New T itles
the body has memories
By adrienne danyelle oliver “…[C]onjuring the story of a life marked by moments of invasion, healing, and the reflections of both…oliver’s work is a monument to the memories of her flesh recollected in the service of grief, growth, and knowing.”— Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, Ph.D., first Poet Laureate of Oakland, California; Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame.
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The Door-Man By Peter Matthiessen Wheelwright Fomite Press “Like Richard Powers and Barbara Kingsolver, Peter Wheelwright renders the inextricable connection between natural and human history in this richly layered and imagined novel.”—Paula Closson Buck, author, Summer on the Cold War Planet. “The Door-Man is a big, deep, beautiful book, a riveting multigenerational saga that is also a meditation on time itself.”—Catherine Chung, author,
The Tenth Muse.
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The Gift of Glossophobia By Mary Louise Kiernan Kelsay Books “It takes a lifetime to accrue—and reveal—one’s best creative acts, and Kiernan proves it in The Gift of Glossophobia.”—Molly
Peacock. “Kiernan’s poetry touches on the fear of speaking her mind, self-discovery, family ties, and the magic of everyday events.”—Chronogram. “This honest book welcomes ‘Turning forty on a full moon—let the lunacy begin.’”—Mary Makofske.
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The Levtov Trilogy
By Ronald W. Pies, MD The Levtov Trilogy brings together Ronald Pies’s novel, The
Director of Minor Tragedies, and two novellas. Together, the trilogy follows the Levtov family through their years of loss, growth and redemption.
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The Lady with the Crown: A Story of Resilience By Kathleen Canrinus Fuze Publishing “A gritty, matter-of-fact account of tragedy and how to make it a beginning and not an end.”—David Teplow, Professor of Neurology, UCLA. “Bold, brave, honest! A beautifully told mother-daughter love story.”—Ann Davidson, Alzheimer’s, A
Love Story. “Heartbreaking and hilarious.”—Sylvia Halloran, poet and editor. “This beautiful, uplifting little book resonates with love.”—Carol Cassara, The Healing Spirit.www.amazon.com
Impossible Naked Life By Luke Rolfes Kallisto Gaia Press Winner, Acacia Fiction Prize. Whether it’s compassion among cold people, or a bull snake in the grip of a young girl, every story delivers something profound where you don’t expect it. These stories ache and sigh in impossibly beautiful ways, and are haunted by a creeping sense of dread. Rolfes serves up the droll and the devastating in equal measure.
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Unaccustomed To Grace By Lesley Bannatyne Kallisto Gaia Press “From macabre fantasy to raw reality, these stories introduce an authentic voice and unique vision. Unaccustomed To Grace revels in danger, in warped heroes, in ebullient—sometimes devastating—fearlessness.”—Daphne Kalotay. “Bannatyne is a trickster, casting a fiction-magic spell that dissolves the ground as you read, to reveal a world at once wilder, more wounded, and true.”—Sammy Greenspan.
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Taint: A Novel By Janet Kelley Atmosphere Press This is the story of a girl seeking revenge for the rape of her best friend. Set in small-town Kansas when the terrorist attacks in NYC brought life to a standstill, friendship and justice are tested when the unthinkable happens. “A stylish and bold YA literary novel…Taint doesn’t hold back.”—Independent Book Review. “A searing, dark tale.”—Kirkus Reviews.
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Heart Like a Wheel: Poem Collection By Giulietta Passarelli Amazon This beautiful collection shares a heart’s journey through change and growth. It’s life spinning on a wheel, cascading waterfalls, where the grass is greener. You wonder, fly, celebrate, leaving the old behind, to look beyond the waters, following the rainbow. Dedicated to family and poets who found the treasures of their heart, sharing life, love, and the beauty of poetry.
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Knights of the Air, Book One: Rage! By Iain Stewart Atmosphere Press In this WWI-set retelling, impeccable history from the dawn of military aviation is woven with characters and themes drawn from the Arthurian myths. As two enduring legends intertwine, King Arthur meets the Red Baron. “Finely written and vividly imagined, this is a complex, gritty novel delving into the brutalities of war. Stewart is an author to watch.”—BookView Review.
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The Aquamarine Surfboard By Kellye Abernathy Atmosphere Press Ebbing and flowing between reality and magic, times past and present, The Aquamarine Surfboard is a riveting beach tale about opening up to mystery, building community wherever you can—and discovering the ocean is filled with the kind of magic that changes the world. “A stellar debut that inspires hope and kindness…a captivating read for all ages.”—Independent Book
Review.
