Seventeen-year-old Sam, the daughter of a New England heiress, has tried hard to fulfill her father's dying wish: "Take care of your mother for me." Not an easy job. When her impulsive, romance-writing mom announces her engagement to a man whose last heiress wife died under suspicious circumstances, Sam tries to dissuade her. But her […]
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Dancing on the Page, a memoir in verse, is an homage to the soundtrack of the process of a poet becoming herself.
Commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the nationally recognized Spalding low-residency MFA in Writing program, this anthology collects essays from the MFA faculty blog from 2014 to 2021. These works offer a trove of insights and accumulated wisdom from fifty faculty members, directors, staff, and alumni-each dedicated to the Spalding ethos of creativity and compassion.
His debut novel, Controlled Conversations, challenges readers with the question of what separates people who transcend their fear and take risks for the sake of change from the rest of us.
In this poignant and moving memoir, Stan "JR" Zerkowski bravely recounts his personal struggle to face and embrace his identity as a gay man and to reconcile it with his deeply rooted Polish Catholicism.
Growing up in Western Kentucky, "Ronnie" Adams was one of the state's top-ranked high school basketball players from 1972-75, dreaming of playing in the NBA, until a coal mining accident left him a quadriplegic at the age of 19. With basketball no longer an option, he enrolled at Murray State University, where he earned a […]
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin delivers a gripping romance about two teens, a gut punch of a novel about mental health, loss, and discovering you are worthy of love.
Cancer in Appalachia: A Collection of Youth-Told Stories is an anthology of powerful short stories and a few poems written by high school and undergraduate students who have leveraged their own lived experiences in Appalachian Kentucky and knowledge of cancer to convey fictional, yet highly realistic stories about the pain and disruptions that cancer causes […]
Buried Talents exposes the subtle forms of socialization that often go unnoticed but serve to pull women away from leadership - both within the church and in other male-dominated occupations. The first three chapters explore the areas in which socialization occurs: toy selection, chore assignments, media messages, teachers' expectations for student success, and identity development.
When Frank X Walker's compelling collection of personal poems was first released in 2004, it told the story of the infamous Lewis and Clark expedition from the point of view of York, who was enslaved to Clark and became the first African American man to traverse the continent. The fictionalized poems in Buffalo Dance form […]
Bringing Ben Home tells the story of Ben Spencer, a Black man wrongly convicted and sentenced to life before being freed after 34 years, a case which reveals how easy it is to convict an innocent person and how impossible it is to undo the mistake.