Marcella has stumbled into puberty. She’s grown too old to play with toys but is still too young for boys. Songs, Christianity, and curiosity at her changing body fill her time. She practices the piano, talks to her God and, alone in her bedroom, she explores. “At first she didn’t allow it very often, only once every two or three nights, but gradually she let herself...oh, every night, after she’d said her prayers.” Then she finds out there’s a name for what she does, that it’s a bad thing to do, and that God prohibits it, even though it feels so delightful... Marcella is the candid and unrestrained story of a school girl and her emotions, of the war of an innocent morality with a grown-up sexuality, plus all the bewilderment of dread, inexperience, and shame she experiences as she battles her way into womanhood.

Marcella

Literature & Fiction

Coffey, Marilyn

Literary

Omega Cottonwood Press

Marilyn Coffey in her libidinous book PRICKSONGS recreates her youthful freedom from sexual taboos. Her steamy poems are as crazy, diverse, risque, and turbulent as The Sixties when she wrote them.he was slight ofbuild and/ liked/ tohave his ear bittenMake Love, Not War advised the slogan, and she did.‘memberwhen you strummed melike a bass violin the bath tub?Some funny, some passionate, some provocative,Coffey’s poems will sweep you back to a decadewhen gaudily painted Flower Power buses roamed the streets when mini skirts, bell-bottoms, and love beads adorned bodies when The Pill and sexual liberation were new.Named after her Pushcart Prize winning poem, Pricksongs is Coffey’s second poetry book. She has also published a biography, Mail-Order Kid; an essay collection, Great Plains Patchwork; and Marcella, the first novel written in English that used masturbation as part of its main theme. Coffey’s work has been read in Canada, England, Australia, Denmark, Japan and India.

Pricksongs

Poetry

On they came, from Belgium and New Hampshire, from Ireland, Germany and Scandinavia, from the Chicago fire, from the territories: Utah, Wyoming, Kansas, the Dakotas. All the way they brawled, about Indians, about border lines, about slavery, about who was the bigger imbecile. And then they fought County Seat Wars in most of the 3,000 new counties. A thousand of those remaining ended up in south central Nebraska, scrapping about Harlan County and which still-imagined town should hold the seat of government.

Thieves, Rascals, and Sore Losers: The Unsettling History of the Dirty Deals that Helped Settle Nebraska

History

Coffey, Marilyn June

Americas

Jack Loscutoff’s forte, as a writer, is the short story. Here, in A Line of Shorts, is a collection of some of his finest. Jack especially loved comical fiction. He enjoyed creating unlikely characters, like Sheriff Bob who’s nuts about writers. Or Sven, a typical Norwegian bachelor farmer who falls in love with an over-sexed parrot. Or Peggy, a wife who may (or may not) have returned from the dead. Or Robespierre, a rebellious runt pig who talks, or a Seven-Foot Woman. Jack also had a penchant for satire, including satirizing religion. His religious satires are somewhat realistic, like the mortician who lacks bodies, or science fiction, and other times just plain old sarcastic. All of Jack’s stories, whether “Breezy Stories” or “Holy Satires,” depend, not just on exaggerated characters and plots, but also on language. Jack was an amazing wordsmith. He had studied words, first Russian, then English, from boyhood, and he had close-to-perfect recall of every word he had encountered. He used them, with good humor, in A Line of Shorts.

A Line of Shorts: Breezy Stories & Holy Satires

Loscutoff, Jack

Humor & Satire

Award-winning Great Plains writer Marilyn Coffey recounts her family's intricate dance with the Teamsters, beginning with her dad's tiny trucking company spawned on a front porch in 1929, in a David-and-Goliath encounter that spanned decades.In 1956, Tom Coffey knuckled under Jimmy Hoffa's six-month-long Teamsters strike. He sold his twenty-seven-year-old truckline, Coffey's Transfer Company, rather than sign Hoffa's contract. But the story didn't end there-and Hoffa didn't win after all. In 1958, the Coffey family gathered in Washington, DC, to see Tom testify against Jimmy Hoffa before then-Senator John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, the Rackets Committee's counsel who had sworn to put Hoffa behind bars. Get the exclusive insider's perspective with Marilyn's firsthand narrative of this feud in That Punk Jimmy Hoffa

That Punk Jimmy Hoffa: Coffey’s Transfer at War with the Teamsters

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

This is a story of a family in the early 1900s—a time when the anxiety of World War I was running high, the suffrage movement was in full swing across the country, and many families struggled to cope with a bleak and troubling outlook.\nIn her trademark storytelling style, author Marilyn June Coffey beautifully paints the portrait of a family, who despite the woes of the world outside, fills their home with love and warmth, along with the excitement of new opportunites for their future. 
The family watched with fear as an accident changed everything in one stroke, and colored their world with a different brush.

Zack's Left Hand: A Story of Loss and Recovery

Historical

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