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Rebecca Hoogs digs down into the depths of humanity in her newest collection of poetry, Self-Storage. She tells stories of myth, self-portrait, and understanding. With poignant language and beautiful subject matter, Hoogs connects with her audience on a personal level.

Explores those things that make us human. These poems are visceral, honest and possess a vulnerability that will allow you access into the world each day. Family, politics, race, art, aging and much more are placed under the poet's mircoscopic eye to be clearly defined.

A middle class Italian family finds reason to emigrate to America when Italy is threatened by the Red Brigades' terrorist movement of the 1970s. The family patriarch manages a transfer to the United States, certain of better prospects and of a more secure future for his family, but each of the family members experiences a deeper kind of upheaval, negotiating personal losses and estrangement.

Diane Hueter breathes life into her poetry by relaying the tales of past generations. Beauty and passion radiate from each selection.

A declaration of reverence, a communication from a non-traditional prophet attempting to both explore and adore the world. What some flinch away from is held up for examination in these poems, poked at with a stick, as the narrator seeks to understand the line between what is already understood and what is hidden.

A collection of nineteen stories. Many of the stories deal with synchronicity - the remarkable moments of coincidence when lives collide. The characters represent a range: male, female, young, and old, including dead Elvis, Jimmy Hoffa and the Emperor of New York City. The stories reveal webs of entanglement and often redemption.

Takes the advancement of science, the preservation of human morale and the observation of the human condition and places it under a microscope. Shearin's artful word choice and prose phrasing makes her poems come alive.

Examines the difficult and inspiring introduction of Algonquin Indian tribes to the English Colonists. Weaving the spiritual worlds of Native Americans and English Christians, this novel celebrates the creation of fertile hybridity as it confronts the difficulty of such rich mixtures finding acceptance in the seventeenth-century Colonial world.

The eight stories that make up Jeremy Griffin's debut are tender glimpses into the sorts of lives most of us know best: lives of wonder dashed with occasional clumsiness, lives lived by people ultimately out to do the very best they can. This is a book of prose so natural and crafted it reads like overheard thoughts.

Explores how aesthetics affects a church and its community. Using the aesthetic principles of John Dewey, Paul Shockley gives insight into what aesthetic deficiencies churches face, and how these churches can engage with people to provide a richer, deeper, and more fulfilling worship experience. This work offers a description of local church types, and the challenges these church communities face.

Includes thirteen of the original sixteen presidential addresses, with some modifications, documentation, and enhancements for publication purposes. One additional paper represents a contemporaneous article the editors chose to include in lieu of the presidential address, which is no longer available.

Francisco Perez Lopez, Spanish by birth but raised in France, was a Republican volunteer in the Spanish Civil War. He began as a recruit at the age of twenty and emerged a platoon leader. He became a prisoner, a medic, a favorite among nuns, and then an escapee. Gary Soto's condensed but sensitive retelling is a gripping tale of human dignity and one man's unflagging commitment to justice.

A collection of heart-warming and inspiring stories drawn from everyday life. Colourful and endearing, Castle's work keeps us mindful about how important it is to remain grounded in the order of first things: love, belief, faith, and hope. These principles, so firmly rooted in his work, evoke a timelessness that is sure to delight readers while bringing them ongoing encouragement.

Between the years 1942 and 1945, scores of American men and women in the military wrote, submitted, and published poems during the war. They were known as the ""War Poets."" Songs of the Warriors is an attempt to recover, compile, rediscover, re-appreciate, and re-enjoy these national literary treasures.

Patsy Hallman's collection of East Texas folk tales, vignettes, and memories is a delightful foray into times past. Readers will discover courtships determined by the washing of bread bowls, hear about Sam Houston's baptism and amorist pursuits, and find out what role Nacogdoches played in the Civil War South, among a wide range of other topics.

A collection of abstract, psychedelic narratives delivered through the actions of several creatures of the insect family, to sea-life, domesticated animals, and amphibians. The action is conveyed in a rapid fire of subliminal imagery which is interconnected and builds upon itself, crafting messages of self-destruction, voyage, divinities, unfamiliarity, and the strength to persist forward.

