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BOOKS<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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\u200bScroll to find titles in our various series, including:
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The<\/span>Legacy Series<\/strong> in Short Fiction
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The Linda Nemec Foster First Book Award<\/strong> for Poetry <\/strong>
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The Portage Poetry Series<\/strong>
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The Back Home Series<\/strong> in Creative Nonfiction
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The Heritage Series<\/strong>
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New Releases<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fall 2026
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\u200b$24.95 | Nov 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

220 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-81-2<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Loneliness of Glass<\/em>
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Kathleen Furin
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<\/span><\/span>Featuring women on the borders, Kathleen Furin\u2019s stories show how a deepening understanding of inner truths can challenge one\u2019s social belonging, and how this tension between inner and outer selves serves or destroys. Grappling with complicity, the characters in The Loneliness of Glass<\/em><\/strong> struggle as they learn how an intent to \u201csave\u201d others is often fraught with hypocrisy and can lead to self-destruction.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIncandescent . . . Furin is a major new talent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Jonathan Vatner<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Carnegie Hill<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Nov 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

220 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-56-0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ask Me About the Money<\/em>
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Keith Lesmeister
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<\/span><\/span>With profound empathy, searing details, and propulsive scenes, these stories introduce situations at once simple and profound, strange and familiar. From railroad tracks, to cheap motels, from garage sales to cow pastures, Keith Pilapil Lesmeister tunes our hearts to the powerful frequency of money.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDeeply felt, generous, big-hearted stories by one of the most exciting and talented short story writers out there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Andrew Porter<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of The Imagined Life<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Nov 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

225 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-88-1<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s No Way to Know<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mary Alice Hostetter
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\u201cReaders familiar with any small town in America will recognize the colorful inhabitants of Tanner\u2019s Gap, West Virginia. From the gossiping quilters to the young women with dreams of taking over the local diner to the high school basketball star who just wants to get out of town, Hostetter has woven these unflinching stories together with lyrical threads of loss, jealousy, and loneliness. These are the men and women who stay, who leave, who are left behind, and I promise when you get to the end, you\u2019ll want more.\u201d<\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of In an Uncharted Country<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Nov 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

225 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-87-4\u200b<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aboard the Old Buoy<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Rihn
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\u201cRihn has crafted a collection of picaresque tales that pull no punches (infused with the spirit of Robert E. Howard\u2019s boxing stories) about the hangdog Steve Costigan, Jr. They are brisk with action, roguish characters, barflies, and stings of physical comedy like we haven\u2019t seen since the days of Chaplin and Keaton. I don\u2019t want to overstate it, but these are Melvillean tales focused on the pugilist rather than the sailor, punctuated with sharp prose and keen thoughts.\u201d<\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of The Ship of Death<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Nov 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

225 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-86-7<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never Mind Your Good Reasons<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

BettyJoyce Nash
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<\/span><\/span>“These stories are packed full of longing, regret, and resignation and glimmers of hope and resilience. They open readers\u2019 eyes to the everyday struggles of people one might pass on the street, on the bus, in a parking lot who might not be given a chance of a second glance. Nash finds gravity in those characters. She holds a tenderness for the ordinary, the woebegone, the beaten down and writes with poignancy, humor, and empathy.” <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Debra A. Daniel<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of In the Dark Eyes of the Rabbit<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$22.95 | Nov 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

120 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-74-4<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summer & Other Stories<\/i><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tamara Skidmore
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<\/span><\/span>Six stories follow the life of Ruby, a Michigan girl living, struggling, and searching in San Francisco in Tamara Skidmore\u2019s raw and moving story cycle. Her Midwestern memories intrude upon her California present, haunting and helping her as she wonders about the great heights and darkness in her life. Starkly real and exacting in its endurance and spirit, Summer & Other Stories <\/em><\/strong>is a soulful exploration of a woman\u2019s dangerous proximity to ruin and rebirth.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCompellingly intimate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Stuart Dybeck<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of The Coast of Chicago<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Nov 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

225 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-85-0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to North Bank<\/i><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Phillip Sterling
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“At times devastating, beautifully sorrowful and at others bitterly joyful, Sterling has captured the complexities of smalltown life that one should never confuse for ‘the simple life.’ This is to say that what really gets these wives, husbands, smalltown business owners and politicians, door-to-door salesmen and lovers from one day to the next is hope. There is nothing more human than that.”<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014RS Deeren<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Enough to Lose<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$23.95 | Nov 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

150 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-84-3<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abandon<\/i><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Storm Ainsely
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“A raw and immersive debut that follows a drifting narrator through a fractured underground world of music, addiction, friendships, and fleeting revelations. . . . the work further pushes boundaries and captures a new generation searching for meaning while standing at the edge of collapse. Weaving lyrical and realistic lines, Ainsely is a writer who unflinchingly explores the fragile spaces between creativity and self-destruction, hope and nihilism, connection and isolation.” <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014John Chavez<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of City of Slow Dissolve<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Oct 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

224 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-67-6<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mervelous Freaks of Nature!<\/i><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Alyson Mosquera Dutemple
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<\/span><\/span>From oddballs and lonely hearts living on the fringes of suburbia to stunning abnormalities pulled out from Mother Nature\u2019s bag of tricks, MARVELOUS FREAKS OF NATURE<\/em><\/strong>! is a delightfully sly study of the shadowy crannies of the human heart. A dazzling debut so full of life it hurts.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cContinually amazes, sometimes quietly and sometimes with the force of a bomb.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Mary Grimm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Transubstantiation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Oct 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

216 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-57-7<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tradeoffs<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

David Galef
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<\/span><\/span>From the minor to the magnificent, Tradeoffs <\/em><\/strong>follows its many characters toward their various conclusions\u2014sometimes logical, sometimes absurd, yet always true. Intricate in its construction and thrilling in its breadth, Tradeoffs <\/em><\/strong>pays off.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMasterful . . . compelling and thought-provoking.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Francine Witte<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Radio Water<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$25.95 | Oct 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

238 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-77-5<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bullies & Cowards<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Kevin Grauke<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

What makes a bully? What makes a coward? Who determines what makes a person one or the other? How does one avoid being either? Bullies & Cowards<\/em><\/strong> reveals the darkness and courage buried in each of us.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs brutal as it is beautiful. . . . Without question, Grauke is one of our finest short story writers today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Jonathan Danielson<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of The Lowest Basin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Oct 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

216 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-76-8<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secrets and Other Hobbies<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mary Hannah Terzino
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<\/span><\/span>Serious and darkly humorous, noble and morally ambiguous, achingly vulnerable and always memorable, Mary Hannah Terzino\u2019s debut lays bare an indelible and realistic Midwest.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGutting and complex . . . a literary coup for all those who love the Midwest.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Katey Schultz<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Still Come Home<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$23.95 | Oct 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

152 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-79-9<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Great Silence<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Scott
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<\/span><\/span>Set in isolated monasteries, in the cabs of snowplows, in maximum-security prisons and junior-high locker rooms and windowless Manhattan apartments, the bracing, innovative stories in Daniel Scott\u2019s The Great Silence<\/em><\/strong> expose and exalt human longing amidst the push and promise of American life.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA beautiful, moving collection.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Karen E. Bender<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of The Words of Dr. L<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Oct 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

208 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-80-5<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Night Shall Come<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

David J. Rank
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<\/span><\/span>The stories in David J. Rank\u2019s debut collection reveal what things wait in the shadows beyond human vision: creatures best left alone, monsters lurking within ourselves, and dark emotions ready to erupt from tormented souls. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFull of wit and dark humor, reminiscent of Ray Bradbury.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Sarah Read<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bram Stoker Award Winner<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u200b<\/em>
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\u200b$24.95 | Oct 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

196 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-70-6<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tollund Man<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jeff Esterholm
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“This book whispers and explodes, sings then kicks down the door.”<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Luis Alberto Urrea<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pulitzer Prize Finalist<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEsterholm writes my kind of crime fiction\u2014tough, tender, and as rich as marrow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Peter Farris<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of The Devil Himself<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u200b
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\u200b$24.95 | Oct 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

174 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-75-1<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rumors of Peace<\/i><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Hope Coulter
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<\/span><\/span>Biting, canny, and tender, Rumors of Peace<\/em><\/strong> conjures a group of characters who, amid many kinds of upheaval, spin the magic of stories to make sense of their lives.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCoulter swiftly summons not only vanished times and places but entire lives into being.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Kevin Brockmeier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of The Ghost Variations\u200b<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Series List\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$22.95 | Apr 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

118 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-36-2<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hands<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Pardeep Toor
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What happens if hard work doesn\u2019t pay off and dreams don\u2019t come true?<\/span>\u200b Hands <\/em><\/strong>follows Hans, a downtrodden and aimless immigrant pursuing the so-called American Dream by any means necessary. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBrilliant . . . a beautiful work of art.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014<\/em>Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Book Award Finalist<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Apr 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

206 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-37-9<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I Felt My Life With Both My Hands<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jessica Treadway
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These stories affirm the significance of our most inner selves, and the possibility of grace in human connection.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA writer with an unsparing bent for the truth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014The New York Times Book Review\u200b<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Apr 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

180 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-38-6<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Is How We Speak<\/em>
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Rebecca Reynolds
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<\/span><\/span>What do we owe one another? Rebecca Reynolds tells stories within stories of parents, children, turmoil, and forgiveness. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVibrant and alive and necessary.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Mary Miller<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Always Happy Hour<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Apr 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

208 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-39-3<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your Place in This World<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jake La Botz
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<\/span><\/span>What does it mean to find your place in this world? Jake La Botz burrows his way deep into the challenges of revelation, showing how change can bless us and curse us, and ultimately save us. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEngrossing . . . excellent.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Adventures in Americana<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Apr 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

225 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-42-3<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All That It Seems<\/em>
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Jim Landwehr
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<\/span><\/span>Eclectic, relevant, and earnestly human at every turn, Jim Landwehr\u2019s stories sparkle with magic and fantasy, hum with technology and history, and celebrate human triumph in troubling times. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBrimming with life, humor and heartbreak.\u201d
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\u2014Frank Bures<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Pushing the River\u200b<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Apr 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

