New T itles
Another Day, Otro DÍa
By Kathleen E. Suits-Smith
A novel of adult literary fiction, written to raise reader awareness of living and working conditions for migrant workers in communities across the United States. Portrays themes that are timely in current events and timeless in the human experience.
https://store.bookbaby.com/book/another-day,-otro-día
Yosemite of My Heart: Poems of Adventure in California
By Lalit Kumar AOS Publishing
The book captures the narrative of personal transformation through adventure and outdoors in the poetry form. The poems are action oriented, exploring outdoor activities like hiking, kayaking, and motorcycling in the settings of California landmarks including Yosemite, Big Sur, and San Francisco. The book celebrates both the physical and spiritual journeys as a quest for self-fulfillment and finding home in a distant land.
https://lalitkumaronline.com/
Momma’s Lost Piano: A Memoir
By David Madden
The University of Tennessee Press
At seventeen, Emily Merritt’s father sold her new piano after falling on hard times. The lost piano cast a shadow over Emily as she made a life in Depression-era Knoxville, Tennessee. Her son’s memoir evokes the colorful expressions of the articulate, witty woman he spent all his life listening to. This memoir will inspire readers to listen eagerly, too.
utpress.org/title/mommas-lost-piano/
The Surface of Water
By Cynthia Beach InterVarsity Press
Megachurch pastor Matthew Goodman is tired, focusing on the demands of his work. What he doesn’t know about his new assistant Trish Card and her real reason for appearing will dismantle his world. In the #ChurchToo era, this novel invites readers to see life’s shadowed edges—isolation, power, and abuse—illumined by the light of truth.
www.ivpress.com
Lying Down with Dogs
By Linda Caradine Unsolicited Press
Lying Down with Dogs is Caradine’s story, told in a series of interrelated essays, of starting an animal rescue organization in the midst of personal upheaval. As with any worthwhile endeavor, life has a way of intervening. Available now.
www.LindaCaradine.com
Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology
Edited by Amy M. Alvarez, Pamela Gemme, Shana Hill, & Alexis Ivy West Virginia University Press
“…a text of powerful firsthand accounts that capture the current context in critical and intersectional ways that are attentive to how individual lives are shaped by structural realities…”—Nana Osei-Kofi. “The work is emotionally moving. The attention to the quotidian, lived experiences of those affected offers unique insights into a global catastrophe….An important cultural response.”—Darius Bost.
https://wvupressonline.com/essential-voices
Dragstripping
By Jan Beatty
University of Pittsburgh Press
Dragstripping takes us to the literal dragstrip, the strip club, and the dragstrip of the body where the ecstatic is rescripted, where women disappear/reappear in the crosscut of gender. In these transgressive poems, Beatty writes the fractured landscape of the unknown woman, rewriting this crime scene of the body in war—with the missing or murdered as her own investigator.
www.janbeatty.com
Rabbit in the Moon: The Mexico Stories
By Karen Brennan Schaffner Press, Inc.
“How extraordinary this book is—dreamy and gritty, restless and free… A rare and wonderful collection.”—Joan Silber, author of Secrets of Happiness.
www.schaffnerpress.com
Looking for Andy Griffith: A Father’s Journey
By Evan Dalton Smith
University of North Carolina Press
“Looking for Andy Griffith is not so much a cross between biography and memoir as a gorgeous collision…. A powerful and ingenious meditation on fatherhood, loss, and self-discovery.” —Rebecca Donner, New York Times bestselling author of All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days. “A poignantly candid memoir…. a moving celebration of fatherhood….”—Kirkus Reviews.
https://bit.ly/3V30yIM
Reflections
By Patricia Olson Confluxpress.com
A collection of poems that reflect Patricia’s life in its many dimensions; her experiences, her perception of the world around her: nature, seasons. Autumn especially fills her senses with colors painted by “the Designer,” a white Church where “we were wed.” Artists, sculptors, historical figures stretch her imagination. Her lyrics touch our souls with heartwarming passion and wit.
www.confluxpress.com
Swans of the Boundary Waters
By Linda Marie Hilton Atmosphere Press
Take flights of fancy like a swan perusing vegetation patterns: see what can be wrapped in a poem: a pita full of the savory haiku surprise. Linda Marie Hilton’s second volume of poetry: Swans of the Boundary Waters!
www.amazon.com
Christmas Eyes: The Journey of a Lifetime
By Nick Pappas
Newman Springs Publishing
“Do I pass?” are the only words Nick Kakis hears from the owner of the most beautiful eyes he’s ever seen. What starts as a chance encounter on Christmas Eve leads to a lifelong search and an irrevocable decision on another Christmas Eve many years in the future...
www.amazon.com
The Political Activism of Anthropologist Franz Boas, Citizen Scientist
By Alan H. McGowan Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Franz Boas, in addition to being a groundbreaking anthropologist, was a political activist, one of the first to use his scientific standing to further progressive political causes such as pacifism and free speech. The book describes this in a powerful narrative.
https://blackwells.co.uk
Going Places: Poems
By William Heath
Going Places, set abroad, is the companion volume to Steel Valley Elegy published last year. “William Heath is a master at describing his journeys to fascinating, exotic, and challenging places. He weaves unforgettable poems with humor, skill, intelligence, and compassion, for he is a poet who loves and celebrates the world. Few poets understand its beauty and fragility as deeply as Heath does.”—Esperanza Hope Snyder.
www.williamheathbooks.com
Find Me: Stories
By Bruce F. Kawin PB&J Books
“Terse and yet opulent, these stories are a revelation of language in action. Coming on the success of his poetry book Love If We Can Stand It, it’s not an opening anyone can afford to miss.” —David E. James.
