2 Males, 3 Females A spotlight on the cycle of shame and abuse in an American family. Boy and Sissy have built their own brand of family under the roof of their frustrated father and self-obsessed stepmom. It’s their one refuge, given Boy’s imprisonment in a cage and Sissy's job as his keeper. But when he makes a desperate attempt to escape, Sissy’s own longing for freedom threatens to destroy them both. “dark and murky, but with a streak of humor that compounds its visceral effect .” —Time Out Chicago “Boy Small is a look from the outside at the case of a brutally murdered boy to question how we can make sense of something so horrific.” —Chicago Theatre Review “Cozzola has a fundamental understanding of how people talk to one another and how certain kinds of talk lead to other kinds of talk.” —Chicago Stage Review

First published in 1949, Little Boy Brown is a little gem, ripe for rediscovery.

From the famed publisher and poet, author of the million-copy-selling collection A Coney Island of the Mind, his literary last will and testament -- part autobiography, part summing up, part Beat-inflected torrent of language and feeling, and all magical. "A volcanic explosion of personal memories, political rants, social commentary, environmental jeremiads and cultural analysis all tangled together in one breathless sentence that would make James Joyce proud. . ." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post In this unapologetically unclassifiable work Lawrence Ferlinghetti lets loose an exhilarating rush of language to craft what might be termed a closing statement about his highly significant and productive 99 years on this planet. The "Little Boy" of the title is Ferlinghetti himself as a child, shuffled from his overburdened mother to his French aunt to foster childhood with a rich Bronxville family. Service in World War Two (including the D-Day landing), graduate work, and a scholar gypsy's vagabond life in Paris followed. These biographical reminiscences are interweaved with Allen Ginsberg-esque high energy bursts of raw emotion, rumination, reflection, reminiscence and prognostication on what we may face as a species on Planet Earth in the future. Little Boy is a magical font of literary lore with allusions galore, a final repository of hard-earned and durable wisdom, a compositional high wire act without a net (or all that much punctuation) and just a gas and an inspiration to read.

A boy is trapped on the page. How did he get there? Why is he there? What does it all mean? And can he escape? Or is there no other place he'd rather be?

Milbank and Mitchell, dissimilar in size and separated by more than two hundred miles, have more in common than might appear at first glance. In the first half of the twentieth century towns such as Milbank and Mitchell formed hubs for commerce, social activities, and culture. Eric Fowler and Sheila Delaney looked at their communities from different viewpoints, but their childhood and young adult memories of South Dakota share common themes.

Presenting the final volume of Eerie Archives, a 320-page grand finale to the complete collection of one of the most acclaimed comics magazines of all time. With tales of terror, mystery, and adventure by comics' finest creators, including William Dubay, Victor de la Fuente, Budd Lewis, Rudy Nebres, and more, Eerie Archives Volume 27 goes out with a resounding bang! Collects Eerie magazines #132 to #139.

'Farm Boys and Girls' is a book that discusses parenting children who are raised in farming or rural environments. As the author puts it: "In the preparation of this book I have had in mind two classes of readers; namely, the rural parents and the many persons who are interested in carrying forward the rural work discussed in the several chapters. It has been my aim to give as much specific aid and direction as possible. The first two chapters constitute a mere outline of some of the fundamental principles of child development. It would be fortunate if the reader who is unfamiliar with such principles could have a course of reading in the volumes that treat them extensively. Nearly every suggestion given in the main body of the book is based on what has already either been undertaken with a degree of success or planned for in some rural community."