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"Youmans (pronounced like 'yeoman' with an 's' added) is the best-kept secret among contemporary American writers." --John Wilson, editor, Books and Culture

MAZE OF BLOOD (Mercer University Press, 2015.) Novel. Inspired by the life of Robert E. Howard. Profusely decorated by artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins. Literary / fantastic. "...A haunting tale of dark obsessions and transcendent creative fire, rendered brilliantly in Youmans' richly poetic prose." --Midori Snyder

GLIMMERGLASS (Mercer University Press, 2014) IndieFab BOTYA Finalist. Art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins. Novel. "It’s brilliantly well-written, shockingly raw, and transportingly—sometimes confusingly (but not in a bad way)—weird. Glimmerglass shimmers on the boundaries of the real and the ...more

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CLIVEANThe images: "Clive Hicks-Jenkins and the Art of the Book" at Hay Castle, including art from Seren of the Wildwood (WisebloodBooks), Charis in the World of Wonders (IgnatiusPress), and Maze of Blood (Mercer University Press.) The Charis images shown here are on Sussex Lustreware's World of Wonders line.From Clive via Instagram:Hay Castle, Hay-on-WyeDec 5th 2025 - March 8th 2026Book covers

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	A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage 4.14 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Curse of the Raven Mocker 3.36 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Seren of the Wildwood by Marly Youmans (Goodreads Author), Clive Hicks-Jenkins (Illustrator) 4.43 avg rating — 28 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“our trials, yet each crisis counts, and we will fly up anew like the phoenix and go on. For Christ is with us amid all slings and arrows.”
― Marly Youmans, Charis in the World of Wonders: A Novel Set in Puritan New England

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“Torquelike, fear encircled her throat with its dull constant pressure....
...give the newborn child fresh from his own salt sea a look at the bigger ocean he had crossed. p 20”
― Marly Youmans, Catherwood

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“he felt a pang of desire for the tintinnabulation of a Georgia summer. Strange, he thought, to long for the rasp of day- and dusk-singing cicadas and the night singers, katydids.”
― Marly Youmans, A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage

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A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage, by Marly Youmans

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Out of the Woods, by Chris Offutt

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Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in United States History and Life, by David Billings

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Blacktop Wasteland, by S.A. Cosby

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Saints at the River, by Ron Rash

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“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
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