Set in Appalachian Ohio amid an epidemic of prescription opiate abuse, Michael Henson’s stunning collection of linked stories tells of a woman’s search for her own peculiar kind of redemption. Addict, thief, liar, lover, loser, hustler, Maggie Boylan is queen of invective and sultana of insult. But she is also a woman of deep compassion and resilience. Her journey is by turns frightening, funny, and deeply moving.

The Way the World Is: The Maggie Boylan Stories

Henson, Michael

Literature & Fiction

Brighthorse Books

Harper, the hero of Elizabeth Oness’s new novel, LEAVING MILAN, hopes for a life far from the small Ohio town where she has grown up, a place where distances are measured not by blocks or even miles, but by chain restaurants—“past Chi Chi’s, Outback Steak House, Taco Bell,” a place where the air smells of fast food and car exhaust. Her hopes haven’t died; they were never born. “She was preparing for something without knowing what it was. Each day, she hoped for an adventure, and each day, it didn’t happen. Like the horizon, it was always there, before her.” And yet somehow Harper does forge a new life for herself. Elizabeth Oness writes with subtle power and compassion about courage, strength, and the unshakeable bonds of love.

Leaving Milan

Oness, Elizabeth

Genre Fiction

“These are lovely poems. I have come to think of ‘widowness’ as transpersonal almost—it will strike those who are reckless enough to become wives and can recall so intensely the feeling of being in the hospital-vigil with an ending not yet known.”—Joyce Carol Oates, author of A Widow‘s Story “I love this book! It’s very moving and complex both. A fearless journey into the mystery of grief and love and loss. Her powers of observation are so accurate and careful . . . and tough.”—Jonis Agee, author of The Bones of Paradise “So many poems today say so much but I experience so little—I understand all right, but I don’t get pushed into second gear, don’t get moved into the feeling that is meant to be offered up, no rough leap into the world off the page. This leap happens in a poem like ‘On Green.’”—Alberto Ríos, author of A Small Story about the Sky “She knows how to take risks, how to deliver sharp pathos. . . . This eloquent book is her obligation to her beloved. She remembers. ‘Listen,’ she writes, ‘I am never lonely when I can imagine you.’ Perhaps this brave book saves her life.”—Michael Dennis Browne, author of The Voices “This honest and unflinching collection does not leave the reader without hope: ‘Right at the worst time of your life someone/helps you in some way,’ she writes. ‘You must take the least shred of it in,’ and she does.”—Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota Poet Laureate, author of Modern Love and Other Myths

The Widow's House: Poems

Chmielarz, Sharon

Poetry

Daryl Farmer writes about parts of the country where dreams go to be born or to die, places where the most unforgiving landscape is the human heart. Set in the western United States and in the far reaches of Alaska, the stories of WHERE WE LAND give us characters trying hard to negotiate external and internal boundaries. They find themselves far beyond the edge of where and what they've been, and they're working hard either to find their way home or to break new ground inside themselves.--from the publisher "In the tradition of Jack London, Richard Ford and Annie Proulx, Daryl Farmer writes sublime western landscapes, rural and wild, that illuminate, threaten and redeem (sometimes all in the same lyric moment) the characters who inhabit them. Farmer's people are beset with hard luck and big dreams involving grizzly bears and frozen places; their hearts are shuttered, but not silenced, and they look to wild things to tell them how to grow up, grow old, move on. Above all else, these twelve compelling and complex stories remind us that we come from the wilderness, and suggest it might behoove us to return."--Pam Houston, author of CONTENTS MAY HAVE SHIFTED "Daryl Farmer writes with brutal elegance and loving wonder about the misfits of Alaska, the stony, tree-studded, snowbound, diesel- and whiskey-soaked stage for the excellent stories in WHERE WE LAND."--Ben Percy, author of THE DEAD LANDS, RED MOON, and THE WILDING "The world often brutal and cold, Daryl Farmer's stories act as a beautiful and potent study in survival. With elegant prose and indelible characters, these stories prove again and again, with a deep cry for warmth, that we are not alone as we struggle through the wilderness that is life. I found WHERE WE LAND wholly entertaining, masterfully crafted, moving and profound, and I admire this collection as much as any I've read in many years."--Alan Heathcock, author of VOLT DARYL FARMER is the author of BICYCLING BEYOND THE DIVIDE, which received a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and was a Colorado Book Award finalist. Farmer's work has appeared in several journals including Whitefish Review, Grist, Hayden's Ferry Review, South Dakota Review, and Quarter After Eight. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and has taught at Georgia Tech and Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas. Currently, he is an assistant professor and director of the MFA program at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.

Where We Land: Stories

Farmer, Daryl

Literary

A collection of short stories by Dana Fitz Gale, winner of the Brighthorse Prize for Short Fiction in 2015. The collection includes the stories "Schooling," "Leah, Lamb," "Jester," "Monsters of the Deep," "Fun with Color," "Fourteen Tips for Selling Real Estate," "Angel of Barn Four," "Vaquero," "Covenants," and "Canoe."

Spells for Victory and Courage: Stories

Fitz Gale, Dana

Short Stories & Anthologies

Love is a Stone Endlessly in Flight is a collection of contemporary poetry by award-winning poet Dante Di Stefano, whose work has appeared in Brilliant Corners, Iron Horse Literary Review, The Los Angeles Review, New Orleans Review, Obsidian, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, The Writer's Chronicle, and elsewhere.

Love Is a Stone Endlessly in Flight: Poems

Di Stefano, Dante

Mortal is a collection of poetry by Thomas Dillon Redshaw, work produced between 2007 and 2016. Elegant and lyrical and ranging in setting from Minnesota to Ireland, many of the poems in Mortal confront the issues of age and the end of life. But they also open our eyes to the overlooked wonders of the natural world. Mortal is a milestone collection by a poet at the top of his form, writing poems of deep sensibility, whimsy, and wonder.

Mortal: Poems 2007-2016

Redshaw, Thomas Dillon

A collection of poetry by Carla Maria Stout that is both mysterious and touching, Remote Fishing and Sassafras Tea celebrates and explores human connections, love, and the mysteries and wonders of nature.

Remote Fishing and Sassafras Tea: Poems

Stout, Carla Maria

Staring down heartbreak and regret, Stewart Simmons, flees a haunted Philadelphia for the beauty of the West. In a raw, yet lyrical, voice that gives life to the urgency and appetites of youth, West of Love takes place in a time before the internet, before cell phones, before technology changed the ways we live and love. And as an older Stewart looks candidly back at his younger self, a picture of the human heart emerges--one that offers a testament to how we heal, how we go on

West of Love: A Story Cycle

DAVIS, Francis

Contemporary

A collection of short fiction by the award-winning writer Alina Stefanescu in which the author brings an immigrant's sharp eye to the American way of life. In prose that reminds us of the best of Grace Paley, Every Mask I Tried On is by turns smart, funny, and profound.

Every Mask I Tried On: Stories

Stefanescu, Alina

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