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WALKING NATURAL PATHWAYS is eclectic, each section its own ecosystem. Doherty pays special attention to the natural world, celebrating it with diverse and stylistic poems. It was the wettest spring on recordAnd the spring storm alpine rain was melting snow,With the churning muddy watersEven the biggest dam was on the verge.

Adobe Walls is filled with a diverse cast of characters that will thrive in memory long after reader's have turned the final pages. Here are a few examples of what to expect: The preacher who loses faith, and murders his wife before giving a final sermon. Utilizing unconventional methods, a painter creates his masterpiece with the help of a lovely Laotian immigrant. Just South of the border, a Chicano and his Mexican fiancé are pulled over and brutally terrorized by police. A lonely and furry Vietnam vet decides that a body wax may change his luck with women. Scars are revealed, reminding him of things better left in the past. Post-apocalypse, a Muslim and a Christian fundamentalist are thrust together with humorous, yet tragic results. Scythians are mythical creatures that hunt at night, sometimes kidnapping children to teach Scythian ways. A Mexican father returns home after working in the US for many years, and finds his wife with another man. Robert Lincoln Washington has spent twenty-three years in prison, and is accidentally paroled into an empty, uncaring world. Romance, horror, science fiction, magic realism, mystery, fantasy, and comedy abound in this diverse collection of original short stories. Coming of age, losing faith, social dysfunction, infidelity, falling in and out of love, searching for the meaning of life, finding forgiveness…ordinary lives faced with extraordinary circumstances. Adobe Walls, satisfies all the way to the bone.

What if you could look at your favorite play, novel, or poem in a whole new way? In S.R. Stewart's collection Essays:An Analysis of Traditional and Marginal Literature, she gives you just that, and then some. Essays looks at English favorites such as Beowulf, The Dream Songs, and Pride and Prejudice through a microscope tuned in to the marginal groups of those works. Stewart talks women. She talks sexuality. And more importantly, she talks about the subversion of those who are often left out of the conversation until somebody (ahem, Ivory Tower) deems them important. Of the women in Beowulf, she writes, "Wealhtheow, Grendel's Mother, and Hildeburh...these women entertain, bring peace, and contradict societal expectations of the female gender, either directly or indirectly. Women fall into these roles because the male-dominated society does not allow for women to venture out into other archetypes. The roles of the hostess and the peacemaker are inherent to the conditioned female nature, while the monster is the unmodified female in her natural state of being." Essays is the perfect companion book for the university classroom, aspiring scholars, home educators, and writers alike. Stewart worked in conjunction with Unsolicited Press and her company If You Give a Girl a Book to build the collection out of her desire to help others -- all proceeds from the book will be donated to Smart Oregon, a literacy group in Oregon dedicated to building confidence in children's reading skills.

When Lavinia Starkhurst's husband is killed in a freak accident, she takes to the open road and meets a number of strangers, all with struggles of their own. Through these unexpected and occasionally hilarious encounters, Lavinia reflects on her past deeds, both good and bad, explores her two marriages, her roles as caregiver and wife, hoping all the while for self-acceptance and something to give her new life meaning.

When a painter struggles to sell his work, with his career waning, he chooses to paint nudes. Jim Read's THE MOLLYBUSH NUDE grasps at ideas we all ask ourselves: how did life get this way?Bill Burnon, a sixty-three-year-old landscape painter, and Marion Barkley, a fifty-nine-year-old diner owner are separated by six hundred kilometres of highway. Nevertheless, they are as close as the wind on a spider's web. Bill and Marion have loved each other passionately since they were seventeen and thirteen, but only in a limited measure: always a summer, a modest stretch of some months, shorter or longer depending on their unfailing ability to irritate the heck out of each other.When Bill's gallery manager suggests painting nudes to give his career a much-needed boost, he goes with it. He plans to paint a series of nudes. Deeply, Bill wants to paint Marion, but when he approaches her about the notion, she rebuffs him -- her rejection forces him to find another model.Turmoil and jealousy haunt their love when Bill selects Libby for his paintings. She's younger. She's mysterious. She's troubled. A friendship develops between Bill and Libby as Bill wrestles with his new artistic endeavour. What happens next, nobody in Mollybush could've expected.