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Do Not Think Badly of Me By Kevin Arnold Manzanita Writer’s Press
“Kevin’s poems turn ordinary events into compelling tales. The conventional becomes captivating; the pedestrian becomes provocative. Full of fact and feeling and, often, a clever twist, his words may leave you thoughtful or smiling, but always wellfed.”—Jayne Jaudon Ferrer, Editor of YourDailyPoem.com.
www.KevinArnoldAuthor.com
American Bastard By Jan Beatty Red Hen Press
American Bastard is a lyrical inquiry into the experience of being a bastard in America. This memoir travels across literal continents—and continents of desire as Beatty finds her birthfather, a Canadian hockey player who’s won three Stanley Cups—and her birthmother, a working-class woman from Pittsburgh. American Bastard sandblasts the exaltation of adoption in Western culture.
www.janbeatty.com
Words of a Feather Hawked Together By Linda Marie Hilton Atmosphere Press
This debut collection of poetry, seemingly serendipitous, when carefully read, reveals sensitivity and acute observation, grounded in metal mettle, which steers a determination towards self-actualization, while reminding us that tradition is neither dead nor capable of stifling self-expression. The world as it always is remains a spoken prompt to the poet.
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Naming the Invisible By Barbara Branch Bates Finishing Line Press
Naming the Invisible
explores the role that words play in keeping what makes things beautiful in life from disappearing into the everyday battles that stain the world with sorrow. These poems range widely between the human and the animal world, the human longing for connection and, at the same time, the essential separation the wild requires for survival.
www.finishinglinepress.com
Lucky Ride By Terry Tierney Unsolicited Press
Set in the Vietnam War era, Lucky Ride tells the story of a recent veteran, an unraveling marriage, and a hitchhiking trip steeped in hippie optimism, post-war skepticism, and drug-induced fantasy. “A bang-zoom road trip novel with the queasy high-flying pace of Easy Rider and the breakneck prose of On the Road,”
—Douglas Cole, author of The White Field.
www.unsolicitedpress.com
Duskborn Radiance: A Mother’s Question By Pasquale di Falco Atmosphere Press
As the forces of tyranny run rampant, the Universe needs a hero, and a mysterious sorceress prepares to answer the call. Duskborn
Radiance “introduces a broader scope of what the fantasy/sci-fi genres can offer…magical energy not only grows in the characters, it grows throughout every page.”—Feathered Quill. “Five stars.”—Readers’ Favorite.
https://amzn.to/3DDsqal
The Book Who Loved Me
By Sanz Edwards
A romance about how destiny and fate are fulfilled through a rocky journey of choices, heartache, disbelief, second chances, and books who bring soulmates together. Anyone who has written a love letter hoping it would be read by their soulmate, or created a list of desired qualities in a spouse with the hope of manifesting that person, will love this book.
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Helen in Trouble By Wendy Sibbison Booksmyth Press
“A 16-year-old girl’s unexpected pregnancy leads her on a hero’s journey in this 1963-set debut historical novel…A beautifully written, compassionate coming-of-age tale with subtle mythic overtones.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review).
https://www.helenintrouble.com
Green: A reflection on love and loss through a lifetime relationship with the land
A Collection of Short Stories by Dan Tawczynski
Green (paperback/audio) is a collection of stories from childhood events, adulthood lessons, and the formation of Taft Farms, all of which shaped the author’s life, on the land and elsewhere. Taft Farms started with a five-year-old boy on the front lawn with a few veggies on a card table under a beach umbrella. It has undergone many changes over seventy years.
