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The Finalists
David J. Bell
On a beautiful spring day, six college students with nothing in common besides a desperate inability to pay for school gather to compete for the prestigious Hyde Fellowship.
The six of them must surrender their devices when they enter Hyde House, an aging Victorian structure that sits in a secluded ...Read More
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Kill All Your Darlings
David Bell
From the Publishers website:
After years of struggling to write following the deaths of his wife and son, English professor Connor Nye publishes his first novel, a thriller about the murder of a young woman.
There’s just one problem: Connor didn’t write the book. His missing student did. And then ...Read More -
The Request
David J. Bell
From the Publishers website:
Ryan Francis has it all—great job, wonderful wife, beautiful child—and he loves posting photos of his perfect life on social media. Until the night his friend Blake asks him to break into a woman’s home to retrieve incriminating items that implicate Blake in an affair. Ryan ...Read More
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Learning a Foreign Language: Understanding the Fundamentals of Linguistics
Alex Poole
From publishers website:
This text helps monolinguals achieve their dream of learning another language. Each chapter explains and exemplifies issues inherent in the language learning process that readers need to understand. These include maintaining motivation, dealing with errors, being strategic, and assessing progress. Readers receive advice on the practical steps ...Read More
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Learning from the Talk of Persons with Dementia: A Practical Guide to Interaction and Interactional Research
Trini Stickle Editor
From the publishers website:
This book offers an in depth analysis of the interactional challenges that arise due to various dementias and in a variety of social contexts. By assessing conversations between persons with dementia and their family members, caregivers, and clinicians, it shares insights into both the language and ...Read More
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Things You Would Know If You Grew Up Around Here
Nancy Wayson Dinan
From the publishers page:
"2015. 18-year-old Boyd Montgomery returns from her grandfather's wedding to find her friend Isaac missing. Drought-ravaged central Texas has been newly inundated with rain, and flash floods across the state have begun to sweep away people, cars, and entire houses as every river breaks its banks. ...Read More
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Fragile
Cheryl Hopson
From the Publishers page:
Cheryl R. Hopson’s poetry shows the influence of years of reading, living, thinking through and imagining what it means to be a girl and woman, a person of color, a Southerner, a feminist scholar of working-class origins, and a poet. The daughter of a mother who was and continues to be an enthusiastic and avid reader, Cheryl understood early on the beauty and significance of the written word. She began writing and reading poetry at twelve years old, after discovering the fiction of Maya Angelou and the poetry of Nikki Giovanni.
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The Indian Ladies' Magazine, 1901–1938
Deborah Anna Logan
From the publishers site:
This book examines the varied influences and accomplishments of the Indian Ladies’ Magazine, the first Indian magazine established and edited by an Indian woman—Kamala Satthianadhan—in English, written by women, for women. Influences include Victorian, Edwardian, and Modern literature and culture as well as traditional Indian literature ...Read More
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Since She Went Away
David Bell
From David Bell—bestselling author of Somebody I Used to Know and Cemetery Girl—comes a chilling novel of guilt, regret, and a past which refuses to die…
Three months earlier, Jenna Barton was supposed to meet her lifelong best friend Celia. But when Jenna arrived late, she found that Celia had ...Read More -
The State That Springfield is In
Tom Hunley
Inspired by America's most prominent hallmark of modern pop culture, The Simpsons, poet Tom C. Hunley shares his narratives––autobiographical or allegorical––by channeling the eccentric personas of residents in the animated sitcom's town, Springfield, and trusting their voices to speak on his behalf, resulting in true poetic entertainment. As author Denise ...Read More
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Memorials of Harriet Martineau by Maria Weston Chapman
Deborah Logan, Editor
Memorials of Harriet Martineau by Maria Weston Chapman was published in 1877 as volume three of Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. While the triple-decker was a popular format of the era, the configuration of a two-volume autobiography authored by one and a one-volume biography written by another is unusual. Indeed, the work’s ...Read More
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Somebody I Used to Know
David Bell
When Nick Hansen sees the young woman at the grocery store, his heart stops. She is the spitting image of his college girlfriend, Marissa Minor, who died in a campus house fire twenty years earlier. But when Nick tries to speak to her, she acts skittish and rushes off.