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but the flames By Emily Vieweg Finishing Line Press “In but the flames, Vieweg finds the exotic (the ‘fire’) in the everyday and reveals an examined life. She finds the beauty within and without and all around. Through her verse, she polishes an ordinary day and makes it extraordinary. Throughout, Vieweg has an eye for detail. Through her, we’ll truly see.”—Kevin Rabas, Poet Laureate of Kansas, 2017-2019, Elizabeth’s City.
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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.
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Watts UpRise By Ron L. Dowell World Stage Press
Watts UpRise is a very public love letter to Watts, Los Angeles. The collection renders homage to its most notable artistic landmark, the Watts Towers, and its creator, Sabato Rodia, and the poems epitomize the beauty, strength, and resiliency of Watts and South L.A. inhabitants. A Press 53 award finalist, the collection will be available in July 2022. Pre-order now.
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Whispers of the Soul: New and Selected Poems By Patricia Greer Chiron Publications
Whispers of the Soul … sometimes gentle … sometimes fierce. A collection of poems that range from expressions of gratitude for the gifts of nature, to musings about aging and the fragility of life, to insights about women’s issues and concerns, to observations about the complexities of family dynamics, to reflections about writing and therapy.
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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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Liberation of Dissonance: Poems By Bruce Bond Schaffner Press Winner of the 2021 Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature. “Bruce Bond is a poet of extraordinary talent…one of the best poets writing now…”—Laura Kasischke.
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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; now out in paperback as well as audiobook and hardcover.
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Camaraderie of the Marvelous By Dianna MacKinnon Henning Kelsay Books “Like evergreens and wildflowers, Dianna Henning’s poems are rooted in nature. She writes of a world where ‘words wore animal skins,’ of a hungry doe that ‘burst into radiant being,’ of ‘tears turned into honeybees,’ and of a ruby necklace becoming a blood stain. Henning transforms domestic rituals and animal visitations into magical encounters in these brilliant, elegant poems.”— Beth Copeland.
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Spookie Stories (Some True, Some Not)
By Marjorie Tavoularis A group of short stories with a paranormal theme. Some stories were reported by the psychiatrist-author’s patients, while others were written by the author as fiction.
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Threads: A Poetry Collection By Jeffrey Round Beautiful Dreamer Press A lyrical, often rhapsodic collection of poems focusing on lovers, close friends, absent fathers, teen and adult suicides, victims of anti-gay violence, and hustlers of lost dreams.
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The Flower Trade By Lon Otto Brighthorse Books Hoping to rescue their marriage and make a fresh start, Monica and Ted have fled with their young children to peaceable Costa Rica—jungles, cloud forests, a failing flower farm. As the family members struggle to find their place in this sanctuary, forces of desire and nature and the backwash of international conflicts sweep over them all.
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Escaping Marilyn
By Lauren Jaworski Terrified by a government plot to murder her, Marilyn Monroe flees her life of glitz and glamour. Rumor has it that Marilyn has met her demise when she falls victim to foul play. Marilyn accepts the role of a lifetime when she alters her persona and is whisked away to a private island in Italy.
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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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Ash Tuesday By Ariadne Blayde
April Gloaming Publishing Steeped in the South’s tradition of magical realism, Ash Tuesday is a character-driven love letter to New Orleans through the lens of a fascinating subculture: its ghost tours and the eccentrics who lead them. With her debut, Blayde has carved out a deep and uber-readable interpretation of what it means to live, love, and grieve in America’s last true bohemia.
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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.
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Work Hard, Not Smart: How to Make a Messy Literary Life By Alexis Paige Vine Leaves Press A craft memoir that traces the author’s own creative origins and adventures to and on the page. With dry wit and candor, the author explores a range of personal and political subjects—from trauma to addiction to race—and the challenges and rewards that accompany such creative labors.
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collective madness
By adrienne danyelle oliver “These poems speak with…raw urgency…”—Faith Adiele, author, The Nigerian Nordic Girl’s Guide to Lady Problems and
Meeting Faith. “…An incredible feat of poetry and invocation.”—Tongo Eisen-Martin, San Francisco Poet Laureate. “…Heartbreaking, infuriating, and absolutely essential.” —Lauren K. Alleyne, author of Honeyfish and Difficult Fruit. “A testament to resiliency…”—Thea Matthews, poet and author of Unearth [The Flowers].
