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|  | San Francisco Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Half a century of San Francisco living is reflected in this selection of Ferlinghetti's poems. Photographs of the poet and his famous circle illustrate the many faces of San Francisco celebrated in the text, and Ferlinghetti's inaugural address as laureate of the city supplements the volume. AUTHOR: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
PUBLISHER: City Lights Foundation
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Dead Men's Praise by Jacqueline Osherow
Description not available.Poems address travels in Italy, the vanished Jewish world of the Ukraine, and insights into the nature of God that can be gleaned from the Hebrew psalms AUTHOR: Jacqueline Osherow
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell
Jarrell's one novel is based on his experiences teaching at a women's college. AUTHOR: Randall Jarrell
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Deidre S. Laiken, Hiram Sherman, Mark Twain, Pablo Marcos Studio Staff
Twain spent seven years writing this classic novel--the book Hemingway claimed is the basis for all American fiction. The story of Huck's and Jim's quest for freedom on a raft on the Mississippi provides a panoramic view of Southern society, which Twain saw as beset by greed, violence, and coldhearted brutality. At the end, Huck definitively abandons the conventional cant which he has been raised to believe in when he makes the decision to go to hell rather than betray his friend Jim and send him back to slavery. The book has been banned from time to time, beginning with its publication when it was deemed too subversive for children, until in the late 20th century when, despite its sympathetic attitude toward blacks and is violent denunciation of slavery, it has been branded racist largely because Twain's use of dialect and offensive language. AUTHOR: Deidre S. Laiken, Hiram Sherman, Mark Twain, Pablo Marcos Studio Staff
PUBLISHER: ABDO Publishing Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Sense and Sensuality by Ravi K. Zacharias
Description not available.In a dialogue between Oscar Wilde and Jesus Christ, the hedonistic classical author asks why humans have strong appetites for pleasure if God did not intend us to indulge them. Original. AUTHOR: Ravi K. Zacharias
PUBLISHER: Multnomah Publishers, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Poems of Akhmatova by Anna Andreevena Akhmatova, Max Hayward, Stanley Kunitz
Witness to the international and domestic chaos of the first half of the twentieth century, Anna Akhmatova (1888-1966) chronicled Russia's troubled times in poems of sharp beauty and intensity. Her genius is now universally acknowledged, and recent biographies attest to a remarkable resurgence of interest in her poetry in this country. Here is the essence of Akhmatova - a landmark selection and translation, including excerpts from Poem with a Hero. AUTHOR: Anna Andreevena Akhmatova, Max Hayward, Stanley Kunitz
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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