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"Seven Days. Seven Questions. Forever Changed. That's how The Eden Test, a week-long getaway, advertises itself for couples in trouble. And that's what Daisy, a talented actress, has signed up for, in the hopes of saving her marriage. It's a tall order, seeing as her husband Craig plans on leaving her for another woman. In fact, his bags are packed in the back of the car as he drives to the cabin in the woods in upstate New York. But spending time together is nice and Craig enjoys the solitude of the cabin, the nearby lake, and the apple orchard. He'd even like the quirky small town, if it wasn't for a few locals calling him a city idiot. Maybe this could actually work? But Craig doesn't know that Daisy, one of the best actresses no one has ever heard of, has her own secrets, including a burner phone she's been using to text someone else. Their marriage was already under duress but now the lies and secrets are coming so fast it's hard to keep up..."-- Provided by publisher.

• Chicken. Film. Youth.
• Monitor world
• Zeroes:Ones
• Wing and the radio
• The girl with the double eyelids
• The virtuoso -- Let's go let's go let's go
• Power and control
• We were there
• Messages from earth
• Seagull village.

"The electric, unsettling, and often surreal stories in LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO explore the alienated, technology-mediated lives of restless Asian and Asian American women today. A woman escapes into dating simulations to forget her best friend's abandonment; a teenager begins to see menacing omens on others' bodies after her double eyelid surgery; reunited schoolmates are drawn into the Japanese mountains to participate in an uncanny social experiment; a supernatural karaoke machine becomes a K-pop star's channel for redemption. In every story, characters refuse dutiful, docile stereotypes. They are ready to explode, to question conventions. Their compulsions tangle with unrequited longing and queer desire in their search for something ineffable across cities, countries, and virtual worlds. With precision and provocation, Cleo Qian's immersive debut jolts us into the reality of lives fragmented by screens, relentless consumer culture, and the flattening pressures of modern society-and asks how we might hold on to tenderness against the impulses within us"-- Provided by publisher.

• Beginnings
• The search
• Nat Turner, the Wheelers, and The Bondwoman's Narrative
• The revolt
• The candidates
• Childhood
• Property
• Rosea Pugh and Hannah Sr.
• The early life of Hannah Crafts
• The Bondwoman's Narrative and Uncle Tom's Cabin
• The notebook
• Religion
• The Wheelers
• The novel
• The life and times of Eliza Morgan
• The Bondwoman's Narrative and Bleak House
• The search continued
• The life and times of Jane Johnson
• The life and times of Hannah Crafts
• The life and times of Hannah Vincent.

"A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a preface by Henry Louis Gates Jr."-- Provided by publisher.

• volume 1. 1932-1955

"Since Sylvia Plath's death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems in Ariel and as a brilliant forerunner of the feminist coming-of-age novel in her semiautobiographical The Bell Jar. Each new biography has offered insight and sources with which to measure Plath's life and influence. Sylvia Plath Day by Day, a two-volume series, offers a distillation of this data without the inherent bias of a narrative. Volume 1 commences with Plath's birth in Boston in 1932, records her response to her elementary and high school years, her entry into Smith College, and her breakdown and suicide attempt, and ends on February 14, 1955, the day she wrote to Ruth Cohen, principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, to accept admission as an "affiliated student at Newnham College to read for the English Tripos." Sylvia Plath Day by Day is for readers of all kinds with a wide variety of interests in the woman and her work. The entries are suitable for dipping into and can be read in a minute or an hour. Ranging over several sources, including Plath's diaries, journals, letters, stories, and other prose and poetry-including new material and archived material rarely seen by readers-a fresh kaleidoscopic view of the writer emerges"-- Provided by publisher.

