The Love Book, A Novel by Nina Solomon
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Release Date: 01/06/2015
Trade Paper (320 pages)
ISBN 978-1617753176
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It all starts when four unsuspecting women on a singles’ bike trip through Normandy discover a mysterious red book about love. But did they discover it—or did the book bring them together?
Magical words, spells, conjurations, and a little dose of synchronicity abound in The Love Book, an anti–rom com about the misadventures of four women who embark on a soul mate–seeking journey. Somehow The Love Book insinuates itself into their lives and has its way with them. But there is more than matchmaking afoot.
The four women—Emily, Beatrice, Max, and Cathy—are each nudged, cajoled, inspired—perhaps “guided”—despite themselves, to discover love, fulfillment, and the true nature of what being a soul mate really means. While on the surface a lighthearted romp, the novel is a serious exploration of the difficulties women routinely encounter when their lives do not turn out the way society, their families, and they themselves may have planned.
Magical words, spells, conjurations, and a little dose of synchronicity abound in The Love Book, an anti–rom com about the misadventures of four women who embark on a soul mate–seeking journey. Somehow The Love Book insinuates itself into their lives and has its way with them. But there is more than matchmaking afoot.
The four women—Emily, Beatrice, Max, and Cathy—are each nudged, cajoled, inspired—perhaps “guided”—despite themselves, to discover love, fulfillment, and the true nature of what being a soul mate really means. While on the surface a lighthearted romp, the novel is a serious exploration of the difficulties women routinely encounter when their lives do not turn out the way society, their families, and they themselves may have planned.
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Starve the Vulture, A Memoir by Jason Carney
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Release Date: 01/06/2015
Trade Paper (300 pages)
ISBN 978-1617753015
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A lyrical, mesmerizing debut from Jason Carney who overcomes his own racism, homophobia, drug addiction, and harrowing brushes with death to find redemption and unlikely fame on the national performance poetry circuit. Woven into Carney’s path to recovery is a powerful family story, depicting the roots of prejudice and dysfunction through several generations.
What people are saying...
"Before he was a sex-addict-crackhead-boozer-porn-salesman sliding downward in the Dallas demimonde, Jason Carney was a poet, a lowlife who prized his thesaurus as much as his speed pipe...He made it out, and Starve the Vulture tells how he did it, how poetic ecstasy trumped sordid pleasure. Brisk, electric, and moving, his story recalls both Baudelaire's Intimate Journals and Bunyan'sPilgrim’s Progress."
--J. Michael Lennon, author of Norman Mailer: A Double Life
Sing the Morning, Cry at Night, a Novel by Barbara J. Taylor
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Release Date: 07/01/2014
Trade Paper (256 pages)
ISBN 978-1-61775-227-8
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Foamers by Justin Kassab
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Release Date: 03/25/2014
Trade Paper (268 pages)
ISBN 978-1617753091
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Terminally diagnosed with Huntington’s disease as a child, Kade coped by preparing for the Primal Age. Now in his twenties, a faulty vaccine has turned the population into bloodthirsty monsters called foamers. His group of survivors find themselves constantly caught between foamers and a warmongering paramilitary unit, forcing the group to redefine humanity in a world without law.
What people are saying...
"Foamers is a worthy addition to the canon of postapocalyptic fiction, and like the best of such books, at its heart it’s a frontier novel, brutal and exciting, celebrating individualism and self-determination. It’s also a hell of a lot of fun."--Tim McLoughlin, author of Heart of the Old Country
"When a screwed-up flu vaccine mutates much of humanity into mindless beasts, 'Trust your intelligence' becomes the leitmotif of a group of survivors. Fast-moving, violent, and vividly imagined, Foamers creates a dangerous world made disquietingly believable."
--David Poyer, author of Stepfather Bank and The Cruiser
, part of Akashic’s Mondays Are Murder series.
Unmentionables, A Novel by Laurie Loewenstein
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Release Date: 01/07/2014
Trade Paper (320 pages)
ISBN 978-1617751943
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But Marian’s arrival shatters Deuce’s notions of what is acceptable, versus what is right, and Deuce falls madly in love with the tall activist from New York. During Marian’s stay in Emporia, Marian pushes Deuce to become a greater, braver, and more dynamic man than he ever imagined was possible. He takes a stand against his father-in-law by helping Helen escape to Chicago; and he publishes an article exposing the county’s oldest farm family as the source of a recent typhoid outbreak, risking his livelihood and reputation. Marian’s journey takes her to the frozen mud of France’s Picardy region, just beyond the lines, to help destitute villagers as the Great War rages on. Helen, in Chicago, is hired as a streetcar conductor surrounded by bitter men who resent her taking a man’s job. Meanwhile, Deuce struggles to make a living and find his place in Emporia’s wider community after losing the newspaper.
Marian is a powerful catalyst that forces nineteenth-century Emporia into the twentieth century; but while she agitates for enlightenment and justice, she has little time to consider her own motives and her extreme loneliness. Marian, in the end, must decide if she has the courage to face small-town life, and be known, or continue to be a stranger always passing through.
, part of Akashic’s Mondays Are Murder series.
Click to read a feature article and interview with Kaylie Jones about Kaylie Jones Books over at Shelf Awareness, and to read a feature on Laurie Loewenstein on At the Inkwell.
Click to read a guest post Laurie did for Necessary Fiction; to read an interview with Laurie Loewenstein at Christoph Paul’s blog; to read an interview with Laurie at Loren Kleinman’s blog; to read a feature on Laurie at Sidney Daily News; to read a feature on Laurie at The McDonough County Voice; and to listen to an interview with Laurie on Tri States Public Radio.
Click to read Laurie Loewenstein’s guest post on Write All The Words! about International Women’s Week.
Listen to an interview with Laurie Loewenstein at (NPR/WVIA Radio).
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