St. Andsbald Mental Institution is the new home for thirteen-year-old Skyler Canter Reems. She can't quite come to terms with why she's ended up in this place, strangely nicknamed "The Fat." Dumped on, cut, and too old for her own good, Skyler manages to find her place in The Fat alongside the oddest assortment of young women she's ever met. Before she can leave, their friendships brace her for a final, heart-wrenching wave of misfortune.

In The Fat

Teen & Young Adult

Lehman, Sally K

Literature & Fiction

Black Bomb Books

"Diana Kirk is an author who exudes personality. She shares her raw unfiltered story with bite, yet add layers of compassion and vulnerability of life in the Pacific Northwest and around the world. Licking Flames is like taking a swig of good unpasteurized apple cider vinegar." ~ Portland Book Review "Licking Flames is like watching Courtney Love sing ‘My Way.’ At turns funny and biting, Kirk offers a sharp exploration into what it means to be a bold woman in a world built by and for men." ~ Ariel Gore author of End of Eve "Diana Kirk doesn’t give a shit what anyone thinks about her, and that’s why her writing is so appealing." ~ The Psychology of It "Kirk’s essays are delicious and satisfying, like slipping away from a stuffy party to drink wine and eat pancakes, or spilling your biggest secret to the one friend who will truly appreciate it. Bold, funny, and unapologetically real." ~ Megan Kruse author of Call Me Home

Licking Flames: Tales of a Half-Assed Hussy

Biographies & Memoirs

Kirk, Diana

Arts & Literature

Caregiving and death are emotion-laden topics often avoided in modern conversation. It’s much easier to stay busy, push down our feelings and get on with conducting our daily lives. As a result, our grief may stay stuck in its infancy, keeping us from the resilience that marks its growth and the healthy renewal that comes when we can finally be done with grieving. What started as a blog about caregiving became this collection of essays in which Frances Figart explores the universal emotions that surround losing a loved one. The book begins by traveling through the psychological landscape that marks each season in the initial year of grief. It then goes on to chronicle the author’s four-year journey of allowing grief to mature, carrying her beyond sadness into healing and self-actualization.

Seasons of Letting Go: Most of what I know about truly living I learned by helping someone die

Figart, Frances Ruthe

Memoirs

Chance. Trickery. Magic. Mystery. Steve Wechselblatt’s Diamonds and Moths invites us into an astonishing world. A world not meant to be understood but experienced. A dentist alleviates the periodontic problems of the undead. A nun finds herself on a Japanese sex tour. A young couple in Siberia must make an agonizing choice when a geographically challenged stork delivers the wrong baby. A devious peasant proves he is never wrong. An aspen tree suffers heartache when its affair de coeur with a young boy goes terribly wrong. In his first short story collection, Diamonds and Moths, Wechselblatt explores the lyrical boundaries of flash fiction. Diamonds and Moths is inspired by the intellectual meta-fiction Jorge Luis Borges and the lyrical immediacy of Japanese haiku. Its fictional universe relies little on traditional storytelling. Diamonds and Moths engages the mind and stirs the imagination with a unique blend of irony and magic in a realm where only the impossible is real.

Diamonds and Moths

Wechselblatt, Steve

Short Stories & Anthologies

Who will sacrifice? And who will win? The Last Duel chronicles the final days of Athos as a Musketeer. He must find a condemned man, free him from the Bastille, and rescue the love of his life. He scours Paris on his mission while hunted by those seeking revenge. His path takes a final savage turn when he must enter an underground dueling competition, placing him face-to-face with fate. Only one man can leave the match alive.

The Last Duel (The Musketeer Series)

Fulford, Jennifer M.

Genre Fiction

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