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  • A Hero on Mount St. Helens

    The Life and Legacy of David A. Johnston

    by Melanie Holmes ...
    Serendipity placed David Johnston on Mount St. Helens when the volcano rumbled to life in March 1980. Throughout that ominous spring, Johnston was part of a team conducting scientific research that underpinned warnings about the mountain. Those warnings saved thousands of lives when the most devastating volcanic eruption in U.S. history blew apart Mount St. Helens but killed Johnston on the ridge ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • 100 Things to Do in Illinois Before You Die

    by Melanie Holmes ...
    You may know Illinois as the former home of Abraham Lincoln or Chicagoland. But Illinois is more than just the Land of Lincoln or the location of one of the US’s largest cities. 100 Things to Do in Illinois Before You Die introduces you to the state’s rich history, showcasing the places with some of the best food and entertainment Illinois has to offer. Discover Cahokia Mounds and Dickson Mounds ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Grimm Realities

    Essays on Identity and Justice in the Television Series

    Edited by Daniel Farr, Melanie D. Holm ...
    Through its six-season run, television's Grimm used the extraordinary to illuminate the complexity of the ordinary. Drawing on the Brothers Grimm folklore, the series crafted an enchanted present to illuminate social and ethical challenges facing Western--in particular American--culture at the beginning of the 21st century. This collection of new essays explores Grimm's critique of identity and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Mocking Bird Technologies

    The Poetics of Parroting, Mimicry, and Other Starling Tropes

    Edited by Christopher GoGwilt, Melanie D. Holm ...
    Contributors: Madeleine Brainerd, Joe Conway, Fraser Easton, Christopher GoGwilt, Shari Goldberg, Melanie D. Holm, Sarah Kay, Kaori T. Kitao, Holt V. Meyer, Isabel A. Moore, Fawzia Mustafa, Gavin Sourgen.Mocking Bird Technologies brings together a range of perspectives to offer an extended meditation on bird mimicry in literature: the way birds mimic humans, the way humans mimic birds, and the way ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Geniuses, Addicts, and Scribbling Women

    Portraits of the Writer in Popular Culture

    by Megan A. Anderson, Julie M. Barst, Sarah Briest, Christopher Burlingame, Sandra Eckard, Amy Hagenrater-Gooding, Melanie Holm, Alexandra Oxner, Gian Pagnucci, Elizabeth King ...
    Through a critical discussion of an array of written and visual texts that feature a writer as a main character, Geniuses, Addicts, and Scribbling Women: Portraits of the Writer in Popular Culture argues for a more nuanced conception of the role of writers in society, their relationships with their reading publics, the portrayals and realities of their labor, and the construction of a “writing” ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • Twenty-Minute Stories and Poems

    Twenty-Minute Stories and Poems, #1

    by Linda Gabriel, Marcela Grad, Therese Gilardi, Melanie Lutz, Nona Grancell, Mary Elizabeth Holmes, Merry Elkins, Megan McGuinness ...
    Series Book 1 - Twenty-Minute Stories and Poems
    If you are dealing with writer's block, want to enhance your creative writing, or just want to read some kick-ass short stories and poems, don't miss this collection of Twenty-Minute Stories and Poems. There is a kind of magic available in a 20-minute writing sprint, sufficient power to unearth a seed that may grow into something larger, or even produce a work that is complete. This is a book of ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Twenty Minute Stories and Poems Volume 2

    Twenty-Minute Stories and Poems, #2

    by Linda Gabriel, Marcela Grad, Mary Elizabeth Holmes, Melanie Lutz, Merry Elkins, Denise Mandel, Nona Grancell, Brandon D. Reim, Bridie MacDonald ...
    Series Book 2 - Twenty-Minute Stories and Poems
    There is a kind of magic in a 20-minute word sprint.This the second volume of stories and poems were written in 20 minutes or less, presented with minimal editing (for spelling and grammar) as they were written. The last chapter features pieces that were written in only 10 minutes! Whether you're a reader, a writer—or thinking of starting a writers' group—we hope these stories and poems will ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Garden of Black Joy: Global Poetry from the Edges of Liberation and Living

    by Keno Evol ...
    A Garden of Black Joy's anthology of poems, interviews, and essays spotlight black joy not only as a resource of abundance, but as a mode of self-defense. Poets from Berlin to Kiambu, Antwerp, London, and beyond provide a sketch of what black joy means in this moment and how to make use of it in the name of the future.Featuring poets such as Julian Randall, Quintin Collins, Tara Betts, and Donte ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Joy in the Belly of a Riot

    Poems, Prayers, Memories, and Meditations

    by Barbara Fant ...
    The acclaimed poetic force celebrates the practice of poetry as healing and prayer in this vital, life-affirming collection about surviving the void and touching the divine—the second book in a creative collaboration between Amistad and Moore Black Press.At age fifteen, Barbara Fant tragically lost her mother, and her world was suddenly upended. “I became an angry teenager. I was mad at the world. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Wisdom Teeth

    by Derrick Weston Brown ...
    Series series Busboys and Poets Press
    To consider Wisdom Teeth is to acknowledge inevitable movement, shift, and sometimes pain. There’s change hidden just below the surface and, like it or not, once it breaks, everything has to make room. So goes the aptly titled debut poetry collection from poet and educator Derrick Weston Brown. Wisdom Teeth reveals the ongoing internal and external reconstruction of a poet’s life and world, as ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Returning the Sword to the Stone

    by Mark Leidner ...
    The followup to his beloved debut collection Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me, Mark Leidner’s Returning the Sword to the Stone is simultaneously profound and irreverent, in the same way that the world is flat as we walk and round as we live. “A child surprised that a neon sign / isn’t hot the first time they touch one / knows how it feels as an adult to achieve one’s goals” states the speaker ... Read more

    $13.19 CAD

  • Eclipses Never Wait For Me

    by Fatima R. Tabassum ...
    A poetry book written by a person with way too many thoughts that they can't help but take the shape of words. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus