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The Time We Have
A candid and cathartic exploration of pandemic life, from family to pop culture to healthcare—and beyond
Sing by the Burying Ground
Meditations on life, literature, and curiosity amid the shadows
Growing Up Chicago
Second to None: Chicago Stories
Growing Up Chicago is a collection of coming-of-age stories written by Chicagoland authors that reflects the diversity of the city and its metropolitan area. Primarily memoir, the book asks, What characterizes a Chicago author?
Once I Was Cool
Once I Was Cool contrasts past aspirations with the mess and magic of the present. Maturity is demanding, but its rewards are a gift.
The Monster I Am Today
Writer and musician Kevin Simmonds explores Leontyne Price as an icon, a diva, a woman, and a patriot—and himself as a fan, a budding singer, and a gay man—through passages that move polyphonically through Black identity, Black sound, Black sensibility, and Black history.
Act Like You're Having a Good Time
In this honest and tender collection of essays, award‑winning memoirist Michele Weldon asks what it means to be a mature woman seeking to secure a life of purpose and meaning through work, family and relationships.
Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry
National Book Award winner Nikky Finney’s fifth collection of poems articulates the Black American history into a new language of “docu-poetry.”
From Trouble to Triumph
This book tells stories of six former gang members, drug addicts, and incarcerated men who lived through intense incidents of violence as well as shifts in populations, industry, and means—and how they overcame the odds.Good for use in prisons, juvenile lockups, schools, and community organizations to show that change is always possible, it is an argument for restorative justice, drug treatment, mental health
services, spiritual practices, jobs training, and the arts instead of mass incarceration.
The Weight of a World of Feeling
In The Weight of a World of Feeling, Allan Hepburn draws together all the reviews that Elizabeth Bowen left uncollected in her non-fiction collections, as well as several more familiar essays that that she published in The Tatler, in order to make them accessible to a broader audience.
Zapata's Disciple
This new edition of Zapata’s Disciple, which won the 1999 Independent Publisher Book Award for Creative Nonfiction/Memoir, opens with a new essay on this history of censorship and continues Espada’s lifelong fight for freedom of expression.
The Time We Have
A candid and cathartic exploration of pandemic life, from family to pop culture to healthcare—and beyond
Sing by the Burying Ground
Meditations on life, literature, and curiosity amid the shadows
Growing Up Chicago
Second to None: Chicago Stories
Growing Up Chicago is a collection of coming-of-age stories written by Chicagoland authors that reflects the diversity of the city and its metropolitan area. Primarily memoir, the book asks, What characterizes a Chicago author?
Once I Was Cool
Once I Was Cool contrasts past aspirations with the mess and magic of the present. Maturity is demanding, but its rewards are a gift.
The Monster I Am Today
Writer and musician Kevin Simmonds explores Leontyne Price as an icon, a diva, a woman, and a patriot—and himself as a fan, a budding singer, and a gay man—through passages that move polyphonically through Black identity, Black sound, Black sensibility, and Black history.
Act Like You're Having a Good Time
In this honest and tender collection of essays, award‑winning memoirist Michele Weldon asks what it means to be a mature woman seeking to secure a life of purpose and meaning through work, family and relationships.
Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry
National Book Award winner Nikky Finney’s fifth collection of poems articulates the Black American history into a new language of “docu-poetry.”
From Trouble to Triumph
This book tells stories of six former gang members, drug addicts, and incarcerated men who lived through intense incidents of violence as well as shifts in populations, industry, and means—and how they overcame the odds.Good for use in prisons, juvenile lockups, schools, and community organizations to show that change is always possible, it is an argument for restorative justice, drug treatment, mental health
services, spiritual practices, jobs training, and the arts instead of mass incarceration.
services, spiritual practices, jobs training, and the arts instead of mass incarceration.
The Weight of a World of Feeling
In The Weight of a World of Feeling, Allan Hepburn draws together all the reviews that Elizabeth Bowen left uncollected in her non-fiction collections, as well as several more familiar essays that that she published in The Tatler, in order to make them accessible to a broader audience.
Zapata's Disciple
This new edition of Zapata’s Disciple, which won the 1999 Independent Publisher Book Award for Creative Nonfiction/Memoir, opens with a new essay on this history of censorship and continues Espada’s lifelong fight for freedom of expression.