225 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-43-0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lafferty, Looking for Love<\/em>
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Dennis McFadden
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<\/span>People like Terrance Lafferty\u200b  because he’s harmless. All the trouble he gets into, all his predicaments, are usually self-inflicted, and happen only because he’s on that most elemental of quests: he’s looking for love. And, as you might guess, he’s looking in all the wrong places.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCharming.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Foreword Reviews<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Apr 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

225 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-44-7<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All Gone Now<\/em>
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Michael Caleb Tasker
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<\/span>Examines lives touched by absent parents, escaped convicts, and looming hurricanes in slowly changing worlds, peopled with beaten souls that refuse erosion. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBrings to life the wounded and the lost, and the yearning within the human heart\u200b.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Michael Sela<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of The Restorer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Mar 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

174 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-21-8<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apple & Palm<\/em>
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Patricia Henley
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<\/span>The town of Whistle Pig, like the mountains that surround it, can appear unchanging, as immutable as geography. The lives of the characters in Patricia Henley’s <\/span>linked stories<\/span> contrast with that predictability.<\/span>Apple & Palm<\/strong><\/em> is a provocative close-up examination of aging, memory, and desire.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Stirring.”
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\u2014Booklist\u200b\u200b<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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220 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-35-5<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bodies in Bags<\/em>
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Jamey Gallagher
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<\/span><\/span>Jamey Gallagher\u2019s stories, steeped in desperation and told in tough but tender voices, are about the effects of\u2014and the compulsion to\u2014violence. Bodies in Bags<\/em><\/strong>, with its flex and fever, is so visceral you can smell it. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSteel-hinged and hard-won.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Benjamin Drevlow<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Honky<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$27.95 | Mar 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

288 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-40-9<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Green Glow On the Horizon<\/em>
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Dawn Burns
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Exposes the complicated, often contradictory yearnings and compulsions, griefs and grievous missteps of our fellow human beings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTender, funny, and masterful\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Bonnie Jo Campbell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Book Award Finalist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Feb 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

228 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-25-6<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, No, I Don’t Know<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Kathryn Gahl
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<\/span>Stories that form a luminous patchwork of Midwestern strivers, lovers, and dreamers in thorny circumstances. Controlled, tender, and masterful, Gahl weaves despair and hope into a single thread of healing grace.<\/span>
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\u201cBrimming with compassion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Larry Watson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/em> Bestselling Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Feb 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

218 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-22-5<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How We Do Things Here<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Matt Cashion
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<\/span>Matt Cashion\u2019s cast of slow-learners reveals how we try (and fail) and retry to forge meaningful connections in the troubled spaces we\u2019re so desperate to share.<\/span>
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\u201cSurprising, very funny, and brimming with compassion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Lori Ostlund<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Are You Happy?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$23.95 | Feb 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

156 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-24-9<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Release of Information<\/em>
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Kali White VanBaale
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<\/span>Exploring marital roles, complex family legacies, abuse, and generational trauma, the interconnected characters and stories move through time and space, as VanBaale catches ordinary people in extraordinary moments of revelation.<\/span>
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“Striking and haunting.”
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\u200b$24.95 | Feb 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

178 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-34-8<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Price of Their Toys<\/em>
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John P. Loonam
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John P. Loonam builds a mosaic of modern life, charged with the arrogance of youth, the despair of aging, and the prices we pay along the way.
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\u201cA vivid, powerful coming-of-age tale, a story of stories.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Frank Haberle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Downlanders<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Feb 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

162 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-23-2<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neon Steel<\/em>
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Jennifer Maritza McCauley
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Magical realist and neon-lit, McCauley faithfully follows a group of nerds and the magic that excites them, bringing to life a city and a state of being.
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\u201cThese linked stories are valentines to Black culture, Blerds<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Black nerds), and Pittsburgh. . . . A fun homage to anime.\u201d
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\u2014Kirkus Reviews<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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208 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-27-0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Divide<\/em>
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Evan Morgan Williams
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<\/span>Set in the Mountain West, place is not just a backdrop; it is a provocation, an invitation to hope, and a mirror to reflect either consolation or indifference, depending on the case.<\/span>
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“A collection of memorable character studies with a good sense of presence\u2014and absence.”
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\u2014Kirkus Reviews<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Dec 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

212 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-13-3<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We Should Be Somewhere By Now<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Tuttle
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>With singular style and grace, Stephen Tuttle explores what it means to be a stranger in familiar places and among familiar people.<\/span>
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\u201cIntensely visible and invisible at once, Tuttle probes questions about our relationships and the ways we live and grieve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Aimee Bender<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of The Color Master<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Dec 2025<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

228 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-17-1<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These Are My People<\/em>
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Steve Fox
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\"Image\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Edna Ferber <\/strong>Fiction Award<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wisconsin Writers Awards<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>Whirling and wondrous, these stories show Steve Fox at the peak of his powers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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242 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-18-8<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Day Doesn’t Go By When I Don’t Have Regrets<\/em>
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J. Malcolm Garcia
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<\/span>Hard-boiled tales of characters living well below the radar of the people around them, but redemption might be right around the corner as long as the will to search for it still exists.<\/span>
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\u201cDeft and moving.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Andria Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of The Longest Night<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b\u200b$24.95 | Dec 2025<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong>174 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-20-1<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Caged Man<\/em>
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Calvin Mills
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<\/span>Unnatural events pivot unremarkable people into surreal conflicts and resolutions in The Caged Man<\/em><\/strong>, Calvin Mills\u2019 debut collection. Through his characters\u2019 isolation, grief, and longing, Mills makes us see the fantastic in the mundane.<\/span>
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“Intricate . . . effortless storytelling.”
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\u2014T.C. Boyle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Book Award Finalist\u200b<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$25.95 | Nov 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

258 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-11-9<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Plan of Chicago<\/em>
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Barry Pearce<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Saroyan<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Shortlisted, Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Saroyan International Prize<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"INDIES-Finalist.png\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Finalist, Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foreword INDIES<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book of the Year<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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172 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-12-6<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burner and Other Stories<\/em>
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Katrina Denza
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Katrina Denza writes women in conflict. Wrestling with connections and disconnections, highs and lows, and the vagaries of modernity, Burner and Other Stories <\/em>shows us how we live today.
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\u201cSeductive, smart, and funny.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Jill McCorkle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Old Crimes<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Nov 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

160 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-14-0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trust Issues<\/em>
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K.P. Davis
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\"International<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

International Impact Book Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contemporary Fiction<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The twenty sharp, poignant, and biting stories in Trust Issues<\/em> comprise a stunning beacon for hard-headed folk fighting to be heard when nobody listens.
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182 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-08-9<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Western Terminus<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Michael Keefe
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In tales tinged with magical realism, Michael Keefe’s characters find themselves caught in the limbo between self-discovery and self-destruction.
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“These stories explore moments of transition and revelation with profound wisdom, empathy, and precision.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014<\/strong><\/span>Kimberly King Parsons<\/strong>
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National book Award Finalist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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978-1-968148-09-6<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guardians & Saints<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Diane Josefowicz
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We\u2019re born unfinished, in need of everything\u2014love, food, attention, care. The linked stories in Guardians & Saints<\/em> explore the ways in which modern orphans fail to thrive.
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\u201cGorgeously rhythmic and constantly surprising.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Beth Bosworth<\/strong>
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author of The Source of Life and Other Stories<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u200b$24.95 | Oct 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

194 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-04-1<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Human<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Janet Goldberg
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Janet Goldberg\u2019s mesmeric stories pit people against their loved ones, their landscapes, the fluid boundaries of safety, and ultimately, the vagaries of love.
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“An intimate, exquisitely observed collection . . . mesmerizing.”\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014<\/strong>Stephanie Cowell<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u200bAmerican Book Award Winner<\/em><\/strong>
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\u200b$24.95 | Oct 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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978-1-968148-10-2<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adult Children<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Laurence Klavan
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\"Montaigne<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

da Vinci Eye Award<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eric Hoffer Awards<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

People deal with a world out of kilter, as Edgar Award-winning Laurence Klavan weaves together threads of humanity and strangeness to dizzying and heartfelt effects.
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$24.95 | May 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

196 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-84-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hopefuls<\/em>
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Elizabeth Oness
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<\/span>From award-winning writer Elizabeth Oness comes a new collection of rapturous and compelling stories about ordinary people and their joys, slights, families, and failures. 
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\u201cIn Oness\u2019s hands, even the smallest, most ordinary lives loom large.\u201d
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\u2014David Jauss<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Glossolalia<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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$24.95 | May 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

180 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-83-7<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never Stop Exiting<\/em>
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Michael Hopkins
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\"Image\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Finalist, <\/strong>Edna Ferber <\/strong>Fiction Award<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wisconsin Writers Awards<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Picture1.jpg\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Finalist, Short Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong>American Book Fest<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>Michael Hopkins\u2019 dazzling mix of stories helps us see the world as if through beginner\u2019s eyes, a prism where the refractions usher in light and life.
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212 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-81-3<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Broken Heart Syndrome<\/em>
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Anne Colwell
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<\/span>Death doesn\u2019t end relationships in Broken Heart Syndrome<\/em> but transforms them. Colwell’s characters live lives haunted by ghosts, and yet they all eventually choose to suture up their despair for a chance at restoration.
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“Nothing less than thrilling.”
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\u2014Liam Callanan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of When in Rome<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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$24.95 | May 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

168 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-82-0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mexican Messiah<\/em>
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Jay Kauffmann
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>Stories of faith, chance, and haunting grace from a striking new voice, The Mexican Messiah<\/em> glows with life and darkens with shadow.
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“A work of wonderment.”
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\u2014Vanessa Blakeslee<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Perfect Confition<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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182 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-65-3<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Close to a Flame<\/em>
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Colleen Alles
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Named one of<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Literary Hub<\/em><\/strong>\u2019s<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

