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Cover of the book "Mine" a weathered teal wooden door with close-up of rusted latch and lock


Mine
Essays
Sarah Viren

This is a book about ownership. It begins with an essay about being given a man's furniture while he's on trial for murder ...


Cover of Make Way for Her and Other Stories by Katie Cortese


Make Way for Her
And Other Stories
Katie Cortese

A girl afflicted with pyrokinesis tries to control her fire-starting long enough to go to a dance with a boy she likes. A woman trapped in a ...


Cover of The New Immigrant Whiteness by Claudia Sadowski-Smith


The New Immigrant Whiteness
Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States
Claudia Sadowski-Smith

Mapping representations of post-1980s immigration from the former Soviet Union to the United States in interviews, reality TV shows, fiction, and ...


Cover of Millennial Roost by Dustin Pearson


Millennial Roost
Poetry
Dustin Pearson

"Dustin Pearson's debut collection, 'Millennial Roost,' is exemplary of lyric alchemy at its most powerful. In Pearson's hands, the stunning story ...


Basements and Other Museums by Vedran Husić


Basements and Other Museums
Vedran Husić

"With the precision of a surgeon and a poet's reverberant intelligence, Vedran Husić gives us stories of children growing up in war-ravaged Bosnia ...


Cover of What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth by Rigoberto González


What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth
A Memoir of Brotherhood
Rigoberto González

Burdened by poverty, illiteracy, and vulnerability as Mexican immigrants to California's Coachella Valley, three generations of González men turn ...


The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies, co-edited by Lynn Turner, Undine Sellbach and Ron Broglio


The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies
Edited by Lynn Turner, Undine Sellbach, Ron Broglio

This volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship ...


A Child out of Alcatraz, by Tara Ison


A Child Out of Alcatraz
Kindle edition
Tara Ison

A little girl lives with her family in a picturesque seaside community near San Francisco. An American neighborhood like any other, sheltered in ...

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