White Apples and the Taste of Stone:  Selected Poems 1946–2006
by Donald Hall

Donald Hall named Poet Laureate of the United States

Donald Hall's first book with Houghton Mifflin was Seasons at Eagle Pond (1987). Hall has won a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for The One Day (1989) and a PEN-Winship Award for Without (1998). He was the poet laureate of New Hampshire from 1984 to 1989 and again from 1995 to 1999. In 1991, he received the Robert Frost Silver Medal from the Poetry Society of America.

Fun Home:  A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel

A Book Sense pick

"Alison Bechdel's slim yet Proustian graphic memoir, Fun Home, must be the most ingeniously compact, hyper-verbose example of autobiography to have been produced . . . A comic book for lovers of words!" — New York Times Book Review

Watch a video of Alison describing her drawing process.

Berenice Abbott, Photographer:  An Independent Vision
by George Sullivan

"A fine portrait of a significant photographer." — Booklist, starred review

"This gorgeously produced volume is a fine celebration of the work of an important American artist . . . The prose is lively and engaging." — Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Chew on This
Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food
by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson

"A nutritious blend of original interviews, recent statistics, and published research." — Booklist, starred review

This New York Times children's bestseller on the fast food industry is stirring up controversy and provoking attacks on the author. Click here for more information.