"A series of poetic remixes, War is Not My Mother might be considered a form of spirit possession. Each poem in this manuscript takes up another poet's work - a selection that ranges from Lorca to CD Wright, Ho Xuan Huong to Sappho, Agha Shahid Ali to Ishrat Afreen--and alters its DNA, infusing it with an other idiolect. This is an idiolect of pleasure (the wordplay, puns, and cadence of the Vietnamese language) and of pain (the long shadow of the Vietnam war in the lives of those who survived, barely survived, and became refugees). Like any possessing spirit, War is Not My Mother speaks in tongues: using others' words to articulate a personal pain. Shorn of their original context and content, the poems in this collection--mutant-hybrids who retain a trace of their skeleton while dressed in entirely other clothes--become a play of voices that call into question notions of authenticity and self in poetic production, a postmodern twist for the classical craft." -- From the publisher's website.

Gina Ferrara's collection AMISS might be subtitled, "American Femicide": these lyric poems are sympathetic, even intimate, elegies for, and apostrophes to, women killed or missing in every state in the Union."Gina Ferrara's collection AMISS might be subtitled, 'American Femicide': these lyric poems are sympathetic, even intimate, elegies for, and apostrophes to, women killed or missing in every state in the Union, and our North American landscape (beautifully evoked), seems involved in their fates. Notice, for instance, how often the vaunted freedom of the road turns out to be something else for these passengers: women 'driven in the direction / of what always goes wrong.' Notice, also, the details, as Ferrara chooses her images with the fierce attention of an angelic detective--a bright blue van, a bible, a deck of cards spilled from an abandoned purse--so that an earned and grounded empathy propels the clear voice, along with the desire for justice. In these quick and vivid poems Ferrara makes of grief an illuminating fire, from which the poet speaks of and to the missing and dead women with exemplary, tenderly respectful, imagination, memory, and knowledge. I have so much admiration for this poet's courage--Ferrara has gone among the ghosts and faced the terror every woman in our violent homeland spends a significant portion of her life trying not to think about..."--Laura Mullen"Gina Ferrara writes with an uncanny attention to color and light, evoking depths of emotion from minute sensory details. This, her signature technique, is employed with chilling effectiveness in this collection of elegies to 52 murdered women, one for each of our United States, plus two more, as if the grief expressed here would overflow any national or political container. And yet it is a sobering chronicle of a distinctly American epidemic of violence against women. This is a stunning book, reverent, powerful, immensely sad."--Bill LavenderPoetry. Women's Studies.

"Fierce, poignant sci-fi, about hacking, love, and resistance. Jumping to alternate realities sounds great, if you're in control. But what if you're not? What if you're propelled away from the people and places you love the most in the blink of an eye? And what if these involuntary journeys happen because your neurochemistry is different, and your brain works differently? Beautiful, compassionate, and resourceful as she is, this is Rea's problem. A latina trans woman and an academic, she is beloved by a tight circle of friends, who fully accept her without knowing the cause of her disappearances. But she is haunted by the lovers and family that she cannot trace back to, and fears she might be separated from them forever. Each time she transits into a new time and space, everything shifts—even the films and writing Rea produces readjust their molecules to match her new quantum reality. But Rea, a brilliant lay scientist, is determined to crack the code, and end her quest for lasting connections and home. "-- Amazon.com.

"A collection of poems by Patricia Spears Jones"-- Provided by publisher.

"Black Pastoral explores the complex duality of Black peoples' past and present relationship with nature. It surveys the ways in which our histories (both Black histories and natural/ecological histories), our suffering and our thriving, are forever wound around one another, wound at times, salve at others. These poems meditate upon the violence and tenderness that simultaneously characterize the entangling of the two, taking the form of a series of ecopoetic musings that re-envision these confluences. They illustrate the beauty inherent to Blackness, to nature, to the remarkable relationship they share, while also refusing it permission to collect idly, like an opaque skein of film obscuring uglier, necessary truths. Black Pastoral seeks to be both love letter and elegy, both flame to raze the field and flood to nourish the land anew"-- Provided by publisher.

"Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book--Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns--and its devastating history. This book contains accounts collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher, Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was then co-opted by a committee, her name buried. The voices of these subjects have been filtered, muted, but it is possible to hear them from within and beyond the text, which, in Juan's tattered volumes, has been redacted with black marker on nearly every page. As Juan waits for his end, he and the narrator recount for each other moments of joy and oblivion; they resurrect loves, lives, mothers, fathers, minor heroes. In telling their own stories and the story of the book, they resist the ravages of memory and time"--Dust jacket flap.

