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Paperback. Zustand: Good. A masterful new collection by award-winning poet Russell Thornton. In "Greek Fire," one of the poems in Russell Thornton's astonishing new collection, the central image is of fire burning through water: "water is a bridge / for a fire to come into the world." This image also illuminates the driving force that animates the poems in Answer to Blue. The stillness and quiet depth characteristic of Thornton's poetry are here shot through with an irresistible vitality, a flame of mythic resonance. The past, both ancient and recent, exerts a gravitational pull throughout the collection, with Greek myths, family histories and biblical passages unearthed and examined, forgotten and returned to, giving way in a cyclical rhythm to the transient presence of young children and the death of a parent. With a clarity that pierces through the mist of daily routine, Thornton gives attention to transitional states, pausing at the often rushed-through moments of change, and also examines the phenomenon of perception itself. This collection's response to D.H. Lawrence's question--"Oh what in you can answer to this blueness?"--is both an answer and a challenge, an achievement of beauty that contains the seed of something more enduring and sacred.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. This Simple Solutions book is dedicated to topic of chewing, one of the dog's favorite pastimes and one of the problems that cost dog owners the most aggravation and money. For owners of mouthy puppies (or adults), Chewing offers excellent way of extinguishing the problem through redirection, rewards, and providing other stimulation (toys, games, and other distractions!). Author Kim Campbell Thornton also guides the dog owner to prevent chewing problems through every-day routines that discourage the behavior. Readers will be entertained by the humorous illustrations by Buck Jones. Buck Jones (illustrator).…

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Reading Shana Thornton's highly original novel will make you want to get your own family stories to the page. You'll meet larger-than-life characters like Hoot and Zona, Aunt Cora and Jane, Miss Emy, and Nenny, the matriarch, who rolls her own cigarettes and knows all the secrets of the family medicine wheel. You may even find yourself signing up for a writing class like the one that sets the narrator, young Robin Ballard, to interviewing her aunts and grandmother, tracking down her homeless father, and digging out the family secrets, lost journals, and recipes that make Poke Sallet Queen & the Family Medicine Wheel a most surprising and satisfying fictional family history. (At least, I think it's fiction )-Mary Helen Stefaniak, author of The Turk and My Mother and The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia **** Vibrant in detail Meet and fall in love with the characters of Poke Sallet Queen and the Family Medicine Wheel and along the way, learn the secrets of great story-telling. -Bud Willis, author of Marble Mountain: A Vietnam Memoir **** When I'm given a book to review, I like to open it up at random and see if what's on the happenstance page resonates at all. This time I found the heroine Robin Ballard singing Mother Maybelle Carter's 'Wildwood Flower' at a beauty contest she does not expect to win. She is someone I recognize, who trips over a cord as she's leaving the stage, whose family's knowledge 'comes from the dirt' not from 'parchment scrolls and crests that open doors.' This character is humble and honest, and the book refreshingly natural and just different enough. I like it.-Rheta Grimsley Johnson, author of Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming **** Shana Thornton has a fresh, unique voice and talent. Poke Sallet Queen and the Family Medicine Wheel is a lyrical tale of love in the lush Tennessee hills, of generations gone by, and of people appreciated for simple things as much as the passing on of their history. There is mystery, sorrow, laughter and knowledge in these unforgettable characters. Shana writes a magical story that stays with you long after the final page. As with one of the characters, 'She knows real magic.' -Virginia Brown, author of Dark River Road and the Dixie Diva mystery series **** When Robin Ballard takes a writing course in college, she goes searching for answers about her homeless father and wanders into the secret lives of her relatives as they gradually reveal their personal histories. Set in Nashville and the surrounding rural towns, Poke Sallet Queen and the Family Medicine Wheel offers a look into the superstitions and changes of a middle Tennessee family from the 1920s to the 21st century. Based on novel events, homework assignments, old magic recipes, drunken revelries, senile remembrances, midnight songs, some tall tales, some folk tales, and the lost journals, Robin Ballard tells a true Tennessee family history.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2020 Book Preview selection by The Millions These stories collectively coalesce into a resonant, emotionally searing nexus of hard truths, buried secrets, and emotional pain that readers won't soon forget. Thornton's accomplished stories are full of insights on their rural American setting and inhabitants' psychology.--Publishers Weekly In her powerful debut collection, Kasey Thornton skillfully builds a memorable community, exploring with heartbreak and humor the regrets and desires of those who live there. Thornton is a wonderful writer and a natural storyteller.--Jill McCorkle, author of Hieroglypics Lord the One You Love Is Sick is a beautifully constructed, humanely told novel-in-stories about loss and recovery, judgment and forgiveness, and the darkest of secrets. Kasey Thornton writes with honesty, warmth, and deep insight into how we recover, and why we sometimes can't. Her characters will live a long time in your mind, and her book will take your breath away.--Belle Boggs, author of The Gulf What a smart, elegant, emotionally honest way to tell the story of a life - by giving us the stories that spiral from one tragic death. Lord the One You Love is Sick is entirely unafraid in its depiction of our most difficult and profound hurdles. A gripping and gorgeous exploration not only of small town connections, but the kind of loss whose wake refuses to subside.―Nina de Gramont, author, The Last September Every small town has its secrets. Thornton's searing novel introduces us to the people who keep them walled up behind the cheery facades of their houses. With an unerring ear for how real people speak, and a wisdom about how real people do and don't solve their problems, Thorton's riveting debut earns its place on the shelf of contemporary Southern classics.--Wilton Barnhardt, author of Lookaway, Lookaway In Lord the One You Love is Sick, Kasey Thornton, with a clear eye and a kind heart, expertly navigates the currents in the small pond that is the contemporary Southern town of Bethany, North Carolina. Her broad cast of well-realized characters demonstrate how the everyday assumptions in such a town can consign people to neglect and misunderstanding, and how individuals struggle against those internalized definitions to create their own lives. A cry for charity.--John Kessel, author of Pride and Prometheus What a pleasure it was to discover a book like this, at this moment, when the cultural conversation is running always towards opinion. Here is the realm of fiction, with its love of failure and difficulty, it's respect for broken humanity. This intelligent, young writer is alive with talent, and these serious, beautiful, funny stories should be read carefully.--Rebecca Lee, author of Bobcat and Other Stories Propulsive, painful, sharp-edged and shot through with redemption, Kasey Thornton's Lord the One You Love is Sick belongs on a shelf with Bobbie Ann Mason's Shiloh and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio. Read it not just for the deep satisfaction of seeing the plot quilt itself together: read it because these people are family, because they're the people we fear we could be, and because, ultimately, they're the people we hope we might become. The ending comes at you like a train in the night. I could not put it down. Lord, I loved this book. --Drew Perry, author, This Is Exactly Like You Gentry Coats' fatal overdose stuns a small community in North Carolina, triggering a series of tragic events that threaten the town's traditional values. It triggers a mental breakdown in his best friend, a police officer, whose wife grapples with the burden of her vows in the face of her husband's disturbing behavior. Bitter and lonely, Gentry's mother struggles to place blame surrounding the death of her oldest son, while her younger son retreats into a strange and devastating isolation. And, on the outskirts of town, an eight-year old girl and her older sister cope with an unspeakable secret. All the while, the patriarchs of the community sit together gossiping at the local diner, trusting the Lord to heal the afflictions that haunt their beloved town. A novel in stories, Lord the One You Love is Sick is a gorgeously written and heartrending work of fiction from an important new voice in the literature of the American South.…

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Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Thornton, Cindy (illustrator).