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Train Sounds: A Novel, Nancy E. Polin

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Angelo, Angelo, Angelo, Diego Adrian Rico

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A 25 year-old political consultant falls in love with his boss, a woman 16 years older than him. At the end of the pandemic, he decides to propose to her while he ignores calls from his brother to come back home. Having ignored his brother's call which were a warning about an impending car bomb in New York, Angelo suffers a concussion that impairs his long-term memory. He wakes up in the hands of his brother who helps him to recovery, putting back the pieces of who he thought he was.

God Damn, Robi Mahan

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God Damn is a poetic collection that delves into the complex relationship between a daughter and her father, who has recently suffered from a stroke. As her father grapples with Aphasia, a neurological disorder which has rendered him with a uniquely limited vocabulary, the author must confront her beliefs about life, death, and the great beyond. The collection recounts the authors childhood with her father, an outspoken atheist from a small town, and how the ideals he has taught her influence the way she navigates life with a man who has lost his ability to speak.

The Cursed Child And The Trickster Fox (A Novel), Leah Elizabeth Robinson

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The Cursed Child and the Trickster Fox (A Novel) is a fictional representation of the stigma of mental illness in the black community. The story focuses on Frankie Marchand, a woman child with bipolar disorder with psychotic features. Frankie has lost her mother, father, and twin brother in a tragic accident, which she is the sole survivor of, and is still coming to grips with what is now her new reality. Unfortunately, this new reality is without immediate familial support or mental stability because family and the black community view mental illness exclusively as a "white people" issue.

Calving, Alicia Clavell

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In this preface, I will highlight other readings and poems that further illustrate this basket weaving technique in which I imagine the river reeds, or the materials that encompass the works of the poems herein, to include: 1) em dashes, 2) forms of narrative point of view, in conversation with narrative self, and in dialogue with others, 3) fill-in-the-blank styles, 4) enjambments that can break the line, and the sentence, towards sexuality, 5) mixing of mediums, and 6) poetic images of the female body in separation, and in unifying collision, with other bodies. It is my hope that these materials, …

Refugio En Familia, Edgar Aguilar Araoz

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Novela fragmentada, construida a partir de crónicas cortas y 31 imágenes, de manera no ficcional cuenta el contagio de COVID-19 de una familia en Tijuana. Algo en los recuerdos del narrador lo llevan a conectar la muerte de su suegro con los de su abuelo que ocurrió hace 35 años. Cómo conectan cada pieza de este rompecabezas es lo que pareciera estar en la cabeza del narrador, ordenar quizá. Además la manía de acumular compulsivamente frases, imágenes, relatos, momentos que parecieran innecesarios e intrascendentes.

Josue, Eraldo Enrico Chiecchi

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A 14-year-old El Paso boy is in the prime of his life by all appearances. He is surrounded by a close group of friends, a family that loves him and had aspirations of joining the military once he graduated from high school.

But to everyone's shock, he walked up an Interstate 10 overpass and leaped to his death.

We tell his story and his family's as they deal with his unexpected death.

Collateral Damage (A Novel), Kimberlee Bethany Bonura

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Collateral Damage (A Novel)

Modern Ancient: A Thesis Of Poetry, Timothy Brian Dodd

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This collection of poetry examines the ontological dialectic outlined in the scholarship of Mircea Eliade. Three sections of poetry (Dissolution, Navigation, and Hierophany) explore the connections and disconnections between modern and ancient ontology and experience.

Poems Of My Soul(S), Regina Fiddler

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In The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois states, “One ever feels his two-ness, – an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body…(Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, 11).” On closer examination of duality, Poems of My Soul(s) reconsiders the notion of double-consciousness and suggests that the idea, as it stands, does not adequately speak inclusive of the Black woman. To account for the Black woman, this manuscript includes poems that point to an unresolved “tripleness,” in Black female identity. A consequence of this argument begs to question, not …

Crystal Flowers, Sunny L. Garcia

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The focus of this project is to illuminate the struggles of having a child addict and how it effects not only the addict but the entire family. Addiction in adolescence is on the rise across the United States. This project investigates the relationships between family members dealing with an addict. The research conducted consisted of finding other familial stories that were similar which had different outcomes. My analysis shows a strong correlation between family members who struggle with having a child addict and the overall results. There are some limitations that appeared with the project and that was not enough …

Game[R]Over, Giancarlo Huapaya

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GAME[R]OVER es un libro de poesía documental, que expone las trayectorias de la supremacía blanca en Phoenix, Arizona a través de la economía de la recreación, de la exposición y del espectáculo.

Elara's Wave, Sarah Huizar

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A cautionary story rooted in themes of autonomy and identity, Elara's journey begins when she joins the MM (Martian Marines) to follow in her late father's footsteps. Along the way, she learns he essentially pioneered an on-going femicide mission on Mars by kidnapping vulnerable women and replacing their reproductive organs with alien wombs. The MM's aim is to weaponize these women to form a militarized coalition after they transform into strong alien creatures. When Elara investigates the MM's goings on, she is kidnapped, too. However, the alien womb she is implanted with provides her with adverse effects, giving her the …