www.amazon.com
Journeying Home
By Barbara Kilde Carlier BookLocker Press
It is the future in Brittany, France. The two main characters, Elin and Talla, take the same road but at a 20-year interval in a world without electricity and after the second Chornobyl explosion. It’s with much hope that they look to start a new life at Mont St. Michel (now called Mikelmont).
www.booklocker.com
Visual Verse
By Tom Despard Palmetto Publishing
Ekphrasis is Greek for “speak out” and came to refer to a detailed description of a work of art as does ekphrastic poetry today. Visual Verse is a fresh and unique approach to this concept with a variety of 47 illustrations, especially paintings and photographs, combined with a related poem.
www.amazon.com
Light in a Dark Place: Where Faith Confronts Depression
By D.M. Harrington Christian Faith Publishing
Are you a Christian who battles depression? Have you wondered why your faith isn’t meeting your needs? You are not alone. Light in a Dark Place breaks down our desperate questions of faith into digestible nuggets, which show how to make a faith walk practical. Available in print and ebook at amazon.com, audiobook at audible.com, plus other audiobook retailers.
www.lightinadarkplace.com
Shaver
By John Pearson Outskirts Press
Shaver Ketch farms in normally calm and quiet central Wisconsin. Shaver’s brother is the county sheriff. Two unusual deaths in the county occupy the brothers’ time, trying to figure out whether the deaths are accidents or murders. Humor, romance and some insights into the nuances of farming drive the story line.
www.outskirtspress.com
A Buried Plot on Legacy Road
By John Michael Heuer
Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co.
A reincarnation saga of the wealthy Braintree family, who, in 1930’s Depression, turned to murder and theft, but were never caught. Reincarnated as Hammilson, and acquiring in 1990 the old raintree mansion, they meet the fatal impact of their crimes when they were the Braintrees. “Faulkner meets Stephen King... terror painted with grace and skill…haunting…a novel not to be missed.”—Charles Asher, Phi Beta Kappa Reviews.
www.amazon.com
Trespass: Portraits of Unhoused Life, Love, and Understanding
By Kim Watson Broadleaf Books
Trespass is an honest and unflinching depiction of the beauty and humanity of the unhoused people of Los Angeles. Through profiles, essays, and stunning black-and-white photographs from filmmaker and photographer Kim Watson, Trespass dares us to confront our own biases and inspires us toward compassion and empathy for our fellow humans.
www.broadleafbooks.com
The Last Suttee
By Dr. Madhu Bazaz Wangu Published Independently
Kumud has worked hard to put her life in Blue Town behind her. But a shocking call turns her world upside down. A bride has decided to commit suttee. Kumud has no choice but to return to the town and stop the heinous crime disguised as ritual.
www.madhubazazwangu.com
Breaking the Blank
By Dwayne Lawson-Brown and Rebecca Bishophall Day Eight Publishing
Breaking the Blank is a spirited dialogue between poets—and a meditation on love, parenting, gentrification, money, and the literary life. In accessible free verse, haiku, sonnets, and other forms, Dwayne Lawson-Brown and Rebecca Bishophall honor the African American experience, make sacred the ordinary, and remind the reader of the marvelous in the everyday.
https://day-eight-books.myshopify.com/products/
Big Guy: A School Horse Story
By Celia Ryker Rootstock Publishing
A new middle grade novel by award-winning author and former horse trainer Celia Ryker! Big Guy is a show horse who has big changes to face, and who learns that friendships can last beyond the time you share together. This simple, sweet story reads like a night under the stars, or an afternoon racing to a hay field. For ages 9+.
www.rootstockpublishing.com
Music for Exile
By Nehassaiu deGannes Tupelo Press
“Music for Exile reconfigures saltwater as blood and sweat as hurricane…”—Phillip B. Williams. “…these wide-ranging, rapturous poems roam. What they gather—and what they set free—sing and grieve the miracle of ‘love’s small galaxy.’”—Tracy K. Smith. “… a fresh voice, unafraid of labels or schools, formalism/experimental in the same poem. The same line!—hallelujah!” —Bob Holman.
tupelopress.org/product/music-for-exile/
The Anatomy of Gratitude
By Ronald W. Pies
In this short work for the general reader, psychiatrist and ethicist Ronald W. Pies, MD, explores gratitude in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Stoicism. The reader will gain a deeper understanding of gratitude and learn ways of integrating this vital quality into everyday life.
www.amazon.com
Swampitude: Escapes with the Congaree
By Quitman Marshall
Praise song to swamps as places, forbidding and sheltering, this book explores the terrain, sticky history, literature, creatures, people, and spirits met on journeys into the swamp’s mélange. Photos by Peggy Peattie, author of Down in Dixie.“Swampitude is the best book I’ve read in years.”—Jane Zenger. “The language is glorious, word by word, sentence by sentence.”—Valerie Sayers.
www.bookshop.org
Long Journey Home
By Michael R. Lane Bare Bones Press
From “Case 121” and “Silver Anniversary” to “Coma,” “The Last Serious Man,” and “Fogbound,” Long Journey Home takes the reader on distinctive, eclectic, winding journeys through the astonishing complexities of devotion, relationships, longing, lust, and love with a dash of detective mysteries tossed in for additional spice.
www.michaelrlane.com
My Life and Poetry
By Noel Anthony Haughey Allpoetry.com
This book includes the life story of Noel Haughey and his remarkable poems. From his history as a basketball player, to meeting movie stars, to his chronic pain from a botched surgery—Noel has lived an interesting life, and buckle up because his story and poems are going to take you on a fascinating journey.
www.allpoetry.com
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