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  • Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean

    Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia

    Edited by Adrian Blevins, Karen Salyer McElmurray ...
    In Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean, Adrian Blevins and Karen Salyer McElmurray collect essays from today’s finest established and emerging writers with roots in Appalachia. Together, these essays take the theme of silencing in Appalachian culture, whether the details of that theme revolve around faith, class, work, or family legacies.In essays that take wide-ranging forms—making this an ideal volume ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, Volume I: Virginia

    by Casey Clabough, Adrian Blevins, Mr. Greg Bottoms, Michael P. Branch, Kelly Cherry, Michael Chitwood, Mark Edmundson, Margaret Gibson, John Pineda0, Lucinda Roy1, Matthew Vollmer2, Tom Wolfe3 ...
    Series Book 1 - The Best Creative Nonfiction of the South
    Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, of which this Virginia collection is the first volume, serves as a valuable resource for scholars, students, writers, and general readers interested in creative nonfiction both from specific areas of the South and across the region as a whole. The writers included in each volume come from diverse backgrounds, generations, and artistic traditions. Most, if not ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Status Pending

    by Adrian Blevins ...
    A riotous yet deceptively serious addition to Adrian Blevins’ oeuvre, Status Pending exquisitely leverages the lyric to fathom the liminality of human experience. These poems comprise a stenography of our lives as the buffering consciousness between voided states. Blevins straddles various faultlines as a woman who writes and mothers, who emerges from a second divorce as an Appalachian transplant ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Live from the Homesick Jamboree

    by Adrian Blevins ...
    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    Live from the Homesick Jamboree is a brave, brash, funny, and tragic hue and cry on growing up female during the 1970s, "when everything was always so awash" that the speaker finds herself adrift among adults who act like children. The book moves from adolescence through a dry-eyed, poignant exploration of two marriages, motherhood, and the larger world, with the headlong perceptiveness and brio ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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  • Best Creative Nonfiction of the South, Volume II: North Carolina

    by Casey Clabough, Thomas Rain Crowe, Hal Crowther, Jan DeBlieu, Clyde Edgerton, Georgann Eubanks, Marianne Gingher, Judy Goldman, Stephanie Elizondo Griest0, Allen Gurganus1, Scott Huler2, Randall Kenan3, Jill McCorkle4, Michael McFee5, Robert Morgan6, Michael Parker7, Ron Rash8, Bland Simpson9 ...
    Series Book 2 - The Best Creative Nonfiction of the South
    Best Creative Nonfiction of the South serves as a valuable resource for scholars, students, writers, and general readers interested in creative nonfiction both from specific areas of the South and across the region as a whole. This North Carolina volume, second in the series, contains essays that celebrate and document the Tar Heel state’s diverse cultures and geography, from the mountains to the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Brainstorm on Black Velvet

    by Charles Hibbard ...
    More poems about life, love, old age, death, birds, beaches, nature, chemistry, time, guns, and mice. Along with the usual unanswerable questions. ... Read more

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  • The Hurting Kind

    by Ada Limón ...
    An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist Ada Limón.“I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,” writes Limón. “I am the hurting kind.” What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world’s pain ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Trouble with Poetry

    And Other Poems

    by Billy Collins ...
    Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins.With his distinct voice and accessible language, America’s two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed.Like the present book’s title, Collins’s poems are filled with mischief, humor, and irony, “Poetry speaks to all people, it is said, but here I would ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Giddy Kiddies Joke Book - Volume Two

    Giddy Kiddies Joke Books, #2

    by Mike Buehner ...
    Series Book 2 - Giddy Kiddies Joke Books
    This second joke book in the series has hilarious chapters that range from Knock Knock Jokes to Chicken Jokes to Dinosaur Jokes to Monster Jokes. Laugh out loud at this gut- busting collection. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alien vs. Predator

    by Michael Robbins ...
    Series series Penguin Poets
    The debut collection of a poet whose savage, hilarious work has already received extraordinary notice.Since his poems first began to appear in the pages of The New Yorker and Poetry, there has been a lot of excited talk about the fresh and inventive work of Michael Robbins. Equal parts hip- hop, John Berryman, and capitalism seeking death and not finding it, Robbins's poems are strange, wonderful, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • 202 More! Jokes for Kids

    by Jessica Van Vleet ...
    202 More! Jokes for Kids contains 202 silly jokes and punch lines that kids of all ages will enjoy. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • T.C. Boyle Stories II

    The Collected Stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle, Volume II

    by T.C. Boyle ...
    The second volume of collected short fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain, featuring fifty-eight short stories that “mix brilliance with high-concept pyrotechnics” (Los Angeles Times), including fourteen never-before-published tales“Whether he’s writing about survival in a wasted environment or people and animals coming unhinged, Boyle never fails to captivate ... Read more

    $11.99 USD