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  • The long house

    Creator:
    Harris, Gregory A.
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    The Long House explores belonging and commitment. Jennifer Hawley, an American graduate student in linguistic anthropology, arrives in the early 1990s in Long Awan, a Dayak village in the remote highlands of Borneo. Her research concerns oral history among Punan families, traditionally nomadic, which have recently decided to settle in...
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    just happy to be warm." "Bu Lejeng's cooking fish." "Did you use the poison?" "No, I know you want

  • Modern apostles

    Creator:
    Casas, Ruben
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    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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    consumes; there is no need to create make more absurdity, and finally (3) are transparent about their

  • Shuddering blood

    Creator:
    Kroll, Adam L.
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    This collection of six individual writings, both fiction and creative non-fiction, is an exploration in narrative first-person voices and multiple themes, such as the loss of innocence, modernization versus traditions/myths, the California Central Valley, death, creativity, language, change, and the pressures of the future. Though abstractly linked at times, these...
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    . Though no questions are necessarily answered in this collection, light is at least shed on these themes

  • The matter between them

    Creator:
    Shumway, Charity D.
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    A collection of short stories about the Gardner family, spanning several generations, but focusing on the children of Len and Laura Gardner, Brooke, the second oldest, in particular. Set primarily in Utah, the collection tells the story of family members' struggles with one another, with their religious faith, and with...
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    down in Utah on a budget. She prevailed one year, so there were lights and no tinsel. The next year

  • Hamilton Falls

    Creator:
    Peters, Patrick J.
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    Hamilton Falls is a screenplay about a young attorney who returns home from WWII, is appointed District Attorney, and begins investigating an old murder. In the course of the investigation, he discovers that his mentor, the former district attorney, may have been the murderer. The story follows the film noir...
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    was no report of any trial. The date on the file is February of 1943 and Jack is listed as the

  • Visible man

    Creator:
    Boisvert, Jon
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    This collection of poems discusses the human body, the desires to have control over that body, and the memories contained within. In some poems, the body is overt; in others, the probing spills from man into the animal world, and even poems that depict landscape often do so in bodily...
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    escape anything like abra-cadabra, I'm gone! 8 Creek 1990 I am allowed to walk alone only as far as

  • Ms. Miles is missing

    Creator:
    Wisniewski, Stephanie E.
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    Ms. Miles is Missing—the beginning of a novel—is the story of a woman who, in her early thirties comes to realize that the life she is living is not the life she wants. She yearns for her lost childhood, and tries to come to terms with her mother’s death. Martha...
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    Acres, between two strip malls. A car beeped loud, long, and angry at her. She had no choice but

  • Night dreamer walks

    Creator:
    Groves, John M. (John Martin)
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    In Night Dreamer Walks, the first eight chapters of a novel of the same name, John M. Groves imagines the predicament of a young Native American man living 8,000 years ago in Oregon's Klamath Basin. Beginning as a story to avenge his father's death during an unusual outbreak of tribal...
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    him upslope to where he could no longer smell marsh water and dead tule reeds and woodsmoke. At the

  • Riding lessons

    Creator:
    Brisker, Kathy Jo
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    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...
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    no memory of how I got here. I try to sit up and get out of the bed, but Tim reaches over and puts

  • Home afterwhile

    Creator:
    O'Sullivan, Erin
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    Home Afterwhile, a collection of eight short stories and an essay, explores issues of family and maturation from the landscapes of the Midwest. Generations are connected through a sense of place—from small cornfield towns to Chicago and its suburbs—as well as through what gets retold and what goes unspoken. Characters...
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    .” Another female voice, farther away. “No, now.” “I don’t know what to sing.” “Well, sing something