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Charlotte Warren's memoir, Jumna, chronicles her childhood in India during its fight for independence from Great Britain, and her coming of age in the United States during the turbulent sixties.

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Author of more than twenty books of poems, Greg Kuzma has penned Robert Frost: Six Essays in Appreciation, the culmination of a life-long, affectionate study of the poet. Kuzma provides 21st Century readers both a reintroduction to and a sensitive and enduring commentary of Frost's poetic craft and music. Kuzma offers new points of observation toward reading Frost, and his critical expertise teaches us why the poet still persists, why his poet...

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Jerry D. Mathes' Fever and Guts is hard-hitting literary nonfiction. Reminiscent of the exacting sharpness found in Hemingway's bullfighting stories and as deeply reflective as Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, Mathes takes his readers to the fringes of American society. This is nonfiction of the best sort, real and ballsy as a life lived real and with bravado.

Lyrical, emotional, and, in the words of award-winning poet Paisley Rekdal, "at once carefully wrought and yet full of spontaneity . . . both tough-minded yet fragile”, the poems in this collection are powerful, graceful, and reveal the conflicting perspectives of a poet of US Midwest upbringing who hails from a Kentucky mountain heritage, independent-minded yet vulnerable, a woman struggling to survive a difficult time in history alone in the...

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A memoir that will engage readers from young to old. From being a "chicken-catcher" in his youth, to climbing a mountainside to fight wildfires as an adult, Felix Holmes takes readers on a journey where family stories come alive in Texas.

Sounds The Living Make" is a deeply satisfying collection of poems. D. James Smith combines the narrator's art with a lyric poet's intense and highly charged sense of setting and language. Whether exploring the labyrinth of memory or the mystery of 'the other, ' here are poems that have the edge and authority of fiercely honed truths." --Peter Everwine "D. James Smith's poems derive, or rather arrive, from the physical world--breaths and glimm...

Chronicles the muted joy and despair of a millennial age, charting love's ills and the grind of mortality. His figures are bizarre but familiar: people born under punches, shaken awake by rattles and flares, latter-day pilgrims who stare at the statue that stares at America, people for whom disobedience is still a first duty, and death but a question of style.

Seventy-five years after the New London, Texas, school explosion instantaneously ended life for three hundred students, haunted memories of all who knew them, and hushed a community's discussion of an unspeakable event, the detailed story is now told.

In the introduction to John P. Hart's study on Nacogdoches's historic Washington Square Mound, Timothy K. Perttula notes that publication of Hart's finding is long overdue. Hart's research reveals invaluable details about Caddo tribal life, particularly derived from decorative and engraved pottery retrieved from the Mound, and, for the first time, makes this information available to a wider audience.

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Offers a fictionalized account of events occurring 30 years ago in the grass-roots rebellion against the Rocking K. Ranch rezoning, a scheme to urbanize the sparsely populated Rincon Valley, twenty-five miles from downtown Tuscon, Arizona. This is a deeply moving account of events in a Southwestern town and the repercussions that will forever change a young man's view of human greed and compassion.

Sam Griffith's new novel, Rendezvous with Death, spins a tale of intrigue and suspense. His investigation takes him through a number of alleys and dead ends, from Dallas neighborhoods to the little Texas towns that hold and withhold answers. Rendezvous with Death is at once a compelling story and mesmerizing read in the tradition of some of Texas' best authors.

Presents Nebraska's most comprehensive and well-researched poetry anthology to date, inclusive of gender, age, ethnicity, and geographic areas of the state. The poems range from the settling of the West, to reflections of a past/agrarian lifestyle, to nature/environment, to the more urban poems of the twenty-first century.

While the poems in this collection focus upon the daily and particular concerns of the Great Plains and of ranch life, frontpew places Brummels' readers up close and personal into the sermon that a long life may be. The poems are not didactic by any means, but they are wise and contemplative.