Weaver's long-awaited adult novel returns to the themes of Red Earth, White Earth and Sweet Land. In 1906, an emigrant family from Norway arrives in North Dakota with dreams of owning land and moving up in the world. Tragedy plus a crime against them by a powerful man threatens to destroy the family. An unlikely hero steps up. Jenny Haugen, seventeen, leads her siblings on a generational march toward agency, justice, and power. Power & Light, the first of a two-book saga, mirrors the hard-won success of America itself and shows Weaver at the height of his powers.

How and why did Minnesota, distant from both dream coasts, become a literary mecca? Why not Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, St Louis, or Cleveland? What made the Twin Cities fertile ground for the birth and growth of the Loft Literary Center, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and Milkweed Editions, and an ideal place for Graywolf Press and Coffee House Press to transplant themselves? The Minnesota literary renaissance of the 1960s and 70s was due at the start to one generous and visionary poet, Robert Bly, and his gift for generating excitement across the state, involving many young poets, and creating a community of mutually supportive writers. A florescence of poetry reading series, poetry magazines, small press books, and literary organizations ensued. Read Sowing Seeds to appreciate fully the origins of the wondrous scene in which we are privileged to live.

In 1960, Pete Brennan returns from military service to northern Minnesota to work on his father's commercial fishing boat. On his first day back, he learns that the fishing operation and the mink farm it supports are under threat from new technology, state legislators and animal rights activists. Facing personal injury and challenges to the family businesses, Pete must cope with his brother Wayne's alcoholism, his brother Lance's indifference, and his father's declining health. Meanwhile, the women in the Brennan family must contend with the physical and emotional fallout from these men's lives. As tensions rise, Pete's son Jay is critically injured under Wayne's son's watch, forcing the entire family to confront their dilemmas and make difficult choices about their future.

Ninth-grader BJ Maki knows there is an evil presence on a killing spree in the hills above his Lake Superior home. And, thanks to strange messages he has been receiving, he knows that the Red Hand Warrior can help protect his family and community. But what he doesn't know-until he climbs out of a mysterious cave-is that the warrior he is supposed to find lives five hundred years in the past.

Back to the Womb traces the complexities of birth in America as well as the voices of homebirth moms in Hawai'i. This book uncovers the struggle for sovereignty, the issues with medicalized birth and the sacredness of home birth. It is a book about reclaiming our birthright, honoring our humanity, cultivating our divine feminine energy, trusting in ourselves, relying on our ancestral strength and returning back to the womb.

1970s New York City is borderline bankrupt. Police departments, public schools and other municipalities are struggling under massive layoffs, buildings are abandoned, and the streets are rife with crime and drugs. For Johnny Alvarez, a precocious young runaway, the decay, and lawlessness offer camouflage and opportunity. He squats in an empty apartment in a derelict Washington Heights tenement and gathers a gang of streetwise kids, most of whom struggle with their own issues. Johnny is haunted by the abuse he suffered at the hands of his sadistic older brother. The crew tries to keep his head straight with belonging and levity, but the turbulent nature of the street triggers unwanted memories, which spin Johnny into recklessness amid the city's seedy underbelly.

A thought-provoking coming-of-age novel imbued with psychological dimensions...Its blend of gritty realism and psychological depth makes it a recommendable choice for readers seeking a coming-of-age novel that navigates the challenging journey from adolescence to maturity amidst a backdrop of urban hardship and complexity. ★★★★

― Literary Titan

Within the genetic maze of his ancestors lie the deep roots of Elvis Presley, the relatives with whom he shared DNA and who influenced him in unknown and unpredictable ways. He was a product of his ancestors-their habits, traditions, traits, lifestyles and values. Just as his parents' genes were shared through the union of sperm and egg, his ancestors' beliefs and values were indelibly transmitted through the telling of family stories and the imprinting of attitudes. But Elvis's public origin story is a mess of myth and factual errors that is finally corrected in Roots of Elvis. In this book, you will learn startling new facts about:

-Elvis's Cherokee and Jewish ancestry.

