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...vivid and authentic detail....Lawson makes all the trials of the American Revolution come alive." - Jodi Daynard, author of The Midwife's Revolt In 1778, war is men's business. That doesn't stop Anna Stone from getting involved in the fight. As the wife of a preacher-turned-soldier, a healer, and mother of three, Anna knows her place in this world. She tends to things at home while her husband and brothers fight for liberty. But when her ...

...vivid and authentic detail....Lawson makes all the trials of the American Revolution come alive." - Jodi Daynard, author of The Midwife's Revolt In 1778, war is men's business. That doesn't stop Anna Stone from getting involved in the fight. As the wife of a preacher-turned-soldier, a healer, and mother of three, Anna knows her place in this world. She tends to things at home while her husband and brothers fight for liberty. But when her ...

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Author and clinical social worker Maureen Callahan Smith shares the story of her sister's struggle with cancer, from the first out-of-the-blue diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma through the ups and downs of treatment. The realities of illness and medical care and their impact on family ties are explored in hospital corridors and around the family dinner table. Callahan Smith describes the big and small moments that make up a life, both insi...

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After Eden Monroe's ex dumps her, she decides not to cancel the romantic getaway they booked, wanting to waste his money like he wasted two years of her life. She never expects to go, but when he gets engaged to someone else, she packs her bags and boards the plane in need of an escape. Except she's not the only one. Becker Donovan needs to lie low for a while. The farther away from his life, the better. So, after catching wind of an aband...

Effusive new poems by Stephanie Burt, "perhaps our greatest poet of having yet more to say" (Boston Review) Stephanie Burt's poems in We Are Mermaids are never just one thing. Instead, they revel in their multiplicity, their interconnectedness, their secret powers to become much more than they at first seem. In these poems, punctuation marks make arguments for their utility and their rights to exist. Frozen isn't simply another Disney animated...

Now in paperback from Tracy K. Smith, the former poet laureate of the United States.Celebrated for its extraordinary intelligence and exhilarating range, the poetry of Tracy K. Smith opens up vast questions. Such Color: New and Selected Poems traces an increasingly audacious commitment to exploring the immense mysteries and conundrums of human existence. Each of Smith's four collections moves farther outward: when one seems to reach the limits...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet delivers a sharp wake-up call with his fourteenth collection. A "howdie-skelp" is the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. It's a wake-up call. A call to action.The poems in Howdie-Skelp, Paul Muldoon's new collection, include a nightmarish remake of The Waste Land, an elegy for his fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson, a crown of sonnets that responds to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a tra...

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John Evermann's world never changes. He goes to the same assigned job every day. He lives in the same house his family was placed in years ago. He picks up their weekly rations on Friday, and watches the same federally approved news broadcasts every night after dinner. Everything is as it is dictated to be, from the number on the back of his work jacket to the permanent curfew that keeps everyone safely in doors. Everyone has what they need to...

Sometimes, holding on means letting go...Sylvie is a tender, poignant novel examining a family's love for one another, acceptance, and letting go. Set in the Colorado mountains, it reveals the secrets and lies surrounding what appears to be a perfect family.Exploring the delicate threads binding a family together, we learn how an unexpected tragedy can unravel everything-and how they find hope, inspiration, and forgiveness to continue. An impo...

Ten years ago, someone discovered Nigel Rivera gathering evidence of a poaching ring. He hides the research in Idaho's landscape and files a report to protect his family. Solomon, a trusted friend, is sworn to protect Nigel's daughter, Callie. Nigel dies in a car accident, and Callie inherits Nigel's legacies at thirteen.Callie spent her childhood exploring Idaho and her father's business, Botanic Enchantment. The enchanted garden was Callie's...

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