100 Notable Small Press Books 2025<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Odyssey<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Finalist, Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Society of Midland Authors\u200b<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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228 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-71-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

American Animism<\/em>
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Jamey Gallagher
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Named one of<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Literary Hub<\/em><\/strong>\u2019s<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

100 Notable Small Press Books 2025<\/strong><\/span>
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\u200b\"Montaigne
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Grand Prize<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eric Hoffer Awards\u200b<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Veering between realism and magical realism, each story in American Animism<\/em>, the astonishing debut collection from Jamey Gallagher, <\/span>illuminates something necessary, something true. 
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$24.95 | Feb. 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

198 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-74-5<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soaked<\/em>
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Toby LeBlanc
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<\/span>One word describes Louisiana fifty years from now after climate change intensifies: Soaked<\/em>. Laughing in the face of oblivion, lending a hand to the hopeless, adapting in spite of tragedy, and enduring when everything else is gone, is what the people of Louisiana, Toby LeBlanc\u2019s people, do best.
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\u201cDeeply intimate and significantly important.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014<\/strong>Southern Review of Books<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Continental Divide<\/em>
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Bob Johnson
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Named one of<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Literary Hub<\/em><\/strong>\u2019s<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

100 Notable Small Press Books 2025<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Longlist, PEN Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Odyssey<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Finalist, Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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208 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-63-9<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keeping What’s Best Left Kept Secret<\/em>
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David Ricchiute
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Finalist, Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chicago Writers Association Awards<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>Stirring and elegant, Keeping What\u2019s Best Left Kept Secret<\/em> probes the force of untold secrets on the daily business of making do. In these stories, David Ricchiute uncovers deception teeming with self-deception, and the final returns have much to do with the accidental chemistry of fate.
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146 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-73-8<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shocker in Gloomtown<\/em>
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Dan Libman
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<\/span>Bursts of humor, pathos, and absurdity people the tales in Shocker in Gloomtown<\/em>, as Dan Libman continues his exploration into the strange fissures of Midwestern surrealism. 
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\u201cQuick, funny, touching, serious, sometimes surreal, with a distinctive colloquial voice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Stephen Dixon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Book Award nominee<\/em><\/strong>
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174 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-52-3<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Correct Response<\/em>
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Manfred Gabriel
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<\/span>In The Correct Response<\/em>, Manfred Gabriel artfully blends the fantastic and the real, culminating in surreal but heartfelt tales of longing, love, and loss against the backdrop of modern America.
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\u201cA short-story collection with characters so real they might just grab you by the shirt collar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of South of Luck<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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198 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-70-7<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Path of Totality<\/em>
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Marie Zhuikov
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<\/span>United by the power of appearances to deceive and captivate, Marie Zhuikov\u2019s tales glisten with the magic and menace of everyday lives.
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\u201cLove, in its numerous forms romantic, parental, devotional, inspirational, and desperate has a lingering presence in Zhuikov’s collection of tales.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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$24.95 | Jan. 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

182 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-62-2<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Three Devils<\/em>
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William Luvaas
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<\/span>With grit and grace, chaos and compassion, angst and absolution, The Three Devils<\/em> makes us reckon with the maelstrom, all while wrestling with the longings of the busted and beautiful human heart.
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\u201cAs human as it is haunting . . . mesmerizing and deeply unsettling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Necessary Fiction<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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$24.95 | Nov. 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

244 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-48-6<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome Back to the World<\/em>
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Rob Davidson
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Winner, Short Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>In stories of finding life anew in ever-changing circumstances, Rob Davidson\u2019s soaring prose reminds us that hope is visible in the darkest of times.
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“An impressive set of stories from a skilled observer of the human animal.\u200b”
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\u2014Kirkus Reviews<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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240 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-39-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greyhound Cowboy<\/em>
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Ken Post
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In his perceptive debut, Ken Post peeks into frailty, confrontation, and friendship, illuminating the fascinating and fragile details that make up our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis little book is big in many ways .\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Kim Heacox<\/strong>
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author of Jimmy Bluefeather<\/em><\/strong>
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244 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-48-6<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signs of the Imminent Apocalypse<\/em>
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Heidi Bell
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Winner, Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chicago Writers Association Awards<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Midwest Book Awards

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164 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-42-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Waterman<\/em>
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Gary Schanbacher
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With powerful and salty prose, Gary Schanbacher shows how the decisions we make reverberate through the decades of our lives and affect not only our destiny but also the destinies of those around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cImaginative and evocative . . . an engrossing reading experience.\u201d
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\u2014Rocky Mountain Reader<\/em><\/strong>
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208 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-46-2<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Close Call<\/em>
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Kim Suhr
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Carefully crafted, surprising, and humane, the stories in Kim Suhr\u2019s Close Call<\/em> unveil emotion in tight spaces, hearts in turmoil, and the searching soul of the Midwest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA fresh take on love, hate, jealousy, faith, loss, fear, conformity, and disappointment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Wisconsin Writers Association<\/em><\/strong>
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“Close Call gets us close\u2014<\/em><\/strong>\u200bwe slip in and out of various bodies just in time to start squirming.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Maggie Ginsberg<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Still True<\/em><\/strong>
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176 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-45-5<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Silver State Stories<\/em>
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Michael Darcher
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Amidst the casinos of Reno, Nevada, the \u201cBiggest Little City in the World,\u201d Michael Darcher introduces us to the dealers, workers, and patrons of the Aces Oasis Casino. Steady, assured, and compassionate, he shows us more than high rollers and underbellies. He gives us real people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cExquisitely funny, wry, and tender. This book is hard to put down.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Corrina Wycoff<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Damascus House<\/em><\/strong>
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184 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-44-8<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What We Might Become<\/em>
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Sara Reish Desmond
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Winner, <\/strong><\/span>Short Story Collection<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Storytrade Book Awards<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bronze Medal, Short Story – Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

IPPY Awards<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>Deft and moving, What We Might Become<\/em> shares the uncertainty about how we ought to live in transitional moments and, perhaps more desperately, forever.
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“Desmond’s stories are so real, so painfully true.”
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\u2014<\/strong>Necessary Fiction<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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252 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-41-7<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Instinct for Movement<\/em>
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Michael Mattes
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From a blighted Mid-Atlantic city to pre-millennium San Francisco to the hills of California pot country to a woodland outpost in the Pacific Northwest: with each new dislocation, Michael Mattes strives for clarion, momentary truths born of human comedy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the best collections of riveting, character driven short stories I\u2019ve ever read.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Robert Dugoni<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong>New York Times Best-Selling Author<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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200 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-20-2<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Machine We Trust<\/em>
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Tim Conrad
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Midwest Book Awards
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In The Machine We Trus<\/em>t, narrators and characters come of age in a surreal American landscape\u2014sometimes late, sometimes unsuccessfully. With exacting prose that searches and clutches, Tim Conrad exposes the cracks where hearts are broken, and redemption is just one chance away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGloriously imaginative and utterly compelling.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Thisbe Nissen<\/strong>
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author of How Other People Make Love<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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242 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-34-9<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salt Folk<\/em>
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Ryan Habermeyer
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Finalist\u200b, Short Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Association for Mormon Letters Awards<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>Melancholically absurd, the salty women and foolhardy men in Ryan Habermeyer\u2019s reimagined American West confront catastrophes large and small, magical and mundane, with grotesque optimism and quixotic tenderness.
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“Habermeyer writes with the existential despair of Samuel Beckett, the nightmarish humor of Franz Kafka, the discomfiting imagination of Ben Marcus, and the dark precision of Gordon Lish and his acolytes.”
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192 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-19-6<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Commission of Inquiry<\/em>
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Patrick Nevins
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Eclectic in its breadth and startling in its power, The Commission of Inquiry<\/em> investigates life, death, and other matters, as Patrick Nevins delivers twenty stories built to surprise, challenge, and even change us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Nevins moors his impressive range of subjects with profound insights into who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Jennifer Wortman <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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190 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-21-9<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gridlock<\/em>
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Brett Biebel
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There\u2019s a 200-mile long traffic jam on I-94, and people are going to be stuck there for days. Maybe weeks. Told in striking, kinetic flashes, Brett Biebel\u2019s Gridlock <\/em>explores the event, its origins in American political, athletic, and romantic institutions, and its impact on all the individual lives that go on in its shadow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDazzling.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Chris Bachelder<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Book Award Finalist<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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178 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-09-7<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maximum Speed<\/em>
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Kevin Clouther
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Maximum Speed<\/em> moves across time and point of view to dramatize youth\u2019s aftershocks. The unifying presence in three characters\u2019 lives is Billy, an apprentice drug dealer in South Florida. His improbable appearance twenty years after his death reconnects Nick, Andrea, and Jim with each other and with the shared sacred of their past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWonderfully evocative.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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184 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-13-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reach Her in This Light<\/em>
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Jane Curtis
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<\/em>Four women living in Madison, Wisconsin. Four lives woven together by Jane Curtis, in her vibrant and explorative debut. Told with flashes of song, sensuality, and sincerity, Reach Her in This Light <\/em>unfolds as a fiery and empathetic mosaic of lives lived, as four women each search for their own kind of freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDespite upheaval, these women are centered and true, never bitter or jaded.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Indianapolis Star<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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$24.95 | Nov. 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