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Plunk
Tom Hunley
“BLURBS”
My manuscript got picked up like a hitchhiker, bedraggled
and haggard, and I need words to cover the back cover.
I don’t want to rouse any of my poet friends from their
lonely fame. They should be writing poems, not blurbs.
They should be jogging or having prescriptions filled.
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Creative Writing Pedagogies for the Twenty-First Century
Tom Hunley and Alexandria Peary
The creative writing workshop: beloved by some, dreaded by others, and ubiquitous in writing programs across the nation. For decades, the workshop has been entrenched as the primary pedagogy of creative writing. While the field of creative writing studies has sometimes myopically focused on this single method, the related discipline ...Read More
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Every Leaf a Mirror: A Jim Wayne Miller Reader
Mary Ellen Miller, Editor and Morris Allen Grubbs, Editor
Jim Wayne Miller (1936–1996) was a prolific writer, a revered teacher and scholar, and a pioneer in the field of Appalachian studies. During his thirty-three-year tenure at Western Kentucky University, he helped build programs in the discipline in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio, and worked tirelessly to promote regional voices by ...Read More
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The Forgotten Girl
David Bell
The past has arrived uninvited at Jason Danvers’s door in the form of his younger sister, Hayden, a former addict who severed all contact with her family as her life spiraled out of control. Now she’s clean and sober but in need of a desperate favor—she asks Jason and his ...Read More
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They Become Her
Rebbecca Brown
Rebbecca Brown's debut novel, THEY BECOME HER, received Honorable Mention in the 2009-2010 Starcherone Innovative Fiction contest. It tells the story of Delia Bacon, the first to propose that Shakespeare did not write his own works and whose own literary ambition inspired a life filled with fame and scandal. Three ...Read More
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Never Come Back
David Bell
When her mother is murdered, a woman is propelled into a twisted world of danger and double lives in this gripping psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Since She Went Away and Cemetery Girl.
Leslie Hampton always cared for her troubled son Ronnie’s special needs and assumed that her daughter ...Read More -
Rides a Stranger
David Bell
Until his death, Don Kurtwood’s father was known as a simple family man, defined by his blue collar career and obsessive, albeit pedestrian, reading habits. When a rare book dealer who seems to know more about the late Mr. Kurtwood than his own son does turns up at the wake, ...Read More
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The Kentucky Barbecue Book
Wes Berry
Kentucky’s culinary fame may have been built on bourbon and fried chicken, but the Commonwealth has much to offer the barbecue thrill-seeker.
The Kentucky Barbecue Book is a feast for readers who are eager to sample the finest fare in the state. From the banks of the Mississippi to the hidden ...Read More -
Black Notes
Cheryl Hopson
From the Publishers page:
Cheryl R. Hopson’s poetry shows the influence of years of reading, living, thinking through and imagining what it means to be a girl and woman, a person of color, a Southerner, a feminist scholar of working-class origins, and a poet. The daughter of a mother who was and continues to be an enthusiastic and avid reader, Cheryl understood early on the beauty and significance of the written word. She began writing and reading poetry at twelve years old, after discovering the fiction of Maya Angelou and the poetry of Nikki Giovanni.
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Scotch Tape World
Tom Hunley
"Tom C. Hunley, on the evidence of these poems, is as in love with, as he is bewildered by, the world. And although that might seem a common way of being in the world, Hunley's ability to render his love and bewilderment precisely in his poems is unique and necessary. ...Read More
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The Hiding Place
David Bell
Twenty-five years after a child’s murder shocks a small Ohio town, new evidence forces everyone to question what they believe in this tense thriller from the bestselling author of Since She Went Away and Cemetery Girl.
Janet Manning has been haunted by the murder since the day she lost sight of ...Read More -
Annoyed Grunt
Tom Hunley
Imaginary Friend Press is happy to release Annoyed Grunt, by Tom C. Hunley! This chapbook includes a critical introduction by Denise Du Vernay as well as 19 pages of Hunley's fantastic poetry. These persona poems take on the roles of America's favorite family, The Simpsons, and the poems embrace each character's dysfunctions, insecurities, and charm.
