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My Unsentimental Education

A Memoir

by Debra Monroe ...

Series series Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction
A woman reflects on her working-class roots, her unsuitable exes, and her accidental road to happiness in a memoir of "many delights" ( Atlanta Journal Constitution).A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin, with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, and another, and builds a career—if only because her plans to be a midwestern housewife continually get ... Read more

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A woman reflects on her working-class roots, her unsuitable exes, and her accidental road to happiness in a memoir of "many delights" ( Atlanta Journal Constitution).A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin, with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, and another, and builds a career—if only because her plans to be a midwestern housewife continually get
... Read more
It Takes a Worried Woman

Essays

by Debra Monroe ...

Series series Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction
Debra Monroe has always written about the source of trouble, “that one incident you zero down to and everything bad that happens afterward happens because of it.” The illusion that every problem has a clear-cut cause and discernible solution is apparently her gateway drug. It Takes a Worried Woman explores the outer limits of her faith that all past hardship could have been prevented and all ... Read more

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Debra Monroe has always written about the source of trouble, “that one incident you zero down to and everything bad that happens afterward happens because of it.” The illusion that every problem has a clear-cut cause and discernible solution is apparently her gateway drug. It Takes a Worried Woman explores the outer limits of her faith that all past hardship could have been prevented and all
... Read more
No Longer the Victim

by Debra Monroe-Lax ...

Raised in the Delta of Mississippi, Jan Cowan is repeatedly molested by her mothers lesbian lover, Judy Christine Hays, a small-town cop. Immediately after finishing high school, Jan flees Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee. Patterned after her molester, Jan embarks on a career with the Memphis Police Department where she becomes a noted homicide detective. At the age of thirty-three, an unexpected ... Read more

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Raised in the Delta of Mississippi, Jan Cowan is repeatedly molested by her mothers lesbian lover, Judy Christine Hays, a small-town cop. Immediately after finishing high school, Jan flees Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee. Patterned after her molester, Jan embarks on a career with the Memphis Police Department where she becomes a noted homicide detective. At the age of thirty-three, an unexpected
... Read more
On the Outskirts of Normal

Forging a Family Against the Grain

by Debra Monroe ...

Series series Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction
After moving to a humble cottage outside of a tiny Texas town, Debra Monroe rids herself of an abusive husband, battles sexist contractors and workers as she renovates her home, and finally, after several disheartening letdowns, is able to adopt her beautiful baby daughter, Marie. Though elated that her dream is coming true, Monroe faces trials that befall her not just as a single mother but as a ... Read more

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After moving to a humble cottage outside of a tiny Texas town, Debra Monroe rids herself of an abusive husband, battles sexist contractors and workers as she renovates her home, and finally, after several disheartening letdowns, is able to adopt her beautiful baby daughter, Marie. Though elated that her dream is coming true, Monroe faces trials that befall her not just as a single mother but as a
... Read more
Hold That Knowledge

Stories about Love from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

by Gail Galloway Adams, Tony Ardizzone, Wendy Brenner, Daniel Curley, Linda LeGarde Grover, Dennis Hathaway, Hester Kaplan, Christopher McIlroy, Debra Monroe, Anne Panning, Bill Roorbach, Margot Singer, Sandra Thompson, iamak Vossoughi ...

Series Book 109 - Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
Love, in some of the infinite ways we may know it, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction series.More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O’Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often ... Read more

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Love, in some of the infinite ways we may know it, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction series.More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O’Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often
... Read more
Growing Up

Stories about Adolescence from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

by Tony Ardizzone, Rita Ciresi, Mary Clyde, Tom Kealey, Carol Lee Lorenzo, T. M. McNally, Alyce Miller, Debra Monroe, Randy F. Nelson, Andrew Porter, Melissa Pritchard, Paul Rawlins, Barbara Sutton, Kellie Wells, Nancy Zafris ...

Series Book 117 - Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
Growing up can mean growing pains and the joys of new independence. With maturity comes the shift from infinitepossibilities to imminent realities. These thirteen stories describe the slow and subtle experience of growing up, allowing us to reflect upon the forces that pushed us toward adulthood and away from the familiar ground of youth that must be left behind if we are to learn how to soar on ... Read more

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Growing up can mean growing pains and the joys of new independence. With maturity comes the shift from infinitepossibilities to imminent realities. These thirteen stories describe the slow and subtle experience of growing up, allowing us to reflect upon the forces that pushed us toward adulthood and away from the familiar ground of youth that must be left behind if we are to learn how to soar on
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On the Outskirts of Normal

by Debra Monroe ...

Narrated by Lynne McCollough ...

