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Say Nothing
By Carol Bergman
Two unsolved murders, a killer or killers still at large, and David Rizzo was still missing. And though the murders were grotesque and baffling, local interest peaked and then fell away with the first melt of spring….
From journalist Carol Bergman comes an unconventional murder mystery, Say Nothing, set in upstate New York. Private Investigator Margaret Singer and New York State Police Senior Investigator Charlie Griffith team up to solve the disappearance of a decorated Iraq veteran. Not far into the investigation, the seasoned detectives realize that the young man’s disappearance is only one of several related crimes committed in their jurisdiction and that the FBI has taken a controlling interest in the case and invoked the Patriot Act. Is the government protecting a killer? Will David be found dead or alive?
Carol Bergman is a journalist whose articles, essays, and interviews have appeared in The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, and Salon.com. Her essay, “Objects of Desire,” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize; her short stories have appeared in many literary magazines. She is the author of a book of novellas, Sitting for Klimt. She compiled and edited Another Day in Paradise; International Humanitarian Workers Tell Their Stories, nominated for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. She lives in New York City and teaches writing at New York University.
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 At the Copa
Short Stories
By Marisa Labozzetta
A Winner, John Gardner Fiction Book Award 2009
Labozzetta infuses her stories with a wry wit and a nuanced feel for the shifting emotional currents underlying seemingly placid lives of middle-age…characters in these engaging stories…. A funny finely wrought collection.
—Kirkus
...What it does do is gnaw at your soul, makes you stand back and do a personal assessment...Believe me, Marisa is on the mark.
—Front and Center
And praise for the Marisa Labozzetta’s novel Stay with Me, Lella
I haven’t seen another writer capture with more accuracy the way sex cemented certain…marriages of the old school. A small classic.
–Anthony Giardina, author of White Guys
…Blood, sex and betrayal…a passionate and compelling tale of family politics.
–Tandem
…I came out of it feeling like the DiGiacomos could be my own crazy, complicated, and wonderful family.
–The Women’s Times
In paperback wherever books are sold
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 The Love Ceiling
By Jean Davies Okimoto
Women, aging and creativity...a book club favorite!
In The Love Ceiling you'll meet sixty-four year old Anne Kuroda Duppstaad, who after the death of her Japanese American mother, confronts the toxic legacy of her father, a famous artist and cruel narcissist, to become an artist in her own right.
The Love Ceilingis wonderful, touching, funny. Jean Davies Okimoto writes with literary perfect pitch.
–– Christiane Northrup, M.D., host PBS television’s Mother-Daughter Wisdom
A lovely book, full of wisdom and compassion. With keen insight, the author examines the problems of achieving fulfillment as both a woman and an artist.
– Barbara G. Walker, The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
A book so compelling that once you begin you cannot put it down.
– Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz, Camp Days: 1942-1945,; artist
Any woman who has ever wrestled with a difficult father will find inspiration and solace in these lucid pages.
– Leza Lowitz, former Tokyo correspondent for Art in America; editor, Other Side River/A Long Rainy Season: Contemporary Japanese Women’s Poetry
The Love Ceiling won a 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Award in fiction. Jean Davies Okimoto has won numerous other awards including the Smithsonian Notable Book Award, the
American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults, the Washington Governor’s
Award, the Green Earth Book Award, and the International Reading Association Readers
Choice Award. Okimoto’s books and short stories have been translated into Japanese, Italian, Chinese, Turkish, German, and Hebrew.
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 The Mind-Body Problem
By Katha Pollitt
Poems by the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and columnist for The Nation
At the center of every poem lurks the poet, but Katha Pollitt balances the self-regard of the craft with a fervent interest in the profusion of the world–knickknacks, summer bungalows, dogs, bees, lilacs, mandarin oranges, and more. And her clear, observant eye brings it all into steady focus. This is one long-awaited volume that was well worth the wait.
-Billy Collins, former United States Poet Laureate
It’s awfully good to have such a great-hearted poet as Katha Pollitt take on mortality’s darkest themes. Again and again she finds a human-sized crack of light and squeezes us through with her.
-Kay Ryan, United States Poet Laureate
So much has happened to the world since Katha Pollitt published her debut collection, Antarctic Traveller, in 1982, yet what has happened to her poetry is a fascinating progress of distinction, of steadying insight, and of meditative enrichment. Poems like “Night Subway” and “Trying to Write a Poem Against the War” show an undaunted consciousness of this daunting quarter century, but Pollitt’s most surprising gift, to be savored only now in poem after poem, is the proof that primaveral raptures were literally premature, that our high middle ages are worth all they cost, that life’s truest poetry is in the second half.
-Richard Howard, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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 Womansong: Balance and Harmony in a Feminine Key
By Gwen Suesse
Winner, Indie Execellence Awards; Bronze medal, Independent Publishers Awards
For modern women, so many roles, so little time! However, says Gwen Suesse, author of Womansong: Balance and Harmony in a Feminine Key, busy women can find time and ways to be themselves, too.
Womansong, a series of reflections about modern womanhood, discusses how a woman can find a measure of equilibrium while also filling the multiple roles of being daughter, friend, wife, lover, mother, worker, as well as homemaker. Suesse's book is a feast of musical metaphors that stirs the imagination with possibilities for taking the many "melodies" of life and weaving them into one glorious whole.
…Womansong is intelligently written… calming and soothing. The layout and design of the book are visually appealing. [Suesse's] writing, interspersed with quotations and beautiful art and calligraphy, made for a wonderful read… As Womansong: Balance and Harmony in a Feminine Key is meant to promote discussion, it would be a solid choice for any women’s book club.
--Kam Aures, Rebecca Reads
If you have tried to balance career and a life, if you have worked to achieve a harmonious relationship with another, if you have worried about becoming your mother (or not becoming your mother!), if you have ever questioned your own self worth, you will benefit from this read.
--Gloria Underwood, Lainier Library, Tryon, North Carolina
Womansong, published by Cantando Press in hard cover with dust jacket, includes 30 full-color illustrations with sumi brush calligraphy by renowned San Francisco artist Renée Locks.
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 In the Ninth Decade
Marilyn Zuckerman
Ever since reading America, Amerika, I’ve been a fan of Marilyn Zuckerman’s work. The poems in this newest volume rage, they celebrate, they despair and they rejoice. They tell truths both terrible and liberating about the political world we inhabit and about aging in a society living in denial about aging. There is a grace about these poems that never loses its edge or its essential humanity. Here is wine poured into many glasses. And an excellent vintage it is.
—Robert Edwards, Transparencies (Red Dragonfly Press)
Marilyn Zuckerman is a public poet, a true citizen poet, which is a radical thing to be these days. This does not mean that she eschews the private. But even in her work’s most intimate moments—the moments in which she struggles, for example, in the trap of an aging body—the voice is still that of a resilient, big-hearted woman in a traumatic and beautiful world. This is the kind of poetry we need—the kind that, as one poem has it, might help us have the strength to hold the bitter taste of life in our mouths.
—Jon Anderson, Stomp and Sing (Curbstone Press)
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