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People I Wanted to be

By: Gina Ochsner

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People I Wanted to be

By: Gina Ochsner

In her eagerly anticipated collection, Ochsner deftly examines the harrowing moments after a life or a love slips away, and discovers that the human heart can be large enough for anything.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618563725

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9780618563722

The Necessary Grace to Fall

Stories

By: Gina Ochsner

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The Necessary Grace to Fall

Stories

By: Gina Ochsner

Eleven soulful stories span the globe, using folklore and myth to explore the territory separating life from death. Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820323144

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9780820323145

The Hidden Letters of Velta B.

A Novel

By: Gina Ochsner

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The Hidden Letters of Velta B.

A Novel

By: Gina Ochsner

“A beautifully spun tale” set in a tiny town in Latvia—“an astonishing alchemy of history, romance, and fable” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Maris was born knowing things: His very large, very special ears enable him to hear the secrets of the dead, as well as the memories that haunt his Latvian hometown. As a boy, he finds himself heir to an odd assortment of hidden letters, from which he would weave a story that could finally expose—and maybe even patch—the holes in the fabric of his family and their town. With humor, heart, and her characteristic “luminous writing [and] affection for her characters,” Gina Ochsner creates an intimate, hopeful portrait of a fascinating town in all its complications and charm. From the onset of World War II through the cold shock of independence, we see how, despite years of distrust, a community can come through love and loss to the joy of understanding (The New York Times). A finalist for the Oregon Book Awards Ken Kesey Award for Fiction, The Hidden Letters of Velta B. is “a captivating novel of secrets, love, and memory . . . This terrific novel knocked me out” (Janet Fitch, author of Paint It Black). “Intimate, vibrant, and richly colored.” —Portland Monthly “A gift on par with Joanne Harris’s Chocolat . . . Quirky, ethereal, hilarious, and sorrowful.” —Shelf Awareness “[An] extraordinary feat of storytelling . . . A spellbinding novel as tough as it is beautiful.” —Helen Simonson, author of The Summer Before the War

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317

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HMH

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0544253124

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9780544253124

The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight

A Novel

By: Gina Ochsner

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The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight

A Novel

By: Gina Ochsner

The tenants of a post-Soviet slum face the absurdity of Russian life in this Flannery O’Connor Award–winning debut novel “of startling redemptive beauty” (TheNew York Times Book Review). In a crumbling apartment building in post-Soviet Russia, there’s a ghost who won’t keep quiet. Mircha fell from the roof and was never properly buried, so he sticks around to heckle the living: his wife, Azade; Olga, a disillusioned translator/censor for a military newspaper; Yuri, an army veteran who always wears an aviator’s helmet; and Tanya. Tanya carries a notebook wherever she goes, recording her observations and her dreams of finding love and escaping her job at the All-Russia All-Cosmopolitan Museum, a place which holds a fantastic and terrible collection of art knockoffs created using the tools at hand, from foam to chewing gum, Popsicle sticks to tomato juice. When the museum’s director hears of a mysterious American group seeking to fund art in Russia, it looks like she might get her chance at a better life, if she can only convince them of the collection’s worth. Enlisting the help of Azade, Olga, and even Mircha, Tanya scrambles to save her dreams and her neighbors, and along the way discovers that love may have been waiting in her own courtyard all along. This is a “delightful” novel by an author who has won two Oregon Book Awards and the Raymond Carver Prize, among other literary honors (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). “A crazy adventure of the imagination . . . [that] has echoes of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated, Gary Shteyngart’s laugh-out-loud Absurdistan and Olga Grushin’s more romantic The Dream Life of Sukhanov.” —The Observer (UK)

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0547488416

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9780547488417

People I Wanted to be

By: Gina Ochsner

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People I Wanted to be

By: Gina Ochsner

In her eagerly anticipated collection, Ochsner deftly examines the harrowing moments after a life or a love slips away, and discovers that the human heart can be large enough for anything.

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9780618563722

The Necessary Grace to Fall

Stories

By: Gina Ochsner

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By: Gina Ochsner

Eleven soulful stories span the globe, using folklore and myth to explore the territory separating life from death. Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.

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The Hidden Letters of Velta B.

A Novel

By: Gina Ochsner

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Gender and Our Brains

How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds

By: Gina Rippon

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Gender and Our Brains

How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds

By: Gina Rippon

A breakthrough work in neuroscience—and an incisive corrective to a long history of damaging pseudoscience—that finally debunks the myth that there is a hardwired distinction between male and female brains We live in a gendered world, where we are ceaselessly bombarded by messages about sex and gender. On a daily basis, we face deeply ingrained beliefs that sex determines our skills and preferences, from toys and colors to career choice and salaries. But what does this constant gendering mean for our thoughts, decisions and behavior? And what does it mean for our brains? Drawing on her work as a professor of cognitive neuroimaging, Gina Rippon unpacks the stereotypes that surround us from our earliest moments and shows how these messages mold our ideas of ourselved and even shape our brains. By exploring new, cutting-edge neuroscience, Rippon urges us to move beyond a binary view of the brain and to see instead this complex organ as highly individualized, profoundly adaptable and full of unbounded potential. Rigorous, timely and liberating, Gender and Our Brains has huge implications for women and men, for parents and children, and for how we identify ourselves.

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450

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Vintage

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0525435379

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9780525435372

Oregon Reads Aloud

A Collection of 25 Children's Stories by Pacific Northwest Authors and Illustrators

By: Smart

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Oregon Reads Aloud

A Collection of 25 Children's Stories by Pacific Northwest Authors and Illustrators

By: Smart

To celebrate twenty-five years of promoting literacy in Oregon, SMART partnered with Portland-based Graphic Arts Books to publish a unique collection of twenty-five read-aloud stories for children, written and illustrated by Oregon authors and artists.

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Graphic Arts Books

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1943328862

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9781943328864

Book's by Gina Ochsner

People I Wanted to be

People I Wanted to be

The Necessary Grace to Fall

The Necessary Grace to Fall

The Hidden Letters of Velta B.

The Hidden Letters of Velta B.

The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight

The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight

People I Wanted to be

People I Wanted to be

The Necessary Grace to Fall

The Necessary Grace to Fall

The Hidden Letters of Velta B.

The Hidden Letters of Velta B.

Gender and Our Brains

Gender and Our Brains

Oregon Reads Aloud

Oregon Reads Aloud

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