Old Songs in a New Caf

"b>Few writers possess the power to move us. Even fewer become legends in their own time. Robert James Waller has done both. Just as you have loved his best-selling novels, you will love...

From the author of The Bridges of Madison County. Robert James Waller began the pieces in this book on a warm, green morning in the summer of 1983. He hadn't set out to be a writer. He just needed to record his feelings about people and animals and things he cared about. His first story, Ridin' Along in Safety with Kennedy and Kuralt, told about being young and a musician, and how playing The Wabash Cannonball one day in a roadside bar changed the rest of his life. The Des Moines Register printed the essay, and people began asking for more.

The result is Old Songs in a New Cafe. A work of nonfiction, it takes you inside Robert James Waller's mind and world, revealing insightful experiences from his own life and, with his special magic, illuminating those poignant moments most of us share. "

Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter

"Written as a letter from a mother to her daughter, this is a poignant novel that transforms the lessons of life into a lyrical narrative. Interweaving history and memories, disappointments and dreams, like the tales of the village storyteller, this letter is the gift of one generation to the next. "

Zeke and Ned

"Co-authored by: Diana Ossana

Set in the Cherokee Districts in the Oklahoma Territory not long after the Civil War, this is the story of Ezekiel Proctor and Ned Christie, the last Cherokee warriors. With a cast of vividly drawn characters, McMurty and Ossana weave a colourful tale of the Old West that skilfully combines family chronicle with a fascinating slice of American history. "

"You, Darkness"

"A scientist is on the trail of a frog on the verge of extinction, the blood frog. It was once spotted by Thierry, an old black from Haiti, some 40 years previously up a mountain above his village. Victor engages the old man to accompany him on an expedition to capture it. "

You Got to Burn to Shine

"The originator of Spoken Word and performance poetry, John Giorno is one of the most influential figures in the world of contemporary performance. You Got to Burn to Shine, his first book in many years, collects intensely rhythmic, sexual and philosophical poetry spanning two decades. Here, too, are deeply personal memoirs, including the story of his friendship with Andy Warhol (Giorno had an occasionally sexual relationship with Warhol, met his mother, and starred in Warhol's first film Sleep); an anonymous sexual encounter with Keith Haring, an aspiring painter who recognized Giorno in a subway station toilet; and notes toward a Buddhist understanding of death in the age of AIDS. "

Wonderful Women By the Water

"The wonderful women are Bella, married, mother of seven-year-old Thomas, and Rosa, married, mother of two daughters, including the enterprising Renee. The story opens in the summer of 1961, and covers the years in which their children grow into young adults through to the 1970s. "