Wide-Ons

Forty-seven "lusty, loving" poems by a former nun, introduced by Robert Creeley with his poem "To a Big Sister". The collection ranges from the wit of the one line "To me upon deciding to leave the convent" and "What does paradise do for you?", the tender "Valentine's Day" and the poignant "I want a man," "What I hate" and "Germaine Greer" to the lusty "My man Blake says," "I wrote/he responded" and "You're like a tropical garden he wrote" and the slashing "A former to a present nun: reminder" and "In response to 'The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Mine Disaster (for Richard Brautigan and Pope Paul)'." 

Literature & Fiction

Diane Christian

Poetry

Synergistic Pr

Forty-seven "lusty, loving" poems by a former nun, introduced by Robert Creeley with his poem "To a Big Sister". The collection ranges from the wit of the one line "To me upon deciding to leave the convent" and "What does paradise do for you?", the tender "Valentine's Day" and the poignant "I want a man," "What I hate" and "Germaine Greer" to the lusty "My man Blake says," "I wrote/he responded" and "You're like a tropical garden he wrote" and the slashing "A former to a present nun: reminder" and "In response to 'The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Mine Disaster (for Richard Brautigan and Pope Paul)'."

This book tells the story--through his published work, selections fromunpublished manuscripts, 44 drawings not seen publicly prior to this publication and abiographical introduction by co-editor Bud Johns--of Herman Spector. This writer of the late Twenties and the Thirties, whose experimental work influenced then-radical poets who came out of that period, continued to write during the last two decades of his life in New York but never again submitted his talents to the opinion of editors, critics and the public.

Bastard in the Ragged Suit/Writings of, with drawings by Herman Spector

Travel

United States

The story of how a historical means of transportation for two humans sharing a single horse--used from necessity to travel long distances in Colonial America and the Old West and even earlier in England --inspired the author to invent the sport of Ride and Tie. Illustrated with 41 photographs and one diagram.

What Is This Madness: Ride & Tie : The Invention and Growth of a Sport

Johns, Bud

Sports & Outdoors

A humorous "drinking biography" of H.L. Mencken. No one who has read more than a paragraph of Mencken's writing could fail to know that he was a connoisseur of beer but it is amazing so many do not know he also had praise for a wide variety of libations. It is fitting that he coined the word (he later admitted it should have been "omnibibulous") which inspired this book when he said: "I'm ombibulous. I drink every known alcoholic drink and enjoy them all."

The Ombibulous Mr. Mencken

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Dying Unafraid tells inspired stories--not just of those nearing the end of their anticipated lifespans but also of children and adults in what they had expected to be midlife--of individuals who faced death without fear, offering hope and encouragement to those about them. It is written for the lay reader without pop psychology or religious intonations, by a veteran storyteller/reporter who herself has long experience working with the terminally ill. Tough questions of the day such as the issues of self-deliverance and physician-hastened death, as well as what rights individuals have in retaining control over their own lives when those lives are ending are addressed through the stories of individuals who have confronted those issues.

Dying Unafraid

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Fran Moreland Johns

Psychology & Counseling

Noted authors, including James Thurber, John Updike, Eugene O'Neill, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and John Cheever, reminisce about their favorite dogs

Old Dogs Remembered

What does unconditional love mean? Baby's Breath is a groundbreaking novel about a mother-daughter relationship shattered by a crime so horrific that even in our jaded culture few speak of it without an involuntary shudder. None of us thinks it could happen in our family. Leah Pacey, however, is not allowed the luxury of such denial. For her, the only notion more unthinkable than Alyssa's act is that of abandoning her daughter. 
Leah's search for understanding is as halting as our own. She persists only because she must. 
As we all must. 
Baby's Breath is an unprecedented story of human suffering and human redemption. Sometimes art takes us where we have not imagined, where we do not go of our own accord, and in doing so becomes an instrument of social change. In this meticulously researched work, Hugo and Villegas patiently open our hearts to see beyond the surface of one girl, beyond the surface of sensational headlines. Important literature is rarely easy and this novel is no exception.

Baby's Breath

Hugo, Lynne

Villegas, Anna Tuttle

Genre Fiction

Biographical recollections of J. Earl Moreland, a Texas farmboy who was in the first class enrolled at Southern Methodist University, co-founder and second president of Porto Alegra College in Brazil, and president of Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, 1939-1968

Never in Doubt: Stories of Earl Moreland

Johns, Fran Moreland

Moreland, Earl

Professionals & Academics

An alternative to coloring books, this invitation to draw, color, write, make collages, fantasize about creating a new world or just look was inspired by Ernest Callenbach's novel Ecotopia.

Ecotopian Sketchbook

Judith Clancy

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Wide-Ons

Wide-Ons

Bastard in the Ragged Suit/Writings of, with drawings by Herman Spector

What Is This Madness: Ride & Tie : The Invention and Growth of a Sport

The Ombibulous Mr. Mencken

Dying Unafraid

Old Dogs Remembered

Baby's Breath

Never in Doubt: Stories of Earl Moreland

Ecotopian Sketchbook