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Stick Figure with Skirt
by Cathryn Cofell
Publisher: Main Street Rag
Genres: Poetry
"This book is Dickinsonian in its way of believing in the power of the mind, the internal world, the imagination that always reaches beyond the self." —Jericho Brown |
Release Date:
November 19, 2020
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Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic
by Karla Huebner
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Genres: art history, biography
Part art book and part biography, Magnetic Woman examines the life and work of the artist Toyen (Marie Čermínová, 1902–80), a founding member of the Prague surrealist group, and focuses on her construction of gender and eroticism. |
Release Date:
November 8, 2020
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Colleen's County
by Rick Henry
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Genres: Fiction
Colleen O’Shea, asked to count the vehicles driving through a rural town in 1933, is interrupted by friends, secrets, and an unplanned pregnancy. |
Release Date:
October 16, 2020
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Paper $19.99 |
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By Broad Potomac's Shore: Great Poems from the Early Days of Our Nation's Capital
by Kim Roberts
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Genres: Poetry
A comprehensive anthology of 132 poets, well-known and overlooked, who lived in Washington, DC from the city’s founding in 1800 to 1930. The book celebrates women poets, working class poets, and poets of color, including a significant number of poets born enslaved. "Impeccable research." |
Release Date:
October 1, 2020
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A Place of Exodus: Home, Memory, and Texas
by David Biespiel
Publisher: Kelson Books
Genres: Memoir
Acclaimed poet and memoirist David Biespiel tells the story of the rise and fall of a Jewish boyhood in Texas, and his search for the answer to his life’s central riddle: Are we ever done leaving home? |
Release Date:
September 30, 2020
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Paper $20.00 |
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Working Hypothesis
by Charles Malone
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Genres: Poetry
"A generous skepticism about the nature of knowledge, paired with an abiding care about nature itself, undergirds Charlie Malone’s frank, witty, and deeply searching Working Hypothesis" —Dan Beachy-Quick |
Release Date:
September 18, 2020
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The Incredible Shrinking Woman
by Athena Dixon
Publisher: Split/Lip Press
Genres: Essay, Memoir, Creative Non-Fiction
A quiet retelling of a life in the background, Athena Dixon's debut essay collection is a gentle unpacking of the roles she learned to inhabit, growing up as a Black woman in a small Midwestern town, to avoid disruption.
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Release Date:
September 15, 2020
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Each of Us Killers
by Jenny Bhatt
Publisher: 7.13 Books
Genres: Literary Fiction
Set in the American Midwest, England, and India, the stories in EACH OF US KILLERS are set at the intersection between labor and our emotional lives; about people trying to realize their dreams and aspirations through their professions. |
Release Date:
September 8, 2020
Launch Event:
September 8, 2020
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Mannequin and Wife: Stories
by Jen Fawkes
Publisher: LSU Press
Genres: Short Stories
The award-winning tales in Mannequin and Wife trip seamlessly across borderlands, navigating the mundane and the marvelous. These stories examine the vagaries of human relationships, teasing out the startling complications that arise from our associations with those we loathe and those we love. |
Release Date:
September 2, 2020
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Paper $22.46
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Comanche
by Brett Riley
Publisher: Imbrifex Books
Genres: Western Horror
Something is killing the people of Comanche, Texas. Rumors fly that it’s the ghost of The Piney Woods Kid, back to wreak vengeance on the descendants of the vigilantes who killed him. Those investigating the murders soon find themselves in the killer's cross-hairs. |
Release Date:
September 1, 2020
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Cloth $25.00
Electronic $8.79 |
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The Last Story of Mina Lee
by Nancy Jooyoun Kim
Publisher: Park Row Books
Genres: Literary Fiction
A profoundly moving and unconventional mother-daughter saga, The Last Story of Mina Lee illustrates the devastating realities of being an immigrant in America. |
Release Date:
September 1, 2020
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Cloth $27.99
Electronic $13.99 |
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A Ritchie Boy
by Linda Kass
Publisher: She Writes Press
Genres: Historical Fiction
In A Ritchie Boy, interconnected stories reveal the compelling journey of one young immigrant’s triumph in America during World War II. Inspired by true events. |
Release Date:
Sptember 1, 2020
Launch Event:
September 15, 2020
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Paper $16.95
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Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World
by Jennifer Sinor
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Genres: Nonfiction
Set over a period of fifteen years, the essays move from external to internal landscapes and ask how we hold both the sorrow and the grace offered us every single day. |
Release Date:
September, 2020
Launch Event:
October 12, 2020
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A Place Remote: Stories
by Gwen Goodkin
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Genre: Fiction
From farm to factory, alcoholism to war wounds, friendship to betrayal, the stories in ‘A Place Remote take us intimately into the hearts of people from all walks of life in a rural Ohio town. |
Release Date:
September 1, 2020
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Paper $18.99
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Blizzard
by Henri Cole
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Genres: Poetry
“An artist of the greatest gifts.” —Louise Glück
Daring, tender, truthful, the poems in Blizzard, Henri Cole’s tenth book, build on a reputation for quiet mastery. |
Release Date:
September 1, 2020
Launch Event:
September 1, 2020
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Cloth $24.00
Electronic $11.99 |
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scenery
by José Felipe Alvergue
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Genres: poetry
From casta paintings to riots, from the delivery room to parenthood: What is the kind of emotion a face demonstrates, or a body, an assembly? scenery approaches the empathy we come to feel when the language we’ve made is dulled by the roles we are also expected to occupy against one another. |
Release Date:
September 1, 2020
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Paper $24.00 |
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Winter Counts
by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Publisher: Ecco
Genres: Native American, thriller
“Winter Counts is a marvel. It’s a thriller with a beating heart and jagged teeth--a brilliant meditation on power and violence. Weiden is a powerful new voice. I couldn’t put it down.”
—Tommy Orange, author of There There |
Release Date:
August 25, 2020
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Electronic $14.99 |
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The Artifact Hunters
by Janet Fox
Publisher: Viking Children's
Genres: middle grade
"Detailed and fast-paced, each [episode] moving the tale forward, and there are lots of unexpected twists, turns, and revelations." —Kirkus |
Release Date:
August 25, 2020
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Or What We'll Call Desire
by Alexandra Teague
Publisher: Persea
Genres: Poetry
This heartrending and darkly playful new collection of poems by Alexandra Teague mixes high-art and popular culture in an exploration of the representation and misrepresentation of the female form. |
Release Date:
August 20, 2020
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paper $15.95 |
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Hysteria
by Jessica Gross
Publisher: Unnamed Press
Genres: Fiction
A troubled young woman becomes convinced her Brooklyn bartender is Sigmund Freud. |
Release Date:
August 18, 2020
Launch Event:
August 18, 2020
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Paper $18.00 |
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What Falls Away Is Always: Poems and Conversations
by Richard Terrill
Publisher: Holy Cow! Press
Genres: Poetry
“The collection ends on a tour de force sequence of poems, forging a compelling understanding of jazz and music with a juxtaposition to living our lives inside our lives.”