208 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-10-3<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Spirit in My Shoes<\/em>
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John Michael Cummings
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<\/em>In tales that conjure comparisons to John Updike, Raymond Carver, and William Gay, The Spirit in My Shoes<\/em> tells the truth about loneliness, relationships, and the common struggles we all face with prose both precise and vibrant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Funny, touching, and at times surprising.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Kali White<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of The Monsters We Make\u200b<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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212 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-08-0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Effects of Urban Renewal on Mid-Century America and Other Crime Stories<\/em>
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Jeff Esterholm
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Honored Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wisconsin Library Association<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the Third Coast, the shores of Lake Superior, Jeff Esterholm explores what happens when people slip their moorings and are set adrift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCompact and succinct, fresh and interesting.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Wisconsin Writers Association<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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978-1-960329-12-7<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fugitive Daydreams<\/em>
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Leah McCormack
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<\/em>Blending elements of fiction and nonfiction, Fugitive Daydreams<\/em> dares to challenge the boundaries of the short story by blurring the lines between convention and experimentation. With power and stylistic inventiveness, Leah McCormack embraces the absurd while refusing to look away from painful truths.\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Furious, melancholy, and tender.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Leah Stewart<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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978-1-960329-07-3<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Makes You Think You’re Supposed to Feel Better<\/em>
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Jody Hobbs Hesler
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Told with restraint and deep compassion against the backdrop of Virginia back streets and small towns, Jody Hobbs Hesler\u2019s debut collection shines with its portraits of longing, disconnection, and the ache for renewal and redemption that comes from our own frailties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Thoughtfully crafted and skillfully realized.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Necessary Fiction<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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204 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

979-8-986966-35-9<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hoist House<\/em>
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Jenny Robertson
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With power and compassion, Jenny Robertson weaves tales that explore the precarity of immigrant life, worker exploitation, the tensions and dangers inherent in growing up, and the ephemeral nature of the American Dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Stories driven by muscled, energetic prose, the sort of prose honed by years of manual labor. \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014North American Review<\/em><\/strong>
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$24.95 | Feb. 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

192 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

979-8-986966-33-5<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding the Bones<\/em>
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Nikki Kallio
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Longlist, Edna Ferber Fiction Award<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wisconsin Writers Awards<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finalist, Short Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

American Book Fest<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cygnus Award in Science Fiction<\/em><\/strong>
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200 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

979-8-986966-36-6<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where Are Your People From?<\/em>
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James B. De Monte
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Spanning ninety years, Where Are Your People From?<\/em> explores the fellowship and hardship of Midwest Italian-Americans in the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

post-industrial Appalachian region of Ohio through the eyes of a son of immigrants. With authenticity, humor, and grace, De Monte delivers a truly American story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Elegiac and brimming with vivid, immediate life.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014<\/em>Varley O’Connor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of <\/em>The Master’s Muse<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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146 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

979-8-986966-34-2<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Self-Defense<\/em>
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Corey Mertes
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Crackling with lyricism, hard-bitten truths, and soaring prose, the twelve stories in Corey Mertes\u2019s Self-Defense<\/em> follow their down-on-their-luck protagonists through life\u2019s narrow passes to its snow-covered valleys below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The stories are as addictive as the throw of the dice or turn of the cards that Mertes’ gambling addicts can’t resist.”\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014West Trade Review\u200b<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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$24.95 | Jan. 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

234 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

979-8-986144-76-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes Creek<\/em>
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Steve Fox
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Winner, Zona Gale Short Fiction Award<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wisconsin Writers Awards<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Winner, Short Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

American Book Fest<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finalist, Indie Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chicago Writers Association Awards<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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$24.95 | Jan. 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

184 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

979-8-986144-77-1<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Plagues<\/em>
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Joe Baumann
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Frogs, flies, blood, and boils descend upon a cast of primarily young, LGBTQ+ characters, all searching in some way for love and acceptance amidst burgeoning sexual awakenings. Equal parts playful and personal, Joe Baumann\u2019s The Plagues<\/em> does more than recast the past; it charts a way forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Imaginative, heartfelt, and brilliant.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Aura Martin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Butterflies Over Flame<\/em><\/strong>
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$21.95 | Nov. 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

220 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

979-8-986144-72-6<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kind of Blue<\/em>
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Christopher \u200bChambers
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The stories in Kind of Blue<\/em> juke and jive in an unpredictable voice-driven romp. With the sound and rhythm of language driving each tale, Christopher Chambers gives voice to the working- and middle-class worlds of the American Midwest and the South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It\u2019s the kind of book best read out there in the world, amongst the commotion of life.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014\u200b<\/strong>Wisconsin People & Ideas<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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$28.95 | Nov. 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

374 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

979-8-986144-73-3<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Clayfields<\/em>
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Elise Gregory
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In The Clayfields<\/em>, Elise Gregory\u2019s powerful debut, the lives of three women are threaded together through the changing backdrops of farming communities in the twenty-first century. Where country churches are closing and old man bars are turning into wineries, an eclectic mix of characters must decide to evolve with new forces or leave their settler roots for new lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Gregory offers hope for rural life. . . . An unforgettable, subtly powerful portrait\u200b.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong>\u2014\u200bWisconsin People & Ideas<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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148 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-7377390-4-3<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evangelina Everyday<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>Dawn Burns<\/span>
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Mixing humor and sincerity, Dawn Burns roots her debut collection firmly in the minutiae of Midwestern life, focusing on the inner life of one who suffers the annoyances of a Midwestern lifestyle in a manner all her own, a manner filled with anxious contemplation of the worth of her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Evangelina <\/em>is the kind of book you want to curl up with. . . . Many Midwestern women can relate to Evangelina and her hopes and desires.”
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<\/strong>\u2014Memoirous<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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$21.95 | Jan. 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

268 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-733308-67-0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Township<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>Jamie Lyn Smith<\/span>
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With honesty and empathy, Jamie Lyn Smith closely examines the strains that intimate family ties put on lives worn raw by collective history. Ultimately, the nine stories in Township <\/em>interrogate the notion of reconciliation, examining whether people can truly change and if forgiveness is possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“<\/em>Township <\/em>leaves readers considering their own existence\u2014their purpose, their failures, and the vulnerability required to find fulfillment.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong>\u2014<\/em><\/strong>Prairie Schooner<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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$18.95 | Dec. 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

202 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-733308-64-9<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Responsible Adults<\/i><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>Patricia Ann McNair<\/span>
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Distinguished Favorite, Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Independent Press Awards<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Responsible Adults<\/em>, farms fail, families break apart, and work is hard to come by. The characters in Patricia Ann McNair’s fictional Midwestern towns are fueled by grief and hope, loss and desire.
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“Edgy, empathically imagined, and strongly crafted.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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236 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-733308-61-8<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Great Escapes from Detroit<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>Joseph O’Malley<\/span>
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In Great Escapes from Detroit<\/em>, Joseph O’Malley tells stories of families living in Detroit. In an imperfect city that beckons and repels, these characters probe the ever-shifting terrain of the human heart, where the tenacious pull and push of love, trepidation, and occasional joy plays out as they navigate the opposing impulses that exist in all families: to embrace their circumstances, or to escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Luminous with what lesser writers miss: the magic and the splendor of the commonplace come alive.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong>\u2014Lee Martin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pultizer Prize Finalist<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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$18.95 | Dec. 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

242 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-0984673-97-1<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing to Lose<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>Kim Suhr<\/span>
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Finalist, Short Story<\/strong>
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Next Generation Indie Book Awards<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personal and powerful, Kim Suhr’s Nothing to Lose<\/em> shows us a region filled with real people: less than perfect, plagued with doubts, always reaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It seems as if Kim Suhr doesn’t invent characters; rather, she channels them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong>\u2014Sandra Scofield<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Book Award Finalist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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$18.95 | Dec. 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

200 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-733308-94-0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Appointed Hour<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>Susanne Davis<\/span>
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The luminous interconnected stories in The Appointed Hour<\/em> shine a compassionate light on a changing rural America, spanning generations and locations by exploring the emotions that accompany life’s trials. The heart-wrenching challenges draw Susanne Davis’s characters together in feelings of love, loss, hope, and community, united throughout history by the place they call home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“These characters are astonishing and distinctive, and the situations, settings and narratives are haunting, vibrant and irresistible\u200b.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Under the Honey Locusts<\/em>
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Kakie Pate
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Winner of the inaugural Linda Nemec Foster First Book Award for Poetry\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong>
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\u201cA collection of thresholds and rooms, these are poems made of landscapes and objects and longings that seem to shimmer even in the half-lit house of grief. . . . Every place we enter feels charged and changed, haunted and blessed by the vision and care of such a poet. The world needs its true artists; Kakie Pate is one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Allison Seay<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of To See the Queen<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn a time when many poems adopt the tonal equivalent of clamor in an effort to be heard, along comes Kakie Pate\u2019s Under the Honey Locusts<\/em>, a first book of understated lyrics that belie the urgency of their rich emotional depths. . . . At once painfully tuned to our \u2018unbelonging\u2019 and mindful that \u2018when the sun sets, \/ the light still remains, victorious,\u2019 her poems read like messages etched in bark, so finely crafted they appear indelible having become part of the living tree.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Daniel Tobin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Dusk, Empire: New and Selected Poems 1987\u20132024<\/em><\/strong>
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978-1-968148-58-4<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Light in the Evergreens<\/em>
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Lex Runciman<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThoughtful, generous, and fully present.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Hilary Menos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Berg\u200b\u200b<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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978-1-968148-61-4<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smooth Side, Rough Side<\/em>
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Arthur Vogelsang<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVogelsang’s good, nasty poems evoke the America of Norman Rockwell.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014John Ashberry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pulitzer Prize Winner<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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978-1-968148-60-7<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Birds Sing, Anyway<\/em>
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Clay Matthews<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA cataloguing and a witnessing to the patterns and progressions of a life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Marianne Worthington<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of The Girl Singer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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978-1-968148-59-1<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Running Lights<\/em>
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Michael Lauchlan<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA sweet balm; a consoling tributary, gentling through a world that, like a torrent, so often threatens to sweep us away.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Kelly Fordon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of What Trammels the Heart<\/em>\u200b<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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$21.95 | <\/strong>Sept 2026<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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978-1-968148-62-1<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever Dimness or Brightness<\/em>
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Rae Gouirand<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCarefully wrought poems that sing, revel, glow, and delight.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Julie R. Enzer<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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978-1-968148-65-2<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No Lost Feast<\/em>
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Jacob Boyd<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFilled with music, humility, and heart.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Sarah Rose Nordgren<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Palace of Subatomic Bliss<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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$22.95 | <\/strong>Sept 2026<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

