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A coloring book featuring the history of Lockport, New York

These sisters practice dark arts. They know the truths inside myths, that magic isn't some pixie-dust for playtime. They live in our time but comprehend ancient secrets. These sisters walk where and when they please, drawing from the grit and rawness of nature. They know the gods and beasts by name and address them commandingly.

Noah Burton is a rare contemporary male American writer who possesses a sense of humor, a flair for the absurd, and a marvelous poignancy without being a whiney dick. Get this book if you want to be entertained and enlightened by a smooth professional."When the poetry gloom lies heavy upon my head, I have only to remember that these poems are in the world, & for a moment then my life is made whole. Originality of imagination is the rarest of gifts, but Noah Burton makes it looks effortless-his poems remind us of how vulnerable & funny & wondrous & sad & beautifully strange our lives really are. There is a gigantic composure breathing within even the most antic of his lines. His inventions restore me, down to the deepest parts of my heart. I know of no poet under the age of thirty who comes close to what he can do. Silver shadow!"--David RivardCover art by Patrick Yagow

Two brand new chapbooks by Dani Tauber in one portable volume! Take a gander at marbling and you'll surely get enough feels to flip this sucker over and start ex-ossibus right away. Or save it for later, whatever. You're gonna wanna read both sides over and over anyway.

Chock-full of anecdotes told with passion and humor, Cyrus A. Ansary's Odyssey of High Hopes is an exquisitely written memoir about a boy's harrowing, captivating, and sometimes funny rollercoaster hike across the slopes of the American Dream.From the dark and crime-infested tenements of South Tehran to the pinnacle of global finance is the inspiring story of a skinny teenager's hell-for-leather determination to rise above poverty and obscurity to secure a coveted American education.A former Marine and Columbia Law School graduate, Cyrus A. Ansary tells a searing and absorbing narrative about an immigrant's life in America. Shining a light on the challenges of the young, the memoir is a heartwarming and thought-provoking perspective on their hardships.

"Franklin K. R. Cline is a unique, new voice in Native American poetry. His personal and confessional poems celebrate everyday life in all its raw, domestic, and intimate dimensions. Love and sex, beer and buffalo wings, sports and television, the weather and Milwaukee, all appear within memorable lyric and prose poems. In the end, this work reaches to reclaim everything that has been stolen by America: the land, the sky, the rhythms of our humanity." --Craig Santos Perez

Do your kids have trouble winding down and going to bed on time? Buttercup does too! Buttercup loves to play. When night falls and it's time for bed, Buttercup tries to wiggle out of sleep. Will Buttercup ever calm down enough to fall asleep? In this charming read-aloud, both children and parents will cheer Buttercup on, no matter which way she finally lands. Easy-flow rhymes and adorable illustrations make this a treasured bedtime story for today's children and the generations to come.

Love and philosophy wrapped in fast-food paper and pulled through bong rips. With both humor and anguish, Jane-Rebecca uses the canvas of everyday life to deliver images that transport the reader to unparalleled dimensions of benevolence, divination, and trust.

A kaleidoscope learns to speak, informing humanity of its errs in a voice tingling with sarcasm, precision, and gaiety.Al Russell''s second collection of verse continues finding absurdity in the everyday, taking a more personal dive into the ways our physical and mental inventions skew our perception of existence.

"If I can give myself anything, let it be a way into anger," a reasonable creed for navigating a life continually demanding passivity toward the violence and loss it inflicts. Allison writes the plights of mothers, daughters, lovers and spouses in a voice that endures scars and calluses but refuses to accept them as necessary. "Some unbecomes happen slowly." This book provides precise detail of ascendance above survival.

Nobody wants to grind for the man, but most of us have to. Gina Tron has clocked into a lot of nonsense which has luckily led to these undeniably relatable poems recalling the details of making other people money in order to survive. Employment is a book about how we actually spend our lives, wrapped in humor and working-class wisdom.

A Love Story inspects the bleakest corners of the heart, unwinding our concept of identity and being through a strange, unknown universe that we often grapple to understand and make sense of. These poems are a symphony within an unopened box. Do we choose to open it and find what''s inside? Are we brave enough to go deeper to find what we ourselves contain?

Janelle''s third collection of poesy plants itself firmly in the heart of philosophical matters, growing hypotheses and extracting their nectars for evidence of the spiritual as physical. Cordero''s faith in life itself as supernatural provides us a chance to relish meaning from mystery.