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The Poetry Gymnasium
Tom Hunley
This book contains ninety-four exercises designed to inspire creativity and help poets hone their skills. Each exercise includes a clearly-stated learning objective, historical background matter on the particular subgenre being explored, and an example written by students at Western Kentucky University. The text also contains model poems by leading American poets including Sherman Alexie, Billy Collins, Denise Duhamel, and Dean Young. The book’s five chapters correspond with the five canons of classical rhetoric: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery.
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Harriet Martineau and the Irish Question: Condition of Post-famine Ireland
Deborah A. Logan, Editor
Aside from Letters from Ireland and Endowed Schools of Ireland, Harriet Martineau wrote an additional thirty-eight articles about Ireland for London’s Daily News between 1852 and 1866, plus another thirteen articles for Household Words, Atlantic Monthly, Once a Week, Westminster Review, and New York Evening Post. It is those uncollected ...Read More
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Understanding Language: A Basic Course in Linguistics
Elizabeth Winkler
Understanding Language is an introduction to linguistics aimed at non-major undergraduate students who are new to the subject. The book is comprehensive in its coverage of the key areas of linguistics, yet explains these in an easy to understand, jargon-free way. Pictures, jokes, diagrams, tables and suggestions for further reading ...Read More
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Cemetery Girl
David Bell
A missing child is every parent’s nightmare. What comes next is even worse in this riveting thriller from the bestselling author of Since She Went Away and Somebody I Used to Know.
Tom and Abby Stuart had everything: a perfect marriage, successful careers, and a beautiful twelve-year-old daughter, Caitlin. Then one ...Read More -
The Poet's Wife Speaks
Mary Ellen Miller
Mary Ellen Miller's book of Poetry, The Poet's Wife Speaks, is the 2011 Old Seventy Cress Press Prize winning manuscript.
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Beyond Postprocess
J. A. Rice, Editor; Sidney I. Dobrin, Editor; and Michael Vastp;a. Editor
Beyond Postprocess offers a vigorous, provocative discussion of postprocess theory in its contemporary profile. Fueled by something like a fundamental refusal to see writing as self-evident, reducible, and easily explicable, the contributors rethink postprocess, suggesting that there is no easily defined moment or method that could be called postprocess. Instead, ...Read More
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Commutability: Stories About the Journey from Here to There
David Bell, editor and Molly McCaffrey, editor
It's safe to say that every trip changes us in some way. We learn something as we travel. And the relationship between the distance traveled and the magnitude of the revelation need not be direct. A walk to the grocery store or up a long flight of steps can change ...Read More
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Harriet Martineau, Victorian Imperialism, and the Civilizing Mission
Deborah A. Logan
In her in-depth study of Harriet Martineau's writings on the evolution of the British Empire in the nineteenth century, Deborah A. Logan elaborates the ways in which Martineau's works reflect Victorian concerns about radically shifting social ideologies. To understand Martineau's interventions into the Empire Question, Logan argues, is to recognize ...Read More
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The Girl in the Woods
David Bell
When Diana Greene leaves her hometown for a new life, she thinks she has left the past behind: her sister's disappearance, her mother's illness, and the visions Diana used to see...a clearing in the woods...a moonlit night...and human bones buried in the ground. And her past remains dormant until the ...Read More
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Postscript to the Middle Ages: Teaching Medieval Studies through Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose
Alison (Ganze) Langdon
More than a quarter century after its publication in English, Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose remains a popular novel among medievalists and non-medievalists alike. Its riveting account of a series of murders at a wealthy Italian abbey during the papacy of John XXII, amidst the tensions of the ...Read More
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The Condemned
David Bell
The world is at war.the city is dying.and those left for dead within its walls have awakened. A terrorist attack on the water supply has left the city quarantined by the army and inhabited by the City People, the mindless living dead who rule the urban night. Plagued by nightmares ...Read More
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Octopus
Tom Hunley
"Tom Hunley writes with wit, tenderness, and disarming honesty about the joys and travails of being a husband, father, teacher, and poet. Octopus sheds new light on old truths about the world, and reminds us that we’re lucky to be here."