98 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong>\u200b<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-968148-63-8<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advice for the Boys<\/em>
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Garrett Stack<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are poems of mortality, of loss, of generational nuance and dissonance and wisdom in the landscape of contemporary American violences.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Diane Seuss<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pulitzer Prize Winner<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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$21.95 | <\/strong>Sept 2026<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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978-1-968148-64-5<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Botrytis<\/em>
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Bruce Cohen<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe book is a wind phone, and we, its readers, are only overhearing its memories, jokes, and wonder.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Darcie Dennigan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Palace of Subatomic Bliss<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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978-1-968148-66-9<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackie Robinson’s Real Gone<\/em>
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Matthew Johnson
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\u201cJohnson has given us a baseball book that understands and plays the blues. Baseball is a game of joy and sadness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014E. Ethelbert Miller<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of If God Invented Baseball: Poems<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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978-1-968148-69-0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Space Stations<\/em>
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Heather Dubrow
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\u201cDubrow\u2019s poetic lobbies invite us into a various imaginary real estate, hers and ours\u2014space stations on the route to other possible lives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014D.E. Green<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Catastrophizing in Catastrophe<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lake: Love Poems<\/em>
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Jeff Fearnside
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\u201cThe scope is large and Fearnside\u2019s lines sing with passion and authenticity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Allan Peterson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Book Award Finalist<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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978-1-968148-30-0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time Traveling<\/em>
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\u200bKate Deimling
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\u201cThe collection opens and opens, leaving room for Deimling\u2019s own stories and ours.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Lance Larsen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Making a Kingdom of It<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

former Poet Laureate of Utah\u200b\u200b<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Little Joy<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Matthew Murrey
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\u201cA book of prayers for finding joy in little things.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Athena Kildegaard<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Prairie Midden\u200b<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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When I Was Baptized in Missouri Dirt<\/em>
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Chad Parmenter
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\u201cA book that reaches for God without losing hold of chickens or cicadas.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Rodney Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Worse For Wear<\/em>
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Jenna Goldsmith
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\u201cA celebration of poetry as one of our flawed humanity\u2019s greatest, redeeming habits.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Robin LaMer Rahija<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Inside Out Egg<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Vinegar in Our Hearts<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jesse DeLong
<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

“Maximalist and minimalist, brilliant and tender.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Brad Richard<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Turned Earth<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mouth<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Amorak Huey
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\u201cBby turns despairing and lusty, deeply funny, and\u2014always\u2014restoratively human.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Sandra Beasley<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Made to Explode\u200b<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pandora’s Prairie<\/em>
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\u200bKatherine Hoerth
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\u201cPoignant, deeply personal, honest, and insightful. . . . This poetry is timeless and rich.\u201d
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\u200b\u2014David M. Parsons<\/strong>
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2011 Texas State Poet Laureate <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Temporary Shelters<\/em>
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Grant Clauser
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“Line by line, these poems produce moments of pristine beauty . . . that simply stunt your breath.”
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\u2014Jack B. Bedell<\/strong>
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author of Ghost Fores<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Weather of Our Names<\/em>
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Cal Freeman
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“Dazzling . . . Midwestern philosophy at its best.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Chicago Review of Books<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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An Introduction to Error<\/em>
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Deirdre Lockwood
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

“A brainy, passionate, wildly original book.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Rosanna Warren<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Hindsight<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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tic tic tic<\/em>
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Heidi Seaborn
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

“Gently and magically reorients our eyes, turns us toward the light of awareness where language is action.”
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\u2014Major Jackson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Razzle Dazzle<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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And the Heart Will Not Quicken<\/em>
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Russell Thorburn
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\u201cForward-looking.”
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\u2014Margaret Rozga<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Restoring Prairie<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Wildfire<\/em>
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Corie Rosen
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\u201cVery few poets writing today have Rosen\u2019s range. In her work, we get both Frank Capra and Orpheus. The micro and the macro.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Ishmael Reed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Book Award Finalist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lost Cathedral<\/em>
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Hannah Rodabaugh
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“Rich, verdant, blisteringly clear-eyed poems.”
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\u2014<\/strong>Catherine Wagner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Nervous Device<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Even the Sky<\/em>
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\u200bKevin \u200bThomason
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\u201cThomason works irony into grace, leading us to unexpected revelations of a world, often our own, that does not rhyme.\u201d 
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\u2014James Brasfield<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of <\/strong>Cove<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Underdream<\/em>
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\u200b\u201cCaptivating, innovative, and grounded.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Larkin Christie<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exile Is Home<\/em>
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\u200bElvis Alves\u200b\u200b<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

“A Brooklyn fever dream.” 
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\u2014Michelle Reale<\/strong>
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author of Season of Subtraction<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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How We Argue<\/i><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sharon Rose-Kouros
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\u201cInsightful, challenging, and creative.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Nancy Seubert<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Torrential<\/em>
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\u200bJayne Marek
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Brandon Krieg
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Another Native Tongue<\/em>
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\u200bSusan Riley Clarke
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\u201cA tribute to a brilliant poet and kinder friend, and a must-read for all who desire an authentic life, no matter the cost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Anne M. Dichele<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of <\/strong>Ankle Deep and Drowning<\/strong><\/em>
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Dining on Salt<\/em>
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Wayne Lee
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Flu Season<\/em>
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\u200bKatie Kalisz
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\u201cKalisz humbly comforts us as she enables us to realize that maintenance with ever-present dread is love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Jack Ridl<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of <\/strong>Saint Peter and the Goldfinch<\/strong><\/em>
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No Trouble Staying Awake<\/em>
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\u200bTeresa J. Scollon
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Finalist, Poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Catch & Release<\/i><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u200bLauren Crawford
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\u201cEloquent and gutsy, Lauren Crawford\u2019s poems are intimate and unsettling. Few young poets are so gifted and sagacious.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u200b\u2014Susan Kinsolving<\/strong>
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National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist<\/strong><\/em>
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\u200bLauren K. Carlson
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“A deeply satisfying book to read, filled to the brim with spot-on imagery and set adrift with well-timed phrasing and lines and sudden pauses that make the entire flow come alive with love and candor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u200b\u2014Maurice Manning<\/strong>
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\u200bPulitzer Prize Finalist<\/em><\/strong>
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The Coronation of the Ghost<\/i><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u200bBenjamin Gantcher
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVisceral, humane, contrarian, often wildly funny or bracingly matter-of-fact . . . brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014D. Nurkse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of A Country of Strangers<\/em><\/strong>
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Red Camaro<\/i><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u200bDwaine Rieves
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\u201cA fine collection about making sense of the broken, masculine, and wild.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Nadia Arioli<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Mother Fur <\/em>and Be Still<\/em><\/strong>
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The Stone Tries to Understand the Hands<\/i><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Susannah Sheffer
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

“Susannah Sheffer is a tremendously gifted poet. Her poems are deftly crafted, luminous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Eduardo C. Corral<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Love as an Invasive Species<\/i><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ellen Kombiyil
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

“A gorgeous book of resilience, hope, and love\u2014especially love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2014Lynn Melnick<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Refusenik<\/em><\/strong>
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They Were Horrible Cooks<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Allison Whittenberg\u200b
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith honesty, humanity, and wit, They Were Horrible Cooks<\/em> intermixes historical themes and everyday traumas, boldly laying bare the realities and ironies of a dog-eat-dog world.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Tiya Miles<\/strong>
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\u200bNational Book Award Winner<\/em><\/strong>
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The New Life<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Wendy Wisner
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Finalist, Poetry<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cuttings<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Hannah Dow
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\u201cDeep-rooted in beauty, strength, and a luminously acute mind, these lyrics contemplate what love is . . . with a startling and sustained grace that makes these poems lustrous as pearls.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Amy Gerstler<\/strong>
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\u200bNational Book Award Finalist<\/em><\/strong>
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Forgive the Animal<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Pape
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\u201cThis beautiful book is ultimately about the idea of home\u2014the home of the body, the home of family, the home of a place\u2014and how home must be incessantly fought-for, earned, and saved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Rick Barot<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Moving the Bones<\/em><\/strong>
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$21.95 | Sept. 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

106 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-53-0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where Babies Come From<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ori Fienberg
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“These pieces are things of meaning, things of hidden meaning and overt meaning, things of wordplay and sound and light and great sadness and understanding and they are very, very good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Amber Sparks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of And I Do Not Forgive You<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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$21.95 | May 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

100 pp | 2nd. Ed. <\/strong>Pbk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-29-5<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Blue Divide<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Linda Nemec Foster
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

“Rich with closely observed detail, narrative depth, and poignant historical reflections, this is a generous and beautiful collection.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014<\/strong><\/em><\/span>Publishers Weekly<\/strong><\/em>
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118 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-47-9<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Restoring Prairie<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Margaret Rozga
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\u201cRozga\u2019s poems hauntingly sing of cumulative loss and the power of nature to bring truth to our wounds.\u201d
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\u2014Jennifer Morales<\/strong>
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author of Meet Me Halfway<\/em><\/strong>
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$21.95 | May 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

124 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-37-0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Velvet Book<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Rae Gouirand
\"Lambda-literary-award.png\"\u200b
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Finalist, Lesbian Poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lambda Literary Awards<\/em><\/strong>
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978-1-960329-36-3<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Bright Wound<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sarah A. Etlinger
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

“A delicate and tender examination of the many conflicting facets of the self as daughter, wife, mother, and lover as well as an interrogation of family history, memory, faith, and landscape.\u201d
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\u2014Heathen Derr-Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of THRUST<\/em><\/strong>\u200b
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$21.95 | April 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

