Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Brockelman's book is a loving tribute to his philosopher father as well as an artful exploration of various important philosophical issues that are relevant to everyday life, such as the nature of religious belief, the d...
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Literary Nonfiction. Hurd's brilliant book about climate change is also a book about storytelling, about paying attention to little, most invisible things that manage to survive without heroics, or the help of heroes. There are many books about clim...
Poetry. "Townsley has a restless imagination—he conjures ghosts from the past, and out of fragmented memories he melds animal fables, parables, liturgies, dream visions, political debates, and a seance or two."—Ron Block"Reading him is a 'dark pleas...
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Poetry. Larry Watson vividly animates the world of memory, as one might expect from an accomplished fiction writer, but the language here also exhibits the ear and lyrical dexterity of a fine poet. These poems contain many great stories, but also de...
Poetry. Like Woody Guthrie, one finds Philip Raisor holding back the end of the world. His poems slow dance with the past, from the American Revolution to the latest black body lying on the ground. With its hard-earned kinship with historical wisdom...
Fiction. One August morning while walking her dog, high-school English teacher Beatrice Ousterhout stumbles over the dead body of a student, Amber Inglin, who was to play the lead in Beatrice's production of John Webster's Jacobean tragedy, The Duch...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. "Sarah Jefferis has gifted us with a beautiful collection, crafted with intelligence, wit, and transcendent hope," says Jose Rodriquez. Ansel Elkins calls WHAT ENTERS THE MOUTH "a brave collection of fearles...
Literary Nonfiction. Photography. Poetry. Caribbean Studies. MY ANTIGUA, AN ISLAND REVEALED is a collection of beautifully crafted and often poignant photographs, stories and poems by 13 "at risk" students in a media education program sponsored by t...
Fiction. Compelling, gritty and funny, DOING TIME OUTSIDE travels the back roads of family life to better understand what it means to be tied by blood and love to the world of mental illness, addiction and incarceration. Through compassion for her c...
Fiction. LGBT Studies. "Jennifer Pashley is a phenomenal young writer with perfect pitch for the messy world we all live in now. THE CONJURER is riddled with romance and terror, anxiety and mystery, threat and uneasy relief. All our frailties are on...
Fiction. Bronze Medal for Literary Fiction, 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Two time SPD Bestseller: July 2012 and May 2013. In these three linked novellas, Boatwright explores the lasting effects of the Vietnam War on people living in its s...
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Graphic Design. Adam Rozum is one of the finest graphic designers in the nation, and this book in an important contribution to the field of logo design. Rozum's ability to interweave the essentials of design theory with pra...
Fiction. Written over the course of a quarter century by one of Alaska's best living writers, these two dozen stories embody the spirit of Alaska—its colliding cultures, magnificent beauty and dangerously unforgiving environment."John Smelcer is Ala...
Poetry. Set in the World War II era, Weltner's series of narrative poems evoke a time and people whose stories, charged with erotic intensity and pain, speak to how the passions and struggles of past generations still haunt us today.
Poetry. "The electricity here has such an incandescence, it could be resurgent voltage from Emily Dickinson in distress. What haunts the whole book, in the surge and aftermath of eros, in the empathy for family and for strangers, and in jolts of rec...