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|  | Arrogant Beggar by Anzia Yezierska, Katherine Stubbs
The target of intense critical comment when it was first published in 1927, Arrogant Beggar 's scathing attack on charity-run boardinghouses remains one of Anzia Yezierska's most devastating works of social criticism. The novel follows the fortunes of its young Jewish narrator, Adele Lindner, as she leaves the impoverished conditions of New York's Lower East Side and tries to rise in the world. Portraying Adele's experiences at the Hellman Home for Working Girls, the first half of the novel exposes the sickening farce of institutionalized charity while portraying the class tensions that divided affluent German American Jews from more recently arrived Russian American Jews. The second half of the novel takes Adele back to her ghetto origins as she explores an alternative model of philanthropy by opening a restaurant that combines the communitarian ideals of Old World shtetl tradition with the contingencies of New World capitalism. Within the context of this radical message, Yezierska revisits the themes that have made her work famous, confronting complex questions of ethnic identity, assimilation, and female self-realization. Katherine Stubbs's introduction provides a comprehensive and compelling historical, social, and literary context for this extraordinary novel and discusses the critical reaction to its publication in light of Yezierska's biography and the once much-publicized and mythologized version of her life story. Unavailable for over sixty years, Arrogant Beggar will be enjoyed by general readers of fiction and be of crucial importance for feminist critics and students of ethnic literature. It will also prove an exciting and richly rewarding text for students and scholars of Jewish studies, immigrant literature, women's writing, American history, and working-class fiction. AUTHOR: Anzia Yezierska, Katherine Stubbs
PUBLISHER: Duke University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | East Nice by Randye Lordon
Description not available.On vacation in France, New York City private detective Sydney Sloane and her lover, Leslie Washburn, find themselves one again embroiled in a murder investigation when the parents of Sydney's niece's secret husband, Gavin, die in a suspicious car accident, and the new groom mysteriously vanishes. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. (Mystery) AUTHOR: Randye Lordon
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Four Stupid Cupids by Elaine Clayton, Gregory Maguire
When four reckless mythical flying babies break loose from the ancient urn Fawn's aunt sent her from Greece, the boys in Fawn's class squirm in their seats -- and the girls start scheming. With help from these cupids, the members of the all-girl Tattletales Club could make this Valentine's Day a memorable one for their heartbroken teacher, Miss Earth. Little do they know just how crazy Valentine's Day will be, now that four cupids with rusty shooting skills are on the case! AUTHOR: Elaine Clayton, Gregory Maguire
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Tinker's Daughter
Description not available.Imagines the search for faith experienced by the ten-year-old blind daughter of John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progess, during her father's imprisonment for preaching found contrary to the edicts of the Church of England.
PUBLISHER: Moody Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Dragon's Egg by Robert L. Forward
Description not available.On a neutron star, the cheela, a form of intelligent life whose hour equals more than one hundred human years, struggle to progress from the beginnings of agriculture to the discovery of science. Reprint. AUTHOR: Robert L. Forward
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Sold! by Bryn Barnard, Nathan Zimelman
A curious boy finds out what it`s like to spend money before you have it. Can he somehow multiply the debt into a profit of millions? AUTHOR: Bryn Barnard, Nathan Zimelman
PUBLISHER: Charlesbridge Publishing, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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