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An Englishman in Texas is a memoir by Ron Kenney, an English jockey who came to the United States in 1960. His autobiographical account begins with his childhood in the northeast of England during WWII. He goes on to describe how, with no knowledg...

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Rick Campbell’s latest collection reads like an extended elegy for the poet himself, for his lost loved ones, and for the changes in the wider world. In this way, it is reminiscent of Hardy. This is the work of a man wise in the ways of the ...

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No Evil is Wide  is the linear and violent story of an unnamed narrator, the prostitute he is tasked to “find,” and Carpenter Wells, the man that makes that return impossible. The remembrances of the narrator revolve around sexual...

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Set in contemporary Colorado,  The Autobiography of Francis N. Stein: The Last Promethean  is a hell of a story about the last imagined descendant of Dr. Frankenstein’s wretch—the spurned monster. It offers struggle and patho...

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If, as Philip Larkin says, poetry preserves the memory of the human race, we believe that sweet, smoky, gritty memories of scooting boots across dusty dancefloors in honkey tonks deserve to be part of that record. This collection offers memories o...

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He roams New England, Arkansas, the Caribbean, Nova Scotia and the familiar and odd plots of mind and thought. He explores shorelines and climbs “hillish” mountains. He sits on porches and talks to passersby and their dogs. He meets st...

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It's the late 90s Internet boom, and Brendon Meagher has just lost his wife Sadie in a freakish car accident at the edge of Silicon Valley. The Cyclone Release follows Brendon as he emerges from tragedy and lands in a pre-IPO start-up that promise...

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The Parting Glass, like the old Irish song, is a toast to the places and people who make up the author's roots and base. However Appalachian at its root, it tells a universal story about what grounds and keeps us, even as we move in cities and cir...

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Norbert Oldfoot is a simple mage who makes his living traveling the Bekla River Road, selling trade goods, performing healing magic, and singing traditional songs of heroes. He becomes friends with Kerttu, a coppersmith who has developed a new all...

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A fresh collection of humorous and often satirical essays by Sam Pickering, who keeps telling us it's his last book!

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On a collective level, the human diaspora is incalculable. Our leaving and resettling are as ancient as we are, whether immigrant, refugee, exile, or pioneer. In Splinter, Susan O'Dell Underwood's poems trace the unique experiences of the Appalach...

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A full length poetry collection by 2010 Texas Poet Laureate karla k. morton. morton teaches us to celebrate life as only she can. There's a flow to this collection, through life's inevitable moments, all infused with morton's characteristic passio...

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Everybody Here Is Kin explores the lives of a sinking family and an island community with fears of exposing wounds, old and new, when natural disaster forces them to trust, and depend on, strangers.

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In the same spirit as the iconic The Last Whole Earth Catalog: access to tools, Dana Wildsmith's With Access to Tools offers a means for navigating a new time of change. Opening with a series of odes to traditional tools, each tool is inextricably...

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In the Chinese Cultural Revolution, millions of middle school and high school graduates, called the zhiqing or Educated Youth, were sent up to the mountains and down to the countryside to receive reeducation from the poor peasants. With deep convi...

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"STAY is a hybrid visual story of a British tomboy & clown negotiating place/identity, trauma/neurodiversity, friendship/play, sexuality, and violence. Mixing illustration, photography, and narrative non-fiction, this experimental work transc...

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All Night, All Day is an inspirational collection of personal essays, stories, and poems by outstanding women authors who write about the appearance of the divine in their lives. Some of these angels come to save a life or change a flat tire. Some...

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April 2020, at the height of the pandemic in NYC, Andrew, a funeral director, meets a legendary Coney Island witch doctor (Lelya Dorche), who makes him an offer that could help him to keep his elderly parents and his asthmatic son alive.

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Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology offers 54 poets' takes on often-unsung facets of this diamond in a rhinestone world-calling in Dolly's impeccable comedic timing, her lyric mastery, her business acumen, and her Dollyverse advocacy....

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5 generations of violence and tragedy in the Cortina family including their migration to the US from Mexico. Poverty drives the characters to abandon all hopes of attaining the American Dream.

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A former NPR journalist seeks solace in the world's most dangerous places. The learning curve is steep, and in the end, he must face the impact of the years of danger, death, and destruction.

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the violent story of an unnamed narrator, the prostitute he is tasked to "find," and Carpenter Wells, a man who has lost his soul and wanders, empty, unable to quench his desire.

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Humankind confronts its fraught relationship with the natural world in the stories of Ring of Earth , where William Woolfitt traces the history of survival and resistance in his home region of Appalachia.

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Within these worlds, we travel outward and inward, straddling our lives' oppositions: parental/relationship struggle and loss, home and away, isolation and reconnection, the spiritual/mystical realm and physicality-always balancing grief and reeme...

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Poems to "remind you that you are history, embodied, a living tapestry of everyone who ever was and all they said and forgot and cherished. And wonder how the severed goat's head in the tree still sings" (Brian Sonia Wallace, foreword).

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From a boy's first acquaintance with nature and the meaning of time to witnessing climate change and desolating wars, Theodore Haddin's poems in The Pendulum Moves Off celebrate the lives of humans and Earth's other animal inhabitants with longing...

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The wise and luminous poems in this book circle the disquiet and agitation at the edges of thought as the poet probes the many ways we perceive ourselves failing in the eyes of others.

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Windkeep is book 2 in a series about Tessia the Dragon Queen and her loyal advisor and friend Norbert Oldfoot, a gentle mage who has no desire to wield the powerful magics he probably could use if he were not such a good person.

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A troubled marriage set against the background of the AIDS pandemic and the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq lies at the heart of After Camus . Saul and Tolle return to a village in the South of France where they first fell in love.

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