In this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historian's craft. Examining real and imagined oppositions between past and present, ancient and modern, oral and written history, "History and Memory" reveals the strands of continuity that have characterized historiography from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Europe.

In this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historian's craft. Examining real and imagined oppositions between past and present, ancient and modern, oral and written history, "History and Memory" reveals the strands of continuity that have characterized historiography from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Europe.

Sadie Stone's childhood among the 1950s countercultures of California's artists, writers and radicals teaches her resiliency, self-expression and independence. These qualities help her navigate life with her passionate, unpredictable mother, Daisy. Despite the depth of their bond, when violence strikes, Sadie severs all ties with her mother, creating a rift so deep that its resolution takes over four decades and requires a journey half way around the world. Ultimately, HEAT LIGHTNING is a novel about overcoming trauma and finding forgiveness.

These poems will blow your head off, make you weep, fill you with compassion and tenderness. They sink into you before they detonate, sending out shock waves: in "each cell...the brilliant filigree of desire." WHERE THE WOMEN ARE FLYING is rich with apt imagery-"wet world quivers, like the withers of a mare," "flame thrower hair," "hands that ...curl like long dead spiders"-and with stories of four generations of women. Elizabeth Claman's book has given us a passionate search for love and life that illuminates our own lives. -Adam David Miller, author of TICKET TO EXILE and THE SKY IS A PAGE

To the people in their counter-culture, pacifist church, Matt and Miranda Baker seem the perfect 1960s couple. However, a few months after the birth of their daughter, Ruthie, Miranda's parents are killed in an automobile accident causing her to sink into a depression that neither she nor Matt fully understands. Their marriage gradually unravels and Miranda returns to her "first love," acting. She withdraws from her Christian community and pursues a career in film and television, but the realities of show business are much less satisfying than she had hoped, and some of the people she meets in Hollywood are not what they seem. Their actions have disastrous consequences for both Miranda and Ruthie that Miranda can only repair by returning to her faith. But her journey "home" is far from simple.

How does each of us define who we are? And what happens when our assumptions prove false? IDENTITY BLUES explores these questions through two interwoven coming-of-age narratives. It celebrates the healing power of music and addresses the challenges of growing up biracial in twenty-first-century America.