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A collection of paintings and poems that capture the inner and outer landscapes of Maryland's Eastern Shore. Poet and painter collaborate to create paired miniatures-paintings of just a few square inches in gouache, poems in small syllables and brief lines-that reflect on both the fragility and the magnitude of our world.About the Authors:MEREDITH DAVIES HADAWAY is the author of three poetry collections: Fishing Secrets of the Dead, The River is a Reason, and At the Narrows. A teacher of ecopoetry and creative writing, Hadaway lives, writes and teaches on the Chester River. She is currently the Sophie Kerr Poet-in Residence at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.MARCY DUNN RAMSEY's work is shown in galleries, embassies, and private collections all over the world. She is currently represented by the Carla Massoni Gallery in Chestertown, MD, and the I.P. Simons Gallery in Beaufort, SC. From her studio on the Chester River, she pursues her mission to convey through her work a sense of reverence for the natural world.

"I want to be President because I don't want anyone else to be President.Many must feel the same way. What follows is the story of how I became the political person I am today. It is my platform. If it could be your story, vote for me. It would be like voting for yourself. Feels good, doesn't it?" So begins the Book-of-the-Month-Club novelist and award winning short story author Robert Day in his new book Robert Day for President, an Embellished Campaign Autobiography. His book is a memoir about how he "became the political person he is today" growing up with a Republican father, a Democratic mother, and a Polish Socialist grandmother. What "feels good" about Day's book are the scenes and the characters. We see him at a 1960s rally protesting his university's off-campus housing policy, "a policy that discriminates against African Americans (who were not yet African Americans in Kansas, nor even Blacks, but Negroes or Colored. Among other nouns.)" Then later, his presence at the first large Tea Party rally in Washington, D. C. ("Harm was in the air: you could see it.") Along the way we meet Jeb Bush, William Kristol, Peggy Noonan, Anne Coulter, Fox News, Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Everett Dirksen, Hillary Clinton and Day's maternal Grandmother, Sallie Makielski-herself the author of The Makielski Proclamations: Machines that Run on Their Own Can Run You Over. Stand Good Brooms on Their Handles. Wires Connected to the House Take Money Out of the House. First, Take Care of Yourself so You Can Care for Others when They Need you, and so No One Need Take Care of You. It is to Sallie Makielski that Day's book is dedicated.

Wake Up a Woman is a collection of vignettes and poetry. A young woman faces many of the common struggles, disasters, and pains involved in modern relationships. She fights back against gender stereotypes in a search to discover who she really is. What does it mean to be a woman today? Is a woman defined by what she has done in her past?

~ From the PrefaceMy novel The Last Cattle Drive was first published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1977. There were good reviews in the New York Times and in many other papers around the country. It was a Book-of-Month-Club selection. Secker and Warburg in London (George Orwell's publisher) brought out a fine edition to excellent reviews in the papers and on the BBC. Both the British and the US publishers issued second printings, and both later brought out paperback editions. As it happened, when the first edition came out, I was in New York to see Tim Seldes at Russell and Volkening, my agent in those days, and he took me for a ride up Fifth Avenue to see that Scribner's windows were filled with the hardcover editions. By now the novel has never been out of print, and these days it exists in a special anniversary edition published by the University of Kansas Press. It's as if the book has been my friend all these years, although long ago I stopped giving readings from it and explaining how with glee I ripped off Mark Twain and Vladimir Nabokov. There is more to say later about this, but the meantime, how come it has taken all these years until now for me to write a sequel?-Robert Day