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Living off the grid in small-town middle America, capturing scenes of survival and reckoning, and examining family and personal histories are recurring themes in Jan Chronister's full-length poetry collection "CAUGHT BETWEEN COASTS." The "coasts" map birth and death, brother and sister, child and parent, along the shores of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior where Chronister has lived. Poems address being a daughter, mother, and woman while inviting readers to consider honestly how these roles shape our lives. Called a "memorable collection" by Peggy Trojan, author of "Essence, Homefront: Childhood Memories of WWII" and "Free Range Kids," and endorsed as "a poetic kaleidoscope," this volume of short poems, spoken in pure language, is a multicolored story of the poet's life... Warm, honest, often humorous, solid.

Deborah Cooper's poetry delivers healing compassion, bringing readers into a landscape of solace and renewal.Dark clouds this morningcasting shadows on the wavesand still the birds sing,one of sorrow, two of grace.Granted a residency at the Cill Rialaig Artists Retreat in County Kerry, Ireland, Deborah looked out from the loft of a stone cottage through a blue-framed window as she crafted a number of the poems collected in this volume.Yet even as she sometimes describes the world through a lens of grief (Deborah began writing when she was a hospice chaplain), this collection includes many new works on the theme of light returning after a night of solitary wakefulness."Marked by breath and memory, by the holiness of ordinary things, each page opens windows to a world of empathetic light."(Kimberly Blaeser, Wisconsin Poet Laureate 2015-16)Blue Window is Cooper's sixth volume of poetry, following Under the Influence of Lilacs (Clover Valley Press, 2010). Her poems appeared in two collections by her writing group of twenty years, including Bound Together: Like the Grasses (Clover Valley Press, 2013), winner of the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award for Poetry. Deborah co-edited three anthologies of poetry, most recently Amethyst and Agate (Holy Cow Press, 2015). She was the 2012-14 Poet Laureate of Duluth, Minnesota.Blue Window is a rich collection of poetry for anyone seeking consolation and expression of the arresting loveliness of "this right light."

"By Heart" shares one family's surprising passage from public school to home-based learning--a journey that takes readers from Bethel, Alaska, to a Wisconsin farm, all the while exploring an educational choice that continues to grow at a phenomenal rate. Parenting, place, education, and culture mingle in this literary narrative. The author addresses issues such as the home school decision, schedules and curricula, socialization, and the economics of co-parenting. Each chapter reads like a fictional account in the life of a home school family. Entertaining, inspiring, and empowering, this title is a delightful and provocative book for parents, educators, policy makers, and readers of memoir.

Who would think that the life of a probation officer supervisor could be so exciting? "Killer Storm" features the adventures of Jo Spence, a forty-year-old, coffee-addicted, dog-loving lesbian whose desk job suddenly places her in the middle of a murder investigation and the escalating violence of a new gang in Duluth, Minnesota. Set near the shores of Lake Superior close to the wilderness of the north woods, this story combines a description of the idyllic life led by the women of the Valley with an action-oriented plot involving murder, raids and drug busts, a hostage situation, and the invasion of Jo's home. During this turbulent time in Jo's life, her friends set her up with Zoey, a new faculty member at the local university. Their first date turns into a three-day stay at Zoey's house during a record-setting snowstorm. Jo tries to resist the strong attraction she feels for Zoey, but she is drawn into the most intense affair of her life.