Alberto Rios, Board of Chancellors, Academy of American Poets.
“This is what great poetry does.”
Michael Torres, NPS Winner |
Release Date:
August 17, 2020
Launch Event:
September 13, 2020
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Paper $16.00 |
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Grief Land: Poems
by Carrie Shipers
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Genres: Poetry
In Grief Land Carrie Shipers explores the paradoxical nature of bereavement as both a universal human experience and an intensely personal one. The collection explores living with grief without being consumed by it and how to emerge into a new life. |
Release Date:
August 15, 2020
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Dear October
by Mary Morris
Publisher: Texas Review Press
Genres: Poetry
In caring for her mother before death, Mary Morris has moved a familiar subject forward with new beauty, truth, and humor. These poems are part folklore, part history, part mysticism. Dear October should be a choice for “Best of the Year.”
—Grace Cavalieri, Maryland Poet Laureate |
Release Date:
August 15, 2020
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Paper $19.95 |
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Powerfully Perplexing Presidential Profiles
by Rod Martinez
Publisher: Histria Books
Genres: non-fiction
Powerfully Perplexing Presidential Profiles is a fun fact/trivia book on our United States Presidents from George Washington to Donald Trump, written in a fun, witty style, to make learning entertaining and enjoyable. The book includes a never before published timeline linking two presidents. |
Release Date:
August 15, 2020
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Paper $24.99 |
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A Candle for San Simón
by Kelly Daniels
Publisher: Owl Canyon Press
Genres: Literary Thriller
“Daniels embraces his characters, no matter how low they go, and they do go low. It takes storytelling chops to follow characters into hell - just ask Beckett, or Dostoyevsky, or Dickens.” —Midwest Book Review
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Release Date:
August 15, 2020
Launch Event:
August 1, 2020
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The Monsters We Make
by Kali White
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Genres: Crime Fiction
In the early 1980’s, a pair of paperboy kidnappings rocks a small Midwestern city, bringing secrets to the surface for a single mother, her two children, and a local cop. Inspired by the real-life Des Moines paperboy cases, The Monsters We Make explores the effects of one crime exposing another. |
Release Date:
August 11, 2020
Launch Event:
August 12, 2020
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Electronic $12.99 |
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Devil's Lake
by Sarah M. Sala
Publisher:Tolsun Books
Genres: Poetry
Devil's Lake ripples with formal invention as Sarah M. Sala finds ways to talk about love. Her images are unadorned, her style telegraphic and surreal as she contends with the violences that endanger women and women's desire for each other. Devil's Lake shook me awake! —CAConrad |
Release Date:
August 11, 2020
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This Is How We Leave
by Joanne Nelson
Publisher: Vine Leaves Press
Genres: memoir
"A wise and generous memoir, keenly observed, unflinchingly recorded, written with humor, empathy, and love. Nelson's coming of age—as a daughter, sister, wife and mother herself—feels worthy and true." —Dinah Lenney |
Release Date:
August 11, 2020
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Paper $14.99
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Between Inca Walls, A Peace Corps Memoir
by Evelyn Kohl LaTorre
Publisher: She Writes Press
Genres: Memoir
An adventurous and romantically inclined twenty-on-year old seeks fulfillment volunteering in Mexico and Peru. She joins the Peace Corps and works in the Andes, where she falls in love with her village, her indigenous pupils—and a university student. |
Release Date:
August 11, 2020
Launch Event:
August 19, 2020
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Paper $16.95
Electronic $9.95 |
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Law & Authors: A Legal Handbook for Writers
by Jacqueline Lipton
Publisher: University of California Press
Genres: Nonfiction
This accessible, reader-friendly handbook is an invaluable resource for authors, agents, and editors in navigating the legal landscape of the contemporary publishing industry for both traditionally published and self-published authors. |
Release Date:
August 4, 2020
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Cloth $80.00
Paper $22.95
Electronic $22.95 |
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The Likely World
by Melanie Conroy-Goldman
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Genres: Fiction
Single mother Mellie has barely emerged from a prolonged addiction to cloud, a mood drug with a devastating impact on the formation of memories, when an achingly familiar stranger appears outside her home. |
Release Date:
August 4, 2020
Launch Event:
August 4, 2020
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Gaijin
by Sarah Z Sleeper
Publisher: Running Wild Press
Genres: Fiction
Lucy is a journalist at Northwestern University and she’s in love with an exotic new student, Owen Ota. When he disappears without explanation, sets out on a three-month quest across Japan to find him. She finds anti-U.S. protests and menacing street thugs, and no trace of Owen. |
Release Date:
August 1, 2020
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August 1, 2020
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Electronic $9.49 |
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I'm Feeling Blue, Too!
