Joanna Rose

Follows the life of Sarajean, the child of two love children, who finds herself having to overcome great obstacles at a young age after she is left motherless

A Novel

Little Miss Strange

Follows the life of Sarajean, the child of two love children, who finds herself having to overcome great obstacles at a young age after she is left motherless, but through her journeys to womanhood, she learns about herself and finally gathers the missing pieces of her life. A first novel.

A girl grows up among Colorado hippies in this “powerful story about coming of age in the 1970s . . . An amazing book” (Richmond Times-Dispatch). Sarajean Henry lives with a Vietnam veteran she accepts as her father. When she comes home, Jimmy might be preparing dinner—or he might be shooting up. Her mother, whoever she was, disappeared long ago. Sarajean scams her way through childhood, surviving on intuition, smoking pot by age ten. Gathering carelessly discarded clues in this rootless world of communal living, drugs, and adults who reject the traditional trappings of adulthood, she slowly attempts to solve the mystery of where she came from—and piece together the identity she’s always longed for. “Sometimes sweet, sometimes frightening, sometimes hauntingly beautiful” (Statesman Journal), this novel offers both an up-close look at a historically tumultuous moment in American culture, and a timeless look at “an oddly ‘normal’ childhood as seen through the eyes of a child who knows nothing else” (Library Journal). “An extraordinarily powerful first novel . . . Sarajean is impossible to forget.” —Kirkus Reviews “Packed with colorful details reminiscent of the dream the era of ‘free love’ left behind.” —Redbook “A wondrous, uncanny book, like few others you will read . . . So assured and accomplished that it seems the work of a seasoned novelist at the peak of her talent.” —The Oregonian “The closest thing to a perfect book that I have read in years.” —The Bellingham Herald

Scott Sparling

Sage Cohen

A current of longing runs through twenty-two short stories by Oregon writers. As the characters strive for connection, they make mistakes, reach out to the wrong people, and recalibrate their lives based on what they desire, whether or not it’s attainable—or even a good idea. Editor Liz Prato has curated a powerful collection of smart, funny, sad, and exquisite stories about the losses that shape our lives.

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The Night, and the Rain, and the River

Aleksander Perski

Många svenska kvinnor lider idag av stressrelaterade problem som sömnsvårigheter, trötthet, magproblem, ständiga infektioner och depressioner. Stressforskaren Aleksander Perski menar att dessa kvinnor kan ha hamnat i duktighetsfällan. I den här reviderade nyutgåvan varvas forskning och grundfakta med praktiska tips om hur man undviker att drabbas.

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A librarian-turned-bookseller discovers marrying the wrong man is easier than leaving him.

A Small Crowd of Strangers

Marrying the wrong man is easier than leaving him. How does a librarian from New Jersey end up in a convenience store on Vancouver Island in the middle of the night, playing Bible Scrabble with a Korean physicist and a drunk priest? She gets married to the wrong man for starters—she didn't know he was 'that kind of Catholic'—and ends up in St. Cloud, Minnesota. She gets a job in a New Age bookstore, wanders toward Buddhism without realizing it, and acquires a dog. Things get complicated after that. Pattianne Anthony is less a thinker than a dreamer, and she finds out the hard way that she doesn't want a husband, much less a baby, and that getting out of a marriage is a lot harder than getting into it, especially when the landscape of the west becomes the voice of reason. A Small Crowd of Strangers, Joanna Rose’s second novel, is part love story, part slightly sideways spiritual journey.

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