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  • Armored Hearts

    Selected & New Poems

    by David Bottoms ...
    Armored Hearts, combining new poems and a selection from previous volumes, offers the power of idiomatic narrative at its naked best. "It is refreshing to read a poet who is not obliquely vague, who tells a story cleanly and convincingly, and yet who will not close down mysterious and complicated things about life that simply defy such closure."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • A Scrap in the Blessings Jar

    New and Selected Poems

    by David Bottoms, Dave Smith ...
    Series series Southern Messenger Poets
    A Scrap in the Blessings Jar, a volume of newand selected poems by David Bottoms, captures the evolution of the poet’s spiritual quest over the past fifty years. A native and longtime resident of Georgia, Bottoms draws inspiration from the American South, and his work examines themes related to family dynamics, the woods, animals, fishing, and music in an effort to, as he once told an interviewer, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Modern Short Stories: A Book for High Schools

    Exploring the Tapestry of Modern Storytelling

    by Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ernest Thompson Seton, Richard Harding Davis, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Mary Mapes Dodge, Rudyard Kipling, Lafcadio Hearn, Owen Johnson, O. Henry, William Sharp, Perceval Gibbon, Ian Maclaren, Joel Chandler Harris, Morgan Robertson, Phyllis Bottome, David Gray, J. M. Barrie, S. Weir Mitchell, Walter A. Dyer, Leo Tolstoy, Stacy Aumonier ...
    Modern Short Stories: A Book for High Schools is a curated exploration of the variances in tone, technique, and thematic depth that defined the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The anthology showcases an impressive amalgamation of narratives that traverse genres from adventure to social commentary, aligning with the educational needs of burgeoning readers. From the gripping accounts of morality ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We Almost Disappear

    by David Bottoms ...
    "An exquisite storyteller."-The Southern Review"David Bottoms's poems just get better and better."-The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"One finds here what one expects in a book of good Southern poems: clear narratives . . . evocative images, searching irony, and meditative poise." -Library JournalRooted in the customs of Southern families and peopled with undertakers, bluegrass musicians, daughters ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch

    by David Bottoms ...
    “[Bottoms] makes astounding leaps of both faith and doubt, and does so with insight, honesty, and flashes of anger—all characteristic elements of his work.” —The Southern Review“One finds here what one expects in a book of good Southern poems: clear narratives . . . evocative images, searching irony, and meditative poise.” —Library Journal“Bottoms’ poems do what the best poems have always done: ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Young Adult Offenders

    Lost in Transition?

    Edited by Friedrich Lösel, Anthony Bottoms, David P. Farrington ...
    Series series Cambridge Criminal Justice Series
    This latest volume in the Cambridge Criminal Justice Series focuses upon young adults and their treatment in the criminal justice system. The subject is very topical because there is increasing evidence that a rigid distinction between ‘youth’ and ‘adulthood’ is not appropriate in modern societies. For example, important developmental tasks such as finishing one’s education, finding regular work ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Lifeline

    by Phyllis Bottome ...
    Mark Chalmers, is 36, dark haired, athletic, keen on skiing and winter sports, speaks fluent French and German and has a taste for wine, food and women. It is 1938 and Chalmers, a master at Eton, is recruited by an old friend at the Foreign Office and introduced to his boss 'B'. Reluctantly he agrees to take on a covert mission for British Intelligence – to parachute into Nazi-occupied Austria and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fight Scenes

    by Greg Bottoms ...
    In an intricately linked series of poetic, short tales set in a 1983 suburb, Greg Bottoms portrays his life as one of two "at–risk" boys as they attempt to learn how to be—and what it means to be—men.By turns funny, disquieting, and moving, Fight Scenes takes an unsparing look at juvenile disaffection and the dark side of white, working–class masculinity. By narrating his experiences with ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Pitiful Criminals

    by Greg Bottoms ...
    In Pitiful Criminals, Greg Bottoms offers thirteen genre–bending chapters from his past that take a close look at the lives of small–time criminals driven, often by confusion and desperation, to deeds that range from the absurd to the heinous. We meet the author's schizophrenic arsonist brother, a depressed pot grower, a damaged ex–dealer who barely escaped a violent burglary, a born–again teenage ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Bright Dead Things

    Poems

    by Ada Limón ...
    The National Book Award finalist. " Limón's poems are like fires: charring the page, but leaving a smoke that remains past the close of the book." — The MillionsBright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately "disorderly, and marvelous, and ours."A book of bravado ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Delights & Shadows

    by Ted Kooser ...
    Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry“Kooser documents the dignities, habits and small griefs of daily life, our hunger for connection, our struggle to find balance.”—Poetry"[Kooser] brushes poems over ordinary objects, revealing metaphysical themes that way an investigator dusts for fingerprints. His language is so controlled and convincing that one can't help but feel significant truths ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Wheeling Year

    A Poet's Field Book

    by Ted Kooser ...
    Ted Kooser sees a writer’s workbooks as the stepping-stones on which a poet makes his way across the stream of experience toward a poem. Because those wobbly stones are only inches above the quotidian rush, what’s jotted there has an immediacy that is intimate and close to life.Kooser, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a former U.S. poet laureate, has filled scores of workbooks. The Wheeling Year ... Read more

    $11.99 USD