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The Actual Dance By Samuel A. Simon TADPress An autobiographical love story from a husband who faces the loss of his wife to breast cancer. It echoes the original “Love Story,” except with a happy ending. “Beautiful, powerful, and timeless in its message,” says author James Fallows. It is a guide to finding the true meaning of love in the worst of circumstances, with fear, joy and humor. Copies of the book are available at all bookstores.
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Meditation on Love, Dancing, Loss, and Forgiveness By Carmen Bardequez-Brown Panom Press Carmen Bardeguez-Brown’s Meditation on Love, Dancing, Loss,
and Forgiveness is a dance of memory and desire. It is a seamless combination of poetry and prose—English and Spanish—and the geographic roots of Ms. Bardeguez-Brown’s life beautifully convey her inner journey, at times imagistic, at time expository, always blended into a powerful, natural balance.
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Roots & Branches: A Family Saga Like No Other By Michael M. Meguid, MD M3 Scientific Media “Who am I, and why?” Meguid asks after a heart attack. The answer lies in a saga of love and longing based on a fatal accident in an Upper Egyptian village a century ago. In this powerful multigenerational story, Meguid explores the pain and challenges of his multicultural early life, where facing an uncertain future, Meguid navigates his own course.
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Surgeon & Lover: Fulfillment & Folly By Michael M. Meguid, MD M3 Scientific Media The personal journey of a surgeon struggling to navigate cultural morals while conflicted by love amid the stresses of operating, healing, and staving off death.
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St. Petersburg Review, Issue Nine “…His mother had been there, in that unfamiliar yard, and this idea too gave him comfort and hurt, mostly hurt. The young mischievous lad, who threw tantrums, who got beaten with a ruler, who got annoyed, remained there, lying on the ground, his arms around the goat, crying. He was a boy who had lost his mother…”—Livros, José Luís Peixoto, SPR 9.
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Jesus-Judas: Best Friends Forever By Ralph E. Jarrells WordCrafts Press Who was Judas Iscariot and where did he come from? Judas was certainly the most enigmatic character in the Bible. Out of place: 11 disciples were Galileans, Judas was Judean. Most trusted: he kept the money. He was seated next to Jesus at the last supper and probably in the most honored seat. Jesus-Judas is a plausible look at their relationship.
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To Be To Is To Was
By Stephen C. Bird Sunnie Deelite and Isabella Gloucester forge their creative identities while fending off the torments of illusory love. Amourrica Profunda transforms into Mourrzicka and finally into Isolamicka. Turmerico Inflammatorio wreaks havoc as the leader of turbulent Isolamicka. Humans escape the dying Blue Green Planet to start anew on Planet Gorp. In the Androgynous Galaxy, intergalactic witches battle for supremacy.
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Mastering the Knife: Seeking Identity & Finding Belonging By Michael M. Meguid, MD M3 Scientific Media A coming-of-age story based on biographical events of a young Egyptian medical student in 1960’s hedonistic London. Powerful forces are arrayed against him agitating for defeat and failure. The story reaches beyond the purely personal to lift the veil on the rites, rituals, rules, and language of surgery, and conveys something of the people, places, and prejudices of the period.
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Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction Edited by Rae Pagliarulo and Donna Talarico Books by Hippocampus
Inspired by Hippocampus Magazine’s annual conference, Getting to
the Truth features 20+ essays about writing, editing, publishing, and promoting true stories. Whether you’re new to creative nonfiction, want to experiment with new forms of storytelling, or wish to improve your craft, this collection has something for you.
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Springhouse Journal 6
St. Petersburg Review’s online journal, springhousejournal.com, presents an issue featuring contemporary writing in translation from women living in Lusophone countries. Guest edited by Oona Patrick with an introduction by Katherine Vaz. Works include “How to Write the Revolution” by Susana Moreira Marques translated by Julia Sanches, poetry by Rosa Alice Branco translated by Alexis Levitin, and Maria Teresa Horta translated by M.B. McClatchey and Edite Cunha.
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Redshift, Blueshift By Jordan Silversmith Gival Press Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award. A dystopian novel about a prisoner, with hints of Kakfa and Orwell. “Piercingly eerie”—Kirkus Reviews. “Capturing the befuddlement of sustained imprisonment…”—Foreword Reviews, 4-starred review.
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Sinking Islands By Cai Emmons Red Hen Press Bronwyn Artair, a meteorologist with the power to change the weather, realizes her impact on the world, as a lone individual, is limited. So she gathers a small group of like-minded people from around the world, and takes them to the wilds of New Hampshire to teach them her skill. A cli-fi novel that is not dystopic.
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