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Root Rot
Saskia Nislow’s thrilling and fast-paced horror novel "Root Rot" is about family dysfunction and the inescapable reality of returning to the earth after death. The Crybaby, the Liar, and the One Who Runs Away explore their...
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An Indian Among Los Indígenas
Ursula Pike’s travel memoir "An Indian Among Los Indígenas" covers her two transformative, eye-opening years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia, which fulfilled her desire to “see the world, learn some skills, and help people”...
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I, No Other
The surprising, alluring short stories of "I, No Other" subvert conventional expectations in both subject matter and narrative format. Innovative and provocative, Yarrow Paisley’s "I, No Other", is a collection of unconventional short...
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Blackbird
by Paige Soto
Told in a stream-of-consciousness style that reflects the chaos of grief, "Blackbird" is an affecting memoir. Betsy Thibaut Stephenson’s grief-filled memoir "Blackbird" is about the loss of her son. Stephenson’s youngest child,...
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Flood Plain
In grief-soaked language, Lisa Sewell’s poetry collection "Flood Plain" meditates on the parallels of personal, ecological, and social loss, aching for the world with “a gust of triumph beneath / the syntax of regret.” Open...
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Divine in Essence
The startling and stunning short story collection "Divine in Essence" is about violence within families, pain, and ecstasy. Yarrow Paisley’s spellbinding short story collection "Divine in Essence" concerns ghosts, possession, violence,...
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Birth of the Chosen One
by Karen Rigby
The serene picture book "Birth of the Chosen One" retells the Christmas story from a Native American perspective. Terry Wildman’s reverent picture book "Birth of the Chosen One" adapts the story of Jesus’s birth for an Indigenous...