New & Noteworthy Books
New Books from Independent &
University Presses
See full list of noteworthy books by category below
Posted on June 25, 2009
Misfits
and Other Heroes
Stories by Suzanne Burns
Dzanc Books, June 2009
ISBN-10: 0981589960
ISBN-13: 978-0981589961
Paperback: 212pp; $16.95
From inside cover: In tales of the familiar turned on their heads, Burns introduces us to lovers and travelers, dreamers and daredevils, a man the size of a drinking straw and a magician with a masochistic streak. Acts of murder and mayhem run alongside a middle-aged woman dreaming of a different life.
Home
Free
YA Novel by Sharon Jennings
Second Story Press, October 2009
ISBN-10: 1897187556
ISBN-13: 978-1897187555
Paperback: 160pp; $8.95
Aspiring twelve-year-old writer Leanna Mets is excited when a real-life orphan, Cassandra Jovanovich, moves in across the street. As they become friends, Leanna realizes the life of an orphan is not as exciting as it once seemed.
The
Procession of Memories
Selected Poems 1929 - 1945
Poetry by Harry Martinson
Translated from the Swedish by Lars Nordstrom
Wordcraft of Oregon, August 2009
ISBN-10: 1877655643
ISBN-13: 978-1877655647
Paperback: 124pp; $14.00
From back cover: In this bilingual edition, translator Lars Nordstrom introduces the reader to Martinson's early work as a poet. Non of the 60 poems included here have ever been translated into English previously.
Walking
Nature Home
A Life's Journey
Memoir by Susan J. Tweit
University of Texas Press, March 2009
ISBN-10: 0292719175
ISBN-13: 978-0292719170
Hardcover: 192pp; $24.95
From inside jacket flap: In tracing the arc of her life from young womanhood to middle age, Tweit tells stories about what silence and sagebrush, bird bones and sheep dogs, comets, death, and one crazy Englishman have to teach us about living.
New & Noteworthy Books
Full list of new & noteworthy books received
June 25, 2009
Poetry
After the Honeymoon, Nathan Graziano (sunnyoutside)
D is for Dog Team: Alaska Acrostics from A-Z, Ken Waldman (Nomadic Press)
The Procession of Memories: Selected Poems 1929-1945, Harry Martinson (Wordcraft of Oregon)
Three Islands, Micah Ling (sunnyoutside)
Fiction
The Chill, Romano Bilenchi (Europa Editions)
Elephants in our Bedroom, Michael Czyniejewski (Dzanc Books)
The German Mujahid, Boualem Sansal (Europa Editions)
I am not Sydney Poitier, Percival Everett (Graywolf Press)
Kamby Bolongo Mean River, Robert Lopez (Dzanc Books)
Life goes to the Movies, Peter Selgin (Dzanc Books)
Misfits and other Heroes, Suzanne Burns (Dzanc Books)
Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West (New Directions)
Other Resort Cities, Tod Goldberg (Dzanc Books)
Rupert: A Confession, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (Open Letter)
Saint John of the Five Boroughs, Edward Falco (Unbridled Books)
What the World Will Look Like When all the Water Leaves Us, Laura van den Berg (Dzanc Books)
Children/YA
A Child’s Garden: a Story of Hope, Michael Foreman (Candlewick Press)
Home Free, Sharon Jennings (Second Story Press)
Nonfiction
Walking Nature Home, Susan J. Tweit (University of Texas Press)