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|  | Star Wars: Tales from the Empire by Peter Schweighofer
A collection of the best Star Wars stories gleaned from The Star Wars Adventure Journal . AUTHOR: Peter Schweighofer
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science Fiction & Fantasy 
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 | Shadow of the Dragon by Sherry Garland
Sixteen-year-old Danny is caught between two very different cultures--that of the United States, to which he immigrated when he was a just a baby, and that of the rest of his family who carry on with their traditional Vietnamese ways. He tries to fit in with his classmates, but when an older cousin from Vietnam named Sang Le comes to stay with his family, Danny finds himself dragged into a culture war. Because Sang Le cannot speak English, he is unable to get a job and soon joins a Vietnamese gang. Meanwhile, Danny discovers that his new girlfriend's brother is a member of another gang that preys on Vietnamese immigrants. AUTHOR: Sherry Garland
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Children's Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Poems by Maya Angelou
Angelou's poems are beloved for their humor, their contagious musical rhythms, and their celebration of African-American culture in all its rich diversity--particularly the struggles and achievements of black women. AUTHOR: Maya Angelou
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, Harold Bloom, Wolfram Kandinsky
An American ambulance driver in Italy during the First World War is wounded and taken to hospital, where he falls in love with an English nurse. While he convalesces the couple is deliriously happy, but then he is commanded back to the front. She tells him that she is pregnant, and they decide that their only course is a farewell to arms: escaping from the war to neutral Switzerland. AUTHOR: Ernest Hemingway, Harold Bloom, Wolfram Kandinsky
PUBLISHER: Scribner
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Cowboy Poetry Matters by Robert McDowell
This anthology presents a selection of poetry and prose by cowboys, in an effort to legitimize the cowboy genre as a vital American literary expression. Critical essays supplement the work. AUTHOR: Robert McDowell
PUBLISHER: Story Line Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Seeing Mary Plain by Fran Kiernan
This long, lively, and thoroughly researched biography of Mary McCarthy, one of America's prime women of letters, is built upon interviews with her friends and enemies, who include Philip Rahv, Delmore Schwartz, Dwight Macdonald, Edmund Wilson, Gore Vidal, and Hannah Arendt. As she tells McCarthy's story, Frances Kiernan continually breaks off her narrative with illuminating quotes from these and other witnesses to McCarthy's fascinating life. AUTHOR: Fran Kiernan
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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