Leaving Brooklyn
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Leaving Brooklyn Introduction by Ursula Hegi
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Fiction 156pp $14.95 / 0-9766311-4-8
An injury at birth left fifteen-year -old Audrey with a wandering eye and her own way of seeing; her relationship with a Manhattan eye doctor exposes her to the sexual rites of adulthood in this startling and wonderfully rich novel, which raises the themes of innocence and escape to transcendent heights.
“ Stunning. Coming of age is seldom registered as disarmingly as it is in Leaving Brooklyn.”
New York Times Book Review
Faraway Places Introduction by A.M. Homes
Tom Spanbauer
Fiction $15.95 0-9766311-8-0
This novel marks the end of childhood for Jake Weber and the beginning of trouble for his family. An innocent swim ends with something far beyond anyone’s expectations: Jake witnesses a brutal murder and is forced to keep quiet, even as the woman’s lover is falsely accused.
“ Forceful and moving … Spanbauer tells his short, brutal story with delicacy and deep respect for place and character.”
Publishers Weekly
FINALIST, 2005 OREGON BOOK AWARD
The Greening of Ben Brown
Michael Strelow
Fiction / 268pp $15.95 0-9716915-8-4
Ben Brown becomes a citizen of East Leven, Oregon after he recovers from an electrocution that has turned him green. He befriends eighteen-year-old Andrew James and together they unearth a chemical-spill cover-up that forces the town to confront its demons and its citizens to choose sides.
“ Strelow resonates as both poet and storyteller. [ He] lovingly invokes … a blend of fable, social realism, wry wisdom, and irrever - ence that brings to mind Ken Kesey, Tom Robbins, and the best elements of a low-key mystery.”
The Oregonian
WINNER, 1987 PEN/ FAULKNER AWARD
Soldiers in Hiding Introduced by Wole Soyinka
Richard Wiley
Fiction 205pp $14.95 / 0-9766311-3-X
Teddy Maki is a Japanese American jazz musician trapped in Tokyo with his friend, Jimmy Yakamoto, both of whom are drafted into the Japanese army after Pearl Harbor. Thirty years later, Maki is a big star on Japanese TV and wrestling with the guilt over Jimmy ’s death that he’s been carrying since the war.
“ Wonderful … Original … Terrific … Haunting … Reading Soldiers in Hiding is like watching a man on a high wire!”
The New York Times
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eISBN : 978-0-983-85044-1
1. Young women – Sexual behavior—New York (State)—New York – Fiction.
2. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.—Fiction.
I. Title.
[PS3569.C567L4 2007]
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