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The Donner Party By George Keithley George Braziller, Inc.
“The Donner Party is one of the three or four finest book-length American poems ever written.”—Poetry. “Out of the western migration of the 1840s…Keithley has made a lean, taut narrative poem that moves with the speed and terseness of a killer shark.”—The New York Times. “Keithley’s account of the Donner tragedy is a major event in American letters.”—X.J. Kennedy.
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To Be To Is To Was
By Stephen C. Bird
Sunnie Deelite and Isabella Gloucester forge their creative identities while fending off the torments of illusory love. Amourrica Profunda transforms into Mourrzicka and finally into Isolamicka. Turmerico Inflammatorio wreaks havoc as the leader of turbulent Isolamicka. Humans escape the dying Blue Green Planet to start anew on Planet Gorp. In the Androgynous Galaxy, intergalactic witches battle for supremacy.
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A Ballroom Called the Universe
(Dancing with the Higher Energies of Life) By Anne M. Ehmann Balboa Press
The poems contained within reflect upon life’s vicissitudes. The author touches on topics such as early childhood memories, holidays, love, nature, current events, and even death. No matter how outer appearances manifest in our lives, we are “always dancing to the rhythmic beat of an ever upward evolutionary emergence.”
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What Some Would Call Lies By Rob Davidson Five Oaks Press
If personal memory is false, what happens when you try to construct a memory of something that you don’t remember but should—that you desperately want to remember? What
Some Would Call Lies is a collection of literary novellas meditating on life, art, and the vicissitudes of memory. The complete manuscript includes two novellas, “Shoplifting” and “Infidels.”
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Sex and the Cyborg Goddess By Alexis Rafael Rafael Film, LLC
Best #MeToo novel of the year. “Beautifully written and rich in personal and cultural textures, Sex is an important addition to feminist history and literature.”—Betty Ann Brown. “Great book about the dark side of sexual harassment at Yale during what was supposed to be the sexual revolution!”—Alexandra Karova, The Funny Feminist.
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I Should Have Been Music By Babette Becker Page Publishing
My memoir covers four years in the 1950s I spent in four mental hospitals when nothing was known of childhood trauma. I was passed from hospital to hospital carrying several severe diagnostic labels. I include notes from my hospital journals, poetry, doctors’ reports. It shows the stark contrast between what was frightening and desperate to me and what the doctors thought.
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Amanda Goes to Las Vegas
By Nancy Dick
A love story about Amanda, a young woman who leaves the family and rural family farm she loves to help her family out by trying to become a “big time” star in Las Vegas. This is the story of her journey. This author has done two book signings. Available online at amazon.com and bn.com and nationally at many Barnes & Noble Bookstores.
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The Art of Surrender By Eiman Al Zaabi Balboa Press
The Art of Surrender offers a blueprint for true happiness and authentic living. Drawing on her Muslim heritage and her wise and careful exploration of spiritual and religious traditions, life coach and spiritual teacher Eiman Al Zaabi shows readers how to embark on a journey of the soul and achieve the ultimate fulfillment and joy: effortless surrender to the Divine.
www.theartofsurrendering.com
Around the Edges By Marsha Johansen Mercury Heartlink
Raw collection of words and imagery, a world reflecting survival through poetry. Each poem, like the irregular and interlocking edge-pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, will reveal a picture of people and places with which the reader can identify and connect.
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Not My White Savior By Julayne Lee Rare Bird Books
A provocative and furious book about race, culture and identity,
Not My White Savior is a memoir in poems, exploring what it means to be an inter-country adoptee in America, growing up being told your life is better because you were rescued. Angry, brilliant, unapologetic, and unforgiving, it’s a vicious ride of a book sure to spark discussion and debate.
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Gift of Dreams By Kelly Saccone IUniverse
Born with a gift, Wynter Malone is plagued by dreams of a sexy man. Rafe Wolf recently moved to begin anew, and meets the woman haunting his dreams. When children are kidnapped, Wynter is called in to help. Together they must face their fears or all will be lost.
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Time’s Up!: A Memoir of the American Century By Robert Cabot McPherson & Company
Blending history, essay, travelogue, and autobiography, Time’s
Up! recounts a novelist’s long life and America’s century in the sun—a kaleidoscopic self-portrait, and a critique of our nation in slow but almost certain decline. “Robert Cabot’s memoir about a life of privilege and conscience is a dazzling answer to the question of what it means to become an American writer.”—Susan Cheever.
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The Widows By Jess Montgomery Minotaur Books
Inspired by the true story of Ohio’s first female sheriff, The
Widows explores two women’s search for justice as they take on the corruption at the heart of their community in Ohio’s Appalachian foothills in 1925. “The Widows kept me on the edge of my seat. Montgomery is a masterful storyteller.” —Lee Martin, author of Pulitzer Prize-Finalist The Bright Forever.
https://read.macmillan.com/lp/the-widows/
Reflexions By Tony DePaul New Plains Press
Tony DePaul of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA, one smart and experienced cookie, brings us a hybrid called Reflexions, harmonizing remarkably vivid poetry and nostalgic short stories about the old neighborhood, and gives the reader a few chapters of a new detective series. Len Lear of the Chestnut Hill Local gives it a grand review.
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Hills of Home
By Debbie Richard (Author and Narrator)
Praise for Hills of Home: “I think the book is a valuable detailed and most honest documentation of a part of Appalachia that has not been celebrated so well until now.”—Earl Hamner, Jr., bestselling author of Spencer’s Mountain and creator of the beloved
The Waltons television series.