by Marjorie Maddox
Publisher: Wipf and Stock
Genres: Poetry
"What do you get when you take a morsel of midnight, a pinch of sky, a splash of sea, a flower petal, a bee-kissed mulberry, the hum of blue firs? . . . .Maddox leads young readers across mood-lifting, make-believe landscapes. Feeling blue has never felt so good!" —David L. Harrison, author |
Release Date:
August 1, 2020
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Relentless: From National Champion to Physically Disabled Activist
by Katherine Itacy
Publisher: E.L. Marker
Genres: Self-Help Memoir |
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July 28, 2020
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Spindle City
by Jotham Burrello
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Genres: Historical Fiction
In Spindle City, a delicately embroidered novel stitched with intrigue, author Jotham Burrello reimagines the early twentieth-century heyday of Fall River, Massachusetts. A stunning debut that masters the nuances of William Howard Taft’s America and the intricacies of the human condition. |
Release Date:
July 21, 2020
Launch Event:
AUgust 20, 2020
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If You Have Something to Say, Margaret
by Marge Barrett
Publisher:CW Books
Genres: Poetry
A collection of deeply personal poems that offer a rare and powerful look into a diverse set of complex topics including family, relationships, fear, and life. The poems vary in form and style but are consistent in their rich language and vivid imagery. |
Release Date:
August 10, 2020
Launch Event:
September 17, 2020
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Paper $19.00
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Comets
by Joseph Allen Costa
Publisher: Unsolicited Press
Genres: realistic fiction
Comets follows the struggles of Italian, Cuban and American cabinetmakers in Ybor City, Tampa's Latin Quarter. The book examines the complexities of family and the ways that honor, tradition and responsibility create fissures in the human spirit. |
Release Date:
July 14, 2020
Launch Event:
July 7, 2020 (contact author for password)
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Paper $17.00 |
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Summertime Fine
by Jason B Crawford
Publisher: Variant Literature
Genres: Poetry
The poems in Summertime Fine are built to live on the tongue. Full of block parties and Slurpee machine, and cayenne and ribs, the collection reminds us that what we taste, what we savor, we consume. —Ross White |
Release Date:
July 11, 2020
Launch Event:
July 11, 2020
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Where the Lighthouse Begins
by Timothy Houghton
Publisher: Salmon Poetry
Genres: Poetry
“What lies behind much of the lyric poems in Where the Lighthouse Begins is a motivating sense of loss: in some poems, a dead father, an aging mother, a troubled brother; or, in other poems, a conflict, such as a war. The natural world also plays a major role, as a redeeming force, often in the form of the birds that are so much a part of the poet's life. Sometimes, too, humor is present as a source of relief. By the end of the book, readers may feel that the mystery of time is perhaps the most fundamental theme. |
Release Date:
July 8, 2020
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Can I Kick It?: Sneaker Microfiction and Poetry
by Ran Walker and Van G. Garrett
Publisher: 45 Alternate Press, LLC
Genres: Short Stories/Poetry
Whether it's for the comfort, the style, the collectibility, or the investment potential, sneakers play a huge role in pop culture. Ran Walker and Van G. Garrett decided to explore the various aspects of sneaker culture in this collection of microfiction and poetry. |
Release Date:
July 7, 2020
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Paper $12.00 |
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Deep River Blues
by Tony Ray Morris
Publisher: Northampton House Press
Genres: Fiction
“With the perception of a poet and the knack of a novelist, Tony Ray Morris joins the ranks of some of the finest crime fiction writers. In turn part James Lee Burke, Tennessee Williams, and William Faulkner, Deep River Blues will pull you under and have you gasping for breath.“ —Craig Johnson |
Release Date:
July 7, 2020
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Cloth $27.95
Electronic $7.99 |
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The Purpose of Things
by Peter Serchuk, Photographs by Pieter de Koninck
Publisher: Regal House Publishing
Genres: Poetry/Photograph
"When William Carlos Williams said of poetry ‘No ideas but in things,’ he seems to have predicted the power of these pairs of poems and photographs. This book allows us to experience things, poetically, in their transcendent states.” |
Release Date:
July 6, 2020
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Code
by Charlotte Pence
Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
Genres: Poetry
"At its nexus, Code contains a narrative featuring the voices of a father, a mother who is dying from an inherited disease, & the mother's own DNA (in a prescient turn of poetic adroitness). Never have I encountered such tenderness and scrutiny in the scientific turned elegiac." —Diana Khoi Nguyen |
Release Date:
July 2, 2020
Launch Event:
July 6, 2020
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Paper $17.95 |
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Why Did I Get a B? And Other Mysteries We're Discussing in the Faculty Lounge
by Shannon Reed
Publisher: Atria Books/Simon & Schuster
Genres: Humor, Memoir
“Funny...revealing....So send this book to your favorite teacher.” —People, Book of the Week
This hilarious, inspirational, and wise collection of personal essays and humor from a longtime educator explores all the joys, challenges, and absurdities of being a teacher. |
Release Date:
June 30, 2020
Launch Event:
July 9, 2020
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Cloth $26.00
Electronic $11.99 |
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Lost Girls
by Ellen Birkett Morris
Publisher: Touchpoint
Genres: Fiction
“A dazzling collection of stories that showcases Morris' impressive ability to hide devastating truths within seemingly small moments.” —Jenny Offill |
Release Date:
June 26, 2020
Launch Event:
June 26, 2020
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Electronic $3.99 |
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Drumming Armageddon
by George Drew
Publisher: Madville Publishing
Genre: Poetry
George Drew's Drumming Armageddon is, without question, not merely a celebration of the blues, but the blues in fact. He leaves us wrung out and worn out and whole, putting our envies and sins aside for a little while and saying, Lord have mercy, that boy can sing. |
Release Date:
June 23, 2020
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Paper $18.95 |
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Name Your Bird Without A Gun: A Tarot Romance
by Emily Carr
Publisher: Spork
Genres: Poetry
You might think the magic in Emily Carr’s Name Your Bird Without a Gun would be in its Tarot-generated love story, and sure, that’s sufficiently magical, but the real magic in this book is in its opulent and sultry renderings of nature’s movements, of the world just being its ravishing self. |
Release Date:
June 23, 2020
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WRITING WILD: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World
by Kathryn Aalto
Publisher: Timber Press
Genres: Nature and Science
In Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women, both historical and current, whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world. These inspiring wordsmiths are scholars, spiritual seekers, conservationists, scientists, novelists, and explorers |
Release Date:
June 23, 2020
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Paper $24.95
Electronic $9.99 |
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The Same Moon
by Sarah Coomber
Publisher: Camphor Press
Genres: memoir/travel
Recently wed—and quickly divorced—twenty-four-year-old Sarah Coomber is looking for a do-over. She escapes the disappointments of her Minnesota life for a job teaching English in Japan. What she finds when she gets there is far from what she expected, but it just might be exactly what she needs. |
Release Date:
June 18, 2020
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Paper $17.99
Electronic $7.99 |
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A Short Move
by Katherine Hill
Publisher: Ig Publishing
