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  • From the Moon, Earth is Blue

    by Wendy Barker ...
    "In the Museum of Modern Art," writes Wendy Barker, "chaos / displays itself tidily. Even the viewers // know the dance: stroll, stop, gaze, whisper. / Stroll, stop." Barker's poems tour an imagined museum, allowing us to observe the observer as she learns to see by means of her own creativity. Perspective is crucial to achieving internal balance - in a painting or a soul. After all, "from the ... Read more

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  • Skin Deep and Other Teenage Reflections

    Offering a powerful-but-playful portrait of urban teens—especially teens of color—this collection of poetry is at once rife with contemporary issues as well as the timeless challenges of high school. Whether focusing on topics such as troubled families, racism in the streets, and depression or boy-girl obsession, the joys of graduation, sports triumphs, and personal achievement, Angela Shelf ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Another Waterbug is Murdered

    The second book of poetry by this San Antonio, Texas, activist against domestic violence. ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Tale of Three Rivers:

    Of Wooly Buggers, Bowling Balls, Cigarette Butts, and the Future of Appalachian Brook Trout

    series Heartstreams
    Matthew Dickerson takes his readers from an Applachian trout stream in western North Carolina where wild trout are reduced to sipping cigarette butts, up through his home state of Vermont where development and the ski industry threaten the state's iconic pastoral riversides, and finally into western Maine to a once dead river that has returned to life. The tale takes us not only to the three ... Read more

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  • Rudiments of Flight

    Both revelatory and sensuous, these poems convey passion that trumps death, beauty that shines through shame, and love that is everlasting. Venturing to the edge of the known world and beyond—bearing unflinching witness to the terrors and ecstasies to be discovered there—this compilation is a kaleidoscopic intertwining of the worlds of humans, nature, myth, and spirit. As it explores fragility and ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Face

    by Cecile Pineda ...
    series Complete Works of Cecile Pineda series
    When a Brazilian man's face is disfigured, he attempts a grisly self-surgery in this novel of survival. ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crazy Love: New Poems

    by Pamela Uschuk ...
    Through bold and innovative language, a strong female narrative explores the world and provides a voice for those who have been silenced in this empowering and inspirational collection of poetry. Examining a wide range of topics-love, spirituality, nature, and family-the poems give particular focus to politics, discussing how the actions of the government affect individuals on a daily basis. ... Read more

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  • The Love Queen of the Amazon

    by Cecile Pineda ...
    series Complete Works of Cecile Pineda series
    This hilarious novel is a feminist spoof on the mostly-male magical realists of the "Boom" generation. ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Devil Rides Outside

    No less a critic than Clifton Fadiman called The Devil Rides Outside a "staggering novel." The first novel of John H. Griffin, it written during the author’s decade of blindness following an injury suffered during the closing days of World War II. As Time Magazine described it, The Devil Rides Outside "has some things relatively rare in U.S. letters: energy, earnestness and unashamed religious ... Read more

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  • Nuni

    After John Howard Griffin's escape from Nazi-occupied France, he was shipped to the South Pacific, where he was stationed as an isolated observer in the Solomon Islands. That experience led to his second novel, Nuni (1956). As in his first novel, The Devil Rides Outside, an American professor is confronted by an alien reality. In Nuni, that reality is a "primitive," almost Neolithic society. Yet, ... Read more

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  • Dying Unfinished

    Extending the story of the troubled life of Rosa, a character first developed by the author in Longing, this novel describes her difficult relationship with her mother, Eleanor. Rosa's story unfolds as though in a parallel world: dogged by the same obsessions as her mother and resorting to sex and madness as elements of destruction. At the core of their tension is the illicit affair Eleanor has ... Read more

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  • A Tuesday Like Today

    During their travels in the Cambodian jungle, two sisters, Camila and Márgara, meet David Masters-Iturbe and discover that they all have something in common-their Mexican heritage. The three proceed to tell stories in order to alleviate the boredom of long nights in their jungle hotel and end up reconstructing ancient Mexico in the story of the sisters’ ancestor. This imagined hero takes off on an ... Read more

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