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  My Love Was Blind

  La Wanda Marrero

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  Food for Thought! 
  Because you the reader, traveling on this journey with this exploration of My perspective in its rawness. Prayerfully, you may gain perspective to the dual role and emotional reactions in in relationships participated in from honest eyes of self and make a positive change for your next situation. Generally, we tend to forget our roles, behaviors, and direct action exercised in relationships, only seeing the faults of others, and placing blame. I am here to tell you it takes at least two to tango. A pointed finger has three fingers flipped back toward the pointer. The older I get I have learned to give myself permission to look at my roles in relationship, and how I present in general. It was difficult. Who would ever want to see themselves as a fallen mess? I engaged in looking for love in all the wrong places and trusted in circumstances I should have not over my lifespan, and I am still a mess!

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  My Father and Other Animals -...

  Sam Vincent

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  A moving and hilarious fish-out-of-water memoir of a millennial leaving his inner-city life to take over the family farm. 
  Sam Vincent is a twenty-something writer in the inner suburbs, scrabbling to make ends meet, when he gets a call from his mother: his father has stuck his hand in a woodchipper, but ‘not to worry – it wasn’t like that scene in Fargo or anything’. When Sam returns to the family farm to help out, his life takes a new and unexpected direction. 
   
  Whether castrating a calf or buying a bull – or knocking in a hundred fence posts by hand when his dad hides the post-driver – Sam’s farming apprenticeship is an education in grit and shit. But there are victories, too: nurturing a fig orchard to bloom; learning to read the land; joining forces with Indigenous elders to protect a special site. Slowly, Sam finds himself thinking differently about the farm, about his father and about his relationship with both. 
   
  By turns affecting, hilarious and utterly surprising, this memoir melds humour and fierce honesty in an unsentimental love letter. It’s about belonging, humility and regeneration – of land, family and culture. What passes from father to son on this unruly patch of earth is more than a livelihood; it is a legacy.

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  Game Birds and Gun Dogs - True...

  Joseph B. Healy

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  Let legendary outdoor writer and editor Vin Sparano (Outdoor Life Magazine) take you into the great outdoors with stories about hunters, their dogs, and the upland game and waterfowl they hunt.Hunters will experience all the emotion they do in the outdoors in the comfort of their easy chair: the smell of an autumn forest, the friendship of a trusted hunting dog, the joy of the hunt, the satisfaction of a fine meal.Listeners will be grateful to have joined these hunts!

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  Deer Grandma - Nine Short...

  Elizabeth Anne Wilkens

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  Setting of these nine short stories is east central Minnesota, time period is from 1964 to turn of the century.  The first story describes the author, a young wife and avid outdoors woman, as she begins her journey hunting deer on the family farm.  Through the decades going from mother to grandmother, her knowledge and skill as a naturalist and hunter grew along with love for the riverland and wooded acres she and her family call home.  Family and friends join her on this journey.  A poem written in 2008, The Land Remembers, ends the book, and describes what Deer Grandma has learned about belonging to the land.

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  Filthy! - The Rise and (Pending)...

  Vic Lagina

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  Meet Vic Lagina. Hippie. Dog lover. Bachelor. Businessman. 
  Asshole. 
  And once the busiest pornographer you never heard of. Come along for the ride as Vic takes you behind the curtain of his filthy twenty year career as a smut producer. As "Front Line Commander" for Brazzers, Vic spearheaded an operation required to blast out content for millions of jerkers worldwide.  
  That’s a lot of semen. 
  Serving corporate overlords he despises, our anti-hero feverishly clings to his soul while immersed in a world of endless drugs, sex, and daily mayhem. Relationships, family, and stability are strained to an immeasurable level as Vic's life builds to an uncertain climax. Will Vic survive the journey through the muck of a career in porn?  
  Impossible...or is it? 
  What follows is a hilariously disgusting tale of how the porn sausage is made. You may need to shower after reading. 
  Filthy!

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  Octavia E Butler - H is for Horse

  Chi-Ming Yang

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  An homage to the childhood genius of Black science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. 
   
   
   
  The figure of the horse, at once earthly and transcendent, represented the contradictions of freedom and captivity that enabled young Octavia to develop her nuanced sense of voice and place. Drawing on previously unknown archival research, this volume illustrates how Butler's development as a writer was tied to her extraordinary resourcefulness and self-awareness growing up as an awkward, bookish Black girl in segregated, Cold War Pasadena. She persistently re-visited and revised her early writings on teenage angst, Martians, Westerns, and racial politics. In one way or another her supernatural characters defied the constraints of gender, race, and class with equine-inflected resilience. 
   
   
   
  In the spirit of Butler's passion for library research, this book is comprised of twenty-six short A-Z chapters. It is part childhood biography, art and literary analysis, and memoir. It interweaves the author's personal recollections with scholarly musings on poetry, film, and literature inspired by Butler's encyclopedic reading habits and experiments with genre. Just as cross-species kinships are at the heart of her Afro-futurist, eco-feminist storytelling, Butler demonstrates that coming-of-age is an ongoing process and key to healing our damaged planet.

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