New Books

The Best American Short Stories 1994 (Edited) by Tobias Wolff Editors Tobias Wolff and Katrina Kenison selected twenty-one stories for this volume of the well-known series. More about this book »	Best New American Voices 2000 (Edited) by Tobias Wolff Culled from over one hundred prestigious writing programs around the United States and Canada, Best New American Voices 2000 offers a remarkable panoply of writing... More about this book »
American Vulgar by Robert Grudin Defining vulgarity as any action that is at once ignorant, popular and harmful, American Vulgar runs the gamut of American culture from Fast Foods to NPR, exploring... More about this book »	The Most Amazing Thing by Robert Grudin A blockbuster adventure tale in the tradition of Rabelais, Cervantes and Swift. More about this book »
Back in America by Barry Gifford Barry Gifford’s spare eloquence considers such diverse topics as his friend Allen Ginsberg’s death, the art of Vermeer, a cowboy wino, and September 11th in this... More about this book »	Harmless Medicine by Justin Chin Marked by maturity and poetic vision, Harmless Medicine is fiercely devoted to the margins of queer life in the generation after the first wave of the AIDS epidemic... More about this book »
Origin by Diana Abu-Jaber This literary thriller concerns Lena Dawson, a fingerprint analyst who is trying to get to the bottom of a series of mysterious infant deaths. Along the way, Lena... More about this book »	Why Are We in Vietnam? by Norman Mailer When Why Are We in Vietnam? was published in 1967, almost twenty years after The Naked and the Dead, the critical response was ecstatic. The novel fully confirmed... More about this book »
The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing by Norman Mailer “Writing is spooky. There is no routine of an office to keep you going, only the blank page each morning, and you never know where your words are coming from, those... More about this book »	Advertisement for Myself by Norman Mailer An essential guide to the life and work of one of America’s most controversial writers, Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of... More about this book »

The Listener by Michael L Schmicker This brief requiem for my mother and her passing is a meditation on the transformative healing power of listening. From my mother, I learned that... More about this book »	Smoke Portrait by Trilby Kent Glen Phayre, a young English woman in her twenties, has left England to live with her aunt, who runs a tea plantation in Ceylon and fills her days with good works... More about this book »
Medina Hill by Trilby Kent In the grimy London of 1935, eleven-year-old Dominic Walker has lost his voice. His mother is sick and his father’s unemployed. Rescue comes in the form of his... More about this book »	Jesus Land: A Memoir by Julia Scheeres Life in Midwest America was far from a pastoral paradise for Julia Scheeres. Her family's move to rural Indiana dropped Julia and her adopted brother David into a... More about this book »
Seeking Center by Joan Gelfand More about this book »	Mayan Calendar Girls by Linton Robinson When it came to calendars, those ancient Mayans got a lot of things right. But they also missed a few bits. So TEAM 2012 fills in the whole picture: a batch of... More about this book »
Dearest by Carole Marshall The traumatic tale of Amelia’s life is brought to the forefront when childhood friend, Claude Croft, does find her. Claude implores her to help him locate a... More about this book »	Hitler's Analyst by Kenneth Brown My novel, Hitler's Analyst, is about to become a E book on Xlibris. Keep an eye out for it. I recently revised it into a play and presented it at Theatrelab in... More about this book »
The Firebrand (The Chicago Fire Trilogy #3) by Susan Wiggs October 8, 1871--One small spark ignites the entire city of Chicago, sending its residents into panic. But amid the chaos, a miraculous rescue kindles an... More about this book »	At The Queen's Summons (Tudor Rose Trilogy #3) by Susan Wiggs Originally published as DANCING ON AIR, 1996. Feisty orphan Pippa de Lacey lives by wit and skill as a London street performer. But when her sharp tongue... More about this book »