The novel that became an award-winning play and a major motion picture and that has charmed generations of readers, Carson McCullers’s classic The Member of the Wedding is now available in small- format trade paperback for the first time. Here is the story of the inimitable twelve-year-old Frankie, who is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brother’s wedding. Bolstered by lively conversations

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Academy-Award winner Athol Fugard, one of theatre's most acclaimed playwrights, finds humor and heartbreak in the friendship of Harold, a 17-year old white boy in 1950's South Africa, and the two middle aged black servants who raised him. Racism unexpectedly shatters Harold's childhood and friendships in this absorbing, affecting coming of age play. The play, initially banned from production in South Africa, is a Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding...

For more than fifty years, as both editor of and contributor for The New Yorker, Roger Angell has honed a reputation as a master of the autobiographic essay-sharp-witted, plucky, and at once nostalgic and unsentimental. In Let Me Finish, Angell reflects on a remarkable life (while admitting to not really remembering the essentials) and on its influences large and small-from growing up in Prohibition-era New York, to his boyhood romance with baseball,...

When her grandmother gets to spend some time at the home of Sofia and her mother, none of the three imagines the transformation that is about to happen in each of them. Sofia can not understand why her grandmother is always grumpy and angry at the world. Over the weeks, she learns that the hardness of her grandmother is actually a veil that hides a story of pain and loss. The sea, poetry and plants are essential in the journey of recognizing and healing...

Documentary celebrating the explosion of popular music that came out of LA's Laurel Canyon in the mid-'60s as folk went electric and the Byrds, the Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, and the Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound. Featuring Jakob Dylan, the film includes conversations and performances with Brian Wilson (the Beach Boys), Michelle Phillips (the Mamas & the Papas), Stephen Stills (Buffalo Springfield), David Crosby, Roger...

"Bebés sin cólicos es, además, un curso acelerado de crianza, probado con éxito en cientos de casos, que te convertirá en el protagonista de la salud de tu hijo. Con este libro resolverás uno de los problemas más temidos durante la crianza: los cólicos del lactante, ese amplio concepto que aplicamos a todo bebé menor de tres meses que llora mucho sin síntomas de enfermedad. Pero los bebés siempre lloran por algo, y suele ser por un desajuste...