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Manz is sure of one thing: he lives on the wrong side of the tracks in dusty Rockhill, Texas. Life is tough for everyone--his hard-drinking mother, her truck-driving boyfriend, even his privileged...

"Gruchow is an ideal guide to the BWCA." --ISTHMUS BOOKS QUARTERLYOrganized by the seasons of the year, Boundary Waters explores the natural and soul-sustaining beauty of the largest roadless area...

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearAbraham Rodriguez, Jr. captures what it's like to grow up too fast amid the crushing poverty of the South Bronx in this collection that depicts a...

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bright Dead Things examines the dangerous thrill of living in a world you...

"Filled with nuggets of wisdom and provocative questions." --ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWSRick Bass's dog, Colter, is the brown dog of the Yaak. Described by Bass as a creature almost mythic, the dog charges...

"Raw, visionary, lucid, and mystical, Cacophony of Bone speaks of the connection between all things, and the magic that can be found in everyday life."--Katherine May, bestselling author of...

Somewhere between elegy and memoir, poetry and prose, Ed Pavlic's Call It in the Air follows the death of a sister into song. Pavlic's collection traces the life and death of his elder sister, Kate:...

A magnetic debut collection of stories about the daily lives of girls and women in rural America. In Lost Person Behavior, the natural world is an escape hatch, a refuge, a site of work, and an...

The first time journalist Jon Lurie meets Jose Perez, the smart, angry, fifteen-year-old Lakota-Puerto Rican draws blood. Five years later, both men are floundering. Lurie, now in his thirties, is...

A searing, urgent collection of poems centered around the Deepwater Horizon oil spillAuthor: Rebecca DunhamPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Mar 14, 2017Number of Pages: 80 pagesBinding:...

Arranged by letter of the alphabet, with at least one entry per letter, these short pieces capture the variety of daily life in contemporary China. Writing about traditions that endure in rural areas...

Conversations With Birds - 9781639550807Author: Priyanka KumarPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Sep 12, 2023Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The 1947 Partition of India is the backdrop for this powerful novel, narrated by a precocious child who describes the brutal transition with chilling veracity. Young Lenny Sethi is kept out of school...

A pioneering ethnobotanist, Gary Paul Nabhan credits the arts with sparking unlikely scientific breakthroughs and believes that such "cross-pollination" engenders new forms of expression that are...

A moving story of rebellion, lost love, criminal daring, and restless searching.--Leonard Gardner, author of Fat CityAuthor: Deni Ellis BechardPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Oct 17,...

In [Naka-Hasebe Kingsley's] process, we learn to let go of our assumptions about who this poet might be, and instead read in awe at the play. --JOSÉ OLIVAREZAuthor: Benjamin Naka-Hasebe...

Hailed by Ishmael Reed as "one of our brightest talents," Lee Ann Roripaugh's fourth collection of poems maps the illusory and ephemeral connection between identities and language.Based on sources as...

WINNER OF THE MINNESOTA BOOK AWARDFrom the poet whose stunning debut was praised as "transcendent" by Kevin Young and "steadily confident" by Carl Phillips, Dangerous Goods tracks its speaker...

Day of the Child: A PoemAuthor: Arra Lynn RossPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Nov 09, 2021Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1571315373ISBN-13:...

Diary Of A Young Naturalist - 9781571311832Author: Dara McAnultyPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Jun 07, 2022Number of Pages: 222 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Discovering Pig Magic follows the exploits of Mattie (or Miss M, or just M) and her friends Ariel and Nicki as they attempt to overcome the problems that plague their 13-year-old lives. After finding...

First published by Doubleday Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Ltd.--Title page verso.Author: Richard WagamesePublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: May 10, 2016Number of Pages: 418...

The North American debut of Tu? S?--poet, monk, scholar, dissident, and one of the great cultural figures of modern Vietnam. Arguably the most important Zen master in Vietnam today, S? is a...

Bill Holm, often called "the bard of the Midwest," takes readers on an excursion to islands both real and symbolic.Like a modern-day literary Darwin, Bill Holm travels to Isla Mujeres, an exceptional...

From the memories of a childhood marked by extreme poverty, mental illness, and restrictive fundamentalist Christian rules, Janisse Ray crafted a "heartfelt and refreshing" (New York Times) memoir...

When acclaimed author Deni B?chard first learned of the last living bonobos--matriarchal great apes that are, alongside the chimpanzee, our closest relatives in the animal kingdom--he was completely...

Throughout most of the 20th century, from World War I until his death in 1993, America poet and pacifist William Stafford remained convinced that wars don't work. In his poetry and other writing, he...

A major debut that feels timely and timeless. --KATHY FAGANAuthor: Jake SkeetsPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: September 10, 2019Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Poetic exploration in Middle English about the body, physical space, ownership of space, gender, and transitioning genders.--Author: Jos CharlesPublisher: Milkweed EditionsPublication Date: Aug 14,...

"Poetry in service to humanity." --BARRY LOPEZPattiann Rogers has built a reputation as one of America's finest contemporary poets. Her writing--with its firm roots in science and the natural...