• My Birthday, Again
• The Wide Berth
• Jeff Being Jeff
• Communal Walking Stick
• The Perfect Notebook
• The Perfect Spoon (or Cup)
• The Clothesline
• Free Stuff
• Daisy Returns
• Alright Baby!
• The Full Moon!
• Shortcut
• Babies Again (Seriously)
• Animalympics
• Under the Table
• Hole in the Head, Redux; Coda: Negretting
• The Lady in the Tree
• The Lady on the Porch
• How Good It Feels
• Braces on Adults
• (Foot- End- Etc.) Notes
• Dream Dancing
• Sweet Potato Harvest
• Squirrel in a Pumpkin
• Blue-Spectacle Tulips Hearty to Zone 4
• Snoopy
• One Million Kisses
• Honey Buns
• Lyrica
• Vernacular Driving
• As Is My Mother's Way Sometimes
• Goodbye Nana
• Unusual Mailbox
• Boom: Here's Loo
• Gnomes
• OREO Speedwagon
• Dad in Dream Unaging
• My Neighbor's Face
• Scarecrow the World
• Michael McDonald
• Mistranscription
• DeBarge on Tiny Desk
• Garlic Sprouting
• Being Read To
• Gucci
• Helmets Free
• The Complimentary Function
• Early!
• Be Direct
• Imposter (Syndrome)
• The Tagalog Word for Which
• Truly Overnight Sometimes It Seems
• Not This Dog
• I'd Prefer Not To
• Improvised Pocket Parks
• The Purple Iris Angel
• Tag and Such
• Paper Menus (and Cash!)
• Eat Candy! Destroy the State!
• At the End of a Photoshoot with My Friend Natasha, Walking Here and There Through the Orchard, Facing This Way, then That, in Front of the Peach Tree
• Friends Let Us Do Our Best Not to Leave This Life Having Not Loved What We Love Enough
• The Door
• The Minor Codiality
• Small Fluffy Things
• Riiiiiita, Riiiiiiita!
• Hands for Carrying
• Mulberry Picking
• Garlic Harvest (NC-17)
• Sunflower in the Mortar
• Yellowjackets
• The Courtesy of Truckers
• How Literature Saved My Life
• Hickies, Ostentatiously Blandished
• Dream Redux
• Angels All
• Sunergos
• Hugging in the Co-Op
• Throwing Children
• The Cave City Watermelon Festival
• "To Respect Each Other's Madness and Right to Be Wrong"
• My Birthday, Again.

"A collection of essays in which the author discusses the small and large things that delight him"-- Provided by publisher.

"Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she's lived since college still looks like she's just moved in. But she's got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club. She's at peace with her plus-size body--at least, most of the time--and she's on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood summer sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her perpetually dieting mother forced her to attend. Fifteen years after her final summer at Camp Golden Hills, when Abby reconnects with a half-his-size Mark, it feels like the happy ending she's always wanted. Yet Abby can't escape the feeling that some­thing isn't right... or the memories of one thrilling night she spent with a man named Sebastian two years previously. When Abby gets a last-minute invitation to lead a cycling trip from NYC to Niagara Falls, she's happy to have time away from Mark, a chance to reflect and make up her mind. But things get complicated fast. First, Abby spots a familiar face in the group--Sebastian, the one-night stand she thought she'd never see again. Sebastian is a serial dater who lives a hundred miles away. In spite of their undeniable chemistry, Abby is determined to keep her distance. Then there's a surprise last-minute addition to the trip: her mother, Eileen, the woman Abby blames for a lifetime of body shaming and insecurities she's still trying to undo. Over two weeks and more than seven hundred miles, strangers become friends, hidden truths come to light, a teenage girl with a secret unites the riders in unexpected ways... and Abby is forced to reconsider everything she believes about herself, her mother, and the nature of love"-- Provided by publisher.