Genres: Fiction
“An ode to both the singular glory and the heavy cost of greatness. Katherine Hill uses the rhythms of the sports novel to explore everything from the complexities of masculinity to the illusion that is the American Dream―and makes the form her own in the process." —Laura van den Berg |
Release Date:
June 16, 2020
Launch Event:
June 18, 2020
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The Secret Music at Tordesillas
by Marjorie Sandor
Publisher: Hidden River Press
Genres: Fiction
"An historical novel of striking imagination and lyricism, this sly tale of sixteenth-century Spain, with its secrets and masks involving the interrelationships of Catholics, Muslims and Jews, has an uncanny bearing on our own country's diversity tensions." —Philip Lopate |
Release Date:
June 15, 2020
Launch Event:
June 1, 2020
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Paper $20.00
Electronic $9.99 |
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Caught Between Worlds: Tom, Mikhail and Alexander the Great
by Therese Amrhein Tappouni
Publisher: BookBaby
Genres: Historic Adventure
Tom from Tampa, FL. and Mikhail from Baghdad join forces with Alexander the Great, a Kurdish leader, a Yezidi healer and others to rescue Tom's father from Iranian terrorists in Iraq. They combine the American "Can-do" and the Middle Eastern Ins'Allah (as God Wills to succeed). |
Release Date:
June 10, 2020
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A Fish Growing Lungs
by Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn
Publisher: Burrow Press
Genres: Nonfiction |
Release Date:
June 9, 2020
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Electronic $9.99 |
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The Clearing
by Allison Adair
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Genres: Poetry
Winner of the 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Clearing is “a lush, lyrical book about a world where women are meant to carry things to safety and men leave decisively” —Henri Cole, starred review from Publishers Weekly. |
Release Date:
June 9, 2020
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Cloth $22.00
Electronic $10.99 |
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Investigative Creative Writing: Teaching and Practice
by Mark Spitzer
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Genres: creative writing pedagogy
Investigative Creative Writing is a lively and original treatment of creative writing practice and teaching within a college/university environment. The author presents an experiential, discovery-based approach that builds on teaching theories that make learning both revelatory and revolutionary. |
Release Date:
June 6, 2020
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Cloth $38.00
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Short on Days
by Phillip Sterling
Publisher: Main Street Rag
Genres: Poetry
“Phillip Sterling has filled his February to overflowing with forty twenty-eight word poems not only of time but of place…Salted discreetly with chime and allusion, they burst out of the limits of their form.” —Eric Torgersen |
Release Date:
June 3, 2020
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Mostly Water: Reflections Rural and North
by Mary Odden
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Genres: memoir, linked essays
From women cowboys to arctic villages, Mary Odden’s linked essays transport the reader along light-filled paths at the top of a shrinking world. Visit maryodden.com, watch video book trailer. |
Release Date:
June 2, 2020
Launch Event:
June 3, 2020
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Paper $16.95
Electronic $9.99 |
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Wolf
by Douglas A. Martin
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Genres: Fiction
"Wolf is a horror story, a love story, story of survival, of parenting and of coming of age. It manages to be so many contradictory things by a-newly creating the English language—by making a brand new English that is both alienating and intimate. It is a marvel." —Tiphanie Yanique |
Release Date:
June 2, 2020
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Paper $15.95
Electronic $9.49 |
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Outline of My Lover, twentieth anniversary edition
by Douglas A. Martin
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Genres: Fiction
"a piece of stylish and ferociously sharp prose."--Colm Toibin | "For me, it isn't just a 'queer story' or a 'queer narrative' or 'queer characters.' It queered structure. It queered syntax and vocabulary. It queered tense. It gave me permission to question..." —Tommy Pico |
Release Date:
June 2, 2020
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Paper $14.95
Electronic $9.49 |
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Side by Side but Never Face to Face: a Novella and Stories
by Maggie Kast
Publisher: Orison Books
Genres: Short Fiction, Fiction
"Maggie Kast has a gift for illuminating her characters’ inner lives, and these beautiful stories, as they shuttle gracefully between past and present, Europe and America, strike a profound and satisfying balance between intimacy and mystery." —Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness |
Release Date:
June 2, 2020
Launch Event:
August 27, 2020
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Paper $15.00 (pre-order)
Electronic $9.99 |
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Category Five
by Ann Dávila Cardinal
Publisher: Tor Teen / Macmillan
Genres: young adult supernatural thriller
Category Five is a mystery-driven supernatural YA thriller and follow-up to Five Midnights. Set in Puerto Rico, Cardinal pens a wickedly thrilling tale that brings to life the sobering reality of island life post Hurricane Maria. |
Release Date:
June 2, 2020
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Electronic $9.99 |
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Was Body
by Billie R. Tadros
Publisher: Indolent Books
Genres: Poetry
“[A] fresh & haunting reintroduction to the corporeal form as a wilderness for word play & reclamation.” —Meg Day, author of Last Psalm at Sea Level |
Release Date:
June 1, 2020
Launch Event:
June 1, 2020
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Paper $18.00 |
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This Is One Way to Dance
by Sejal Shah
Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
Genres: Creative Nonfiction / Essays
In the linked essays that make up her debut collection, This Is One Way to Dance, Sejal Shah explores culture, language, family, and place. Throughout the collection, Shah reflects on what it means to make oneself visible and legible through writing in a country that struggles with race. |
Release Date:
June 1, 2020
Launch Event:
June 2, 2020
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Paper $22.95
Electronic $22.95 |
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Ivy is a Weed
by Robert M. Roseth
Publisher: Robert M. Roseth
Genres: Mystery (but funny)
Was Jeremy Ronson, a top-ranked university official, defenestrated, or did he defenestrate himself? The police decide his death was accidental, but Mike Woodsen, the university’s PR director, is not convinced. He decides to investigate the death on his own. |
Release Date:
June 1, 2020
Launch Event:
June 2, 2020
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Paper $13.99
Electronic $2.99 |
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Deep Beauty: Experiencing Wonder When the World Is on Fire
edited by Catherine Lee and Rosemary Winslow
Publisher: Woodhall Press
This 41-essay collection explores race, protest movements, environmental woes, and angst on the eve of the 2016 presidential election, among other topics. The collection’s award-winning writers find that true beauty — deep beauty — can still be part of our lives despite the chaos around us. |
Release Date:
June 1, 2020
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Paper $19.95 |
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Island of the Innocent: a Consideration of the Book of Job
by Diane Glancy
Publisher: Turtle Point Press
Genres: poetry / poetic prose
Christianity and the Native American are rarely found harmoniously in the same sentence, let alone the same poem. Yet Diane Glancy's sensibility makes her sui generis, allowing her to write around these two subjects until they sing. What bounty to have Glancy's great art erupt once more. |
Release Date:
June 1, 2020
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Gas! Gas! Gas!
