Nannerl Mozart's twelfth-birthday wish is to become a famous composer. She's already considered a brilliant musician, touring Europe with her little brother, Wolfgang, and playing the clavier for queens and kings in the great courts. But Papa doesn't take her seriously as a compo...
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"Dear Peter, Dear Ulla is an imaginative and beautifully crafted historical middle-grade novel about two cousins who are fast friends even though they have never met. Letters fly back and forth between them, and although Ulla lives in Danzig, Germany, and Peter on a Mennonite far...
Catharina Bach is ignored and frightened by her father, the composer Johann Sebastian Bach but fascinated by his Concerto for Two Violins. Three hundred years later Hannah Waters is trying to cope with her mother's death three years earlier and her move from Toronto to Clear Lake...
"Taking the name of a nervous system disorder that causes involuntary shaking, Essential Tremor undertakes an exploration of the body that holds disruption at its heart. The captivating and timely poems in Essential Tremor attend to many bodies--the body of the world, changing, u...
Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages. Social critic Barbara Ehrenreich joined them, moving into a trailer and working as a waitress, hotel maid, and Wal-Mart sales clerk. "Nickel and Dimed" reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and duality.