"Consumed with the accumulation of lost time and unfulfilled longing, Desire Museum by Danielle Deulen is an intricate exploration of things left unfinished or unsatisfied"-- Provided by publisher.

"As the Great War rages across Europe, Rand Brandt, an idealistic young forester in the northwoods of Wisconsin, discovers a remarkable gift: his touch can grow any plant in minutes. Overjoyed, he dreams of devoting his life to conservation, restoring to its former glory a landscape devastated by lumbering. At night, Rand tests his powers, pushing his physical limits and revealing his secret only to his lover, Gabriel. But his frequent absences from camp don't go unnoticed, and it isn't long before Rand is drafted to grow timber for the war effort. Along with Gabriel, he's shipped to France-though the army is a dangerous place for two men in love"-- Provided by publisher.

"Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change. In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs. A rich industrialist with enemies among the anarchist factions on the far left, Walter Wilkinson could have been targeted by any number of groups. But strangely, Sullivan's investigation brings up the specter of another tragedy at the Claremont, ten years earlier: the death of seven-year-old Iris Stafford, a member of the Bainbridge family, one of the wealthiest in all of San Francisco. Some say she haunts the Claremont still. The many threads of the case keep leading Sullivan back to the three remaining Bainbridge heiresses, now adults: Iris's sister, Isabella, and her cousins Cassie and Nicole. Determined not to let anything distract him from the truth--not the powerful influence of Bainbridges' grandmother, or the political aspirations of Berkeley's district attorney, or the interest of China's First Lady Madame Chiang Kai-Shek in his findings--Sullivan follows his investigation to its devastating conclusion. Chua's page-turning debut brings to life a historical era rife with turbulent social forces and groundbreaking forensic advances, when race and class defined the very essence of power, sex, and justice, and introduces a fascinating character in Detective Sullivan, a mixed race former Army officer who is still reckoning with his own history"-- Provided by publisher.

When Clay Spencer is late arriving home on Christmas Eve, the oldest of his eight children becomes involved in unexpected, often dangerous adventures while searching for him.

"Winner of the 2022 Gatewood Prize, selected by Julie Carr. Split in four sections, I Feel Fine is a series of refrains on loss, gendered disability, community, alienation, productivity, value, and performativity. Written at the end of the author's months-long period of being bedridden, it replicates her neurodivergence at the sentence-level, operating primarily through fragments and association rather than linear thought. With the period acting as both a disruptor and a fulcrum, I Feel Fine leans into the blurring of the distinction between mind and body, sick and well, normal and abnormal. Fundamentally playful, it layers and flattens experiences, calling out to an ever-shifting and multiple you."Shockingly original, haunting and strange, Olivia Muenz's I Feel Fine fills me with a kind of longing I cannot properly name. At once novelistic and radically fragmented, achingly confessional and austerely technical, Muenz's prose poems place me exactly where I want to be as a reader. I am at once moved by a voice and excited by a form, emotionally caught and cognitively awakened. With a syntax all their own, these poems make me sweat and make me marvel. Read them. Find poetry once again bright, new, and necessary."--Julie Carr, 2022 Gatewood Prize judge"I Feel Fine is a book of fine feelings, a record and enactment of feeling finally and finely. Chopped. Think of the "I" as a blade, dicing experience? [...] Muenz' work should be read within the fine tradition of modern and post-modern investigations of failure, while also being recognized as an important addition to the field of disability studies [...]. In her short, sometimes one-word sentences, urgently compelling in their staccato rhythm, Muenz makes it clear that language itself is a connective tissue disorder we all have--all we have--to communicate the fragility of presence, intimacy, attention, and life. This first full length collection by a gifted, brilliant, and brave poet offers readers a fine way to connect to our own embodiment, the body's plentitudes and exhaustions, our swell and not so swell swellings and deflations: "We are. Fine." Muenz writes. Uh huh. I love. This. Book."--Laura Mullen, author of Dark Archive"--Provided by distributor.