by Guy Choate, Illustrations by Evan Hallmark
Publisher: Runaway Trolley Press
Genres: Illustrated Essay
Artist Evan Hallmark interprets this essay from writer Guy Choate's account of enduring basic combat training and the result is a collaborative piece of art readers will find aesthetically and emotionally endearing. |
Release Date:
May 29, 2020
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The Distance Between Stars
by Jeff Elzinga
Publisher: Water's Edge Press
Genres: Literary Fiction
In an African country quickly sliding towards civil war, an American diplomat adrift in his personal life searches for an investigative reporter who has gone missing in the bush. THE DISTANCE BETWEEN STARS is a story about duty, race, and national identity. |
Release Date:
May 24, 2020
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The Wall at the Edge of the World
by Amanda Cockrell writing as Damion Hunter
Publisher: Canelo
Genres: Historical fiction
A novel of a second-century Roman army surgeon in Britain and the building of the Antonine Wall. |
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May 21, 2020
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Anthropocene
by Dean Gessie
Publisher: Raw Art Review
Genres: Short Story Collection
Anthropocene has won two international competitions for a short story collection. Dean Gessie has won eight international short story competitions. Henry Stanton, publisher at Uncollected Press, says, "Gessie is one of the finest short story writers in the world." |
Release Date:
May 20, 2020
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Things You Would Know If You Grew Up Around Here
by Nancy Wayson Dinan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Genres: Magical realism
Set during the devastating Memorial Day floods in Texas, a surreal, empathetic novel for readers of Station Eleven. In the aftermath of historic flooding, a young woman sets off across the Texas backcountry to rescue a friend, not knowing that the storm has awoken the region's ghosts. |
Release Date:
May 19, 2020
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The Prettiest Star
by Carter Sickels
Publisher: Hub City Press
Genres: Fiction
The Prettiest Star, set in 1986, is about Brian Jackson, a young gay man with AIDS, who leaves New York to return to the small town where he grew up. The novel examines the AIDS crisis of the 1980s through the lens of rural America. It’s about silence, shame, and the binds of home and love. |
Release Date:
May 19, 2020
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Unbecoming
by Lesley Wheeler
Publisher: Aqueduct Press
Genres: Novel
An excellent feminist fantasy...Readers will be taken with this powerful and deeply satisfying tale. —Starred review, Publishers Weekly |
Release Date:
May 15, 2020
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The Grief Manuscript
by Frankie Rollins
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Genres: Fiction
Open this book knowing you’ll be greeted by pain so pure as to border on the ecstatic. Expect, too, to be seared by immaculate images, ransacked by dexterous tonal range, and shorn to the bone by the wry sweep of grief written into, which is not to say explained. |
Release Date:
May 15, 2020
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Vortex Street
by Page Hill Starzinger
Publisher: Barrow Street Press
Genres: Poetry
"Last swelling of the uterus, last circuit of a childhood home, last flare of recognition on a father’s face. . . . We love the world because we are doomed to lose it, and nowhere is that love more eloquently manifest than in Vortex Street," writes Linda Gregerson. |
Release Date:
May 15, 2020
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Glorious Boy
by Aimee Liu
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Genres: Fiction
“A riveting amalgam of history, family epic, anticolonial/antiwar treatise, cultural crossroads, and more, this latest from best-selling author Liu is a fascinating, irresistible marvel.” —Library Journal, starred review
"The most memorable and original novel I've read in ages." —Pico Iyer |
Release Date:
May 15, 2020
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May 12, 2020
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Hello Universe Lovers
by Keith Mark Gaboury
Publisher: Duck Lake Books
Genres: Poetry
The poems of Hello Universe Lovers are an invitation to come on a cosmic journey of the past, present, and future all linked by our one orbiting planet. Will you come on this journey? Let’s begin. |
Release Date:
May 15, 2020
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The Art of Disobedience: Essays on Form, Fiction, and Influence
by K. L. Cook
Publisher: Ice Cube Press
Genres: Nonfiction
In these essays, award-winning fiction writer K. L. Cook draws upon decades of writing and teaching to explore significant issues of aesthetics, craft, form, process, influence, and what it means to spend a life in letters. |
Release Date:
May 15, 2020
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The Three of Them
by Zeke Jarvis
Publisher: Rogue Phoenix Press
Genres: Young Adult/Disabled protagonist
Harper, Krista, and James share two things in common. They all have disabilities, and they all have paranormal abilities. Both of those things leave the three separated from their peers but closer to each other. When a malevolent force within their high school begins to threaten them... |
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May 13, 2020
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The Poet's Garage
by Terry Tierney
Publisher: Unsolicited Press
Genres: Poetry
Enriched by deep images that refuse to remain static, The Poet’s Garage explores personal relationships, the environment, and the effects of war with simple language and occasional humor. |
Release Date:
May 12, 2020
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Exit thru the Afro
by Jalynn Harris
Publisher: SoftSavagePress
Genres: Poetry
When was the last time you went to a queer museum in the future? Well, looks like you’re in for a ride. Exit Thru the Afro is excited for you to explore our galleries. Make sure you stop by the juke joint & hop in a fast car with Tracy Chapman, all the other queer and trans folks featured here. |
Release Date:
May 10, 2020
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Fagg Nation
by Tristen Fagg
Publisher: Thicker Ink Press
Genres: Nonfiction
Fagg Nation is a compelling collection that explores the relationships in Fagg’s large Mormon family and their role as the baby in the line-up as Fagg negotiates through the past and present. She reveals hard truths about experiences within these relationships with great sensitivity and skill. |
Release Date:
May 9, 2020
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May 9, 2020
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Exile Music
by Jennifer Steil
Publisher: Viking Books
Genres: Literary Fiction, LGBTQ Fiction, Historical Fiction
Based on an untold slice of World War II history, Exile Music follows a family of Jewish musicians who flee Vienna in 1939 to seek refuge in the mountains of Bolivia. Between 10,000 and 20,000 Jewish refugees sought asylum in Bolivia during World War II, many of them artists and musicians. |
Release Date:
May 5, 2020
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May 30, 2020
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Taking the Homeless Census
by Alexis Ivy
Publisher: Saturnalia Books
Genres: Poetry
“Alexis Ivy has boundaries without borders. Her touch of what others have touched–their needles, their drink, their piss– turns her hands into doorways that open to so many wondrous and homeless rooms. You think you’ve seen it all, and then she opens herself.” —Barrett Warner |
Release Date:
May 5, 20220
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After Rubén
by Francisco Aragón
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Genres: poetry, prose
After Rubén unfolds as a decades-long journey in poems and prose, braiding the personal, the political & the historical, interspersing along the way English-languish versions & riffs of a Spanish-language master: Rubén Darío. |
Release Date:
May 5, 2020
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May 5, 2020
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Vanishing Monuments
by John Elizabeth Stintzi
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Genres: Literary Fiction
A brilliant novel whose lead character returns home to their long-estranged mother who is now suffering from dementia. |
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May 4, 2020
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Meadowlark
by Melanie Abrams
Publisher: Little a
