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aberjhani's picture
Mar.16.2009
Literary Savannah was among the first in a series of literary travel anthologies published by Hill Street Press when the company was founded in the late 1990s. To include the city of Savannah, Georgia, in such a series would have made good sense at pretty much any time but particularly during the...
diane-chamberlain's picture
Mar.10.2009
One afternoon, single mother Sara Weston says that she’s going to the store—and never  returns. In her absence, she leaves her teenaged son alone with his damaged past and a  legacy of secrts.  Keith Weston nearly lost his life in an act of arson. He survived—but with devastating...
peter-conners's picture
Mar.01.2009
Emily Ate the Wind tells the story of the drinkers, gamblers, lifelong friends, and frustrated lovers whose lives revolve around The Bar. Told in a series of vignettes, love letters, question and answer formats, newspaper clippings, short stories, and prose poems, the familiar dramas of these...
andrea-j-buchanan's picture
Feb.19.2009
For mothers who write or aspire to, who find meaning and humor in the demanding but wondrous daily experience of raising children, and who value the sharing of these varied experiences, comes a wonderfully rich compendium by mothers who write — the lively, refined, honest, and witty Literary Mama:...
SFKaufman's picture
Dec.02.2008
NATO headquarters in Brussels is blown up by unknown terrorists who demand an exorbitant amount of money from the Allies. If their demand is not met within 72 hours, they will start to kill world leaders in alphabetical order. Bruno Falesco, head of Interpol, needing fast action and absolute...
bess-mcbride's picture
Oct.30.2008
Aggie has done what no mental health therapist should do. She’s fallen in love with her mysterious client, Bill.  Aggie has recently purchased an old Victorian house on a hillside overlooking Commencement Bay in Tacoma, Washington; where she finds an old photograph of a Victorian era couple and a...
leza-lowitz's picture
Sep.29.2008
MANOA: Towards and Literature of the Periphery-anthology of Japaneseliterature in translation edited by Leza Lowitz, University ofHawaii Press, Volume 7, No. 1 Summer, 1995. Includes fiction by KyokoMurata, Hiromi Itoh, Yoshiko Shibaki, Teru Miyamoto, Ango Sakaguchi.
leza-lowitz's picture
Sep.21.2008
Twelve stories from twenty-first century Tokyo and a novella. Debut collection from award-winning writer.
eugenia-kim's picture
Sep.18.2008
While waiting for her grown children to make a traditional New Year's Day visit, a Korean American mother struggles with difficulties of immigrant life, including dealing with ghosts from her past.
ja-konrath's picture
Sep.09.2008
Jack's back, and once again she's up to her Armani in murder. Someone is sending Jack snuff videos. The victims are people she knows, and they share a common trait---each was involved in one of Jack's previous cases. With her stalwart partner, Herb, hospitalized and unable to help, Jack follows a...