Slant Books
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Light in the Canyon
$22.00 Add to cartA year has passed since Halley’s mom died, but she still feels like she’s falling to pieces. Dad talks her into joining him at her uncle Gill’s house for yet another homemade science experiment (somet
- Author: Cools, Darren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 1639822267
- Language: English
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Light in the Canyon
$39.00 Add to cartA year has passed since Halley’s mom died, but she still feels like she’s falling to pieces. Dad talks her into joining him at her uncle Gill’s house for yet another homemade science experiment (somet
- Author: Cools, Darren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 1639822275
- Language: English
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What’s Possible: New & Selected Poems
$24.00 Add to cartW.H. Auden said about poetry: “there is only one thing / that all poetry must do; it must praise all it can for being / and for happening.” For forty years, Robert Cording’s poems have sought to prais
- Author: Cording, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1639822232
- Language: English
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Fate of the Animals: On Horses, the Apocalypse, and Painting as Prophecy
$28.00 Add to cartIn 1913, Franz Marc, one of the key figures of German Expressionism, created a masterpiece: The Fate of the Animals. With its violent slashes of color and line, the painting seemed to pre-figure both
- Series: Three Paintings Trilogy #2
- Author: Meis, Morgan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 163982121X
- Language: English
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The Grand Valley: On Going to Hell, to France, and Back to Childhood
$32.00 Add to cartIn the final, absorbing volume of his Three Paintings Trilogy, philosopher and critic Morgan Meis explores the art of Joan Mitchell and in particular one of her crowning achievements, the Grand Valley
- Series: Three Paintings Trilogy
- Author: Meis, Morgan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1639822003
- Language: English
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The Fate of the Animals: On Horses, the Apocalypse, and Painting as Prophecy
$19.00 Add to cartIn 1913, Franz Marc, one of the key figures of German Expressionism, created a masterpiece: The Fate of the Animals. With its violent slashes of color and line, the painting seemed to pre-figure both
- Series: Three Paintings Trilogy #2
- Author: Meis, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1639821201
- Language: English
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The Future of Love
$19.00 Add to cartJohn Poch’s eighth collection, The Future of Love, is comprised of poems written over the past twenty years, rooted in and inspired by the landscape of Spain, Federico Garc?a Lorca’s surrealism, and
- Author: Poch, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1639822119
- Language: English
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Time and the Temple: God and Man
$19.00 Add to cartThis book collects a series of meditations given by Father Luigi Giussani, the founder of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation. It represents a concise and illuminating synthesis of what
- Author: Giussani, Luigi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1639822143
- Language: English
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James Baldwin Smoking a Cigarette and Other Poems
$19.00 Add to cartThe capstone of a distinguished literary career, James Baldwin Smoking a Cigarette and Other Poems is Baron Wormser’s eleventh book of poetry. It speaks to matters that have haunted and obsessed the a
- Author: Wormser, Baron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1639822178
- Language: English
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Brooding Upon the Waters: A Memoir of Farming, Fishing, and Failure in America’s Lost Landscape
$22.00 Add to cartWhen thirty years of untreated bipolar disorder left his father fighting for his life, Howard Schaap began to wonder how this man had fallen so far-from Minnesota’s Young Farmer of the Year to financi
- Author: Schaap, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1639822089
- Language: English
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Invited to the Feast
$19.00 Add to cart“Do not hurry your journey,” the poet says midway through this stunning collection. “Better if it lasts for years, so you arrive / laden with all you’ve lost along the way.” Bonnie Naradzay’s journey-
- Author: Naradzay, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1639822054
- Language: English
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Child of These Tears
$19.00 Add to cartIn the early years of the eighteenth century, the settlers living in the hamlet of Hartfield Falls in “English America” face the looming threat posed by historical and political forces beyond their co
- Author: McNett, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 163982202X
- Language: English
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Flight from Meaning
$18.00 Add to cartAccording to T.R. Hummer, “Stephen Haven is a poet of incisive discipline deployed in the service of a passionate, humanistic ethos.” His poems reflect “concern for humanity, and concern for language,
- Author: Haven, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1639821848
- Language: English
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The Grand Valley: On Going to Hell, to France, and Back to Childhood
$19.00 Add to cartIn the final, absorbing volume of his Three Paintings Trilogy, philosopher and critic Morgan Meis explores the art of Joan Mitchell and in particular one of her crowning achievements, the Grand Valley
- Series: Three Paintings Trilogy
- Author: Meis, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1639821996
- Language: English
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We Shall Not All Sleep
$38.00 Add to cartIn a small North Carolina riverside town where past and present are mysteriously entangled, young Daniel Waterson is growing up in the towering presence of his father Ray, a decorated Vietnam veteran
- Author: Woodlief, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1639821759
- Language: English
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Gather the Olives: On Food and Hope and the Holy Land
$20.00 Add to cart“‘Gather the Olives’ is an achingly lovely essay collection that celebrates the multiculturalism of Israel and Palestine, lifting up those whose generosity and kindness lights the way to lasting peace
- Author: Lott, Bret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1639821627
- Language: English
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Your Names Are Written in Heaven: The World of Rose Busingye
$19.00 Add to cartIn the 1990s, a young Ugandan Catholic nurse named Rose Busingye began working in the slums of Kampala with the many women there suffering from HIV/AIDS. Many of them were refugees from civil war in t
- Author: Perillo, Davide
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1639821813
- Language: English
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Whole
$35.00 Add to cartOn the first day of spring in the Inland Empire of Southern California, our narrator Joe inadvertently rams his car into Ronnie, a homeless man riding a bicycle. The bike is crushed, aluminum cans are
- Author: Updegraff, Derek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1639821694
- Language: English
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Featherless
$17.00 Add to cartPlato famously defined a human being as a “featherless biped.” It’s hard not to sense the ironic humor in this definition, a reminder that, for all our talk about human dignity, our condition is conti
- Author: Mojtabai, A. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1639821775
- Language: English
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In Search of the Human Face
$21.00 Add to cartWhat do we mean when we say “I”? Behind that word there exists today a deep and abiding confusion. And yet what could be more urgent for each and every one of us than an understanding of what it means
- Author: Giussani, Luigi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1639821902
- Language: English