106 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-38-7<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Table with Burning Candle<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Julia Paul
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDeeply moving, this requiem, this elegy chronicling the stages of grief through multiple lyric modes, these pages are as musical as they are heartbreaking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Ilya Kaminsky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Deaf Republic<\/em><\/strong>
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182 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Poetic People Power<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tara Bracco (ed.)
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Finalist, Performing Arts, NIEA<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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978-1-960329-26-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listening to Mars<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sally Ashton
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLoss and wonder, dread and awe gyrate throughout the book, spinning like heavenly bodies, the poet equally rigorous and tender in her search for words that make the world look like what it feels like.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Holly Iglesias<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Angles of Approach<\/em><\/strong>
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978-1-960329-35-6<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do Not Feed the Animal<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Hikari Miya
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA ferocious debut.\u201d
\u2014Michael Chang<\/strong>
author of Synthetic Jungle<\/em><\/strong>
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978-1-960329-30-1<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Lo<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Brady Bove
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn intimate, beautifully written poetry collection filled with vivid, dream-like imagery.\u201d
\u2014Tanya Taylor<\/strong>
author of Why I Tell You Everything<\/em><\/strong>
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978-1-960329-28-8<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trouble with Being a Childless Only Child <\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Michelle Meyer
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDelicate, brutal, bitterly funny, and haunting.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Jacqueline West<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Candle and Pin<\/em><\/strong>
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Happy Everything<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Caitlin Cowan
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IPPY Awards<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Finalist<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Eric Hoffer Awards<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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978-1-960329-32-5<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glitter City<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Bonnie Jill Emanuel
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\u201cSpare, intense, searching . . . Emanuel writes in burst after burst of light.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014David Groff<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Live in Suspense<\/em><\/strong>
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$21.95 | Feb. 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

106 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-27-1<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadness of the Apex Predator<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Dion O’Reilly
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA tour de force . . . wonderful and necessary poems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Denise Duhamel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Second Story<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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130 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-31-8<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Watching Sky<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Judy Brackett Crowe
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Nebraska Book<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards (2025)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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78 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-18-9<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lake, River, Mountain<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mark B. Hamilton
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHamilton holds life as close as the shining flower. . . . This is a wise, tough, and joyful collection.\u201d 
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\u2014Ann Fisher-Wirth<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Paradise Is Jagged<\/em><\/strong>
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Let It Be Told in a Single Breath<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Russell Thorburn
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

“I know I can always turn to the poems of Russell Thorburn to make me believe that poetry does indeed matter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Peter Markus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of When Our Fathers Return to Us as Bird<\/em><\/strong>
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$21.95 | Nov. 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

98 pp | 2nd. Ed. <\/strong>Pbk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-11-0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talking Diamonds<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Linda Nemec Foster
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

“[Foster’s] works here are exceptional and gleaming, serving as a reminder that even experts can excel beyond their own greatness.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014The Grand Rapids Press<\/em><\/strong>

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100 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-06-6<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Green Vault Heist<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

David Salner
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\u201cThe Green Vault Heist<\/em> is not only a beautiful book, it is great company.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014John Skoyles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Ploughshares<\/em><\/strong>
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$21.95 | Sept. 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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978-1-960329-02-8<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We Are Reckless<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Christy Prahl
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n ode to the imperfection of our brief lives, a tribute to how we break apart and come back together, complete with beautiful scars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Jessica Walsh, author of Book of Gods and Grudge<\/em><\/strong>
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$21.95 | Sept. 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

90 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-03-5<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything Waits<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan Graham
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 book rich with grace and music.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Eduardo C. Corral<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Slow Lightning<\/em><\/strong>
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$18.95 | Sept. 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

84 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-05-9<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a Corner of Someplace Else<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Caleb Michael Jones
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“Soothing, startling, tender, moving, and insightful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Henry Hughes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Back Seat with Fish<\/em><\/strong>
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$18.95 | May 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

84 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-00-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silent Letter<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Gail Hanlon
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\u201cHanlon\u2019s poems radiate energy and vibrant life.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Jennifer Barber, author of The Sliding Boat Our Bodies Made<\/em><\/strong>
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$21.95 | May 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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979-8-986966-38-0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Always a Body<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Molly Fuller
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 “Desperately sexy and beautifully deranged\u2014dare to live with them a while and they will disturb you, comfort you, and change you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Michelle Lewis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Animul\/Flame<\/em><\/strong>
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$21.95 | May 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fulgurite<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Catherine Kyle
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“Fluid and porous, these poems have a witchy, spellbound nature. These pieces float.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Allison Titus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of High Lonesome<\/em><\/strong>
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106 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bowed As If Laden With Snow<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Megan Wildhood
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\u201cFor Megan Wildhood, life hasn\u2019t gone unnoticed. . . . by her poems I\u2019m not just moved, but transported, transformed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Don Haggerty<\/strong>
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The Body Is Burden and Delight<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sharon White
<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

“A book filled with wit and wonder . . . with all that moves under the ice of knowing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Elaine Terranova<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of The Diamond Cutter\u2019s Daughter<\/em><\/strong>
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Bone Country<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Linda Nemec Foster
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NYC Big Book<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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New Wilderness<\/i><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jenifer DeBellis
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 Independent Author Awards, Literary Global<\/em>
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Monarch<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Heather Bourbeau
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“A book of loud screams and silent introspection. Bourbeau has shared with us something of incredible power.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Chiwan Choi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of my name is wolf<\/em><\/strong>
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Not Just the Fire<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

R.B. Simon
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“These poems are gorgeous and necessary and sing the deep truths and lessons of a warrior who has returned with both the wounds and the wisdom of experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Jenn Givhan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Belly to the Brutal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mourning<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Dokubo Goodhead
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“An unflinching examination of loss, grief, and yearning for ancestral roots . . . a work which angers yet soothes us in our times of need.\u201d
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\u2014Genaro Ky L\u00fd Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of The Land South of the Clouds<\/em><\/strong>
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979-8-986144-75-7<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Walk to Cefal\u00f9<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Lynne Viti
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The poems reassure us: the journey is worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014George Franklin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Noise of the World<\/em><\/strong>
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979-8-986144-71-9<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Found Object Imagines a Life<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mary Catherine Harper<\/strong>
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\u201cAuthentic, perceptive, and sensitive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Mark B. Hamilton<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Confronting the Basilisk <\/em><\/strong>
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Naming the Ghost<\/i><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Emily Hockaday
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“A powerhouse of small, intense, sometimes brutal, always brilliant poems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Jane Yolen <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Kaddish<\/em><\/strong>
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Holding My Selves Together<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Margaret Rozga
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Finalist, <\/strong><\/span>Edna Muedt Poetry Book Award<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wisconsin Writers Awards<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Messengers of the Gods<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Kathryn Gahl
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“Gahl’s poems are filled with the sweet but hard liquor of life.”
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\u2014<\/strong><\/span>Karla Huston<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wisconsin Poet Laureate (2017-2018)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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After the 8-Ball<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Colleen Alles
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“Should everyone read this beautiful book? As I see it, yes.”
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\u2014<\/strong><\/span>W. Todd Kaneko<\/strong>
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Broken On the Wheel<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Barbara Costas-Biggs<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

