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Before Hiroshima: The Confession of Murayama Kazuo and other stories
by Joshua Barkan
As death approaches, an old Japanese man finds it necessary to cleanse his soul, to confront the mistakes of his youth and to confess about a time when he might have been able to save the thousands who died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-13-3 Pages: 148 8½"x6½" US$12.95 More Info...
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Antioxidants and Other Stories by Terry Bennett
The ten stories in Antioxidants and other stories expose men and women whose lives have reached turning points they can't ignore. Meet a woman on the rebound from a breakup who takes a chance with a blind photographer; a song writer, shattered by the death of his brother; a shy savant who wields the I-Ching to avoid a broken heart; a young woman who declares her love with a daring tattoo; a teacher who must pay his gambling debts tutoring the son of a loan shark; a professor testing his rejected doctoral thesis through an encounter of the flesh in Tahiti, and others...
Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-084-2, Pages: c.200, 8¾"x5¾" US$19.95
Publication date: October 2004 More Info... |  |
A Trick of Light by Karen Blomain
When Hattie Darling’s husband Ben dies on his first night home from an extended business trip, she is devastated. But when she finds among his belongings evidence that there had been another woman in his life, Hattie is unable to mourn Ben as she thinks she should...
Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-42-7 8½"x6½" US$ 15.95 More info...
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Failing Paris by Samantha Dunn
Failing Paris is the story of a week in the life of Sabine Wilcox, the 19-year-old student who has left the stifling rural existence of the American Southwest in exchange for a year in Paris. But the City of Light offers her no refuge. With only one week to address a dire problem, Sabine¡¦s past and present painfully collide. Her life intertwines with two men who prove to be both more, and less, than they first appeared...
Nominated for the PEN USA/West FICTION PRIZE 2000
Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-01-X Pages: 146 8¾"x6¾" US$ 19.95
Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-17-6 Pages: 169 8½"x5½" US$ 12.95 More Info... |  |
Butterfly Weed by Donald Harington
"Inspired, playful storytelling from one of our most consistently original (and impish) novelists who now returns to his Ozark version of Shangri-la - the village of Stay More, a place hard to find but infinitely harder to leave. This latest installment, a history of the complex love life and remarkable medical achievements of Doc Colvin Swain, Stay More's "dreaming Doctor," is no different: Apprenticed as a young boy to a hill doctor, he learns to use both a wide range of herbal remedies and conventional cures..."
Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-097-4 Pages: 200 8½"x5½" US$14.95
Publication date: October 2004 More Info... |  |
Ekaterina by Donald Harington
"Both allusionary and illusionary, Ekaterina centers around a Georgian (as in the former USSR) princess/mycologist/dissident who arrives in the United States with a rudimentary knowledge of English, a passion for pubescent boys, and a deep-seated fear that her Russian psychiatrist tormentor, Bolshakov, is still on her trail. With the help of a ghost and an alcoholic art historian-cum-novelist, she discovers her own talent for fiction and makes enough money to take over a suite of rooms in an old mountain resort hotel (a la Nabokov)..."
Paperback: ISBN: 1-592640-96-6 Pages: c.300 8½"x5½" US$14.95
Publication date: October 2004 More Info... |  |
Lightning Bug by Donald Harington
Latha Bourne, the attractive postmistress of Stay More — a small town in the Arkansas Ozarks — didn’t expect to see Every Dill again. More than ten years before, he had raped her, robbed the bank, and vanished - leaving her pregnant. Now Every has the nerve to reappear. An erotic yet wonderfully innocent tale of loss and of finding.
Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-102-4, Pages: c.450, US$14.95
Publication date: April 2005 More Info... |  |
Some other Place. The Right Place. by Donald Harington
A love story with reincarnation! A teenage boy, Day Whittacker, begins to speak in the voice of a poet dead since 1953. The poet's granddaughter, Diana Stoving, seeks him out, and they begin a journey together from New England ending in Stick Around, Arkansas. One of Harington's most devious narratives, and a precursor to the Stay More cycle.
Paperback: ISBN: 1-592640-71-0 Pages: 500 8½"x5½" US$ 14.95
Publication date: April 2004 More Info... |  |
The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks by Donald Harington
Jacob and Noah Ingledew trudge 600 miles from their native Tennessee to found Stay More, a small town nestled in a narrow valley that winds among the Arkansas Ozarks and into the reader's imagination. The Ingledew saga - which follows six generations of 'Stay Morons' through 140 years of abundant living and prodigal loving - is the heart of Harington's jubilant, picaresque novel.
Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-073-7 Pages: 400 8½"x5½" US$ 14.95
Publication date: April 2004 More Info... |  |
The Choiring of the Trees by Donald Harington
Arkansas, 1914: A 13-year-old girl is raped in the backwoods of the Ozarks. On her testimony, Nail Chism, from Stay More, is convicted and sentenced to the electric chair - until his innocence is championed by the staff artist of the state's leading newspaper, a woman whose past amongst the artists in Paris is even stranger and more solitary than Nail's. Will she succeed in saving Nail? Or will the singing - "choiring" - of the trees that Nail hears while strapped into the chair be the last earthly (or unearthly) sound he will ever hear?
Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-103-2, Pages: c.400, US$14.95
Publication date: April 2005 More Info... |  |
The Cockroaches of Stay More by Donald Harington
With this wonderfully irreverent comic novel, Harington leaves off chronicling the human inhabitants of the Arkansas Ozark town of Stay More and turns his attention to its insect world. In depicting the cockroach community, who perambulate on gitalongs, apprehend their environment through sniff whips and commit unwitting malapropisms about the mysterious world of Man (and Woman), Harington unleashes a sprightly, antic imagination.
