Product Description: VERA MAGPIE explores the gap between childhood fantasies of adult life and the stark reality of life in a women's prison. The eponymous narrator, Vera Magpie herself, is serving time for the murder of her three husbands, including Larry, a good man whom she loves, but is doomed to die at Vera's hands because she has acquired a taste for murder...read more

Product Description: The vast array of social media options present a challenge to today's busy librarians: it's tough to keep current, let alone formulate a plan for using these tools effectively. Solomon, a librarian with extensive experience in web development, design, and technology, cuts to the chase with this invaluable guide to using social media in any kind of library...read more

Product Description: Poetry. What is the hermit? A crab? A card drawn from a tarot deck? Sage, lunatic, scholar, mad scientist, philosopher or monk? A rebel or recluse, a wandering samurai, a stranger in an even stranger land, an immigrant, an exile, a tourist, a hero or anti-hero? Do hermits live apart from others or alone among others like them? Do they abide in the remote landscapes of legends or in our modern-day cities? Can a woman be a hermit? Who is not a hermit? In this third collection of poems by Laura Solomon, the Hermit embodies the complicated search for simplicity and shared solitude both at home and abroad...read more

Product Description: Poetry. "In her second collection, BLUE AND RED THINGS, Laura Solomon discovers what the wizards of the world have always known and hid under large rocks. Solomon bravely takes these things out from under the rocks, displays them for us in her large poetic voice, and begs us to listen to them, lest we forget them altogether...read more

Product Description: FROM THE BACK COVER In Bivouac, Laura Solomon's poems of hope and heartache break and reconvene endlessly, fabricating ghost maps of desire on the page and in the transfixed mind of the reader. Recalling Stevens's oceanic undulations, Solomon's meditations create complex weather systems of language as their true work of culture, politics, and philosophy methodically ebbs and flows...read more