Italo Calvino 1947 192p 5 x 8 Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler’s apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a sex worker, … Continue reading The Path to the Nest of Spiders
Italo Calvino 1957 224p 5 x 8 Cosimo, a young eighteenth-century Italian nobleman, rebels by climbing into the trees to remain there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an arboreal existence, making himself clothes, shelter and finding food and even love. Translated by Archibald Colquhoun. $4-10 Other works involving italo calvino, … Continue reading The Baron in the Trees
Maya Angelou 1969 304p MMPB Born in St. Louis and sent with her brother and no adults on a train when only a few years old to live with her grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, this is the first – and best – of Aneglou’s memoirs, spanning ages 3-17. Through … Continue reading I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
A Novel Dorothy Allison 1992 320p 6 x 8 Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright family—rough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other’s trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this … Continue reading Bastard Out of Carolina
Or, the strange story of the time-thieves and the child who brought the stole time back to the people Michael Ende 1973 265p 5 x 8 From the author that brought you The NeverEnding Story, this is the amazing young-adult tale of a little girl, who after discovering that … Continue reading Momo