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The Donner Party
By George Keithley
George Braziller, Inc.
“The Donner Party is one of the three or four finest book-length
American poems ever written.”—Poetry. “Out of the western
migration of the 1840s...Keithley has made a lean, taut narra-
tive poem that moves with the speed and terseness of a killer
shark.”—The New York Times. “Keithley’s account of the Donner
tragedy is a major event in American letters.”—X.J. Kennedy.
http://www.georgebraziller.com
Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness & Connection
Edited by James Crews with a preface by Ted Kooser
Green Writers Press
This anthology features poems by Ross Gay, Naomi Shihab
Nye, and other poets creating what Dr. Martin Luther King
called the “beloved community,” a place where we see each
other as neighbors. Healing the Divide urges us, at this fraught
political time, to move past the negativity, and to embrace the
ordinary moments of kindness and connection that fill our days.
http://greenwriterspress.comSacred Groves: Or, How a Cemetery Saved My Soul
By Kathleen Davies
Bedazzled Ink Publishing
Amidst intense pressure to prove herself in academia, Kathleen
Davies finds relief in the beautiful local cemetery. Once she
is denied tenure, cemeteries become an obsession, and her
cemetery photoshoots evolve into a spiritual quest that leads to
a surprising self-discovery. “With elegant prose, Davies crafts a
beautiful memoir about diving into pain and coming out whole.”
—Marcy Dermansky. http://www.kathleendaviesauthors.comIn the Next Life
By Joan Baranow
Poetic Matrix Press
“The lilt and love, the trust and thrust, the pain and gain of these
poems, is simply marvelous. In the Next Life reminds me of what
I often forget—that poetry can be radiant. Radiant equally in
sunlight and darkness. I am so grateful for this book.”—Alicia
Ostriker.
http://www.poeticmatrix.comTo 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.
http://www.amazon.com
Amanda Goes to Las Vegas
By Nancy Dick
A love story about Amanda, a young woman who leaves the
family and rural family farm she loves to help her family out
by trying to become a “big time” star in Las Vegas. This is
the story of her journey. This author has done two book sign-
ings. Available online at amazon.com and bn.com and nationally
at many Barnes & Noble Bookstores.http://www.worksbynancydick.comI Should Have Been Music
By Babette Becker
Page Publishing
My memoir covers four years in the 1950s I spent in four mental
hospitals when nothing was known of childhood trauma. I was
passed from hospital to hospital carrying several severe diagnostic
labels. I include notes from my hospital journals, poetry, doctors’
reports. It shows the stark contrast between what was frightening
and desperate to me and what the doctors thought.
http://www.pagepublishing.com
Diving into the Mystery: Studies in the Creative Process
Edited by Sue Booth-Forbes
Anam Cara Publishing
Launched by Billy Collins, this anthology of 54 personal essays
by a wide variety of creators is meant to inspire others to discover
their own creative processes. The book, priced at €12 (plus post-
age), is a fundraiser for Pieta House, an organisation that works to
support vulnerable people struggling with issues such as self-harm
and the threat of suicide. All proceeds go to Pieta House.
http://www.anamcararetreat.com/diving-into-the-mysteryWindthrow & Salvage
By Randall R. Freisinger
“Windthrow & Salvage attends to many kinds of damage & repair,
always with resilience and some stunning moments of reflective
humor”—Laurie Kutchins. “...Witty, poignant, and lyrical, full
of good stories...[A] book you’ll be glad to own”—Charles
Harper Webb. “Freisinger’s engaging voice focuses on aging and
loss, on our place in the universal entropy...always examined
with insight and empathy.”—William Trowbridge.
http://www.kelsaybooks.comThe First Village
By Ian M. Evans
Pegasus/Vanguard Press
Wales AD 383 is the most remote province of Roman-occupied
Britain. When General Magnus Maximus withdraws the
Roman army, three senior officers plot to save themselves, their
homes and their families in this lively adventure of love and
ambition. Questions of loyalty, Celtic independence, and the
influence of the new state religion, Christianity, blend with the
need for community survival. http://www.amazon.com