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books

Browse our books below, as well as some from like-minded presses and authors of the Pacific Northwest. Your purchase allows our collaborators — including authors, artists, designers, editors, marketers, and printers — to thrive.

Telling is Listening

Essays by Ursula K. Le Guin This selection of 20 essays and talks follows the long sweep of Le Guin’s career as a writer. An essential collection of non-fiction from one of the Northwest’s greatest writers. Crafted as a piece of physical artwork in and of itself, this book includes an introduction by Winter Texts publisher Conner Bouchard-Roberts, in-margin notes, stylized section pages, and an accompanying block carving print by Lydia Vadopalas.

$25.00
Confessions of a Modern-Day Kumiho

by Alissa Tu Publication Date: Feb. 14th, 2022 Kumiho: A nine-tailed fox who transforms into a woman to seduce men and eat their livers or hearts. Sometimes, a man’s heart isn’t enough. As her inner Kumiho takes over, Alissa Tu is equal parts triumphant in conquest and terrifying in love’s inevitable collapse. Each attempt to satisfy the Kumiho entangles Alissa more deeply in her alter-ego’s devouring scheme. Can she reconcile with her animalistic counterpart, or will she remain forever bound and disembodied? This unapologetic memoir dissects— with bloody, fragmented incision—the shit-show of searching for love in our digital world.

$15.00 – $20.00

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A Summoning

Can we exorcise a memory? Can we purge those that are a danger to us? Rewriting moments of trauma while coming to terms with a family in the early stages of memory loss, A Summoning muddles the line between fiction and nonfiction, poetry and prose, text and image. Each segment is fragmented but fluid, weaving in and out to show how malleable and unreliable memory can be; how it manifests in the body, mentally, physically, emotionally; how it mutates and betrays as we age. A conceptual, psychological experiment focused on memory, Nicole McCarthy’s collection lays the groundwork explaining the physiology…

$20.00
Hernes

Publisher: Winter Texts Published Autumn 2021 This story is a literary masterpiece. Long overlooked as a sidenote of Le Guin’s famed career, this deep contemplation of place, being, and naming is set on the Oregon Coast, weaving together the perspectives of four generations of women. It is hard to overstate the value of this work. Both in its technical skill and in its broad, multifaceted view of human experience.

$20.00
Into the Desert, Across the Ice

Publisher: Winter Texts A collection of three short stories by literary hero Ursula K. Le Guin, including “Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight,” “She Unnames Them,” and “Sur.” Each of these marvelous stories digs deeply into many of Le Guin’s essential questions, each using a different genre, each investigating the use and power of names and naming.

$20.00
Unearthing Our Roots

by Krista R. Pérez Publication Date: November 2022 Unearthing Our Roots is a call to action. Join author and community organizer Krista R. Pérez as she rallies advocates, activists, and leaders from historically marginalized groups to implement transformative and healing practices within their communities. Pérez calls readers in, asking us to unearth and uproot anti-Black, racist, ableist and biased values that fracture relationships in and surrounding our communities. With decades of lived experience and a multidisciplinary approach, Pérez presents guided journal prompts for examining intentions, strategies for unraveling harmful biases and behaviors, and transformative and restorative practices for communities of historically…

$15.00 – $20.00

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The Elephant in the Room

A business parable about race and equity conversations in the workplace by Philip “Sharp Skills” Jacobs Publication Date: October 29, 2022 Derek Blain is a young, up-and-coming Black executive hired to deliver the keynote speech at a corporate summit on equity. Things get… complicated. Derek experiences perilous death threats, mind-opening conversations, and unexpected microaggressions at the summit. He also discovers a new set of opportunities, hazards, and plain awkwardness surrounding racial conversations in the workplace. A parable in a power suit, The Elephant in the Room reckons with present-day workplace racism. The story provides opportunities for professionals to practice navigating…

$20.00

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Anatomy of My Mixed Body

Mainstream American culture asks us to label and define ourselves in clearly marked, rigid boxes. But definitions, meaning, and identity are always shifting. The only thing that lingers in their wake is the impact we, the meaning makers, have on the people and places we encounter. Anatomy of My Mixed Body is an eco-poetic conversation led by Katharine Threat, in which she addresses lived experiences of displacement and homecoming, and imagines a world in which seemingly disparate pieces of land and identity converge into one body. Threat’s poems demonstrate the possibility of reconciliation of the mixed body that is all…

$20.00
Where Rivers Change Direction

For nearly thirty years, Tana McCabe has been trapped in suspended animation, just like the beetle encased in resin she wears around her neck. But one warm, summer night, on a remote stretch of highway in Montana, Tana unexpectedly breaks free from the expectations draped over her by her swiftly unraveling family and conservative hometown politics. Tana, a white woman, falls in love with Colette Little Crow. Her coming out as a late-blooming Gay woman is messy, painful, and full of fumbles only surpassed by those of her evolving family. Set on the slopes of the continental divide, in a…

$15.00 – $20.00

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