Before I Sleep: A Memoir of Travel and Reconciliation

Before I Sleep begins with a telephone call: Absent for three decades, Thurmond's birth father phones from his death bed, offering his son a chance for reconciliation. During those decades of absence, the son passes through childhood in the rural South to fulfill his dream of studying abroad at Oxford University. Along the way, his travels take him from Dallas to Madrid to Soviet Moscow. The people he meets are larger-than-life, including Allen Ginsberg, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Queen Elizabeth II. Recounting life-shaping events and the insights they yield, Before I Sleep brings Thurmond's physical, intellectual, and spiritual journey vividly to life. Readers will find this an engaging and deeply inspiring memoir.

Parenting & Relationships

Thurmond, Frank H.

Family Relationships

Et Alia Press

Blood and Milk: A Novel in Stories creates a memorable modern character in Becky Hawkins, whose struggles to care for her senile grandfather and brain-injured child are told with tenderness and an awareness of the comic incongruities of life. "Blackmon seems to inhabit the wife and mother at the center of these stories right down to her synapses. It's as if he knows not only her every thought but her every inflection, the exact phrases with which she speaks to herself in the privacy of her consciousness. There's not a sentence here without the mark of truth to it." -Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Illumination: A Novel, and The Brief History of the Dead

Blood and Milk: A Novel in Stories

Blackmon, W. D.

When British Secret Intelligence (MI6) discovers a mole is betraying deadly secrets, it assigns its best agent to investigate. But what happens when the agent hides a secret of his own and the investigator becomes the investigated? Based on the story of British master spy Kim Philby, Ring of Five is a skillful blending of espionage, politics, love and betrayal.

Ring of Five: A Novella and Four Stories

Literature & Fiction

Scars: An Anthology examines the range and nuance of experience related to scars of the body. The collection assembles the writings of activists, academics, parents, patients, performance artists, physicians, poets, siblings, spouses, students, and writers. Through various genres and mediums—personal narratives, interviews, poems, academic essays, images, a review, and a performance script—contributors address self-mutilation, creating art, gender confirmation surgery, cancer, birth, brain injury, war, coming of age, pain, and love, all focusing on the central question of what it means to live with physical scars.
Renowned contributors include photographer and SCAR Project founder David Jay, AWP Award winning author Jill Christman, Piedmont Laureate Scott Huler, physician/faminist activist/author Dr. Sayantani DasGupta, author Maurice Carlos Ruffin, comedian Kelli Dunham, disability scholar and performer Jim Ferris, Hudson Valley artist Lorrie Fredette, and many more. Scars: An Anthology has been part of panels at Columbia University, The Arkansas Literary Festival, The Louisiana Book Festival, and elsewhere.

Scars: An Anthology

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Award-winning journalist, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette columnist and film critic Phillip Martin reflects on decades of professional and personal experience, including a humorous poem about the challenges of hosting a party while living in the Little Rock neighborhood of Hillary Clinton's mother on the same night then-POTUS Bill was visiting.

The President Next Door: Poems, Songs, and Journalism

Martin, Professor Emeritus Philip

Poetry

Dogs don’t care what you look like, what you do for a living, or how old you are. They’re most interested in what’s in your heart. Sadly, all dogs aren’t treated they way they deserve to be. Many suffer abuse, or roam the streets and woods alone. With the hope of encouraging adoption and fostering of rescue dogs, and generosity of time and treasure to local shelters and organizations, Home Sweet Home shares the images and stories of 25 Arkansas rescue dogs. Inspired by her own furry family members, author Grace Vest shares how a simple choice to adopt can rescue canines and humans alike.
Through 25 beautiful images and stories, you'll meet dogs like Frankie, the first dog trained to detect thyroid cancer, found in a shopping center parking lot in Little Rock; Rocky, a shining soul found in a New Orleans attic following Hurricane Katrina; and Teddy, surrendered by three families, who found his match in a woman who depends on him to calm her during panic attacks.

Home Sweet Home: Arkansas Rescue Dogs & Their Stories

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Vest, Grace

Pets & Animal Care

We all have dreams, but what if they are too big? After Lily-Jane helps her grandmother build a butterfly habitat, a close look at a caterpillar's spots sends her stumbling in disbelief. "Me llamo Carlos," says the charming little caterpillar, and an extraordinary friendship is born. But when Carlos becomes trapped in his chrysalis, his dream of wings seems more out of reach than ever before. As readers discover the tremendous power of encouraging words to nurture a friend past paralyzing self-doubt even when it means letting them go to fulfill their destiny, Carlos learns whether friendship and faith are enough to help him soar on the wings of a dream that may be just the right size.***Butterfly Dreams is ideal for classroom readings as students await butterflies emerging from their chrysalises as well as celebrations on the big day when butterflies are released into the sky to migrate south. It is also the perfect gift for coming of age, when a friend moves away, or any time someone needs an extra nudge of encouragement to dream big.

Butterfly Dreams: A Friendship Takes Flight

Children's Books

Dabney, Carol

Animals

Jean jackets can be armor. Bracelets, spiritual totems. Belts can save lives, or take them.
As a verb, "fashion" is exceedingly queer. Our queer community learns to fashion identity from and through the clothes we wear, the costumes we choose, the fabrics we desire--and the statements these make. No other community allows clothing to serve as such a primary, dominant marker of subjectivity, both individually and collectively. We don't simply permit fashioning; we rely upon what we put on our bodies to tip off, to signal, and to serve as evidence of who we are. This is much more than a "fashion book." It is a collection of artifacts that testifies to the power of fashion as a verb as it unfolds the complex and lovely strategies governing what we do in the LGBTQ+ community to build authentic selves that are both comfortable and seen.

Closet Cases: Queers on What We Wear

Biographies & Memoirs

Volpert, Megan

Arts & Literature

Anniversary Edition of the only known memoir by a New Orleans resident living in The Louisiana Superdome after Hurricane Katrina. News coverage surrounding Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath captured America's rapt attention and swelled our hearts. Stories of lawlessness and violence still abound from the flooded City. Who can forget the Louisiana Superdome? Can Everybody Swim? takes you beyond the camera's lens on a journey through the maelstrom. A shortage of cash combined with a fierce loyalty to protect the Gentilly neighborhood family home purchased by his Ecuadorian immigrant grandparents led the then twenty-five-year-old author and his family to remain in their City to weather the storm, including enduring six days in the infamous Superdome. Follow this family of four and a half as they survive the worst natural disaster of the 21st century.

Can Everybody Swim?: A Survival Story from Katrina's Superdome, Hurricane Katrinia 15th Anniversary Edition

Snow, Bruce S.

Historical

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Before I Sleep: A Memoir of Travel and Reconciliation

Blood and Milk: A Novel in Stories

Before I Sleep: A Memoir of Travel and Reconciliation

Ring of Five: A Novella and Four Stories

Scars: An Anthology

The President Next Door: Poems, Songs, and Journalism

Home Sweet Home: Arkansas Rescue Dogs & Their Stories

Butterfly Dreams: A Friendship Takes Flight

Closet Cases: Queers on What We Wear

Can Everybody Swim?: A Survival Story from Katrina's Superdome, Hurricane Katrinia 15th Anniversary Edition