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  • Elsewhere, California

    A Novel

    by Dana Johnson ...
    We first met Avery in two of the stories featured in Dana Johnson's awardwinning collection Break Any Woman Down. As a young girl, she and her family escape the violent streets of Los Angeles to a more gentrified existence in suburban West Covina. This average life, filled with school, trips to 7Eleven to gawk at Tiger Beat magazine, and family outings to Dodger Stadium, is soon interrupted by a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Break Any Woman Down

    Stories

    by Dana Johnson ...
    Series series
    In Break Any Woman Down, Dana Johnson explores race, identity, and alienation with unflinching honesty and vibrant language. Hip and seductive, her stories often feature women discovering their identities through sexual and emotional intimacy with the men in their lives.In the title story, La Donna is a black stripper whose white boyfriend, an actor in adult movies, insists that she stop stripping ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • In the Not Quite Dark

    by Dana Johnson ...
    Following her prize–winning collection Break Any Woman Down, Dana Johnson returns with a collection of bold stories set mostly in downtown Los Angeles that examine large issues love, class, race and how they influence and define our most intimate moments. In "The Liberace Museum," a mixed–race couple leave the South toward the destination of Vegas, crossing miles of road and history to the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Agenda for Social Justice 3

    Solutions for 2024

    by Ashley C. Rondini, Ashley N. Gwathney, Blake R. Silver, Brooke Cordes, Charity Anderson, Drew Bonner, Elroi Windsor, Gabriela Gonzalez, Hayley Carlisle, Jeanne Kimpel, Katie Kerstetter, Kristen Burke, Lance Hannon, Lindsay Redditt, McKenzie Berezin, Meredith Van Natta, Monique Harrison, Nazgol Ghandnoosh, Raquel Rose, Sarah Jane Brubaker, Sophie Webb, Sydney Ingel, Teresa A. Sullivan, Tiffany Joseph, Tony Samara, Dana Johnson, Mary Bernstein ...
    Series series SSSP Agendas for Social Justice
    The Agenda for Social Justice 3: Solutions for 2024 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems and proposes public policy responses to those problems.Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), the book offers recommendations for action by elected officials, policymakers and the public ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Spellers Guidebook

    Practical Advice for Parents and Students

    by Dana Johnson, Dawnmarie Gaivin ...
    A means by which thousands, and soon millions, of people are being freed from their lives of silence.The Spellers Guidebook is the first of its kind—a comprehensive guidebook that every family should take along for their Spelling journey. From the moment you first learn about spelled communication through working with a practitioner, developing fluency, and everything in between, this book serves ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Ploughshares Summer 2021 Guest-edited by Aimee Bender

    by Aimee Bender, Nana Kwame Adjei-Breniyah, Rumaan Alam, Patrick Cottrell, Amelia Gray, Mona Awad, Stephen Tuttle, Yi Jiang, Marcela Fuentes, Rachel Khong, Kathy Fish, Libby Flores, Dana Johnson, Jonathan Johnson, Marisa Matarazzo, Christopher Muniz, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Lavanya Vasudevan ...
    The 50th Anniversary Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Down on the Sidewalk

    Stories about Children and Childhood from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

    by Daniel Curley, Amina Gautier, Carole L. Glickfeld, Dana Johnson, Tom Kealey, C. M. Mayo, Melinda Moustakis, Antonya Nelson, Lori Ostlund, Andrew Porter, Anne Raeff, Paul Rawlins, Barbara Sutton, Kellie Wells, Nancy Zafris ...
    Series series
    Front porches, family cars, playgrounds, swimming pools: from such familiar haunts of childhood, these stories look out on the world through young eyes and hearts. Wise beyond their years—or soon to be—Ruthie, Omar, J.J., and the other kids in these stories veer in and out of touching distance to hard lessons about trust, love, and mortality. However engaged or aloof, grownups are always nearby. ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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  • The Empathy Exams

    Essays

    by Leslie Jamison ...
    From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeA Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • From Out of the House Proceed

    by Jensen Beach ...
    In his debut collection of stories, Jensen Beach’s characters discover what it means to be individuals, colleagues, husbands and fathers in a world that too often complicates the best intentions with sabotage and subterfuge. What’s most striking about these narratives is the protagonists’ ability to continually make right, difficult decisions despite being placed in challenging, dangerous ... Read more

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  • Young God

    A Novel

    by Katherine Faw Morris ...
    Stripped down and stylized—the sharpest, boldest, brashest debut of the yearMeet Nikki, the most determined young woman in the North Carolina hills. Determined not to let deadbeats and dropouts set her future. Determined to use whatever tools she can get her hands on to shape the world to her will. Determined to preserve her family's domination of the local drug trade. Nikki is thirteen years old ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Damage Control

    Stories

    by Amber Dermont ...
    "Dermont's short story collection, which follows her debut novel ( The Starboard Sea, 2012), demonstrates the author's versatility and sardonic humor…Dermont delivers strong prose and intriguing characters who frequently defy stereotypical ideals…the overall effect is a tight collection that takes the reader in unexpected, often disconcerting, directions. Full of irony and contradictions, this ... Read more

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  • If Only You People Could Follow Directions

    A Memoir

    by Jessica Hendry Nelson ...
    If Only You People Could Follow Directions is a spellbinding debut by Jessica Hendry Nelson. In linked autobiographical essays, Nelson has reimagined the memoir with her thoroughly original voice, fearless writing, and hypnotic storytelling. At its center, the book is the story of three people: Nelson's mother Susan, her brother Eric, and Jessica herself. These three characters are deeply bound to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD