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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

    $20.89 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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  • 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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  • It's Not Love, It's Just Paris

    A Novel

    by Patricia Engel ...
    A spellbinding story of a young American abroad and a star-crossed relationship: "This is a novel to get lost in." — The Miami HeraldLita del Cielo is the daughter of two Colombian immigrants who arrived in America with nothing and made a fortune with their Latin food empire. Now Lita has been granted one year to pursue her studies in Paris before returning to work in the family business. She ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Days of California

    A Novel

    by Mary Miller ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SelectionLonglisted for the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Book Prize“[A] terrific first novel. . . . Why worry about labeling a book this good? Just read it.” —Laurie Muchnick, New York Times Book ReviewJess is fifteen years old and waiting for the world to end. Her evangelical father has packed up the family to drive west to California, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Searching for Zion

    The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora

    by Emily Raboteau ...
    From Jerusalem to Ghana to Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, a woman reclaims her history in a "beautifully written and thought-provoking" memoir (Dave Eggers, author of A Hologram for the King and Zeitoun).A biracial woman from a country still divided along racial lines, Emily Raboteau never felt at home in America. As the daughter of an African American religious historian, she understood the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Carnations

    Poems

    by Anthony Carelli ...
    Series series Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
    In Anthony Carelli's remarkable debut, Carnations, the poems attempt to reanimate dead metaphors as blossoms: wild and lovely but also fleeting, mortal, and averse to the touch. Here, the poems are carnations, not only flowers, but also body-making words. Nodding to influences as varied as George Herbert, Francis Ponge, Fernando Pessoa, and D. H. Lawrence, Carelli asserts that the poet’s materials ... Read more

    $10.69 USD