—Charles Harper Webb
"I don't know if this book, ...Read More
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Teaching Poetry Writing: A Five-Canon Approach
Tom Hunley
Teaching Poetry Writing: A Five Canon Approach is a comprehensive alternative to the full-class workshop approach to poetry writing instruction. In the five canon approach, peer critique of student poems takes place in online environments, freeing up class time for writing exercises and lessons based on the five canons of classical rhetoric: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery.
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The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau, 5 Volumes
Deborah A. Logan, Editor
This five-volume set brings together the surviving letters penned by Harriet Martineau, the nineteenth-century writer and women’s rights advocate. Throughout her fifty-year career, Harriet Martineau's prolific literary output was matched only by her exchanges with a range of high-profile British, American and European correspondents. This set focuses on the letters written by Martineau, contextualising the correspondence through annotation of the highest standard. This book is a unique and highly valuable resource for students of, and others interested in, the history of feminism.
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Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing
Kelly Reames
This study discovers how contemporary writers have imagined possible relationships between African American and white women that overcome the stereotypical patterns of racism, using novels and autobiographies and focusing on works by William Faulkner, Lillian Hellman, Audre Lorde, Kaye Gibbons, Elizabeth Cox, Sherley Anne Wiliams, and Toni Morrison
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My Life as a Minor Character
Tom Hunley
"Hunley is the next Young/ Hoagland/Ruefle, the next man/woman/child in our collective rowboat of poets. And as one of his speakers duly notes, "Someday you're going to know this. / Or you'll drown. " --Mark Yakich
"It is impossible to read My Life as a Minor Character without smiling. Not ...Read More
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Harriet Martineau's Writing on British History and Military Reform, 6 Volumes
Deborah A. Logan, Editor
This edition of Martineau's history consists primarily of the History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854, as well as the introductory History of England, AD 1800 to 1815. Martineau's work thus encompasses British history from the turn of the nineteenth century through the Crimean ...Read More
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The Tongue
Tom Hunley
Like a Pop artist, Tom Hunley creates with bright colors and sharp lines. In the face of disaster, he responds with the kind of insouciance praised by Whitman and practiced by a Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd. "Meet me at the Cafe Nihilism," Hunley writes, and in poem after poem ...Read More
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Harriet Martineau's Writing on the British Empire, 5 Volumes
Deborah Logan, Editor
The literary presence of Harriet Martineau pervades 19th-century English and American culture. This edition makes her work available, and focuses on her writings on imperialism. It should be of interest to scholars of colonialism, women's writing, Victorian studies, sociology and journalism.
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The Hour and the Woman. Harriet Martineau's "Somewhat Remarkable" Life
Deborah A. Logan
A British journalist and pioneering reformer, Harriet Martineau reigned at the forefront of debates over social and political issues during the Victorian era. The Hour and the Woman chronicles the "somewhat remarkable" life of one of history's most influential, yet overlooked, women writers.
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Writings on Slavery and the American Civil War
Deborah A. Logan
A leading social reformer and pioneering abolitionist, British journalist Harriet Martineau fueled the debate over the abolition of slavery that raged on both sides of the Atlantic before the American Civil War. Her impassioned writings about abolition—with more than fifty essays and articles collected in this premier annotated edition—provide piercing ...Read More
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Toni Morrison's Paradise: A Reader's Guide
Kelly Reames
Continuum Contemporaries will be a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and readings groups, as well as for literature students.The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most influential novels of ...Read More
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Fallenness in Victorian Women's Writing Marry, Stitch, Die, Or Do Worse
Deborah A. Logan
The Angel-in-the-House is an ideal commonly used to define sexual standards of the Victorian Age. Although widely considered to be the cultural "norm," the Victorian Angel, revered for her morality, domestic virtue, and dedication to the family, is more frequently depicted in the literature of the time as an anomaly. ...Read More
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Kpelle-English dictionary, with accompanying English-Kpelle glossary
Elizabeth Winkler
This is a basic dictionary of Kpelle with a small grammatical sketch at the beginning of the book.
Originally published by the Indiana University Linguistics Club Publications. (1997)
Available for download (top button) is an updated Glossary including an introduction as well as specifics regarding the Kpelle Language (2017)
additional image download (bottom button) is a sample page from the upcoming dictionary.