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How It Happens By Jean Alicia Elster
Wayne State University Press
Through three successive generations of African American women, Elster intertwines fictionalized adaptations of the defining periods and challenges—race relations, miscegenation, sexual assault, and class divisions—in her family’s history. How It Happens carries the heart through the obstacles that still face women of color today and holds open the door of communication between generations.
www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/how-it-happens
The Street Belongs to Us By Karleen Pendleton Jiménez Arsenal Pulp Press
“Tween best friends spend a summer waging a friendly street battle in 1980s Los Angeles…A thoughtful and poignant look at friendship, loss, and exploring cultural heritage.”—Kirkus.
https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/T/The-Street-Belongs-to-Us
Galactic Bird Brain [A Poetry Collection]
Book 1 of 8—Part of the Jazzy Hummingbird Poetry Project Series
By Vevna Forrow
This collection highlights the importance of hearing others’ voices and not taking criticism personally as a writer. Book one of eight has a Bird and Outer Space theme as a result of Forrow’s fascination with flying creatures and the marvels that NASA features. Buckle up and settle in for liftoff as you skydive through Forrow’s brain in 3…2…1…
www.amazon.com/author/vevnaforrow
the bitter end By Nanci LaGarenne Blue Bottle Press
Dragger Delray has returned to Montauk. A Salty, his whole life spent on the sea commercial fishing, is long over. It’s been six years since Dragger left for Key West, and he’s back. The thing is, Montauk’s changed. But murder? In this hamlet of fishing, drinking, sunsets and surfing? Apparently, Dragger came back just in time.
https://www.nancilagarenne.com/
When the World Walks Toward You By Myra Shapiro Kelsay Books
“Life and beauty, death and its mysterious music—like a perpetual humming beneath all our exacting movements—the diminishment and death of her beloved partner—and dreams for the women of our own histories as well as the far-off, equally deserving women of Gaza, why not? ‘O world askew!’ Shapiro sings. She’s a master.”—Naomi Shihab Nye.
https://kelsaybooks.com
Sphinx By Andrea Dejean
Middle Creek Publishing & Audio
By the time Paulie Dionne finally understands what the data on the Sphinx moths she collects are trying to tell her about the health of the rainforest, she has nearly paid for it with her life… With Sphinx, Andrea Dejean has given us a captivating novel of ecological mystery and environmental intrigue in the heart of the French Amazon.
www.middlecreekpublishing.com
Reunion of the Good Weather Suicide Cult By Kyle McCord Atmosphere Press
This gripping drama follows Tom Duncan, the sole survivor of the largest cult mass suicide in U.S. history, as he works to rebuild his shattered life. “Reunion of the Good Weather Suicide
Cult is a lovely and thoughtful exploration of the aftermath of a terrible tragedy…Heartbreaking and heartwarming by turns….a wonderfully poignant literary novel.”—Independent Book Review.
https://amzn.to/3lBohNS
Nowhere Now Here Prose Poems By Charles Springer Radial Books
Nowhere Now Here is a collection of prose poems that read and feel whimsical on the surface, with solid and brilliant imagery, but underneath this surface lay undercurrents of grit and pathos. It’s a standout collection of ordinary lives and their seemingly ordinary moments made extraordinary.
www.radialbooks.org
Marrow: Poems By darlene anita scott University Press of Kentucky
“Marrow gives flesh and bone to the ghosts of Jones’ People and puts the real and imagined story in this history.”—Adrienne Christian, author of Worn and A Proper Lover.“Marrow is a memory that is both faithful and fatal. The writing is stunning.”—DaMaris B. Hill, PhD, author of A Bound Woman Is
a Dangerous Thing.
www.kentuckypress.com
Our Silent Voice: Break the Silence By Marie Posthumus and Janet Pfeifer Our Silent Voice, LLC
This anthology gives voice to survivors of sexual assault. Stories that kept us feeling shamed, hurt, and quiet. You’ll change as you turn these pages. Your compassion will broaden; language used around this topic will change. Submissions are open for our next volume. This book and community are a safe space to transform from a victim into a warrior.
