It's as if you are walking in the fields of a classic novelist with this brilliant look at two brothers growing up on a Nebraska wheat farm in the 1930s. The pursuit of their individual passions separates them until an ironic twist of fate brings one of them home in an emotional change of heart. The poignant story describes the interconnections of family, dreams and sacrifices. The distinctive writing style of Edward Motketsan builds the story on multiple planes from the very first page as he carefully conveys the depth of the characters. The novel keeps you engaged until the last page is reached and the story comes together in a sublime and lucid finale. In today's fast-paced world of instant life, this is a welcomed leisurely stroll of how our grandparents enjoyed to live.

This is the story of Cora, a wounded, ostracized Canada goose who, thanks to her new crow friend Louis, learns new winter survival skills in the far northern reaches of Ungava Bay. 'Flying with Wounded Wings' concerns itself with the rewards of unanticipated friendships which are able to surmount prejudice while rediscovering inner resourcefulness, courage and unconditional love. People who appreciate books like 'Animal Farm' and 'Watership Down' will love to add this novel, illustrated by the author, to their library. Foreword by Tippi Hedren. Peter Gullerud is a published graphic novelist ('Grootlore' published by Fantagraphics Books) and was a visual development artist for the Disney Studios ('Aladdin') and several Warner Bros. Features projects. He worked for Wildlife Educators where he had hands on interaction with the likes of Siberian tigers, California black bears and a variety of exotics from macaque monkeys to binturongs. He currently lives in Taft, CA.

The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man—available for the first time in the United States “i am one of those hopeless romantics who wants every blowjob to be transformative.” Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut poetry collection, This Wound Is a World, is “a prayer against breaking,” writes trans Anishinaabe and Métis poet Gwen Benaway. “By way of an expansive poetic grace, Belcourt merges a soft beauty with the hardness of colonization to shape a love song that dances Indigenous bodies back into being. This book is what we’ve been waiting for.” Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound Is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky / to world inside.” Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder their sadness and pain without giving up on the future. His poems upset genre and play with form, scavenging for a decolonial kind of heaven where “everyone is at least a little gay.” Presented here with several additional poems, this prize-winning collection pursues fresh directions for queer and decolonial theory as it opens uncharted paths for Indigenous poetry in North America. It is theory that sings, poetry that marshals experience in the service of a larger critique of the coloniality of the present and the tyranny of sexual and racial norms.

The life history, language and culture of the American crow.

To make an open marriage work, Franklin and Celeste knew they needed to make sure no one ever came between them. That meant no overnights, no falling in love, and either one of them could ask the other to end an outside relationship if it became too much to deal with. It worked for nearly two decades--and their relentless focus on their own relationship let them turn a blind eye to the emotional wreckage they were leaving behind.

“Crows and people share similar traits and social strategies. To a surprising extent, to know the crow is to know ourselves.”—from the Preface From the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh, from the works of Shakespeare to those of Mark Twain, there is clear evidence that crows and ravens influence human culture. Yet this influence is not unidirectional, say the authors of this fascinating book: people profoundly influence crow culture, ecology, and evolution as well. John Marzluff and Tony Angell examine the often surprising ways that crows and humans interact. The authors contend that those interactions reflect a process of “cultural coevolution.” They offer a challenging new view of the human-crow dynamic—a view that may change our thinking not only about crows but also about ourselves. Featuring more than 100 original drawings, the book takes a close look at the influences people have had on the lives of crows throughout history and at the significant ways crows have altered human lives. In the Company of Crows and Ravens illuminates the entwined histories of crows and people and concludes with an intriguing discussion of the crow-human relationship and how our attitudes toward crows may affect our cultural trajectory.

Kyler is back with another heartbreaking story of addiction and love. She finds herself caught up in Josh's fidelity issues while trying to help Mike through a horrible time of addiction and borderline insanity. With the help of her closest friends and family, they bind together to give amazing amounts of strength and faith, and throughout everything, each of them finds his and her own ways to endure and sustain. Family is not always about blood, and never has this been made so clear to Kyler and Josh as they work through their own problems and find home and family and love all over again. Through terror, fear, pain, and distrust emerges beautiful peace and, once again, calm serenity in the form of support and unerring strength. Family is not always about blood.