Reedy Press presents its latest addition: "Missouri Weird & Wonderful," a delightful collaboration by Amanda E. Doyle and Dan Zettwoch.

For 12 years, the Kirkwood Public Library has selected a single book and asked members of the community to open it, fall in and explore.

This excerpt comes from St. Louis writer and poet Jacqui Germain’s debut collection, “Bittering the Wound,” a first-person retelling of the 2014 Ferguson uprising.