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A book of mischief and improvisation that answers dogma and fundamentalism with rage, delight, Jesus, music, earth-worship, and wombats"--

A story of three witches growing up in a small town, life on track, school, spells, friendships, clothes, boys, all the usual teenage stuff. Until the premonitions start...Will Justine find it in her heart to forgive Augustus?Will the premonitions bring the girls closer together, or further apart?

In short, gloriously inventive essays, the Whiting Award-winning author Amy Leach's The Everybody Ensemble invites us to see and celebrate our oddball, interconnected worldHumans, please turn your guns into kazoos.Are you feeling dismay, despair, disillusion? Need a break from the ho-hum, the hopeless, and the hurtful? Feel certain that there's a version of our world that doesn't break down into tiny categories of alliance but brings everybody...

In short, gloriously inventive essays, Whiting Award-winning author Amy Leach's The Everybody Ensemble invites us to see and celebrate our oddball, interconnected worldAre you feeling dismay, despair, disillusion? Need a break from the ho-hum, the hopeless, and the hurtful? Feel certain that there's a version of our world that doesn't break down into tiny categories of alliance, but brings everybody together into one clattering, sometimes disc...

Amy Leach grew up in Texas. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Iowa, and her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and reviews. She has been recognised with the Whiting Writers' Award and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award. She lives in Montana.

Excerpt from Two Historic Pennsylvania Canal Towns: Alexandria and SaltsburgThis report is organized into three primary chapters: a general investigation of the region and historical events surrounding canal-town development in southwestern Pennsylvania, and individual overviews on Alexandria and Saltsburg, with respective appendices containing the habs reports on forty - four buildings. Because the building reports contained in the appendices...

Excerpt from Two Historic Pennsylvania Canal Towns: Alexandria and SaltsburgThis report is organized into three primary chapters: a general investigation of the region and historical events surrounding canal-town development in southwestern Pennsylvania, and individual overviews on Alexandria and Saltsburg, with respective appendices containing the habs reports on forty - four buildings. Because the building reports contained in the appendices...

From the cosmic to the quotidian, this collection of essays by Amy Leach asks us to reconsider our kinship with the wild world.The debut collection of a writer whose accolades precede her: a Whiting Award, a Rona Jaffe Award, a Best American Essays selection, and a Pushcart Prize, all received before her first book-length publication. This book represents a major break-out of an entirely new brand of nonfiction writer, in a mode like that of A...