-The Presley matriarch who produced nine children but never married.

-The identity of Elvis's unknown great-grandfather.

-The mystery of Gladys Love Presley's middle name.

-The secret of Elvis's birthplace.

-Elvis's rare genetic mutation that may forever change his origin story.

A major publishing event in 2018 introduced letters written by Elvis Presley to his secret confidante and spiritual advisor, Carmen Montez. Letters from Elvis presented an amazing story of personal pain and abuse suffered by one of the world's most famous entertainers. Additional letters from Harry Belafonte, Tom Jones and Marlon Brando added meaningful details, but the verbatim text of these letters could not be reproduced for legal reasons.

Brando on Elvis: In His Own Words, a sequel to Letters from Elvis, goes some way to solving those legal frustrations. Now, for the first time, the full text of Marlon Brando's authenticated letters to Carmen Montez about Elvis Presley are revealed. His writing presents the compelling story of a close friendship that survived many personal traumas before a final break-up. Elvis fans will at last see the startling revelations about Elvis's life presented in Brando's own words and appreciate the unknown bond that once existed between these two great entertainers.

The Wounded and Other Stories About Sons and Fathers is a powerful expression of Robert Bly's Men's Movement. Although Leask largely stood aside from Bly's followers, he published these connected short stories with New Rivers Press in the tradition of autobiographical fiction, reminiscent of Hemingway's In Our Time or Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. Two stories published in anthologies after the release of The Wounded, have been collected into this new edition.

Something very strange is happening to the ring of stone lions at the center of the Alhambra, lions that have refused to spit water for five hundred years, until suddenly one of the lions is gushing every evening. Ring of Lions explores the power of memory as mysteries around the last Moorish kings of Spain become entangled with a series of recent deaths at the Alhambra, the castle of the last Emir of Granada. The novel leads readers across timelines and through folktales as the story is told by characters of several generations whose cultural, religious and academic motives have drawn them to the Alhambra. In the shadow of the novel lives a fable about animals, a tale adapted from the Story of the Ring Dove, a text that plays a significant role in the philosophy of the Muslim Neoplatonist Ikhwān al-Ṣafā' in medieval Spain.

John C. Donahue was considered a brilliant but difficult artistic genius in American theater in the 70s and 80s. His theater, the Children's Theatre Company and School (CTC), rose to the heights of critical acclaim. It was also a home to more than two dozen sexual perpetrators. In 1984, Donahue's arrest for sexually abusing male students threatened to close the theater's curtains for good. The theater endured and the full truth of what was happening behind the scenes was swept under the rug, until now.

Stearns' memoir follows her process of coming to terms with experiencing childhood sexual violence at CTC, of recognizing the depth of harm from a complicit culture which allowed child abuse at the theater to go unchecked for decades, and her journey of growing beyond trauma to a place of strength. She does so with unflinching honesty, lighthearted compassion, and a healthy dose of trauma informed education.

Because children in the arts are especially vulnerable and personal boundaries are blurred by antiquated adages like you must suffer for your art, it's of the utmost importance that those around them create safe spaces for our young artists to grow and learn. Laura shares her story in hopes that nothing like what happened at CTC will ever happen again.

Abandoned child of genius scientists? Proprietor of the Emporium of the Future You? World-famous brain surgeon? Exactly who is Albert Park? Told through Albert Park's singular-albeit entirely unreliable-point-of-view, Albert Park: a memoir in lies is a thrice-told story of how ghosts haunt the present.

Albert Park always believes he is being completely honest with anyone he meets-and thinks that by disclosing the truth about himself, others are fully aware of his motives and the potential dangers of being his friend. Albert charms, but more often irritates in telling his life stories; even so, the reader is carried along by the undercurrent of the unrevealed truth hidden in Albert's wounded soul.