www.oursilentvoice.com
Winter Solstice By Diana Howard Atmosphere Press
Winter Solstice burrows deep into the heart-rending poetic journey of a daughter trying to love and help her mother who is slowly losing her memory. “Confessionalist in subject matter but transcendentalist in its imagery…those readers living with loved ones suffering from dementia will find a place of comfort and understanding in this work.”—The US Review of Books.
https://amzn.to/2YK3RtF
Out Front the Following Sea By Leah Angstman Regal House Publishing
A headstrong woman accused of witchcraft must survive in the wilds of 17th-century New England when tensions between French and English colonists rupture into King William’s War. James Clavell meets Hilary Mantel meets Bernard Cornwell, with a cast of Quakers, Pequots, soldiers, and highwaymen dragged into one Englishwoman’s struggle to save herself—and her treasonous Frenchman—from the noose.
tinyurl.com/followingsea
Preserving Family Ties By Mark David Roseman, PhD, CFLE WestBow Press
Preserving Family Ties contextualizes family science research for the reader to have a greater understanding of the complexity in child custody outcomes when parents separate. Dr. Roseman carefully examines how family practitioners across disciplines impact and are affected by current child custody decision making, then demonstrates how research may be applied in child custody decisions to improve child outcomes.
www.preservingfamilyties.com
The Spiral Shell: A French Village Reveals Its Secrets of Jewish Resistance in World War II A Memoir by Sandell Morse Schaffner Press
“Elegant, erudite, passionate”—Alexander Chee (How to
Write an Autobiographical Novel). Silver Medalist for the Sarton Women’s Book Award. Look for it in hardcover, audiobook, and soon to be released in paperback in spring 2022.
www.schaffnerpress.com
Book & Baby By M. M. De Voe, founder of Pen Parentis Brooklyn Writers Press (2021)
First Prize, Indie Book Awards
Full of encouraging facts & helpful advice from successful writer-parents Min Jin Lee, J.P. Howard, Patty Dann & more. Organized by growth-phases from infant onward—Mid-West
Review recommends this professional writers’ reference as “mandatory” to retain or regain productivity after having kids.
mmdevoe.com/books
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
Love Letters from L.A.: poems from before By Kasandra Livingston Space Butterfly Books
The perfect Valentine’s gift for the poet or poetry lover in your life. “You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll move to Florida!”—Van Nuys U-Haul Assistant Manager, just doing this between auditions and gives him time to write the screenplay. “Russian Disinformation!”—Rep. Adam Schiff of Beautiful Downtown Burbank. Available on Amazon. Postage due. Cheaper and safer than Star Tours!
www.spacebutterflies.com
The Twisted Circle: A Novel By Rosaliene Bacchus Lulu Press, Inc.
Inspired by real events, The Twisted Circle: A Novel is an evocative story of two religious women torn apart by obsession and entitlement. Within the confines and complexities of the religious life, the characters distort the circle of God’s love into the twisted circle of self-indulgence and sexual depravity.
www.rosalienebacchus.com
Tornado Drill By Dave Malone Aldrich Press
“The polished poems in Dave Malone’s Tornado Drill spin readers from Kansas arroyos and Ozark lakes to sodden Paris side streets and back again. Along the way there are surprising glimpses through neighborhood windows and into manicured back yards, but no matter the setting, Malone’s true terrain is the human heart.”—C.D. Albin, author of Hard Toward Home.
https://kelsaybooks.com/
The Devil’s Party By Pete Barthell Amazon
Ugly problems, worldwide, to which you contribute, and which will not be solved in your lifetime.
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The Door-Man By Peter Matthiessen Wheelwright Fomite Press
“Filled with insight, deft detail, wry wit, The Door-Man is a poignant once-here historical intrigue, exactly the novelistic embrace we need in our agitated bewilderment.”—John Reed,
Snowball’s Chance. “A suspenseful reflection on identity and memory, with their unsparing strangeness and dreamlike fragility, The Door-Man is a complex and thoughtful book.”—Susanna Moore, Miss Aluminum: A Memoir.
www.peterwheelwright.com