Product Description: Originally published in 1989 by Ticknor & Fields, Brian Kiteley’s Still Life with Insects is the intensely focused chronicle of Elwyn Farmer, an amateur entomologist, who uses the field notes of his insect sightings to examine and reweave the tattered fragments of his life...read more

“Lush, dark and unsettling, No Book but the World haunted me for days. With great skill, Leah Hager Cohen takes us through a twisty and resonant tale about the price of secrets, the burden of family, the remnants of childhood we never leave behind.” —Megan Abbott, author of The End of Everything and Dare MeAt the edge of a woods, on the grounds of a defunct “free school,” Ava and her brother, Fred, shared a dreamy and seemingly idyllic childhood—a world defined largely by their imaginations and each other’s presence. Everyone is aware of Fred’s oddness or vague impairment, but his parents’ fierce disapproval of labels keeps him free of evaluation or intervention, and constantly at Ava’s side.Decades later, then, when Ava learns that her brother is being held in a county jail for a shocking crime, she is frantic to piece together what actually happened. A boy is dead. But could Fred really have done what he is accused of? As she is drawn deeper into the details of the crime, Ava becomes obsessed with learning the truth, convinced that she and she alone will be able to reach her brother and explain him—and his innocence—to the world.Leah Hager Cohen brings her trademark intelligence to a psychologically gripping, richly ambiguous story that suggests we may ultimately understand one another best not with facts alone, but through our imaginations. 

Product Description: A short, concise book in favor of honoring doubt and admitting when the answer is: I don’t know.In a tight, enlightening narrative, Leah Hager Cohen explores why, so often, we attempt to hide our ignorance, and why, in so many different areas, we would be better off coming clean...read more

Product Description: Is keeping a secret from a spouse always an act of infidelity? And what cost does such a secret exact on a family?The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives...read more

Product Description: “Tantalizing ... captivating ... provocative.”—Booklist Late in her twentieth year, Beatrice, who dreams of a life on the stage, is confronting a home life torn asunder. She mails a letter on the sly to her grandmother, a legendary actress long estranged from the family, sparking events that will change her life forever...read more

Product Description: This portrait of New York's Lexington School for the Deaf is not just a work of journalism. It is also a memoir, since Leah Hager Cohen grew up on the school's campus and her father is its superintendent. As a hearing person raised among the deaf, Cohen appreciates both the intimate textures of that silent world and the gulf that separates it from our own...read more

Secretly dispatching a letter to her estranged stage actress grandmother in the hopes of understanding her family's rift and becoming an actress herself, twenty-year-old Beatrice finds her efforts shadowed by a harassment charge against her father, her mother's growing melancholy, and her own feelings for an older man.

Profiles four teenage girls from a Boston housing project who were training under a female boxing coach to become successful fighters, challenging fundamental myths about femininity, power, aggression, and personal aspirations. 32,000 first printing.

Tutoring her star math student at home after the girl is injured, Brooklyn high school teacher Esker reluctantly falls in love with the student's father, despite a conviction that she is destined to remain a lonely spinster. Reprint.

Provides a poignant portrait of a small Massachusettes community theater in its seventy-fifth year of operation, as it becomes embroiled in disputes over proposed structural changes and its auditions for it most controversial play to date, M. Butterfly. Reprint.

Product Description: In Glass, Paper, Beans, Leah Hager Cohen traces three simple commodities on their geographic and semantic journey from her rickety, wooden kitchen table to their various points of origin. Simultaneous hardcover release from Doubleday. 2 cassettes.

The author of Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World, a New York Times Notable Book of 1994, delves into the extraordinary origins of three simple products, the people that produce them, and the myths, lore, and history surrounding them. Reprint. NYT.

Having lived with their aunt since their parents' deaths, Mole and Tilly find their fragile world threatened by confusing and intrusive strangers who challenge the truths they have invented for themselves. A first novel. Reprint. NYT. AB.

Traces the origins, manufacturing processes, and world connection associated with three everyday objects--a glass, a newspaper, and coffee--and considers their geographical and personal values. Tour.