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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

  • 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

    $20.99 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

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

    The One-Way Trail, The Mornin'-Glory Girl, The Flying U's Last Stand, Cow-Country, etc.

    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 is a remarkable anthology that traverses the expansive landscapes of ranching life, uniting a rich tapestry of storytelling that weaves themes of resilience, adventure, and the pioneering spirit. The collection showcases an array of literary styles ranging from gripping adventure tales to poignant narratives that capture the heart and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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 ...
    THE OUTLOOK FOR EARTHLINGS traces an unusual, difficult friendship across a lifetime, between women of stunningly opposite natures. Melanie Taper is rule-bound, timid, compelled to obey and venerate authority. Yet in unguarded moments she demonstrates such deadly insight into human foibles as to suggest a strength that has, for dark reasons, deliberately hidden itself lifelong. "No woman," she ... 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

  • 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

    $13.99 USD

  • The Academic Gateway

    Understanding the Journey to Tenure

    by Cecile Badenhorst, Lee Anne Block, Joan Chambers, Cam Cobb, Frank Deer, Lyle Hamm, Lloyd Kornelsen ...
    Series series Education
    The Academic Gateway: Understanding the Journey to Tenure investigates the experiences of professors employed in tenure-track positions who are starting their career within a university environment, but have not yet attained the affirmation and permanence that tenure offers. The role that they have taken on entails the preparation of students within a professional school. Some of them have very ... Read more

    $21.99 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

  • 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

    $40.99 USD