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9 hours 38 min

In this memoir by Flannery O'Connor Award winner Debra Monroe, the soon-to-be divorced Debra buys a dilapidated Texas cabin miles from her teaching job. While waiting to adopt a child, she refurbishes and expands the rude dwelling. She soon finds herself in the strange new world of single motherhood, complicated by her being white and her adopted daughter being black. ". an engaging, poignant read ... Read more

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In this memoir by Flannery O'Connor Award winner Debra Monroe, the soon-to-be divorced Debra buys a dilapidated Texas cabin miles from her teaching job. While waiting to adopt a child, she refurbishes and expands the rude dwelling. She soon finds herself in the strange new world of single motherhood, complicated by her being white and her adopted daughter being black. ". an engaging, poignant read
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Cool, Calm & Contentious

Essays

by Merrill Markoe ...

“This is so well written. [When a book like this] comes along, it’s, like, ‘Thank you!’ What a great way to spend an afternoon, an evening, reading these essays. . . . Absolutely great.”—Jon Stewart“[Merrill] Markoe is easily as funny as David Sedaris. She’s capable of manic riffs and acerbic skewering. Still, her good nature shines through.”—The Washington PostIn this hilarious collection of ... Read more

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“This is so well written. [When a book like this] comes along, it’s, like, ‘Thank you!’ What a great way to spend an afternoon, an evening, reading these essays. . . . Absolutely great.”—Jon Stewart“[Merrill] Markoe is easily as funny as David Sedaris. She’s capable of manic riffs and acerbic skewering. Still, her good nature shines through.”—The Washington PostIn this hilarious collection of
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Waveform

Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women

by Marcia Aldrich, Eula Biss, Barrie Jean Borich, Joy Castro, Patricia Foster, Sonja Livingston, Kyoko Mori, Bich Minh Nguyen, Jericho Parms, Kristen Radtke0, Cheryl Strayed1, Nicole Walker2, Amy Wright3, Jocelyn Bartkevicius4, Chelsea Biondolillo5, Laurie Lynn Drummond6, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich7, Michele Morano8, Adriana Paramo9, Meghan Daum0, Neela Vaswani1, Sarah Valentine2, Dana Tommasino3, Wendy Rawlings4, Torrey Peters5, Brenda Miller6, Margo Jefferson7, Leslie Jamison8, Roxane Gay9, Jaquira Díaz0 ...

Waveform celebrates the role of women essayists in contemporary literature. Historically, women have been instrumental in moving the essay to center stage, and Waveform continues this rich tradition, further expanding the dynamic genre’s boundaries and testing its edges. With thirty essays by thirty distinguished and diverse women writers, this carefully constructed anthology incorporates works ... Read more

$29.99 USD

Waveform celebrates the role of women essayists in contemporary literature. Historically, women have been instrumental in moving the essay to center stage, and Waveform continues this rich tradition, further expanding the dynamic genre’s boundaries and testing its edges. With thirty essays by thirty distinguished and diverse women writers, this carefully constructed anthology incorporates works
... Read more
Along Came a Spider

by James Patterson ...

Series Book #1 - Alex Cross
Discover the classic thriller that launched the bestselling detective series from the world's most popular storyteller.**Alex Cross is in a race against time after two private-school children are kidnapped by their teacher—a man looking to commit the crime of the century.The inspiration for the Prime Video show, Cross.**Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and ... Read more

$9.99 USD

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Discover the classic thriller that launched the bestselling detective series from the world's most popular storyteller.**Alex Cross is in a race against time after two private-school children are kidnapped by their teacher—a man looking to commit the crime of the century.The inspiration for the Prime Video show, Cross.**Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and
... Read more

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Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake

A Memoir of a Woman's Life

by Anna Quindlen ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Quindlen] serves up generous portions of her wise, commonsensical, irresistibly quotable take on life.”—NPRThis edition includes an exclusive conversation between Meryl Streep and Anna Quindlen.In this irresistible memoir, Anna Quindlen writes about a woman’s life, from childhood memories to manic motherhood to middle age. Considering—and celebrating—everything ... Read more

$12.99 USD

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Quindlen] serves up generous portions of her wise, commonsensical, irresistibly quotable take on life.”—NPRThis edition includes an exclusive conversation between Meryl Streep and Anna Quindlen.In this irresistible memoir, Anna Quindlen writes about a woman’s life, from childhood memories to manic motherhood to middle age. Considering—and celebrating—everything
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The Poet

A Novel

by Michael Connelly ...

Series Book 1 - Jack McEvoy
**FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HARRY BOSCH AND LINCOLN LAWYER SERIESAn electrifying standalone thriller that breaks all the rules! With an introduction by Stephen King.**Death is reporter Jack McEvoy's beat: his calling, his obsession. But this time, death brings McEvoy the story he never wanted to write--and the mystery he desperately needs to solve. A serial killer of unprecedented ... Read more

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**FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HARRY BOSCH AND LINCOLN LAWYER SERIESAn electrifying standalone thriller that breaks all the rules! With an introduction by Stephen King.**Death is reporter Jack McEvoy's beat: his calling, his obsession. But this time, death brings McEvoy the story he never wanted to write--and the mystery he desperately needs to solve. A serial killer of unprecedented
... Read more

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