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Glenda Bailey-Mershon Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: Look at This Blue, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

Look at This Blue

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Glenda Bailey-MershonGlenda Bailey-Mershon

@itsdbouts Blood Run by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. Although her latest National Book Award nominated Look at This Blue is one I have to take breaks to think about, too.

Paperback, 2022

$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of Sncc, Cleveland L. Sellers

The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of Sncc

Cleveland L. Sellers
Glenda Bailey-MershonGlenda Bailey-Mershon

A little history; short reviews of Dr. Cleveland Sellers (The River of No Return) @ClevelandSellers80 and @GayleBrandeis (Drawing Breath); a little well-deserved praise to @TommyDeanWriter https://t.co/YcBNSoXDOB

Paperback, 2023

$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Blood Run, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

Blood Run

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Glenda Bailey-MershonGlenda Bailey-Mershon

@itsdbouts Blood Run by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. Although her latest National Book Award nominated Look at This Blue is one I have to take breaks to think about, too.

Paperback, 2006

$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: It's Always Something, Gilda Radner

It's Always Something

Gilda Radner
Glenda Bailey-MershonGlenda Bailey-Mershon

@Chrissy1b Glad she stopped! You know Roseanne Roseannadanna, that character Gilda Radner played on Saturday Night Live? “It’s always something.” Isn’t it, though?

Paperback, 2009

$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Walking Into Lightning, Ellen Laflèche

Walking Into Lightning

Ellen Laflèche
Glenda Bailey-MershonGlenda Bailey-Mershon

Second love poem in the series: A love poem today from a wonderful book by a friend, Walking Into Lightning, by Ellen LaFleche. The whole book is incandescent, in the wake of the too-early loss of her husband. This is how to make art from life even at its most difficult. https://t.co/JjN45ymNql

Paperback, 2019

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Seed Keeper, Steve Rogan

The Seed Keeper

Steve Rogan
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https://t.co/ouVA5RVYi9 Robin Wall Kimmerer of Braiding Sweetgrass wrote a wonderful blurb for this year’s winner of Jane’s Stories’ Clara Johnson Award, Diane Wilson, for The Seedkeeper. Catch Diane’s award interview at https://t.co/Gd919IAOXQ.

Paperback, 2018

$21.00Member price:$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Daddy Chronicles, Jayne Martin

The Daddy Chronicles

Jayne Martin
Glenda Bailey-MershonGlenda Bailey-Mershon

@Jayne_Martin @Jerrrules @BlueOceanGal1 I love you book The Daddy Chronicles, btw. Such a fresh approach.

Paperback, 2022

$14.00Member price:$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems, Rita Dove

Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems

Rita Dove
Glenda Bailey-MershonGlenda Bailey-Mershon

Love poems. A series, if I can manage it. This is “Flirtation,” by Rita Dove, former U.S. Poet Laureate. https://t.co/r08T9ousAv

Paperback, 2023

$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts, Matt Bell

Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts

Matt Bell
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@electra_rhodes Matt Bell’s Refuse to Be Done is getting enthusiastic recommendations on my blog so I’m now reading it, too.

Paperback, 2022

$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Sewing Holes, Darlyn Finch Kuhn

Sewing Holes

Darlyn Finch Kuhn
Glenda Bailey-MershonGlenda Bailey-Mershon

“Walk with this poet of amazing skill through lushly-described landscapes to visit generations of compelling Roma and Cherokee people you will not soon forget.” –Darlyn Finch Kuhn, author of Red Wax Rose, Three Houses, and Sewing Holes https://t.co/UPhtORnj5z #preorder

Paperback, 2015

$13.95Member price:$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book