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"When everything fell apart for Lynn Melnick, she went to Dollywood. It was perhaps an unusual refuge. The theme park, partly owned by and wholly named for Dolly Parton, celebrates a country music legend who grew up in church and in poverty in rural Tennessee. Yet Dollywood is exactly where Melnick—a poet, urbanite, and daughter of a middle-class Jewish family—needed to be. Because Melnick, like the musician she adores, is a survivor. In this...

Follows the life of Macon Dead, Jr., the son of the richest black family in a midwestern town, as he leaves home on a quest for personal freedom.

A newborns absent face appears on the back of someone elses head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence hes after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia, no belief, no claim to objectivity, is immune to the distortions of human perception. Here, self-deception is a means of justifying our most inhuman impulseswhether...

A collection of nine stories about love and life featuring best friends, princes, trolls, imaginary boys, and Simon Snow. "Rainbow Rowell has won fans all over the world by writing about love and life in a way that feels true. In her first collection, she gives us nine beautifully crafted love stories. Girl meets boy camping outside a movie theater. Best friends debate the merits of high school dances. A prince romances a troll. A girl romances...

Filmed in Dublin's famous downtown train terminal which has been converted into one of the most delightful concert halls in Europe, this video features André and the orchestra performing a collection of old favorites and exciting new selections.

A collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet includes selections from the past 20 years as well as new work which help convey his experiences growing up in the South, his service in Vietnam and the violence of racism in America.