The life of a beloved dog in sharp-eyed poems and luscious illustrations. On one level, this series of interwoven poems about a beloved family dog provides much to like about both the poet and her subject. But moreso, Flowering Bruno comprises an extraordinary meditation upon human and animal communication, and the world we share. NOMINATED FOR OHIOANA BOOK OF THE YEAR AND NATIONAL POETRY DAY POET OF THE YEAR.

Young Americans part the veils of 1970's Iran in this timely, thrilling novel. As the Pahlavi dynasty crumbles, America's mideast dilemma begins to come into focus in this novel, which provides a compelling back story to current-day strife.

Remembering is inventing—here, lives are remembered and recreated as a family recollects itself in America.

A penetrating look at the present state and future prospects of liberal arts education in America, as well as a fascinating chronicle of one man's life in higher education.

A sobering, provocative, often amusing look at aging and class conflict. Peopled with interesting characters, this novel plays out in the keen eye of an inveterate outsider—one who finds himself drawn into a story he never sought, with his life changed in the telling. OPTIONED FOR FILM DEVELOPMENT 2008.

Who would want to kill a college? This finely-turned mystery novel explores the underside of an idyllic college—liberal arts noir at its best.

The Dirty Blue Car carries thirteen stories—most of them recent. But also one dating from 1975—a short classic, Dialogue, Dialogue, Monologue, Log. Paired with Susan Maldovan's keen introduction, it sets up the rest: prison classroom drama, soulful bus rides, domestic stand-offs, swirling bar conversation, and, as they say, much, much more.

This first collection of "extraordinarily graceful" stories debuts a new talent with a "charming, descriptive, and deceptively simple" voice.
(Erin McGraw, author of The Baby Tree; Sarah Willis, author of A Good Distance.)

Uniquely articulate and comical, genuinely and generously nutty, this spot-on survey of all that is hangover serves as a perfect companion for aftermath moments that can stretch into hours, days or weeks of physical and metaphysical suffering. A cookbook for the imagination, stuffed with food, music, movies, literature and diverse other salves. Crack this book before cracking the next bottle—and you'll have a guide to a richer, more comforting and straighter landing.

Making a correspondence with a lost father through attic trunk stories, letters and V-Mail, Peter Rutkoff contributes his own story to complete a circuit of yearning. Father Harry's vivid scenes from the battlefields of Europe find Peter's young eyes and ears, years later, to create a tapestry of learning.

In this gripping narrative, one man's life story is intertwined with that of a woman who found him, late in his life, and devoted herself to receiving his words and handling them with profound care. Both stories—that of the man, and that of her careful work—are presently here simply and truly, in sure voice, with impressive intelligence and grace.

Ed Schiebel's early-morning experiments with a digital recorder in his barnyard yielded this amazing, true-to-life wake-up call—74 minutes of bird choir, a soft wavering wind through leafy trees, the passing comments of cats and horses, cries of a lusty rooster named Ghost, and then—rising faintly in the distance—the whine of a first morning truck on the highway. Littlewood Farm in central Ohio gives us all sorts of reasons to want to awaken in a faraway, nearby place—familiar, strange, altogether home.