Genres: Literary Fiction
Abrams gorgeously depicts the spellbinding world of closed communities, in which being noticed as special means everything. Abrams deftly conjures a highly charged emotional terrain. A compelling, taut portrait of love and broken promises.” —Kirkus Reviews |
Release Date:
May 1, 2020
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Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure
by Seema Yasmin
Publisher: HarperCollins
Genres: Art, Popular Culture, Biography/Autobiography, Women, Social Science, Islamic Studies
Tired of seeing Muslim women portrayed as weak, sheltered, and limited, journalist Seema Yasmin reframes how the world sees them, to reveal everything they CAN do and the incredible, stereotype-shattering ways they are doing it. |
Release Date:
April 28, 2020
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In Our Midst
by Nancy Jensen
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Genres: Fiction
In December 1941, a German-American family are arrested as enemy aliens, split apart, and interned. In Our Midst illuminates a nation gripped by suspicion, fear, and hatred strong enough to threaten all bonds of love. |
Release Date:
April 28, 2020
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April 28, 2020
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Sisyphusina
by Shira Dentz
Publisher: [PANK] Books
Genres: Cross-Genre (poetry, prose, visual, audio)
"Slippery and evanescent, Sisyphusina is about how poetry allows us to founder and flounder through the certain uncertainty of life to transform the dross of the ordinary and the everyday into the marvelous." —M. NourbeSe Philip
"A multi-media tour de force, an unforgettable one." —Diana Khoi Nguyen |
Release Date:
April 28, 2020
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Insofar
by Sarah Gridley
Publisher: New Issues Poetry & Prose
Genres: Poetry
Insofar is a collection of poems dedicated to analogical reasoning, seeking to remember basic terms of relation and proportion. Its theology, insofar as it finds one, is earth-based, pluralistic, and cyclical. Its fondest prayer is that we come to our senses. |
Release Date:
April 21, 2020
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An Honest Hunger
by Robert Lowes
Publisher: Resource Publications
Genres: poetry
If more poets wrote like Robert Lowes, more people would read poetry. An Honest Hunger appeals to humanity's better self and reminds us that we are united not so much by our strengths as by our woundedness.
—Robert Nazarene, Editor-in-Chief, The American Journal of Poetry |
Release Date:
April 16, 2020
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Making the Tongue Dry
by Jen Soriano
Publisher: Arts by the People
Genres: Creative Nonfiction; Lyric Essays
In this collection of lyric essays Soriano tackles chronic pain, climate change, toxic masculinity and the atomic bomb. Erin Jones calls it "beautiful and haunting" and Khadijah Queen praises its "deep complexities, sensitively captured." A great resource for teachers of CNF and the lyric essay. |
Release Date:
April 15
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Hunger Moon
by Traci Skuce
Publisher: NeWest Press
Genres: Short Stories
The thirteen stories in Hunger Moon have characters hungry for spirtual fullness in a secular world. Misguided and misplaced longing leads them to attempt to shift their trajectories through aimless road trips, wrapping desires in pink bubbles, marijuana, and 'following their bliss'. |
Release Date:
April 15, 2020
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Wanderlust 2020
by Sarah Leamy
Publisher: Wild Dog Press
Genres: Travel
Wanderlust is a literary travel journal, focused on first person narratives. In these divisive political times, our focus is on experiences of places and cultures that connect us across the globe. The printed anthology comes from the best of those published online in 2019. |
Release Date:
April 15, 2020
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And Luckier
by Leatha Kendrick
Publisher: Accents Publishing
Genres: Poetry
In her new collection And Luckier, poet Leatha Kendrick offers us an unflinching and holistic look at our world. Her poems are full of humanity... complex and masterfully figurative, always allowing for two things to be said at once, two things to be true at once. —Kathleen Driskell |
Release Date:
April 15, 2020
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How to Exterminate the Black Woman: A Choreopoem
by Monica Prince
Publisher: [PANK] Books
Genres: Poetry; Choreopoem
In a country grappling with its bloody history and uncertain future, How to Exterminate the Black Woman illuminates the struggle of the Black woman trying to thrive in a society seeking to consume and erase her. |
Release Date:
April 9, 2020
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APril 9, 2020
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Deep Gossip: New & Selected Poems
by Sidney Wade
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Genres: Poetry |
Release Date:
April 7, 2020
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Rift Zone
by Tess Taylor
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Genres: Poetry
“The poet for our moment.” —Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic |
Release Date:
April 7, 2020
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Junebat
by John Elizabeth Stintzi
Publisher: House of Anansi
Genres: Poetry
John Elizabeth Stintzi's unforgettable debut collection, Junebat, grapples with the pain of uncertainty on the path towards becoming. |
Release Date:
April 7, 2020
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Her Sister's Tattoo
by Ellen Meeropol
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Genres: Fiction
"...a story of not just of two sisters but of our country, where politics have so often torn apart families, loved ones, and communities. This tenderly told novel brings humanity to all sides of struggle, lifting us with its grace, compassion, and hope for the future." —Rene Denfeld |
Release Date:
April 7, 2020
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April 7, 2020
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God had a body
by Jennie Malboeuf
Publisher: Indiana UP and the Indiana Review
Genres: Poetry
"What a glorious debut." —Stuart Dischell, author of Children with Enemies
The mind and the body. The heavens and earth. God and animal. The speaker in God had a body considers how the image of a higher power is presented to her, beginning with a Catholic upbringing in Kentucky. |
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April 7, 2020
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Indigo
by Ellen Bass
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Genres: poetry
"Indigo plants in any reader the need to turn the page, to know more even if it means more heartbreak. You hold in your hands the work of a sorceress at the height of her powers." —Jericho Brown |
Release Date:
April 7, 2020
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April 7, 2020
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More Than Watchmen At Daybreak
by Cyrus Cassells
Publisher: Nine Mile Books
Genres: Poetry |
Release Date:
April 6, 2020
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May 4, 2020
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Loving in Truth: New and Selected Poems
by Jay Rogoff
Publisher:Louisiana State University Press
Genres: Poetry
Drawing on 40 years of work, Loving in Truth marks a milestone for this confident, wise, and rigorous poet, a compendium of his finest work and a powerful introduction to his range of gifts. |
Release Date:
April 1, 2020
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Treasure of the Blue Whale
by Steven Mayfield
Publisher: Regal House Publishing
Genres: General Fiction
In this whimsical tale set during the Great Depression, young Connor O’Halloran offers to share a treasure he’s discovered on the beach, then conspires with a handful of town leaders to save their sleepy, seaside village from financial ruin when it turns out that the treasure is not real. |
Release Date:
April 1, 2020
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April 1, 2020
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Inside Out: Poems on Writing and Reading Poesm with Insider Exercises
by Marjorie Maddox
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Genres: Poetry, Pedagogical
"If I had to pick one book to introduce students to the joy of writing poems, this would be it...I dare you to read a page or two without reaching for your pen...From alliteration to sonnets and the villanelle, Marjorie Maddox makes metaphors meaningful and memorable."
