Coconuts For The Saint

By Debra Spark, Spark, Debra, 1962-

Fainting on the doorstep of a Puerto Rican bakery, Maria Elena is drawn into the family of widower Sandrofo Cordero Lucero and his identical triplet daughters, when she tries to learn why Lucero ha...

Curious Attractions: Essays On Writing

By Debra Spark

Curious Attractions: Essays on Fiction Writing is a book about what makes fiction work. In nine entertaining and instructive essays, novelist and master teacher Debra Spark pursues key questions th...

Coconuts For The Saints

By Debra Spark

20 Under 30: Best Stories By America'S New Young Writers

By Debra Spark

Judgment / Kate Wheeler -- Shoe / Heidi Jon Schmidt -- The Gittel / Marjorie Sandor -- The Raising / Leigh Allison Wilson -- A Model Family / Ron Tanner -- This Plumber / Bret Lott -- Aliens -- Dav...

20 Under 30

By Debra Spark, SPARK

Judgment / Kate Wheeler -- Shoe / Heidi Jon Schmidt -- The Gittel / Marjorie Sandor -- The Raising / Leigh Allison Wilson -- A Model Family / Ron Tanner -- This Plumber / Bret Lott -- Aliens -- Dav...

Twenty Under Thirty

By Debra Spark

The Ghost Of Bridgetown

By Debra Spark

A duppy, he explained, wouldn't enter a building without first counting all the grains of sand at the door, and, math whiz or no, your average duppy couldn't do that before daybreak, the hour when...

Healing: 20 Prominent Authors Write Abt Inspirational Moments Achieving Health Gaining In

By Oliver Sacks, Various, Debra Spark, Barbara Helen Berger, C.K. WILLIAMS, Rebecca Mcclanahan, Brendan Wolfe, Diane Ackerman, Lucy Grealy, Leonard Kriegel, Lee Gutkind, Carol Sanford, Susan L. Adkins, Ron Kurtz, Anatole Broyard, Tom Sleigh, Tracy Kidder, John T Price, Raphael Campo, Daniel D. Baxter, Katherine Russel Rich

At some time in our lives, most of us have been in need of healing -- whether physical recovery from illness or rebounding from an emotional wound. In Healing, twenty distinguished writers offer in...

Good For The Jews

By Debra Spark

". . . a smart, sprightly, sex-drenched, and neatly plotted novel . . ." ---Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio and the Chicago Tribune "Spark is at her sly, funny, and cutting best in her third nov...

Archives, Documentation, And Institutions Of Social Memory

By Debra Spark, William G. Rosenberg, Francis X. Blouin, Francis Xavier Blouin Jr., William G. Rosenberg (Editors), Francis Xavier Blouin

As sites of documentary preservation rooted in various national and social contexts, artifacts of culture, and places of uncovering, archives provide tangible evidence of memory for individuals, co...