"Acerbic and ruefully funny, [this book] weaves tales of young women-- deeply flawed and intensely real-- who struggle to get out of their own way. They love to drink and have sex; they make bad decisions with men who either love them too much or too little; and they haunt a Southern terrain of gas stations, public pools, and dive bars. Though each character shoulders the weight of her own baggage-- whether it's a string of horrible exes, a boyfriend...

"Mary Miller seizes the mantle of southern literature with this wry tale of middle age and the unexpected turns a life can take. Like her predecessors Ann Beattie and Raymond Carver, Mary Miller brings an essential voice to her generation. Building on her critically acclaimed novel, The Last Days of California, and her biting collection, Always Happy Hour, Miller slyly transports readers to her unapologetic corner of the South--this time, Biloxi,...

"Expanded and revised in its sixth edition, The Art of Mesoamerica surveys the artistic achievements of the high prehispanic civilizations of Central America--Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec, and Aztec--as well as those of their lesser-known contemporaries. Providing an in-depth examination of central works, this book guides readers through the most iconic palaces, pyramids, sculptures, and paintings. From the Olmec colossal head 5 recovered from...

While drinking alcohol and playing with a loaded gun at a party, a teenage boy accidentally shoots and kills another student and then tries to conceal her death.

"This is the stranger-than-fiction saga of what my friend, bookseller Ben Arnold of Turnrow Books, calls "that crazy ass boat." He's encouraged me for a long time to write the whole story and my mother would certainly agree with him that it's a tale that needs to be told, with all its twists and turns and outrageous irony. I hope you'll find it as riveting and entertaining as I did on those long-gone days at Fort Pemberton." --

Words and sign language depict children at the zoo discovering how to sign the names of various animals and how to tell time.

An introduction to two kinds of sign language: finger spelling,or forming words letter by letter with the fingers, and signing,or making signs with one or two hands for each word or idea.