The Spring 2025 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Spring 2025 Issue, edited by Peggy Schumaker, features poetry and prose by Naomi Shihab Nye, Felicia Zamora, Tim Seibl...

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific brings together fifty writers and artists from across Moananuiākea working in myriad genres across media, ranging from oral narratives and traditional wonder tales to creative writing as well as visual artwork and scholarly essays. Collectively, this anthology features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the past in creating alternative futures, and in so doing reimagines relationships betwee...

It wasn't until he was 19 years old that Kenneth Johnson first met a Mormon--an intriguing young woman he would later marry. Prior to that encounter at a community dance, he was a typical young Englishman, largely indifferent to organized religion and very much caught up in popular music and sports.Now, some 40 years later, having served in such callings as stake president and regional representative, he is a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy in The Church of Jesus Christ o...

Sure, I can rock a tank top and ponytail while collecting ancient relics, but don’t call me a tomb raider. I knew the guy who built the pyramids… and I mean in the biblical sense.Archaeologist, fashionista, and an ancient immortal with a serious memory problem, Dr. Nia Rivers has spent the last few centuries filling in the blanks of her past, all while outrunning dark assassins and stealing brief moments alone with Zane, her immortal lover.But when...

Katharine Firestone is a bit of a mess.Between an acting career that's never quite made lift-off to stardom, a pathetic love life of online-dating-app losers, and a maxed-out balance on every one of her credit cards, things can't get much worse. So, when she's plucked from relative obscurity to land a lead role in Hollywood's next big blockbuster, Kat is sure she's finally on the right track.Until she meets her co-star, Grayson Dunn… and all her plans are completely deraile...

He wants seclusion. She craves the spotlight. The deal they make could give them both what they need...if they don’t kill each other first. Home renovation has never been so hot!Navy SEAL Clay "Dirtman" Hagan's retirement plans are simple. Buy the dilapidated beachfront cottage he found listed for a song, fix it up, and live out his days in solitude. Everything is set until an anonymous bidder starts driving up the price of his future dream home.TV talk sho...

When battle lines blur, a wounded warrior and a career-driven woman become clear about the love they once shared.Liam Montgomery, a former soldier dealing with PTSD, finds himself fighting the most significant battle of his life when he returns home to Honor Valley. After healing his inner demons, he yearns to reclaim the love of his life. Despite the scars of the past, he's hopeful for a second chance.Rachel Montgomery, a rising career woman, has ...

New year, new beginning--new love?Kate Wood usually spends New Year's Eve with her daughter, but when a group of friends talks her into going to a party with Paul Bryant, she knows things will be different this year. She's just getting settled in small town Charles Town, West Virginia, and falling in love was not one of her resolutions, but Paul is starting to grow on her. Will she take a chance on love?Paul Bryant is struggling to raise his son after his w...

The relationship between a father and a son is like none other. Dads have a God-given role to protect and provide for their families, always striving to teach their sons the life skills they'll need to grow into honorable men. But many dads struggle with feelings of inadequacy regarding their fathering abilities. They want to be better dads.Rick Johnson can show them how. In this insightful and practical book, Johnson shows how fathers can be equipped and inspired to be positive ro...

A Coretta Scott King Author Honor and Boston Globe / Horn Book Honor winner!"Powerful.... Johnson writes about the long shadows of the past with such ambition that any reader with a taste for mystery will appreciate the puzzle Candice and Brandon must solve." -- The New York Times Book ReviewWhen Candice finds a letter in an old attic in Lambert, South Carolina, she isn't sure she should read it. It's addressed to her grandmother, who left the town in shame. But t...

“This rich volume is a national treasure.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Captivating, informative, and inspiring…Easy to follow and hard to put down.” —School Library Journal (starred review)The inspiring autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped launch Apollo 11.As a young girl, Katherine Johnson showed an exceptional aptitude for math. In school she quickly skipped ahea...

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