—Charles Ghigna |
Release Date:
April 1, 2020
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Disparates
by Patrick Madden
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Genre: Essays
Humorous essays with guest collaborators, including hermit crabs: eBay auction, word search, definition, erasure, magazine profile, and more. |
Release Date:
April 1, 2020
Launch Event:
April 20, 2020
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This Will Be A Sign
by Jeffrey Johnson
Publisher: Fernwood Press
Genres: Poetry |
Release Date:
April 1, 2020
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Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara
by William Fargason
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Genres: Poetry
In his debut collection, William Fargason inspects the pain of memory alongside the pain of the physical body. Fargason takes language to its limits to demonstrate how grief is given a voice. His speaker confronts illness, grapples with grief, and heals after loss in its most crushing forms. |
Release Date:
April 1, 2020
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The Fish & The Dove
by Mary-Kim Arnold
Publisher: Noemi Press
Genres: Poetry
Incredible writing for our times. The Fish and the Dove is powerful, raw, and honest in its attestations questioning the answers provided by those who decide the fate of another. —Sam Roxas-Chua |
Release Date:
April 1, 2020
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Notes for Mid-Birth
by Karolina Zapal
Publisher: Inside the Castle
Genres: poetry
A variegated formal investigation of Poland’s draconian anti-choice legislation. |
Release Date:
March 31, 2020
Launch Event:
November 15, 2020
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A Wolf by the Ears
by Wayne Karlin
Publisher: University of Massacusetts Press
Genres: Historical Fiction
A Wolf by the Ears is a splendid novel [filled with] unforgettable people. Wayne Karlin gives us a universe of well-honed, well-realized characters who... offer a new dimension about American slavery and what it did to us. Edward P. Jones. Pulitzer Prize winner for The Known World. |
Release Date:
March 31, 2020
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Dear Vulcan
by Laura Davenport
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Genres: Poetry
In Dear Vulcan, Laura Davenport confronts the vexing possibilities of human intimacy, confessing, “The question is what keeps me coming back.” The crisp narrative style and confiding voice of these poems invite readers to consider the ways in which unspoken expectations shape identities. |
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March 31, 2020
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The Science of Story: The Brain Behind Creative Nonfiction
by Sean Prentiss and br>
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pres
Genres: Creative Nonfiction Craft
Bringing together a diverse range of writers, The Science of Story is the first book to ask the question: what can contemporary brain science teach us about the art and craft of creative nonfiction writing? |
Release Date:
March 30, 2020
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Crosscut: Poems
by Sean Prentiss
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Genres: Poetry / Memoir / Environmental Writing
Sean Prentiss takes readers into what it means to be a rookie trail-crew leader guiding a motley collection of at-risk teens for five months of backbreaking work in the Pacific Northwest. |
Release Date:
March 30, 2020
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Burning Province
by Michael Prior
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Genres: Poetry
"Acerbic, moving, and formally astonishing, Michael Prior’s second collection explores the enduring impact of the Japanese internment upon his family legacy and his mixed-race identity." |
Release Date:
March 24, 2020
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Rise of the Sons
by JD Mitchell
Publisher: Amazon
Genres: YA Fantasy
Love YA fantasy with magic, monsters, and romance? Download a copy of Rise of the Sons by JD Mitchell! |
Release Date:
March 21, 2020
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Transformer
by Kathleen Winter
Publisher: The Word Works
Genres: Poetry
Contest judge Maggie Smith notes: "The title Transformer invokes electricity and change, and this collection absolutely crackles with both. The poems are concerned with memory and trauma, violence and vulnerability, the domestic and the wild." |
Release Date:
March 18, 2020
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July 17, 2020
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Enso
by Shin Yu Pai
Publisher: Entre Rios Books
Genres: Poetry, Non-fiction, Visual Art |
Release Date:
March 17 2020
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The State She's In
by Lesley Wheeler
Publisher: Tinderbox Editions
Genres: Poetry
Wheeler’s formal virtuosity wheels and sparks as she explores the impact of whiteness and sexism on the literal state…Wheeler’s research, her feral witchery, her poems themselves, are an answer, if not the antidote, to the state we're in. —Diane Seuss |
Release Date:
March 17, 2020
Launch Event:
April 15, 2020
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Float True
by Deborah Jang
Publisher: Shanti Arts LLC
Genres: Poetry
"Deborah Jang creates a form of her own, beginning with rich, abundant language that threads love and anger, violence and rich peace through story and memory, familial history, race, and resistance. This is a book that comes to clarity and floats true and centered." —Linda Hogan |
Release Date:
March 17, 2020
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May 20, 2020
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Silverworld
by Diana Abu-Jaber
Publisher: Crown Books/ Random House
Genres: Fantasy
A fantasy-adventure story about an Arab-American girl who finds the courage to save her grandmother by walking through an ancient mirror and discovering an enchanted world on the other side. To save Sitti and Silverworld, Sami must brave adventure, danger, and the toughest challenge of all: change. |
Release Date:
March 17, 2020
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My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora
edited by Katherine Whitney & Leila Emery
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Genres: Personal Essays
"Emotionally raw, honest, often funny and heartbreaking, these are stories that will linger with you long after you've read them." —Sara Saedi |
Release Date:
March 16, 2020
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April 15, 2020
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Island of the Innocent: A Consideration of the Book of Job
by Diane Glancy
Publisher: Turtle Point Press
Genres: Poetry
Award-winning poet Diane Glancy's radical approach to the perennial mystery of suffering takes the trials of Job—the just man unjustly punished—into the New World. |
Release Date:
March 16, 2020
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Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children
by Kathryn Winograd
Publisher: Saddle Road Press
Genres: Creative Nonfiction/Essays
Bronze Medal Winner in Essay for the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children explores in the microcosm of a forty-acre high mountain meadow and its surrounding lands vast worlds of ecological and familial migrations |
Release Date:
March 15, 2020
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March 15, 2020
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Fired On: Targeting Western American Art