“A perceptive, masterful debut.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014<\/strong><\/span>Maggie Smith<\/strong>
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Sparks and Disperses<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Cathleen Cohen
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“Cathleen Cohen’s life and poetry are a passionate expression of dedication to everything we need to live whole and meaningful lives.
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Institute for Poetic Medicine<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Careful Cartography<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Devon Bohm
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Winner, First Horizon Award, Eric Hoffer Awards (2022)<\/em><\/strong>
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Lost and Found Departments<\/i><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Heather Dubrow
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“A dexterous and quite moving poetry collection . . . an ode to poetic craft.”
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\u2014<\/strong><\/span>\u200bRowan Ricardo Phillips<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Book Award finalist\u200b<\/em><\/strong>
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The Almost-Children<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Cassondra Windwalker
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\u2014Seven Jane<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of The Isle of Gold<\/em><\/strong>
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978-0966848-83-0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meditations of a Beast<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Kristine Ong-Muslim
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“Each poem leaves a bruise. Each verse slips right into your ear\u2014eel-like\u2014and never leaves.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Chicago Review of Books<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mostly Woodcock<\/i><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Joe Knight
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\u201cKnight turns loss into opportunity as he reconnects with people and places, especially through woodcock hunting, the bird and activity that for decades helped nurture his relationship with the outdoors. From hot Montana grasslands to alder thickets and icy rivers in Wisconsin, you\u2019ll be captivated and uplifted by this sterling example of a man and his dog navigating life\u2019s bumpy roads and hunting up the best it has to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn honest book.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Dave Carlson, <\/strong>Wisconsin Conservation<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hall of Fame Inductee<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA delightful stroll through the western Wisconsin woods. . . . pull your chair up to the woodstove, pour yourself a glass of your favorite beverage, and settle in for a comfortable evening.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Christine Thomas, developer of \u201cBecoming an Outdoors Woman\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Departures<\/em>
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\u200bMarcia Williams
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Marcia Williams grew up neither wanted nor loved. Important life choices followed: leaving home at sixteen, college, career, first husband, and even that lover. At age fifty-six she must either lead the life her mother wanted or escape the dysfunction and light out on her own. What Williams discovers in the process, along with her own self-worth, helps her recognize her mother\u2019s passionate desire for legitimacy in a swirl of generational trauma. Departures <\/em><\/strong>charts the pain of parental decisions felt across decades, and how Williams chose life out of turmoil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA leave-taking and a reckoning\u2014a journey toward hope, healing, and the companionship of a heart as true as her own.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Kim Barnes, Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize<\/em><\/strong>
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$25.95 | August 2026 | 252 pp
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Water Finds a Way<\/em>
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Dave Hardin
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<\/em><\/strong>Might there be a smaller story running like a hidden stream through the second of our nation\u2019s two great, storied waves of migration from the rural South to the industrial Midwest? Water Finds a Way<\/em><\/strong> is a reflection on the enduring bond between David Hardin and his father, a poor Southern migrant, to Detroit, Michigan, in the middle of the last century. A bond forged in generational suffering, shame, and fear, but annealed in love\u2019s timeless persistence. It is the story of two men who long for home, for a sense of belonging, for something lost in the chasm that yawns between them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA sanguine, bittersweet tale that delves deeply into our inherent need to belong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014John Smolens, author of Possession(s)<\/em><\/strong>
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$27.95 | March 2026 | 270 pp
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Powder Plant<\/em>
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Carolyn Dallmann
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For thirty years, Carolyn Dallmann held down various positions at the Badger Army Ammunition Plant, in Sauk County, Wisconsin. A major manufacturer of gunpowder and other nitrocellulose-based propellants, Badger played a vital and controversial role in the life of central Wisconsin throughout the latter half of the twentieth century. Follow Dallmann as she recounts her time there, from water testing, chemistry, and auditing, to explosions, the Vietnam War, bombings, and environmental decline. Told with immediacy and tenderness, Powder Plant<\/strong><\/em> is not only a rich personal history but also a remarkable catalogue of a world in chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFinally, a woman who actually worked in America\u2019s military-industrial complex tells her story. It\u2019s gritty, fascinating, and completely absorbing. If you love memoirs that uncover hidden histories, don\u2019t miss this one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Linda Saether, author of What We Can\u2019t Forget<\/em><\/strong>
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Hound Dog<\/em>
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M.L. Liebler
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From award-winning Detroit poet M.L. Liebler comes a heartfelt, thumping, and wide-ranging memoir of a life lived with music, muses, and the magic of the written word. From Elvis and Bob Dylan, to Robbie Robertson, H\u00fcsker D\u00fc, and Eminem, Liebler treads his well-traveled road using musical signposts that have defined a generation of artists. Throughout, his love for family, friends, and faith shine brightest, and we bear witness to the life of a man who has spent over fifty years championing artistic expression in all its forms. Hound Dog<\/em><\/strong> is nothing less than the album of M.L. Liebler\u2019s life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cM.L. Liebler is the poet laureate of America’s working class.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Michael Moore, Oscar-Winning Filmmaker
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\u201cM.L. Liebler is an unstoppable force of nature, the likes of which neither the world of poetry nor the world of music, has ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Jim Daniels, author of An Ignorance of Trees<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u200b\u200bFall 2025\u200b\u200b<\/span>
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Early Season<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ron Davis
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Ron Davis wrote memoirs, outdoors features, local histories, and commentaries about growing up and growing old in Wisconsin for nearly fifty years. Over that period, he squeezed in a full-time career teaching high school and then university classes in writing, photography, and video production while also working as a social media writer for the tourism industry in Northwest Ontario and as an associate editor and columnist for BMW Owners News<\/em>. In addition to Owners News<\/em>, his writing has been featured by Wisconsin Life, BMW Motorcycle Magazine, Volume One, Our Wisconsin, On the Level, Wisconsin Natural Resources Magazine, The Badger Sportsman, Midwestern Motorcycling, <\/em>and The Voice<\/em> (National Writing Project). His essays have also been heard regularly on Wisconsin Public Radio. He passed away in 2025. Early Season<\/em> is a collection of his best Wisconsin writing, from years of living and working there.\u200b<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In the Room at the Top of the World<\/em>
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Ben McCormick
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Finalist, Blei\/Derleth Nonfiction Book<\/strong> Award<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wisconsin Writers Awards\u200b<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of us know people from Milwaukee because they left: Oprah, Gene Wilder, Liberace. Milwaukee is too small to be a global hub, yet it\u2019s too big to be idyllic. Good things happen there\u2014great things don\u2019t. Ben McCormick left it full of promise for writing grad school and in 2021 sulked to Oregon with no great novel or acclaim. And in the first six weeks his live-in relationship imploded, his first niece was born back home, and he witnessed Milwaukee\u2019s great thing: the Milwaukee Bucks\u2019 NBA title. Told through each playoff game, McCormick\u2019s sprint of a lyrical memoir is about the alchemy of emotions and fandom, aging into someone we didn\u2019t plan to be, and returning to a Midwest that makes us, breaks us, and makes us all over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cBen finds the humor, joy, and grit of the Midwest, but the soul of the book will hit any heart away from home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Charlie Berens<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comedian & New York Times<\/em> Bestselling Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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An Ignorance of Trees<\/em>
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\u200bJim Daniels
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A Michigan Notable Book 2025<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong>In his debut collection of nonfiction, Jim Daniels writes about trees, backyard swing sets, above-ground swimming pools, pets, and hoarding, carrying his beloved Detroit with him wherever he goes. A memoir in essays doubling as a rich and textured biography of place, <\/span>An Ignorance of Trees<\/em><\/strong> enriches the terrain of the Midwest with heart, as bruised and beautiful as ever.<\/span>
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\u201cTo an essential catalogue of poems, Jim Daniels adds these essays on life\u2019s riddles and mysteries.  A more than worthy work in words\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Thomas Lynch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Book Award Finalist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDaniels is probably the most introspective and sensitive tough guy writing today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Sue William Silverman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Water Spell<\/em>
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\u200bCatherine Broadwall
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Water Spell<\/em><\/strong> is, at its heart, a work of bibliotherapy. In this practice, counselors prescribe books as they would medicine, using stories as entry points for reflection, confrontation of pain, and eventual healing. Catherine Broadwall acts as both doctor and patient throughout her debut memoir, suturing her own wounds. While bibliotherapy and ekphrasis-writing inspired by visual art-are often reserved for traditional, canonically-approved texts, here Broadwall applies them to things like Pixar films, music videos, fairy tales, and video games. She democratizes these tools, showing that a reader’s delight in any narrative can spark profound revelation and growth.
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\u201cA balm, a salve, for the way observing is processing, is creating, and a reminder that the myth of healing\u2019s finality is as inscrutable as a mermaid living on dry land. \u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Katie Fuller<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Careful<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Series List\u200b\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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978-1-960329-90-5<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Bodies Are Mostly Water<\/em>
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Katherine Riegel
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<\/span>Katherine Riegel finds a way through her grief in her compassionate and lyrical memoir of her sister\u2019s life and death. Her sister-grief becomes a conduit for grief of all kinds, as she navigates a new life inundated with sadness but bright with memory.
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“Riegel\u2019s intelligent, thoughtful voice infuses the memoir with warmth, compassion, and grace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Anne Panning<\/strong>
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author of Dragonfly Notes: A Memoir<\/em><\/strong>
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978-1-960329-92-9<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You Shoulda Been Here Last Week<\/em>
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Ted J. Rulseh
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<\/span>Ted Rulseh guides you through a lifetime of angling in You Shoulda Been Here Last Week<\/em>: the joys, thrills, and failures; the moments of wonder; treasured times with friends and family. 
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\u201cRulseh understands the Northwoods mindset that makes some folks . . . abandon city life and eke out a less stressful living above the tension line.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Dan Small<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

host of Outdoor Wisconsin<\/em><\/strong>
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156 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Table Talk & Second Thoughts
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Michael Martone
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<\/span>With wit and humor, Michael Martone writes his life as one of brief bites, effervescent episodes, and meaningful meals illuminated by the luminaries on the other side of the table.
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\u201cMartone is one of the few writers who was born in Indiana, writes about Indiana, and eats in Indiana, but meanwhile, he seems to have been everywhere else, too, meeting all the best writers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Bonnie Jo Campbell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

National Book Award Finalist<\/em><\/strong>
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$29.95 | Mar. 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Past Ten<\/em>
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Donald Quist, Kali White VanBaale, & Bailey Gaylin Moore (eds.)
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<\/span>Based on the Past-Ten.com website created and launched by executive editor Donald Quist in 2017, The Past Ten <\/em>features a wide range of writers all answering the same question, where were you on this day ten years ago?<\/em>
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\u201cA reflective mosaic, made up of some of the most exciting voices in American literature today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Jaquira D\u00edaz<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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322 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wildlifer<\/i><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Neil F. Payne
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<\/span>Payne guides readers through an analysis of wildlife management as a profession. From the influence of Aldo Leopold and John Muir, to wildlife education, habitat diversity, and the value of conservation, Payne provides an exhaustive study of not only a profession, but also a way of life, and how it must be preserved.
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\u201cMarvelous writing-and exciting coverage over many years.”<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Estella Leopold<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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$24.95 | Sept. 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

230 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-50-9<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Points of Tangency<\/em>
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Scott Russell Morris
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<\/span>Within the pages of Points of Tangency<\/em>, a sequence of brilliant personal essays, Scott Russell Morris, a closeted queer Mormon, tells the story of meeting and then marrying his now wife. His story, told with grace, compassion, and dexterity, forges the framework of a life lived, and lives living together, in our mysterious and dynamic present. 
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Big hearted and quietly humorous. This book is a gift.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Sarah Viren<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of To Name the Bigger Lie<\/em><\/strong>\u200b\u200b\u200b
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184 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-49-3<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Season, The Next: A Memoir<\/em>
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Casey Knott
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<\/span>Part DIY, part memoir, part musing, This Season, The Next <\/em>finds Casey Knott at several intersections: starting over after a divorce, meeting the love of her life, blending a family, and finding and remodeling an urban farm complete with chickens and a much beloved pet turkey.
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\u201cA luminous, lyrical memoir.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Thomas Maltman <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of The Land and Little Wolves<\/em><\/strong>
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264 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lessons in Geography<\/em>
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Phillip Sterling
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<\/span> Lessons in Geography<\/em> chronicles how Phillip Sterling’s formative years in Northwest Lower Michigan not only inspired him to be a writer but also profoundly influenced his creative and critical perspectives.
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\u201cRich with language, alive with memory, and moving with the experiences of a rural everyday Michigan life.\u201d
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 \u2014M. L. Liebler <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of I Want to Be Once<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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230 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We Come from Good Stock<\/em>
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Kay Oakes Oring
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<\/span>From marriage and children, to prosperity, loss, and reclamation, the Oakes clan represents the peril and promise of staking a claim, starting a family, and watching the things you build become eternal. 
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\u201cThis moving book inspires us to explore the stories found in our own family trees, wherever we are from.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  \u2014Joelle Frazer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Territory of Men<\/em><\/strong>
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304 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Arc of the Escarpment<\/i><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Robert Root
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<\/span> <\/em>With great detail and a sincere dedication to place, Robert Root encourages us to pay attention to the land beneath our feet and value its preservation as we travel back through time and appreciate the scale of the history of the landscape around us.
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\u201cRoot reveals a stunning breadth of history held in shapes that glaciers made.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Christine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stewart-Nu\u00f1ez<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Chrysopoeia<\/em><\/strong>
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288 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Squatter<\/em>
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Yolanda DeLoach
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Autobiography\/Memoir, Storytrade Book Awards<\/em><\/strong>
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<\/em>Between heartache and the realization that a relationship was never as it seemed, Yolanda DeLoach pushes herself toward Wisconsin\u2019s historic Ice Age Trail, a place of friendship and, ultimately, forgiveness.
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\u201cA<\/span> courageous journey.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014<\/strong>Door County Pulse<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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$22.95 | Dec. 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

