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All the time you want Keith Taylor
In Selected Poems, Keith Taylor, acclaimed poet of the Upper Midwest and the author of eighteen celebrated collections, delivers a stunning medley of his most lasting work: poems that remain vivid in the imagination,… More
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Like a Woman Debra Busman
Like Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, Debra Busman’s like a woman is a vivid coming-of-age story, revealing the lives of teenage girls on the streets of Los Angeles, trying to hold onto their… More
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Little Sister Death William Gay
A stirring literary rendition of Tennessee’s famed Curse of the Bell Witch, Little Sister Death skillfully toes the line between Southern Gothic and horror, and further cements William Gay’s legacy as not only one … More
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Loreena’s Gift Colleen M. Story
A blind girl’s terrifying “gift” allows her to regain her eyesight— but only as she ferries the recently deceased into the afterlife.… More
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Love Doesn’t Work Henning Koch
SUMMARY:Stories hilarious and haunting, characters reckless and wary, wise and wanting"Love Doesn’t Work" works absolutely. These stories have a futuristic feel to themalmost a literary science… More
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Machines Like Us Joshua R. Helms
Machines Like Us is part love story, part dreamscape, part exploration of self. For the characters (Speaker, Boy, and Historian), love is dangerous, disorienting, self-erasing. To understand themselves as individuals,… More
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Misfits and Other Heroes Suzanne Burns
Suzanne Burns’ Misfits and Other Heroes is a wickedly insightful, brilliantly constructed collection of fourteen stories which are at once fearless and full of hope. In tales of the familiar turned on their heads,… More
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Miss Me Forever Eugene Cross
Tulsi Gurung arrives in Pennsylvania on a day so impossibly damp and gray he wonders if he’s landed on the underside of the world. He is sixteen and brimming with wonder and fear. Born and raised in Refugee Camp Goldhap,… More
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Movie Stars Jack Pendarvis
These stories are linked by humor, setting, themes, and recurring characters—cat lovers, murderers, gamblers, ghosts, and fools—but mostly by the movie stars, gods, and goddesses who look down on us struggling mortals… More
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Movieola! John Domini
With the wit of Steve Erickson’s Zeroville and the inventive spirit of Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics, John Domini offers a collection at once comical and moving, care- fully suspended between a game of language and a … More
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My Beautiful Hook-Nosed Beauty Queen Strut Wave Jeff Kass
It’s hard to be a teacher. Hard to be a father. Harder still to be a husband. How do you survive? You look for joy everywhere you can. You write poems about those moments to keep them alive in your breast. These poems… More
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My Life as a Mermaid Jen Grow
This debut collection stares down the dark side of what it means to live ‘happily ever after.’ The characters — among them, a suburban wife, an alcoholic mother, two homeless men, and an injured veteran — grapple with … More
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My Red Heaven Lance Olsen
Set on a single day in 1927, My Red Heaven imagines a host of characters—some historic, some invented—crossing paths on the streets of Berlin. The subjects include Robert Musil, Otto Dix, Werner Heisenberg, Anita… More
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Neighbors of Nothing Jason Ockert
Neighbors of Nothing examines characters who find themselves searching for new identities in worlds they no longer recognize. Through odd, compelling, and sometimes futile gestures, these characters struggle… More
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Night Songs Kristina Marie Darling
Night Songs builds within its pages an atmosphere Proustian-no, not sentences running the course of many pages; no, not any simply measured loquaciousness. Rather, we find here a poetry concerned with music, subsuming… More
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Not Constantinople Nicholas Bredie
Between get-rich schemes and run-ins with Kurdish separatists, Fred watches the transformation of his new city as historic neighborhoods are gobbled up by greedy developers and the city’s rapacious elite. Lauded… More