Narrative Nonfiction | Nonfiction
May.28.2009
Addiction: What’s Really Going On? contains powerful true-life stories woven together to form a tapestry filled with pain, joy, defeat, and success. The entire book is molded around Deborah McCloskey’s heartfelt desire for her clients to be free of drugs. Her counseling methods both endeared her as...
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May.28.2009
"Bendithion", the essay, is a liminal tale about a reclusive, stunningly talented and almost magical tenor, the Postmaster of a little town in Wales and the strange, chaste, romantic-friendship we shared. This essay is actually part of an epistolary novel I am currently writing also...
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May.23.2009
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. The 33rd Pushcart anthology demonstrates that independent presses still publish much of the world's most engaging literature. McSweeney's nominated Wells Tower's standout story, Retreat, in which aging property developer Matthew Lattimore seeks assistance from...
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May.22.2009
From the Cinnamon Press Website:
Felicity & Barbara Pym - Harrison Solow £8.99 UK delivery, £9.99 elsewhere
Publication date May 2010
Stunning literary non-fiction from Wales Writer in Residence and winner of a 2008 Pushcart Prize
What appear to be books about “Silly men, Mousy women, Tea,...
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May.13.2009
From the coauthor of the million-copy bestseller The Last Lecture comes a moving tribute to female friendships, with the inspiring story of eleven girls and the ten women they became.
Meet the Ames Girls: eleven childhood friends who formed a special bond growing up in Ames, Iowa. As young women,...
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Apr.25.2009
True stories from Idaho history, from the days before settlement up to Prohibition, about criminals of all kinds - killers, theives and counterfeiters among them.
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Apr.19.2009
Caryl Phillips chronicles a journey through modern-day Europe, his quest guided by a moral compass rather than a map.
Seeking personal definition within the parameters of growing up black in Europe, he discovers that the natural loneliness and confusion inherent in long journeys collide with...
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Apr.19.2009
What constitutes "home"? Seen through the historical prism of the Atlantic slave trade, Phillips undertakes a personal quest to come to terms with dislocation and discontinuities that a diasporan history engenders in the soul of an individual.
Phillips initially journeys from the...
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Mar.19.2009
In The Perfect Fruit, Chip Brantley tells the creation myth behind the pluot, a plum-apricot hybrid. The book is part biography, part cultural history, and part horticultural inquest.
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Feb.26.2009
Letting Go is the extraordinary story of a woman who retires with her husband to the mountains of North Carolina to build their dream retirement home. Just as she embarks on this fabulous new chapter in her life, her husband confesses, “I never wanted any of this… .” Follow her struggle to learn...
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