New Releases by William Kotzwinkle

C''est l''aube du jour qu''ils ont tant attendu, et sur les chemins glacés d''une forêt du Maine un homme et une femme se mettent en route vers la maternité. Si près d''eux, pourtant si lointain encore, dans la " mer secrète ", un petit nageur se débat pour venir à leur rencontre. Longuement, interminablement, soudés par la force démesurée de leur attente, ils l''encouragent à les rejoindre, se trouvent l''un l''autre tels qu''ils furent, tels qu''ils sont devenus, face à cet avenir inespéré, précaire, incertain. Car le scénario n''est jamais joué d''avance, et l''aventure de la naissance peut à chaque instant imposer à l''espoir un désaveu aussi tragique qu''inexorable. L''art de William Kotzwinkle nous fait témoins d''une sincérité et d''une rigueur peu commune. Il faut ici en prévenir le lecteur : ce court texte est sans doute l''un des plus beaux et des plus bouleversants qu''il nous ait été donné de publier.

From morning to bedtime, this delightful poem follows a day in the life of a child. The world of adults seems very big but his imagination brings the everyday objects around him playfully to life. Joe Servello''s illustrations perfectly depict the wonder that children bring to the most ordinary objects. Full color.

"A Jimmy McShane mystery".

Freddy, a disfigured man with steel fingernails, weaves in and out of high school students'' dreams before making their nightmares come true. Sequel to "The Dream Warriors."

Bestselling author of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial takes a funny look at the people behind the tabloid papers. The cast of this romp includes a porn queen, a voodoo sorceress, and an Egyptian tomb robber.

Reality is juggled with myth in three fantasies set in Paris, Pharaoh''s Egypt, and the world of hobos. From the author of cult classics The Fan Man, Fata Morganna and Doctor Rat. 30 line drawings.

A collection of fairy tales, including a tale of a wooden carousel that comes alive through the magic of a troll, and one of a butterfly catcher who dreams he becomes a butterfly.

The gentle extraterrestrial''s return to his home planet discloses that he has fallen out of favor with his colleagues, who try to prevent his journey to Earth to provide spiritual guidance for his young friend Elliott.

Charles Pickett, a young member of an anthropological expedition to Africa, fears that the group''s leader has been turned into a leopard by a local witch doctor.

An angelic alien being, left stranded by his extra-galactic mother ship, receives aid from a ten-year-old and his siblings to escape from Earth.

A mysterious presence transforms the lives of a tyrannical chief executive officer, a nice young woman, a Santa Claus with an unsavory past, an earnest young man, and a spaced-out window decorator on Christmas Eve in Fontaine''s department store.

Herman refuses to take a nap until the Nap Master takes him to the Land of Dreams.

A farm boy who sets out to see the world battles a storm at the edge of the sea and encounters a crew of ghosts rising from the water.