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My Body To You

In the thirteen stories of My Body to You, thirteen women or girls pilot their own bodies through...

Always Put in a Recipe and Other Tips for Living from Iowa’s Best-Known Homemaker

In 1949, Iowa farm wife Evelyn Birkby began to write a weekly column entitledUp a Country Lane ...

China Lake

Barret Baumgart's literary debut presents a haunting and deeply personal portrait of civilization...

Potter’s Workbook

In A Potter's Workbook, renowned studio potter and teacher Clary Illian presents a textbook for t...

Wrestling Life

What does it take to be an Olympic gold medalist and to coach a collegiate team to fifteen NCAA t...

Nola

The evidence at hand: an autobiography complete with their mother s edits written by his brillian...

Farm at Holstein Dip

Carroll Engelhardt's parents grew up in homes without electricity on farms without tractors and b...

Outside Is the Ocean

Three days after her twentieth birthday, a young woman who grew up in Germany during World War II...

Dreaming Out Loud

Dreaming Out Loud brings together essays by many of the most well-known and respected African Ame...