The story is a powerful story of one woman's work with Jane, Chicago's pre-Roe underground abortion service. It explores the nuance of how we remember and the mysteries of memory itself as the narrator recalls the time the service was busted by the Chicago Police.

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Arcana, Judith

Literature & Fiction

Minerva Rising Press

The poems in Love &amp; the Loaded Gun are about characters from history, pop culture, mythology, and the literary canon who are exploding for one reason or another either because love is so impossible, because they are driven by rage to commit acts of revenge, or because they feel the burden of being a woman whose role it is to bear the world. They are also connected by apron strings, by bird feathers, by prayer, by love and its antidote, the loaded gun we point at our own weaknesses as well as our social preconceptions about feminism and womanhood. This collection, guised as myriad voices through time, serves as megaphone for the ages. Armed with love / &amp; a loaded gun, the poet takes aim with the weapon of her words, and shoots a hole straight through the ceiling of glass.

Love & a Loaded Gun

Emily Rose Cole

Poetry

The memoir Mother-Daughter Banquet explores the concept of motherhood. After losing her mother at the age of nine, Alice Bloch becomes a surrogate mother to her four younger siblings. In turn, a formidable triumvirate of grandmother, stepmother, and aunt step into the maternal role to fill the void in Bloch's development as a woman and as a writer. Diving deep into her specific memories of growing up as a Jewish lesbian in mid-twentieth-century Ohio, Bloch reaches for universal truths about the mother-daughter bond. Mother-Daughter Banquet untangles the knot of memory and finds the thread of love and reconciliation.

Mother-Daughter Banquet: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Alice Bloch

Memoirs

After almost four decades of high-powered, top-level jobs, Sarah Dufendach found herself chafing at the external restraints of her career. A solicitation from The Gentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue, arriving almost by fate, led her to satisfy her long-forgotten love of horses. The Rescue, home to a hundred or more draft horses rescued from abuse, cruelty, and dangerous situations, is located in Howard County, Maryland. These stories are her personal experiences working alongside the Rescue staff and other volunteers to bring these abused horses back to good health and soundness

To the Rescue: Tales from the Gentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Dufendach, Sarah J

Pets & Animal Care

THESE AMERICANS, a debut collection of short fiction, explores what it means to live between Indian culture and American expectations. An Indian-born immigrant mother gives birth to her daughter in a small Ohio town. A college student avoids the academic expectations of her immigrant parents. A naïve immigrant mother is in denial about her lawyer daughter's lesbianism. This gripping collection of eight short stories and a novella will stay with you long after you turn the last page.

These Americans

Sreenivasan, Jyotsna

Wide Open Writing is designed as an experience of what can happen when you take the time and space for your essential writer to emerge. It is in the fashion of an in-person retreat based on the first WOW getaway. Every chapter contains at least one writing prompt.

Wide Open Writing: Embrace Your Creative Genius

Self-Help

Coleman, Nancy

Creativity

In her fearless debut, Jennifer Rieger captures the way in which the ashes of the past speak to the journeys of the present-- how even in barren dust, roots linger and discovery is born. Rieger's essays weave together small-town, childhood summers, the revelations of young parenting, and two decades of classroom connections, all of which lead to the Pacific Northwest, New England, Oxford University, Italy, and ultimately, back to the blank page of a writer who finds purpose.

Burning Sage: Collected Writings on Unconventional Motherhood, Unconventional Teacherhood, and Unconditional Love

Rieger, Jennifer L

Fist comes to us in the voice of artist Georgia O'Keeffe. In this chapbook, O'Keeffe offers readers details of her life-as an artist, as a wife to a man who both helped and harmed her, and as an older woman who found her spiritual home. Each poem is ekphrastic, written in response to pieces of her art; epistolic, in homage to the many letters she wrote during her lifetime; and persona, based on factual events and experiences. Fist is part of a trilogy of chapbooks written in the voices of three powerful and influential women: Mary, mother of Jesus, artist Georgia O'Keeffe, and chef and food activist Alice Waters.

Fist

Wall, Emily

When Janice Airhart was an infant, her mother was committed to a Louisiana mental hospital, and she spent most of the next 13 years institutionalized until her death in 1966. That no one in the family would speak about her schizophrenic mother convinced Airhart it was shameful to ask questions and that fears of inheriting her mother's illness were justified. MOTHER OF MY INVENTION explores the unique challenges faced by motherless daughters and suggests that mothers can sometimes be found in unexpected places if we're open to finding them.

Mother of My Invention: A Motherless Daughter Memoir:

Janice Airhart

The persona poems in FIG come to us in the voice of chef and food activist Alice Waters. In these poems, Waters offers us advice and encouragement: how to eat, how to take care of our bodies, and how to feed our communities. Waters, whose early life was shaped by the social justice protests in Berkeley, is responsible for changing the way we eat in America. She started a restaurant that introduced farm-to-table eating to Americans. She brought us wood-fired pizzas and is at the center of the Slow Food Movement in the U.S. Along with Michelle Obama, she has launched the reform movement for school lunches. And yet, even today, she walks in her restaurant tasting, moving a fork, lighting a lamp, and striving to create the perfect meal for those who come to Chez Panisse. To reflect her deep care and precision as a chef, each of the poems in this book is written in a poetic form.

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