New & Noteworthy Books

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Posted on October 22, 2009

Grisha

The Scrivener

Novel by Barbara Baer

Ghost Road Press, July 2009

ISBN-10: 0982504306

ISBN-13: 978-0982504307

Paperback: 120pp; $15.95

From website: Grisha the Scrivener tells the story of Gregory Gregorovich Samidze, an exiled Georgian journalist who keeps his head down under oppressive Soviet dominion while maintaining his own identity.

 

Sundays on Fourth Street

Picture Book by Amy Costales

Illustrated by Elaine Jerome

Piñata Books, November 2009

ISBN-10: 1558855203

ISBN-13: 978-1558855205

Hardcover: 32pp; $15.95

From website: Sundays spent on Fourth Street are magical, family outings that three young cousins eagerly anticipate.  Strolling down Fourth Street with their parents, the children encounter a bustling wonderland filled with music, food, and fun.

 

Illuminating Fiction

Today's Best Writers of Fiction

Author Interviews by Sherry Ellis

Red Hen Press, April 2009

ISBN-10: 1597090689

ISBN-13: 978-1597090681

Paperback: 224pp; $19.95

From back cover: These interviews include questions drawn from the text of the authors' work, questions about narrative voice, character, place, point of view, plot, revision, questions about the arc of the story/novel, questions about writing process, questions about the trajectory of the writers' career, questions about the role and importance of writing courses and mentoring.

 

Five Kingdoms

Poetry by Kelle Groom

Anhinga Press, January 2010

ISBN-13: 978-1934695135

Paperback: 120pp; $15.00

From website: "Kelle Groom's poems are like underwater songs, sung from the submerged continent of the inner life, the life we don't often expose to the outer world, the one we don't speak of." - Tony Hoagland

 

congregations

Poetry by David Highsmith

Plan B Press, 2009

Chapbook: 18pp; $6.00

From book: "the origin of pain / birth absent grace / an illuminated calendar / hurled into the fray / all our sick days / hanged upon a tree"

 

Dreaming the Biosphere

The Theater of All Possibilities

Nonfiction by Rebecca Reider

University of New Mexico Press, November 2009

ISBN-10: 0826346731

ISBN-13: 978-0826346735

Hardcover: 310pp; $39.95

At a time of growing tensions in the American environmental consciousness, the Synergians took on varied projects around the world that sought to mend the rift between humans and nature. In 1984, they bought a piece of desert to build Biosphere 2. Eco-enthusiasts competed to become the eight "biospherians" who would lock themselves inside the giant greenhouse world for two years to live in harmony with their wilderness, grow their own food, and recycle all their air, water, and wastes.