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  • Renovations or "Miracles"

    Creator:
    Bravo, Simon Gabriel
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    Renovations or “Miracles” is a collection of poetry that exposes the miraculous within the mundane by bearing witness to where we come from and where we are going. Ranging in style from the lyric to the narrative, the personal to the political, these poems explore the relationship between individual and...
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    vast in this collection and while themes such as war, suffering, oppression, service and love are

  • Northwest of normal

    Creator:
    Larison, John J.
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    Northwest of Normal is the first part of a novel that takes place along an imaginary Oregon river called the Ipsyniho. The story grows from valley’s fertile loam like a blackberry vine, entangling a group of locals—fly fishing guides and midwives, artists and dope growers—just as a posse of wealthy...
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    the house. Beside it was another driftboat, a new fiberglass boat, “Osprey Guide Service” written

  • Kingston Beach

    Creator:
    Katz, Tanya
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    This thesis contains the first portion of Kingston Beach, a redemptive novel about a horrific event. The book chronicles the aftermath of a tragic plane crash in which Jay and Margot lose two of their three children while vacationing at the beach. Jay is a pediatric heart surgeon already highly...
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    loss he turns his professional attention toward championing Donation after Cardiac Death, a new and

  • Music for strings

    Creator:
    deTal, Vicki
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    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...
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    her husband dies in a bike crash. As she casts about to populate a new life, a geographer, a

  • Penitence

    Creator:
    Jaramillo, John Paul
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    In 7 composite stories--shifting from the roads of Southern Colorado neighborhoods, the fields and unpaved roads of Northern New Mexico, and the streets of Culver City, California--Penitence follows Relles Ortiz and the bleak peripheral existence of the voiceless suburban people living in disorder and disorientation within the harshness of their...
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    neighborhoods, the fields and unpaved roads of Northern New Mexico, and the streets of Culver City

  • May we all wake up one by one

    Creator:
    Ludden, Jason
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    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...
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    THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree

  • Modern apostles

    Creator:
    Casas, Ruben
    Abstract:
    Modern Apostles actively attempts to blur the line between academic scholarship and narrative fiction for the purpose of satirizing the social and the political assumptions of its contemporary moment. By appropriating the loudest voices in dominant American culture, the inter-textual narratives (1) call attention to the voices that go unheard,...
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    Casas A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for

  • Body of water

    Creator:
    Zellers, Michelle
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    Body of Water is a collection of short fiction about women navigating shifting relationships to their bodies; their bodies of memory and knowledge; their family histories; and their natural and cultural environments. Most of the stories depict girls and women beginning to perceive and push against the bounds of gendered...
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    Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of

  • You stay here

    Creator:
    Bluhm, Michael A.
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    You Stay Here is the beginning of a novel that centers on the notion of family, community, and the expectations that drive our interactions within these circles. The novel tells the story of brothers Mills and Nance O'Malley as they interact with their parents, Richard and Margaret. The brothers own...
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    All Rights Reserved You Stay Here by Michael A. Bluhm A THESIS submitted to Oregon State

  • Stillness

    Creator:
    Lont, Steven
    Abstract:
    This collection of stories explores moments of stillness in human relationships: moments during an argument when there is nothing to say, moments of quiet contemplation which precedes inevitable--and often unwelcome--life changes, moments of frustration, confusion, despair, and grace. In the chaotic lives of these characters, stillness is neither tranquil nor...
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    Rights Reserved Stillness Steven Lont A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial