Fall 2002 Titles
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Miniatures
Miniatures is an intensely evocative novel with haunting characters and beautiful, painterly prose that summon the ghosts of Mary Shelley, Marcel Proust, and the Brontë sisters. Young, impetuous, and possessing a passionate, vulnerable intellect, American Fern Jacobi is traveling in Ireland when she finds work as a live-in housekeeper to famous and reclusive writers Owen and Brigid Lieb.

Bingo Under the Crucifix
The twisted, eccentric characters in Laurie Foos's hilarious, metaphor-stretching novel are ripped straight from today's headlines. Chloe, a doll maker famous for her line of Bingo Ladies, must save her adult brother, a man who has literally become an infant at the news of his impending fatherhood. Now it's up to Chloe to deliver him back into the world of grown-ups.

The White Palazzo
Tara Barlow, a young, small-town employment agency scout, and Signora Guida Santucci, the local professional psychic, have always done things their own way. When Tara's dream wedding venue burns down, she leaves town and her fiancé to head West in her prize Mustang. Tara's alarmed family sends Guida to find her. The last thing they expect to happen is to meet and fall in love-but Fate has other plans, and their attraction to each other is like a force of nature, like gravity. With their destinies sealed but their pasts encroaching, they attempt escape, and live out the happy ending Thelma and Louise only dreamed about. Magic happens.

My Love, My Love or The Peasant Girl
Désirée, is the beautiful peasant girl who devotes herself body and soul to a handsome, urban "prince" whose life she has saved from an accident near her village. Unfortunately, his family feels that Désirée's skin is too dark and her family too poor for a boy who will be king, and Désirée proves that she is willing to give everything, even her young life, for the purest love she has ever known.

Transcircularities
The collection contains the best and the newest from American poetry's lyrical rhythm master! Much like the vibrant, riveting reading performances for which he is well known, Quincy Troupe's award-winning poetry is pure rhythm and deep bass beats that barely stay on the page. This magnificent new volume captures Troupe's voice stronger than ever as he issues celebratory and pointed statements on jazz, sports, love, art, literature, American life, and the sublimity of it all. In addition to new poems, this tremendous collection brings back into print much of Troupe's classic work.

Gorgeous Chaos
This vital collection of new and selected poems gathers 35 years of Jack Marshall's best work. In it, Marshall never lets readers forget that they are meat-on-the-bone, organic beings subject to the opposing drives of inherited culture and the urge toward greater consciousness. In signature language that is unadorned, yet musical and beautifully precise, Marshall explores the recent innovative advances in science and ecology, the complications of growing up with an Arabic Jewish heritage, of love, loss and memory in a world demystified by harsh politics and re-enchanted by compassion.