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  • Ploughshares Solos Omnibus Volume 4

    by Joan Frank, Ted Kehoe, Alexandra Marshall, Bill Roorbach, Douglas Trevor, Andria Nacina Cole, Federico Falco, Sarah Viren, Robert Boswell, Patricia Buddenhagen, Ladette Randolph ...
    Nine long stories and essays, originally published in the acclaimed Ploughshares Solos digital series, create this fourth annual print collection.Visit a small island off the coast of Maine where the reappearance of an old friend might just push a painter suffering from artist’s block over the edge. Meet a newly divorced lecturer of critical theory who, in an effort to spice up his life, gets more ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Open Land, Open Heart: 33 Classic Ranching Storybooks to Love

    Thirty-Three Tales of Cowboys, Homesteads, Adventure, and Frontier Life

    by Ridgwell Cullum, Kathryn Pocklington, Alice M. Winlow, Alice MacGowan, B. M. Bower, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Clarence Edward Mulford, John Wood Clay, Mary Ellen Chase, Bertrand W. Sinclair, Frances Parker, Dane Coolidge, Izola L. Forrester, Kate Boyles Bingham, Virgil D. Boyles, Les Savage, Vingie E. Roe, Onoto Watanna, F. S. Brereton, Peter B. Kyne, Clarice E. Richards, Josephine Chase, Harold Bindloss, Lily Munsell Ritchie, George Bird Grinnell, Albert Payson Terhune, Lillian Elizabeth Roy, Amy Bell Marlowe, Grace May North, Evelyn Raymond, Edith Lavell, John Luther Langworthy, L. Frank Baum, Clair Blank, Margaret Vandercook, Howard Roger Garis, James Captain Carson, Frank V. Webster, Joan Clark, Mayne Reid, Hermann Hagedorn, Edward G. Cheyney, Laura Lee Hope, Thomas Carson ...
    Open Land, Open Heart: 33 Classic Ranching Storybooks to Love gathers ranching tales in which labor, landscape, animal companionship, and frontier adventure become vehicles for moral and imaginative discovery. Its range extends from brisk juvenile adventures and episodic series fiction to regional realism, romance, humor, and wilderness narrative. Cattle drives, homesteads, riding schools, ranch ... Read more

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  • Miss Kansas City

    by Joan Frank ...
    Series series Michigan Literary Fiction Awards
    Miss Kansas City is the story of an improbable friendship, set in the tumultuous mid-80s dotcom California, where youthful greed and blinkered innocence arrive intertwined.Friendless and reclusive, Alex Blue commutes two hours each way to a job that serves mainly as a place to bide time, until one day she meets the wealthy, worldly—and married—owner of a high-concept Bay Area lifestyle company. ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Late Work

    A Literary Autobiography of Love, Loss, and What I Was Reading

    by Joan Frank ...
    Curious, ruminative, and wry, this literary autobiography tours what Rachel Kushner called “the strange remove that is the life of the writer.” Frank’s essays cover a vast spectrum—from handling dismissive advice, facing the dilemma of thwarted ambition, and copying the generosity that inspires us, to the miraculous catharsis of letter-writing and some of the books that pull us through. Useful for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Biting the Moon

    by Joan Frank ...
    Series series Ploughshares Solos
    It's been years since the woman in "Biting the Moon" has seen her former lover Felix, a famous, Oscar-winning composer. But upon hearing the news of his sudden death, she mourns his loss by revisiting moments of their former life. Jumping in time from the pair’s first encounter at an artists’ colony to their rendezvous in cities across the US, the path the narrator takes toward acceptance is much ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Outlook for Earthlings

    by Joan Frank ...
    A lifetime of friendship, tested by time and circumstance. Melanie Taper, timid and rule-bound, finds an unlikely counterpart in Scarlet Rand, who is willful and abrasive. Their friendship, begun in high school and rekindled in midlife, becomes a sanctuary, yet each woman secretly judges the other's choices.As they navigate life's challenges, including illness and loss, their bond faces its ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Try to Get Lost

    Essays on Travel and Place

    by Joan Frank ...
    Series series River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize Series
    Through the author’s travels in Europe and the United States, Try to Get Lost explores the quest for place that compels and defines us: the things we carry, how politics infuse geography, media’s depictions of an idea of home, the ancient and modern reverberations of the word “hotel,” and the ceaseless discovery generated by encounters with self and others on familiar and foreign ground. Frank ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Transdiagnostic Road Map to Case Formulation and Treatment Planning

    Practical Guidance for Clinical Decision Making

    by Joan Davidson, PhD, Rochelle I. Frank, PhD ...
    Transdiagnostic treatment is the future of psychology.Mounting evidence shows that moving beyond treatment protocols that focus on a singular diagnosis and toward transdiagnostic approaches that target psychological mechanisms can improve outcomes. If you are seeking to correctly identify mechanisms and use them to select interventions that best meet the needs of your clients this book offers a ... Read more

    $40.29 USD

  • Where You're All Going

    by Joan Frank ...
    Series series Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction
    Buzzfeed News,"15 Small Press Books To Kick Off Your 2020 Reading Season"The Millions, “February Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated”"Death looms in these four sparkling novellas—thus the book’s sly title—but until then there’s the wonder of life. Frank’s subjects include fascinating friendships and complicated marriages, awful parties and odd enthusiasm. Bonus: song mentions that add up to a ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • We Remember Dunkirk

    by Frank Shaw, Joan Shaw ...
    ‘Yes we were scared. It could be seen on the faces of the men. No food didn’t help. We stopped to suck pebbles during the day as our tongues began to swell through lack of water … We had an order come through to us one day. Every man for himself. And then the soldiers – Belgian, French and British – were side by side in silent soddy ranks in columns, zig-zagged across the beaches. I still believe ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • We Remember the Blitz

    by Frank Shaw, Joan Shaw ...
    'I went to the public baths and after I undressed I could hear someone whistling. I looked round to see if I could see anybody about, but I couldn't, so I got into the bath and lay back to relax. As soon as I did, of course, I looked up and saw a man putting in the glass windows that had been blown out the night before.' Joan Adams, LichfieldOn the night of 7 September 1940, bombs rained down on ... Read more

    $17.69 USD

  • We Remember the Home Guard

    by Frank Shaw, Joan Shaw ...
    'I remember standing on top of our local glen with a block of wood, expecting thousands of Germans coming down from the sky. What was I going to do with the block of wood? I never knew.' Leonard JacksonOn 22 June 1940 France surrendered to Germany and the invasion of Britain seemed a very real possibility.The Home Guard was formed to defend our villages and towns. Members came from reserved ... Read more

    $11.39 USD