travel writing as the embodiment...
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Sarah Bird, the author of Alamo House has created a sensationally funny new novel about a would-be romance writer. The Boyfriend School is sharp, sati...
A young surrogate mother attempts to make an ordered world for her child as she wanders through the maze of trendy yuppiedom to the treacherous waters...
The Essential Reference to His Life and Work
Alphabetically arranged entries offer information on Hardy's life and work, covering his novels, short stories, poetry, dramatic works, characters, si...
The Essential Guide to the Life and Work
Edith Wharton A to Z draws from a selection of original and secondary sources to create a portrait of one of America's major women writers and novelis...
This text covers both the rural areas and industrial heritage of the region and is packed with information on the more secluded and little known venue...
Gretchen Griner is an underpaid, underappreciated photographer for theAustin(that’s Texas)Grackle, part-time lover of Peter Overton Treadwell III (k...
Blythe Young, a wannabe Texas princess, is plummeting down the Austin social ladder due to a multitude of dubious moral choices. Only when she is in d...
Two girls with problematic lives, take flamenco lessons from a dashing Latin guitarist and both fall in love, with the same man!....
This guide explores one of the last remote wildernesses of Western Europe which offers the visitor magnificent hills and mountains, impressive coastli...
A paperback book of comic female friendship and solidarity set against a backdrop of collegiate lowlife....
A Guide to Adventurous Travel
Relates information on the operations of every ferry in the United States, with details on history, fares, schedules, restrictions, local points of in...
Describes the location, size, access, history, and points of interest on islands off the Southeastern U.S. coast from Maryland to Louisiana...
Including the Forest of Dean and the Cotswolds
Year 3 Anthology : Mt Biggs School, 1996
Women Without Men, Men Without Brains
Here is the woman's version of Animal House, peopled by "the funniest, kookiest campus women south of the Mason-Dixon line". (Caryl Rivers, author of ...