by Toby Thompson
Publisher: Bangtail Press
Genres: Nonfiction |
Release Date:
March 15, 2020
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Nimble Tongues
by Steven G. Kellman
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Genres: literary criticism |
Release Date:
March 15, 2020
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PUSH/PUSHBACK, 9 Steps to Make a Difference with Activism and Art (because the world's gone bananas
by Donna Kaz
Publisher: Guerrilla Girls On Tour
Genres: Nonfiction
As a feminist, activist masked avenger, I created collaborative work that was used to address specific social issues effecting women and people of color. I wrote this book to share the tactics I used as a Guerrilla Girl. |
Release Date:
March 15, 2020
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Eleanor
by Gray Jacobik
Publisher: CavanKerry Press
Genres: Poetry |
Release Date:
March 12, 2020
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In a Rind of Light
by Catherine Abbey Hodges
Publisher: Stephen F. Austin State University Press
Genres: Poetry
"In a Rind of Light is a book about memory, grief, and narrative itself—the stories we tell ourselves, the versions we offer others, the songs we make of the life we live." —Maggie Smith |
Release Date:
March 12, 2020
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Slide to Unlock
by Julie E. Bloemeke
Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press
Genres: Poetry
[Bloemeke’s debut brings] "...the rawest complications of the adult heart, an orchestra-conductor's authority of syntax...into...an utterly dazzling whole..." —Jane Hirshfield
"...a kind of philosophical love poetry...Bloemeke's opus... is a lovely book." —Jericho Brown |
Release Date:
March 12, 2020
Launch Event:
July 23, 2020
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Drowning in the Floating World
by Meg Eden
Publisher: Press 53
Drowning in the Floating World by Meg Eden immerses us into the Japanese natural disaster known as 3/11: the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and subsequent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Relentless as the disaster itself, Eden seizes control of our deepest emotional centers. |
Release Date:
March 11, 2020
Launch Event:
May 19, 2020
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The Gringa
by Andrew Altschul
Publisher: Melville House
Genres: Literary Fiction
A gripping and subversive novel about the slippery nature of truth and the tragic consequences of American idealism. Inspired by the true story of Lori Berenson, who spent 15 years in a Peruvian military prison on terrorism charges. |
Release Date:
March 10, 2020
Launch Event:
April 14, 2020
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The Elements
by James Scannell McCormik
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Genres: Poetry |
Release Date:
March 9, 2020
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Roze & Blud
by Jayson Iwen
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Genres: Poetry
"Roze & Blud made this working-class-girl-turned-poet weep with happiness, with sorrow over what should have been for Iwen's characters, and most of all, it renewed my faith in the heart and art of poetry." —Kathy Fagan, author of Sycamore |
Release Date:
March 4, 2020
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Hear Me Ohio
by Jen Hirt
Publisher: University of Akron Press
Genres: essays
Hear Me Ohio is a collection of essays about leaving Ohio while always looking back at it from places as far and different as Idaho, to the familiar forest of an arboretum in Kentucky, to the Pennsylvania riverbanks of the Susquehanna River. |
Release Date:
March 4, 2020
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Vanishing
by Cai Emmons
Publisher: Leapfrog Press
Genres: Fiction stories
These five stories feature female protagonists who have struggling to find their places in a world that often overlooks and devalues them. |
Release Date:
March 4, 2020
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In Our Other Lives
by Theodore Wheeler
Publisher: Little A
Genres: Fiction
A provocative novel about abandoned faith, heartbreaking loss, and inescapable government scrutiny in the heartland of a post-9/11 nation. |
Release Date:
March 3, 2020
Launch Event:
May 27, 2020
Purchase:
Cloth $24.95
Paper $14.95
Electronic $4.99 |
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The Body Papers
by Grace Talusan
Publisher: Restless Books
Genres: memoir
Winner of The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Grace Talusan’s memoir The Body Papers bravely explores her experiences with sexual abuse, depression, cancer, and life as a Filipino immigrant, supplemented with government documents, medical records, and family photos. |
Release Date:
March 3, 2020
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Cloth $22.99
Electronic $9.99 |
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The Book of Kane and Margaret
by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
Publisher: Fiction Collective Two / University of Alabama Press
Genres: Speculative Fiction, Asian American
Kane Araki is also the name of a man who, mysteriously, sprouts a pair of black raven's wings overnight... Margaret Morri is the name of an eleven-year-old girl who communes with the devil, trading human teeth for divine wishes... |
Release Date:
March 3, 2020
Purchase:
Paper $16.29
Electronic $8.69 |
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The Land of the Dead Is Open for Business
by Jacob Strautmann
Publisher: Four Way Books
Genres: Poetry
The Land of the Dead Is Open for Business is an extended elegy for Jacob Strautmann’s home state of West Virginia and its generations of inhabitants sold out by the false promise of the American Dream. |
Release Date:
March 2, 2020
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Paper $16.95
Electronic $16.95 |
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Faculty Brat
by Dominic Bucca
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Genres: Memoir
“A powerful, heartbreaking, and fearless essay on abuse, family, and the fragmentation of the self, Faculty Brat takes narrative prose to a new and necessary level.” —Susan Steinberg, judge, Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction, author, Machine |
Release Date:
March 2, 2020
Purchase:
Paper $18.00
Electronic $18.00 |
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Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing
by Julie Marie Wade
Publisher: The Ohio State University Press (21st Century Essays)
Genres: Memoir/Lyric Essay/Creative Nonfiction
“Intelligent and lyrical, the narrative mingles often comic musings on female embodiment with insightful observations about the meaning of love and self-acceptance. A sharp, innovative text.” —Kirkus Reviews |
Release Date:
March 1, 2020
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Paper $15.16
Electronic $18.95 |
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(aviary)
by Genevieve Kaplan
Publisher: Veliz Books
Genres: Poetry
The poems in (aviary) circle themes of enclosure, feminism, and the natural world. Much of the collection was initially composed in local public gardens, lending these poems an air of urgency, the stink of voyeurism, and the hum of participation. |
Release Date:
March 1, 2020
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Paper $17.00 |
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Giving up the Ghost (and Other Hauntings)
by Tina V. Cabrera
Publisher: Atmosphere Press
Genres: Fiction |
Release Date:
March 1, 2020
Purchase:
Paper $17.99
Electronic $7.99 |
