Literature

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• Love Stories for Turbulent Times: Loving through the Apocalypse

  Genie D. Chipps, Bill Henderson

  Paperback

  Twenty-five brilliant Pushcart Prize winners tell their contemporary love tales.

• In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper

  Lawrence Block

  Paperback

  An anthology of seventeen superbly crafted stories inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper.

• Jane on the Brain: Exploring the Science of Social Intelligence with Jane Austen

  Wendy Jones

  Hardcover

  A Jane Austen scholar and therapist reveals Austen’s intuitive ability to imbue her characters with the hallmarks of social intelligence.

• Alive in Shape and Color: 16 Paintings by Great Artists and the Stories They Inspired

  Lawrence Block

  Hardcover

  In his brilliant follow-up to In Sunlight or In Shadow, Lawrence Block has gathered together the best talent from popular fiction to produce an anthology as inventive as it is alluring.

• Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings

  Ferdowsi, Ahmad Sadri, Sheila Canby, Hamid Rahmanian

  Hardcover

  Vividly translated and lushly illustrated, this edition of the Persian epic Shahnameh is fully illuminated for new audiences.