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Creator:: Brisker, Kathy Jo
Abstract:: In this collection of nonfiction essays, Brisker recounts her path of recovery after suffering traumatic brain injury. The memoir opens with her first waking moments in the hospital one week after she was thrown from her horse and fractured her skull, and her beginning attempts at piecing together her fragmented...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: recovery after suffering traumatic brain injury. The memoir opens with her first waking moments in the

Creator:: Elbom, Emily Rebecca
Abstract:: In Everybody Doing Pretty Here, a collection of eight interconnected short stories, Emily R. Elbom chronicles the lives of a married couple, Max and Willa. Both characters survive various forms of physical, emotional, and social abuse, and seem to stay married because of this connection. In spite of their codependency,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: My Love Willa met Dot on the first day they’d both started at The Academy of the Immaculate

Creator:: Hogg, Charlotte
Abstract:: This thesis is a collection of essays about Paxton, a small town in western Nebraska, and an exploration of the contradictions and complexities found there. It is also a reflection on the layers of history and connections that exist not only among families that have lived in these towns for...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: hours when they were open (Saturday morning 9-11, Monday 1-4, Thursday 6-9). The first 19 year

Creator:: deTal, Vicki
Abstract:: In this collection of linked stories, four characters navigate space between selves they’ve been and those to come. Alice must invent an autonomous identity after her husband dies in a bike crash. As she casts about to populate a new life, a geographer, a violinist, and a clarinetist emerge at...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: anyone but family, really, from when Paul was alive. These two were the first, a test: a toe in the old

Creator:: Drew, Christopher M. (Christopher Max)
Abstract:: These stories are an attempt to give a distinct literary voice to the people and places of rural Southern Indiana. They also strive to deal with certain elements indigenous to that region, some of which can be described generally as the tension between modernization and tradition, family and marriage as...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , and then the residue hangs on the wires of my subconscious. The lesser ideas blow away at the first

Creator:: Ni Bhraonain, Lisa
Abstract:: As I began to explore the evocative nature of language, the creation of themes and images, and the rhythm and beauty of words that I feel must accompany meaning, I discovered that I had always seen and heard and felt the world as many of my characters do; in this...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: though I am his best and oldest and most faithful customer. When they first opened there was a grand

Creator:: Wyckoff, Elizabeth
Abstract:: In Can You See Me?, a collection of nine short stories, Elizabeth Wyckoff explores the conflicting desires of young women who long for connection, but struggle to find the balance between concealing and revealing themselves. The female protagonists in these stories simultaneously yearn to be seen, recognized, and acknowledged; and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: First, there was pre-adolescence: our evolutionary flux, slow as melting glaciers, from

Creator:: Ludden, Jason
Abstract:: May We All Wake Up One By One is the beginning of a novel set in the West African country of Guinea. The story follows Sean Wake, a twenty-something American who finds himself working for the Feed the World Program as the country falls apart around him. While his co-workers...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: take our orders. It would be my first good meal in months. Fran would have better food in twenty-four

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