148 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-960329-24-0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soul of the Outdoors<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Dave Greschner
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<\/span> <\/em>With humor and heart, Soul of the Outdoors<\/em> treks along the trails of one\u2019s outdoor adventures and, ultimately, the trails of our lives.
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\u201cGreschner writes of the world in the way I wish to see it: with knowledge, authenticity, and reverence most of all.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014B.J. Hollars<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds<\/em><\/strong>
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$28.95 | Sept. 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

272 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the Heart: The Story of Matrix<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

John Harmon
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<\/span> <\/em>From the Heart<\/em> brings you into the inner workings of a highly influential music group, the jazz fusion ensemble Matrix, as well as closer to the man who made it all happen.
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\u201cNo John Harmon, no Matrix. A high point in all of our lives. Hail to the Chief.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Kurt Dietrich<\/strong>
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author of Wisconsin Riffs: Jazz Profiles from the Heartland<\/em><\/strong>
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The Long Fields<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Anne-Marie Oomen
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Finalist, Memoir<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foreword INDIES<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book of the Year<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em><\/em>Anne-Marie Oomen\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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celebrates rural life as she experienced it growing up on a farm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and then into an adulthood marked by<\/p>\n\n\n\n

both wandering and homing. 
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\u201cBeautiful language and elegant images.”<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Debra Gwartney<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Live Through This<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kick Out the Bottom<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Erik Mortenson &<\/strong>
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Christopher Kramer<\/strong>
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<\/span> <\/em>Amidst the ruins of Detroit, two seekers question all that they thought they knew as they struggle to achieve spiritual awakening in this collaborative memoir.
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\u201cA heady mixture of punkish aesthetics and neo-hip mysticism. They give us a Detroit that was on the edge of massive re-transformation even as they were themselves on their way to new modes of living.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Aldon Lynn Nielsen<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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296 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wrong Tree<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jeff Wilson
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<\/span> <\/em>During his 30+ year career in wildlife management, Jeff Wilson found himself atop <\/span>eagle nests, deep in bear dens, tracking furbearers on snow covered forest roads, and <\/span>spending nights under the stars banding loons. His adventures (or misadventures) in<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

wildlife biology, are incredibly informative, entertaining, and occasionally hilarious.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA beacon for the next generation to preserve its ties to the land.”<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014<\/strong>Rocky Barker<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pulitzer Prize Finalist<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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$24.95 | Nov. 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

240 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

979-8986144-74-0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Lake<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jim Landwehr
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In At the Lake<\/em>, stories of fishing and kayaking, a single mother and growing teenagers, and parents wanting what\u2019s best for their children weave a larger tale of the cabin experience in the Upper Midwest.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With fifteen rich personal histories, Jim Landwehr delivers a memoir filled with humor, warmth, and reverence for life up North. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA heartwarming collage of personal yet universal memories.”<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Patricia Skalka<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of the Dave Cubiak Door County Mysteries<\/em><\/strong>
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$19.95 | Apr. 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

94 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-737739-08-1<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Body Talk<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Takwa Gordon
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Blending poetry and nonfiction prose into a hybrid memoir brimming with humanity, Takwa Gordon\u2019s Body Talk<\/em> explores being bipolar, Black, a refugee, a woman, a Muslim, a child sexual abuse survivor, and a first-generation college student in America.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn artistic, poignant portrait of vulnerability, self love, and survival.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Aitch Alexander<\/strong>
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author of <\/strong>My Body Is a Junkyard<\/strong><\/em>
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$32.95 | Apr. 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

378 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-737739-02-9<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

North Freedom<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Carolyn Dallmann
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With the clarity of sharp memory and the innocence of youthful charm, Carolyn Dallmann takes readers on a nostalgic journey through family, farming, and growing up in North Freedom<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cD<\/span>allmann captures the innocence of a little girl growing up on a farm in a small rural Wisconsin community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Keri Olson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Find Your Heart, Follow Your Heart<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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$21.95 | Apr. 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

174 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-737739-07-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The In-Between State<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Martha Lundin
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Martha Lundin’s essays in The In-Between State<\/em> forward a compassionate analysis of bodies: queer bodies, bodies of water, bodies that are hated, and bodies that deserve love. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis collection marks the arrival of a thrilling new voice in American literature.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014May-lee Chai<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

American Book Award winner<\/em><\/strong>
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$16.95 | Mar. 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

130 pp | <\/strong>Paperback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

978-1-737739-65-6<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ohio Apertures<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Robert Miltner
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Robert Miltner traces his life from <\/span>early childhood onward, offering a template for understanding the impact <\/span>of place, region, family, literacy, and cultural influence on the shaping of a<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Midwest identity.
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\u201cOhio Apertures<\/em> represents storytelling at its lyric best.”<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u200b\u2014<\/strong>Barbara Sabol<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

author of Solitary Spin<\/em><\/strong>
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The Yesterdays of Grand Rapids<\/em>
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Charles E. Belknap | edited by Colleen Alles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally published in 1922, Captain Charles E. Belknap\u2019s The Yesterdays of Grand Rapids<\/strong><\/em> is a writer\u2019s love letter to his adored city. Through 101 anecdotal columns, Belknap captured snapshots of life in 1850s Grand Rapids, Michigan, and beyond. His charming portrait was a success\u2014popular then, and beloved by local historians a century later. This new and revised edition supplements the original columns with the nearly fifty that ran in The Grand Rapids Press<\/em> subsequent to the book\u2019s publication. For the first time, the full scope of his valuable and fascinating vignettes can be appreciated. Contextual essays by Colleen Alles clarify these unique, historic columns while celebrating, too, the extraordinary life of Captain Charles E. Belknap.  
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“Vivid and often humorous.”
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\u2014David Rowe, The Rapidian<\/em><\/strong>\u200b<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBelknap\u2019s stories show the humans that make up our history, as individual people with all of their quirks, their hearts, and their faults.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Julie Tabberer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director of the Grand Rapids History Center<\/strong>
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Paperback | 978-1-968148-71-3<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Madison to Mobile: The Diary of Corporal Samuel Burdick, Jr.<\/i><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

edited by Daniel Scharfenberg
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From Ma<\/em><\/strong>dison to Mobile<\/em><\/strong> <\/span>is a transcribed historical diary by Samuel Burdick, Jr. (1834\u20131914) who served in Company D of the 23rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War from August 1862 until July 1865. Join Samuel from his enlistment in Albion, Wisconsin as a civilian carpenter and read about his transformation into a soldier in the Union Army. Samuel\u2019s daily entries give both brief and detailed accounts of the life of the everyday Union soldier fighting in the Western Theatre of the American Civil War, their daily hardships, marching, camp life, and of course battles. Samuel\u2019s entries are complimented by annotations by one of Samuel\u2019s descendants, editor Daniel Scharfenberg, who supplies the reader with context to Samuel\u2019s family history, and his postwar life. This work of historical nonfiction is a wealth of knowledge for any reader interested in the American Civil War or the life of the citizen soldier during the war. Samuel\u2019s detailed accounts of his service during the war make this book an ideal addition to any reader or historians\u2019 library.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Paperback | 978-1-968148-54-6<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the Pines<\/i><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u200bAda J. Moore | edited by M. Wade Mahon & Lillian S. Mahon
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Ada J. Moore (1832\u20131877) was the pen name of Ellen Phillips, a resident of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and a widely published poet. She is considered Stevens Point\u2019s unofficial poet laureate. Under the Pines<\/strong><\/em> (1875) was her only collection.
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\u201cThe book is made up of upwards of eighty short poems on as many different subjects, some drawn from nature, some from her early associations among the green hills of our own state; some are suggested by her new western home, and some by passing events. They are all full of the poetic element, and as pure as the falling snow-flakes. We know of no book more elevating in its tone, nor one with which those little snatches of time that every one has could be more profitably spent. . . . This little volume is full of gems.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Stevens Point Journal<\/em><\/strong>
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\u201cWhen Moore writes of love and of little ones passed away we know that her words come from the depths of a mother\u2019s heart. It is genuine joy or real anguish that moves her. . . . Only a poet could do it with so much delicacy and grace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Wisconsin State Journal<\/em><\/strong>
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\"Front\u200b$12.99 | April 2019 | 272 pp<\/strong>
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Paperback | 978-0-984673-96-4<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Wisconsin Idea<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Charles McCarthy\u200b\u200b\u200b
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Edited by Ross K. Tangedal and Jeff Snowbarger<\/strong>
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Charles McCarthy\u2019s The Wisconsin Idea<\/em>, originally published in 1912, made the phrase \u201cthe Wisconsin idea\u201d famous throughout the state and the country. Grounded in thorough research, meticulous detail, and a steadfast belief in the public good, the book is an important historical document of the state of Wisconsin, the Midwest, and the United States. McCarthy\u2019s chronicle of progressive state craft in practice charges those in government to invest in \u201chope, health, happiness, and justice,\u201d in order to build up, rather than exploit, the resources (both human and natural) of the country, that we may truly prosper as a free people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This new edition, with informative annotations for contemporary readers, is a must read for scholars and students of progressivism at the turn of the nineteenth century, as well as a must own for those who believe in the power and responsibility of the Wisconsin Idea.
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To order directly from the press, please email cornerstone.press@uwsp.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Review<\/span>
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