From a maintenance worker whose long-simmering grief pushes him to steal a wealthy client's child, to an out of work manager plotting revenge on the boss who fired him, Eric Lloyd Blix explores the fallout of American progress. The stories in Physically Alarming Men span landscape and history, from the Depression-era Midwest to a speculative Middle-East.

W.A. Criswell envisioned the emergence of a new conservatism that would become the new religious right. Towns's book examines selected speeches from 1956 to 2002, revisiting events that provoked the rhetorical situations of the era and exploring speaker-leader propositions and perspectives.

Engaging and inspirational with just the right hint of humour, I Remember Highway 80 harkens back to an earlier, simpler time in America's history, before the interstate highway system wreaked its havoc on small-town living, when drive-in movie theatres were all the rage, and evenings still ended with a quick spin around the courthouse square.

It's Li'l Fox's first day of daycare and she is scared. New place. New friends. New worries. After her mom wraps her in a big hug and leaves her to go to work, Li'l Fox seeks comfort from her new classmates through friendly hugs. But after she is rejected on multiple accounts, Li'l Fox must learn that if she wants to make a new friend she must first remember to be brave.

Sam Griffith's new novel, Rendezvous with Death, spins a tale of intrigue and suspense. His investigation takes him through a number of alleys and dead ends, from Dallas neighborhoods to the little Texas towns that hold and withhold answers. Rendezvous with Death is at once a compelling story and mesmerizing read in the tradition of some of Texas' best authors.

Shelia Sanderson writes a mature and committed poetry - a poetry that cuts to the bone, a poetry committed to cherishing the elemental wonders surrounding her life. Sanderson pays close attention to nature and her appreciation is specific, fresh, and hard-won, for Sanderson is a poet who, through hands-on observation, realizes the ironies and inequities of experience.

This new set of young Barrio writers deliver powerful and exemplary poetic and prosaic testaments which should inspire others to tell of their lives in as impressive a style as found in this new volume. Interspersed throughout the volume are valuable writing prompts other young writers like those collected here can use to develop their own literacy and literary skills.

This is a tribute to Wallace Stevens' memory and to his singular accomplishment in poetry. It is an attempt to make an affectionate, human connection with a man deprived of some of life's most basic pleasures - living where you want, living with whom you want, and having the psychological and emotional freedom to express yourself and evade the fetters of our Puritanical society.

The Ratlue Diaries is a fictionalized memoir of "the Rocking K War," a five-year battle to save the Rincon Valley in Tucson, Arizona. An old cattle ranch, the Rocking K was under threat of being transformed into two luxury hotels, golf courses, and 25,000 new houses. The tale is told (in both poems and prose) by two poets, one of whom is the author's alter ego. In spite of vastly different personal histories, the two men forge a sometimes strained but deep bond as they take on a ruthless real-estate cabal. They mobilize resistance, raise hell at public hearings, mount a referendum, and endure blowback from a millionaire land-shark-- and of course discuss poetry and life. The book has the hair-on-fire gonzo-journalistic style of Hunter Thompson--satiric, profane, rapid-fire, and filled with righteous anger and despair. The poems alternate between raw political diatribes and lyrics celebrating the harsh beauty of the Sonoran Desert.

Faith Shearin's latest poetry collection, Telling the Bees, is evidence of an ongoing, important talent. The author of three previous collections of poetry, the most recent, Moving the Piano, was featured on numerous occasions on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac.

In a novel of dazzling suspense and excitement, Robert A. Shearer demonstrates the mastery of craft in this historical novel. Based on actual events that occurred after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and set in a small Texas town, Swift is a fictional account of lives altered in a time of war.

The latest children's book by Nacogdoches, Texas author and illustrator Myrna Johnson. This work is filled with whimsical artwork and fun, alliterative wordplay appropriate for early readers. Children will delight in this book, as will parents and grandparents.