The Daddy Chronicles
By: Jayne Martin
4.52
Format: 106 pages, Paperback
One out of three women in the U.S. identify as fatherless. An absent father who occasionally appear…
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1. The Light the Dead See: Selected Poems
By: Leon Stokesbury , Frank Stanford
4.42
Format: 111 pages, Paperback
Between 1972, when he published his first book, The Signing Knives, and 1978, when he died at the a… read more
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2. The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Stephen Mitchell , Robert Hass
4.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Parallel German text and English translation. The influence and popularity of Rilke's poetry in Ame… read more
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3. Addicts & Basements
By: Robert Vaughan
4.32
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Drawing its energy from society's underbelly--the dim corner booths of bars, the stalls of public b… read more
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4. Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine
By: Simon Critchley , Jamieson Webster
3.68
Format: 113 pages, ebook
The figure of Hamlet haunts our culture like the ghost haunts Shakespeare's melancholy Dane. Arguab… read more
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5. When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
By: Terry Tempest Williams
3.07
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The beloved author of Refugereturns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebra… read more
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6. The Echo Wife
By: Sarah Gailey
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, r… read more
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"I became an alone-thing, more than I had ever been before."-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
"No one would look at the seams that held me together and guess that they were scars."-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
"He was relieved to have told me. He transmuted his guilt into my anger and now I was the one who had to carry it and he had the audacity to be relieved."-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
"I'll be taking you out for coffee later this week, and you can give me all the details. In the meantime, I'll commence hating him just a little , in case I need material to seed hating him a lot."-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
7. Ghost Wall
By: Sarah Moss
3.73
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie an… read more
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"It was bright again, as if England had forgotten how to rain"-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"Lights blind you; there's a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"Haven't you been listening, people don't bother to hurt what they don't love. To sacrifice it."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
"I knew better than to challenge him; even the word 'Negro' was already some concession to my ideas because he preferred to use a more offensive term and wait, chin raised, for a reaction."-Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall
8. Earth Angel
By: Madeline Cash
4.05
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more
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9. One Two Three
By: Laurie Frankel
3.88
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything does... Everyone knows everyone in the… read more
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"You can only chase your own demons, you know." Strange advice from a pastor. "You can't chase your mother's."-Laurie Frankel, One Two Three
"As I have said—and as should be obvious—stupid people need to read books in order to get smarter, but unfortunately people who like books are usually smart already, and stupid people do not read."-Laurie Frankel, One Two Three
"We don’t need something to have happened to talk about it, though. Teenage girls don’t get enough credit for this, their ability to see the potential import of everything, no matter how insignificant…"-Laurie Frankel, One Two Three
"Mrs. Lasserstein passes out copies of Lord of the Flies and says this will be our fall book, but a whole season seems too long because Lord of the Flies is only 208 pages, and I have already read it,…"-Laurie Frankel, One Two Three
10. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
11. Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
By: Beth Ann Fennelly
4.14
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
The 52 micro-memoirs in genre-defying Heating Cooling offer bright glimpses into a richly lived lif… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
12. Culdesac
By: Mike Nagel
4.93
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
Mike Nagel has no idea what’s going on around here. Fresh out of the duplex, he and J have rented a… read more
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13. Sidle Creek
By: Jolene McIlwain
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Set in the bruised, mined, and timbered hills of Appalachia in western Pennsylvania, Sidle Creek is… read more
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14. Predator: A Memoir, a Movie, an Obsession
By: Ander Monson
3.92
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A searching memoir of a life lived in the flicker of an action film, by the author of I Will Take t… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
15. Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
By: Victoria Chang
4.50
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations. For … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"My mother did so much for me. What I returned to her were empty containers."-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
"If you saw my poems today, I hope you could see that I heard you even though you couldn't hear me. I have tried to write shorter + shorter + denser + denser + louder + louder poems. They have become …"-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
"What's the rush?", you said about publishing. I added: "Does the world need another competent book of poems?" Most times, we wouldn't answer our own questions because what did we know? We only knew t…"-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
"Maybe I am staring into a piece of paper like it is a pond, hoping one day that what looks back is not my own reflection, but my great-grandmother's face. Maybe poetry is the distance between my face…"-Victoria Chang, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief
16. The Anchored World: Flash Fairy Tales and Folklore
By: Jasmine Sawers
4.38
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
The long-anticipated full-length debut collection from award-winning flash fiction writer Jasmine S… read more
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17. The Daddy Chronicles
By: Jayne Martin
4.52
Format: 106 pages, Paperback
One out of three women in the U.S. identify as fatherless. An absent father who occasionally appear… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
18. A Brief Natural History of Women
By: Sarah Freligh
5.00
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
Sarah Freligh is the author of five books, including Sad Math , winner of the 2014 Moon City Press … read more
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19. Child Craft
By: Amy Cipolla Barnes
4.93
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
The unmistakable voice of Amy Cipolla Barnes returns in this new hybrid prose collection. To enter … read more
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20. Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted
By: Kathryn Kulpa
4.92
Format: 51 pages, Paperback
A unique collection of prose that bends the lines between genres, this chapbook includes fourteen v… read more
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21. What Are You
By: Lindsay Lerman
4.38
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Radically imaginative and intense, challenging language to be slow and fast, soft and hard, drunk a… read more
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22. Find a Place for Me
By: Deirdre Fagan
4.80
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
“…This memoir will burrow down deep into your heart, finding its own place of comfort there. I dare… read more
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- memoir
23. Wolfsong
By: Kathryn Silver-Hajo
4.80
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Through a series of flash narratives, Kathryn Silver-Hajo's powerful debut story collection, Wolfso… read more
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24. Quiver: Poems
By: Luke Johnson
5.00
Format: 105 pages, Paperback
"Luke Johnson cements his title as the uncontested master of shadow... Quiver will change the way… read more
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25. Phantom Limbs
By: Deirdre Fagan
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Part celebration, part elegy, Phantom Limbs is about living fully, arms wide open, despite or perha… read more
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26. First Law of Holes: New and Selected Stories
By: Meg Pokrass
4.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
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27. The Rope Artist: small ekphrastic fictions
By: Lorette C. Luzajic
5.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
“ Lorette C. Luzajic’s stories, inspired by works of art as different as a Salvador Dali painting o… read more
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28. Disappearing Debutantes: Short Fictions
By: Meg Pokrass
5.00
Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition
In Disappearing Debutantes , disappearing and ever present “female beginners” come-of-age in fantas… read more
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29. Blood Trip
By: Jesse Hilson
4.61
Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition
“Blood Trip is a delightfully twisted and inventive noir, reminiscent of past masters Thompson, Wil… read more
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30. Best Microfiction 2023
By: Meg Pokrass
4.55
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400… read more
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31. Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness
By: Diane Gottlieb
4.56
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
STORIES OF BODIES & CONSCIOUSNESS, a collection of 49 short, stunning essays by both seasoned and … read more
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