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Clive J. Wainwright Book of Poetry By Epp Marsh III CreateSpace
Clive J. Wainwright’s style of poetry mirrors his personality: dark and somber, and focused on anti-love based themes such as breakups, hardships, lust, and hurtful addictions. The works dives into the struggles of human life and speaks to tormented modern relationships that subscribe to the on-again, off-again pattern. Also, there is a free e-book and memes at author website.
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How I Broke The Generational Curse By Tonya Mitchell Author House Publishing
How I Broke The Generational Curse is about negative and destructive patterns, practices, and beliefs passed down through generations which leave us stuck, broken and unable to tap into the blessings God has for us. I lived a charmed middle-class life, but no one knew, including me; I was broken on the inside and so was my family.
www.howibrokethegenerationalcursebook.com
Truce: A Physician Makes Peace with Chronic Pain By H. Moody, M.D.
CreateSpace Independent Publishing
“A physician shares his trials with chronic pain in this debut medical memoir…A section addresses alternative treatments and temporary fixes [while] several chapters creatively explore the intriguing philosophical side of pain. [An] astute, candid, and thoughtful guide…using a conversational tone and keeping the text readable and easily digestible…there is nothing superfluous in these pages.”—Kirkus Reviews.
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A Slightly Different Take By Emoke Niles Outskirts Press
Within these pages the Muse strums her harp. From the outset, with lines from the invitational poem, “Come,” A Slightly Different
Take invites the reader to ‘step through shadows,’ into an oasis for the one who rises at 3:00 a.m. When ‘the world is too much with us,’ the poems themselves beckon with “Enfolded,” “Red Lily,” “Caravan,” “Gone Fishin’,” “Dalliance.”
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Our Purpose In Speaking By William Orem MSU Press
Winner of the Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize. Spiritual poetry that remains firmly of this world, part apostasy, part song.
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Adiós to My Parents: A Memoir By Héctor Aguilar Camín Schaffner Press, Inc.
The long-awaited English translation of the memoir by awardwinning author Héctor Aguilar Camín (Death In Veracruz) that traces his family’s history from its Sephardic roots in southern Spain to Cuba and the town of Campeche, Mexico. A finalist for the 2016 Mario Vargas Llosa Prize for Hispanic Literature.
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Tooth and Shoe By Heikki Huotari Willow Springs Books
Hyper organized and utterly chaotic, Tooth and Shoe, Huotari’s fourth book of poetry, asks us to take a second glance at the seeming normality of our daily lives. These lyrical prose poems remind us that, despite the entropic chaos beneath our thin veneer of reality,“the universe is largely laughing matter.”
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In the Making of Goodbyes By Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas Clare Songbirds Publishing House
A poet of the personal, Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas’ new book
In the Making of Goodbyes takes us to the land of the heart, a transformative journey where in looking at the difficult turns of events in a life, we are tutored in humility, grace, and tenderness. —Wendy Patrice Williams, Chaparral, Life on the Georgetown
Divide, California.
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Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California Edited by Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan Scarlet Tanager Books
“Day and Nolan have done a considerable service to select and gather these poems. Their ample anthology provides a generous record of California poets’ love and concern for their common world. What more important theme can we in this golden land share?”—from the foreword by Dana Gioia, California Poet Laureate.
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when they say you can’t go home again, what they mean is you were never there By Marty McConnell SIR Press
What does it mean to be bodied in such a way that one is simultaneously weapon and target? The gift and the trap of the human body and its attachments to this world converge and dissolve in these poems of ecstatic music, animated rage, and wild, generative hope.
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Billie Girl By Vickie Weaver Leapfrog Press
An abandoned, menopausal infant is the center of this genderbending story. Billie Girl’s life is directed by strangers struggling with how life glued them together. The journey from baby tree nest on a Georgia farm to a bed in a nursing home pulls her through ambiguities of sexuality, euthanasia, and acceptance. “Honestly strange and strangely honest.”—Sena Jeter Naslund.
www.vickieweaver.com
A Kind of Solitude By Dariel Suarez Willow Springs Books
Set in Cuba largely after the fall of the Soviet Union, these eleven stories explore themes of isolation and perseverance in the face of widespread poverty and socio-political oppression. In this striking debut, Dariel Suarez portrays the harsh reality, inherent humor, and resilient heart of a people whose stories should be known.
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Springhouse Journal 5
Springhouse Journal 5 is out with 20 contemporary Cuban poets: Domingo Alfonso, Rita Ramón Aroche, Caridad Atencio, Miguel Barnet, Pierre Bernet,Yanelys Encinosa Cabrera,Alberto Peraza Ceballos, Maria Liliana Celorrio, Felix Contreras, Georgina Herrera, Karel Leyva, Roberto Manzano, Alberto Marrero, Roberta Méndez Martínez, Jamila Medina, Edel Morales, Alex Plausides, Roberto Fernández Retama, Soleida Ríos, and Mirta Yáñez. Art by Wally Gilbert.
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On the Line By Gardner McFall Finishing Line Press
On the Line comprises a sequence of poems about the poet’s Navy pilot father lost in the Vietnam War. “Gardner McFall has created a polished, durable sequence of poems lit with piercing glances into the American life.”—Henri Cole. “…[A] remarkable collection of poems whose loss is both universal and deeply personal.”—Grace Schulman.
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