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At 31 years old, self-help writer Lisa Cleary experienced a mass layoff, a tumultuous breakup after three years, the subsequent start of a new job, and two unexpected moves in three months. Cleary ditches the cheerleader mantra in this breakup survival guide to share her awkward, snarky account of her meltdown - like how it feels to live alone for the first time and why she resents her friends - all from the perspective of a never-married fema...

Love is necessary but not easy in these stories of love's joys and challenges, regrets and uncertainties. Complicated people fall in and out of love, care for each other, delight each other, disappoint each other, hurt each other, yearn for each other. Campbell tells of all sorts of love: young love, lost love, love found perhaps too late, family love, love between friends. Her writing has been praised for its realism and grace. These untradit...

Blink Spoken Here is a powerful tale of a family's rare twenty-seven year journey with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). It is told through the eyes of the patient, Christopher Pendergast and his wife Christine. The book takes the reader on a roller coaster ride to dizzying heights and abysmal lows experienced in the world of ALS.With un-sugared words, the couple reveal intimate, disturbing, frustrating, gut wrenching and life altering experiences. ...

Hey, ' Father John heard one of the voices call again. He looked up. It was the brown-haired girl. 'Ain't you gonna come up? We could do somethin.'In this sequel to Union Square, it is 1964 Baltimore, where Fr. John Martin has been haunted by those two questions every day for a dozen years. His god-brother, Jezriel Heath, walks all over the city in service of his faith, trying to make sense of the contemplative visions that have begun to visit...

On a cold January morning, thirteen-year-old Karl Zimmer awakens to find the public square of his city draped in crimson-colored flags. Hitler has been named Chancellor. Karl doesn't know what this means but he understands danger is in the air. Narrated in the first person, What the Living Remember is the story of Karl's coming of age during the pre-war Nazi period. Karl must navigate adolescence amidst mounting anti-Semitism, his mother's wis...

He grew up in the Jim-Crow South. A black male, born in 1951 in deep-South Jim-Crow legally segregated, Louisiana, Nacoste has seen so much. From his education in segregated schooling, to living through the 1973 race riot aboard the U.S.S. Intrepid, Navy aircraft carrier, to his becoming a scholar of intergroup tensions, Nacoste has experienced, learned and taught so much.To Live Woke is built upon Nacoste's experiences to help us understand-a...

In a sequence of poems in the dramatic monologue style, Charles Rammelkamp's Catastroika covers a century of Russian history from the late Nineteenth to the late Twentieth, in the voices of a fictional Russian Jew, Alexander Federmesser (Sasha) and Maria Rasputin, the sole surviving daughter of the "mad monk, " Grigory Rasputin, the infamous spiritual advisor of the Romanovs, the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas, and his wife, Alexandra. Focusing o...

Meet Jimmy, a homeless veteran who suffers from post traumatic stress disorder and works a corner begging people for loose change. He sleeps in a cardboard box underneath a viaduct where he suffers from flashbacks, night sweats, and dreams of his dead buddies screaming for their mothers.Or turn to a plea for physician assisted suicide, an end of life option that is is slowly becoming legalized in a few states across the country for terminally ...

In Britain the monarch is never wrong. Whenever the sovereign drops a brick in public, a functionary turns up at Buckingham Palace to explain that Her/His Majesty "was badly advised."In the same way, many of the things that you are getting wrong in writing are not your fault: you have been badly advised. You have been taught superstitions about English that have no foundation in the language. You have been hobbled with oversimplifications. You...

Blink Spoken Here is a powerful tale of a family's rare twenty-seven year journey with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). It is told through the eyes of the patient, Christopher Pendergast and his wife Christine. The book takes the reader on a roller coaster ride to dizzying heights and abysmal lows experienced in the world of ALS.With un-sugared words, the couple reveal intimate, disturbing, frustrating, gut wrenching and life altering experiences. ...

In this epic poem, Paul Nelson re-enacts the history of Auburn, Washington, originally known as the town of Slaughter. Written in the spirit of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, and Michael McClure, A Time Before Slaughter explores the history of this Northwestern place from the myths of Native people to the xenophobia toward Japanese-Americans, from the urge to control to the hunger for liberation. Set against the backdrop of a towering...

Love is necessary but not easy in these stories of love's joys and challenges, regrets and uncertainties. Complicated people fall in and out of love, care for each other, delight each other, disappoint each other, hurt each other, yearn for each other. Campbell tells of all sorts of love: young love, lost love, love found perhaps too late, family love, love between friends. Her writing has been praised for its realism and grace. These untradit...

Hey, ' Father John heard one of the voices call again. He looked up. It was the brown-haired girl. 'Ain't you gonna come up? We could do somethin.'In this sequel to Union Square, it is 1964 Baltimore, where Fr. John Martin has been haunted by those two questions every day for a dozen years. His god-brother, Jezriel Heath, walks all over the city in service of his faith, trying to make sense of the contemplative visions that have begun to visit...

At 31 years old, self-help writer Lisa Cleary experienced a mass layoff, a tumultuous breakup after three years, the subsequent start of a new job, and two unexpected moves in three months. Cleary ditches the cheerleader mantra in this breakup survival guide to share her awkward, snarky account of her meltdown - like how it feels to live alone for the first time and why she resents her friends - all from the perspective of a never-married fema...

Old Too Fast, Smart Too Late Illustrates the life of an imprisoned person, in a country that imprisons more of its citizens than any other. This book reveals an uncomfortable truth - that prisoners are human beings who struggle to love, live, and die.Tray's journey through prison is not a unique, but Tray's wisdom gleaned through growing old too fast, and getting smart too late provides insight into prison life, through his clarity of mind, hu...

A compilation of essays, stories, poems, parables, and art, The Long Loneliness in Baltimore depicts nearly fifty years worth of experiences in southwest Baltimore ("Sowebo"). Through the establishment of Viva House, Brendan Walsh and Willa Bickham are able to restore hope to the hopeless. Viva House, the temporary home and soup kitchen for those living in Sowebo, provides love and community to many. This eye-opening book gives insight into wh...

Old Too Fast, Smart Too Late Illustrates the life of an imprisoned person in a country that incarcerates more of its citizens than any other. This book reveals an uncomfortable truth-that prisoners are human beings who struggle to love, live, and die.Tray's journey through prison is not unique, but Tray's wisdom gleaned through growing old too fast, and getting smart too late, provides insight into prison life through his clarity of mind, humo...

Annotated with critical introduction.For over fifty years, members of the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore met every Tuesday afternoon between October and May to share their writing with the goal of getting it into print. And how they succeeded. Between 1890-1941, over a thousand publications emerged from the members of the WLCB. Their novels and historical works appeared in the catalogues of the nation's most respected publishers, their poe...

When Dawn Newton, an adjunct professor and mother of three, gets a terminal lung cancer diagnosis, the path forward appears rutted. The Great Recession has left her exhausted and juggling multiple jobs. Then she learns of her cancer's mutation. She can take a pill each day to live longer.Fifteen months into survival, she feels overwhelmed by the effort of staying alive. She longs to embrace moments and display gratitude yet can't find words to...

In May of 1984, the summer Olympic Games will return to America. Jeff Dillon prepares to run in the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in Buffalo, New York. He will face the deepest field ever assembled. It is the pinnacle of his professional running career. Unfortunately, the marathon goddess does not smile on Jeff as he crosses the finish line last, exhausted and depressed. His misery is interrupted by Bill Atlee, an Olympian who won the 1928 mara...