Paperback: ISBN: 1-592640-72-9 Pages: c.400 8½"x5½" US$14.95
Publication date: April 2004 More Info... |  |
With by Donald Harington
Impossible to categorize, With is a sensual,
irresistible tale, full of unexpected twists and turns. What starts out as a suspenseful recounting of child abduction evolves into the story of eight-year-old Robin Kerr growing up in the wilds of the Ozarks, left to fend for herself on a remote, inaccessible mountain-top. Without ‘human’ company for a decade, forced to live off the land, Robin is never alone; her animal companions grow more numerous year by year, and the ‘live ghost’ of a young boy who once lived on the mountain is her constant companion...
Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-050-8 Pages: 500 8¾"x5¾" US$ 19.95
Publication date: April 2004 More Info... |  |
The Chimney Tree by Helaine Helmreich
The eldest daughter of the Rabbi of Dubnitz had always been a little
different. Not satisfied with the mundane expectations of her friends, she refuses the suitors she is offered by her family. Yet Miriam's daring draws her down forbidden paths...
Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-031-1 8¾"x5¾" US$19.95 More Info... |  |
When She Sleeps by Leora Krygier
Two years after the fall of Saigon, half-sisters Lucy and Mai find one another in the world of dreams. Mai is the Amerasian child of a former U.S. Army surgeon and a Vietnamese linguist. In the chaos of the American evacuation, Linh and her child were left behind. Bereft of a father, Mai lays claim to what she believes is rightfully hers - her mother's memories of the doctor, locked away in dreams. She steals them away, and sends them out into the night to her half-sister Lucy, the doctor's West Coast daughter by his American wife...
Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-086-9, Pages: c.200, 8¾"x5¾" US$19.95
Publication date: November 2004 More Info... |  |
Beulah Land by Krista McGruder
In Beulah Land’s thirteen stories, lush country settings are juxtaposed against taut urban landscapes. Every character speaks out with their own unique, inimitable and intimate voice. Between New York City and Key West, between the Dakotas and Oklahoma, Krista McGruder’s prose creates a literate, disparate landscape of people both wandering and entrenched.
Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-027-3, Pages: 285, 8¾"x5¾" US$19.95 More Info... |  |
Heaven's Witness by Joseph Telushkin and Allen Estrin
In a dilemma that would have stumped Freud, budding psychoanalyst Dr. Jordan Geller is forced to confront the question: Can the same person be murdered twice? Once, Geller, a rationalist to his core, would have found the question absurd. But then Robin Norris, a beautiful actress desperate to overcome a problem with her singing voice, steps into his office, and his life. Geller hypnotizes her, and Robin quickly assumes the identity of Beverly Casper, a talented teenager who, thirty-two years earlier, had vanished into thin air, never to be seen or heard from again...
Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-091-5, Pages: c.200, 8¾"x5¾" US$19.95
Publication date: September 2004 More Info... |  |
The Unorthodox Murder of Rabbi Wahl by Joseph Telushkin
Murder isn’t unusual in LA. But when feminist Rabbi Myrna Wahl is found dead after appearing on a controversial radio talk show, together with a radical nun and female minister, radio host Rabbi Daniel Winter finds himself the prime suspect. He’ll only survive if he can develop the secular talent for detection — all the harder since he seems to be falling in love with the lady cop assigned to the case!
Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-107-5, Pages: c.200, US$9.95
Publication date: February 2005 More Info... |  |
An Apology for Autumn by David Turrill
Jim Gudsen is just a regular guy, newly returned from the killing fields of Vietnam - cynical about life in general and religion in particular. His older brother Herkimer is different - always has been. Jim is about to find out just how different. A Lutheran minister, Herkimer is defrocked by his Church for his refusal to expel a gay couple from his conservative congregation. In the process of reevaluating his beliefs, Gudsen claims that God has spoken directly to him, and told him he must "Gather the Twelve" - and do so before his wife Megan succumbs to the ravages of cancer...
Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-090-7, Pages: c.450, 8¾"x5¾" US$19.95
Publication date: September 2004 More Info... |  |
Blackberries, Blackberries by Crystal Wilkinson
"Being country is as much a part of me as my full lips, wide hips, dreadlocks and high cheek bones. There are many Black country folks who have lived and are living in small towns, up hollers and across knobs. They are all over the South-scattered like milk thistle seeds in the wind. The stories in this book are centered in these places."
Winner of the 2002 CHAFFIN LITERARY AWARD
Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-34-6 Pages: 184 8½"x5½" US$ 15.95 More Info...
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Water Street by Crystal Wilkinson
"On Water Street, every person has at least two stories to tell. One story that the light of day shines on and the other that lives only in the pitch black of night, the kind of story that a person carries beneath their breastbones for safekeeping." Water Street examines the secret lives of neighbors and friends who live on Water Street in a small town in Kentucky.
Nominated for THE ORANGE PRIZE 2003 &
THE HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD 2003
Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-59-1 Pages: 192 8¾"x5¾" US$ 19.95, Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-055-9, Pages: 192, US$12.95
Publication date: February 2005 More Info...
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The White League by Thomas Zigal
Blackmail, a secret organization hiding within the elite society of New Orleans, a white supremacist running for governor of Louisiana; these are the key ingredients in this fine Southern crawfish boil of a novel about guilt, privilege and racism in one of America's most exotic cities. Coffee magnate Paul Blanchard's comfortable world is turned upside down when his old fraternity brother, Mark Morvant, threatens to expose the secret that Paul has been harboring for twenty years unless he bankrolls Morvant's bid for governor. More importantly, Morvant also demands that Paul secure the financial and political backing of a clandestine organization called The White League...
Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-115-6, Pages: c.250, 8¾"x5¾" US$19.95
Publication date: February 2005 More Info... |  |
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