New & Noteworthy Books
New Books from Independent &
University Presses
See full list of noteworthy books by category below
Posted on September 30, 2010
Aurorarama
Fiction by Jean-Christophe Valtat
Melville House Pub, August 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-935554-13-4
Hardcover: 409pp; $25.95
Valtat fuses an astonishing array of interests--the occult, pop music, mysticism, Victorian technology, the history of Arctic exploration, hypnosis, and erotica--into a "steampunk" adventure story. //
Greetings from Below
Fiction by David Philip Mullins
Sarabande Books, January 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1-932511-88-8
Paperback: 184pp; $15.95
Winner of the 2009 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by David Means.
An Invisible Rope
Portraits of Czeslaw Milosz
Ed. Cynthia L. Haven
Ohio Univ Press / Swallow Press, November 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-8040-1133-4
Paperback: 296pp; $26.95
This book presents a collection of remembrances of Czeslaw Milosz from his colleagues, his students, and his fellow writers and poets in American and Poland.
Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room
Poetry by Kelli Russell Agodon
White Pine Press, November 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-935210-15-3
Paperback: 96pp; $16.00
Winner of the White Pine Poetry Prize, judged by Pulitzer Prize Winner, Carl Dennis.
The Orphan Rescue
Children's/YA Fiction by Anne Dublin
Second Story Press, September 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-897187-81-4
Paperback: 124pp; $8.95
The story of a young girl in pre-WWII Europe whose courage saves her little brother from a dangerous factory where he has been sent to work.
Pleasure
Poetry by Brian Teare
Ahsahta Press, September 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-934103-16-6
Paperback: 88pp; $17.50
A lover lost to AIDS compels an elegy that encompasses both real and idealized worlds. //
War & Love, Love & War
Poetry by Aharon Shabtai
New Directions Books, September 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-1890-0
Paperback: 175pp; $15.95
A poetic autobiography of one of Israel's living literary masters.
Witness
Nonfiction by Curtis Smith
sunnyoutside, December 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-934513-28-6
Paperback: 150pp; $18.00
In this collection of eighteen essays, Curtis Smith offers one man's perspective on birth and death, tattoos and Halloween, freshman psych and children's literature.
New & Noteworthy Books
Full list of new & noteworthy books received
September 30, 2010
Children's/YA Fiction
Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to be Kosher, Laurel Snyder, Tricycle Press
Grandpa's Magic Tortilla, Demetria Martinez, Rosalee Montoya-Read, Univ of New Mexico Press //
The Orphan Rescue, Anne Dublin, Second Story Press
The Risen Horse, Karen Taschek, Univ of New Mexico Press //
Fiction
Aurorarama, Jean-Christophe Valtat, Melville House Pub //
The Cosmopolitans, Nadia Kalman, Livingston Press
Greetings from Below, David Philip Mullins, Sarabande Books
Look! Look! Feathers, Mike Young, Word Riot Press
Out of the Mountains, Meredith Sue Willis, Ohio Univ Press / Swallow Press
Up From the Blue, Susan Henderson, HarperCollins
Nonfiction
Dear Sandy, Hello, Ted Berrigan, Coffee House Press
An Invisible Rope, Ed. Cynthia L. Haven, Ohio Univ Press / Swallow Press
Witness, Curtis Smith, Sunnyoutside
Poetry
Adamantine, Shin Yu Pai, White Pine Press
Elements, Deborah Poe, Stockport Flats //
Iteration Nets, Karla Kelsey, Ahsahta Press //
Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room, Kelli Russell Agodon, White Pine Press
Pleasure, Brian Teare, Ahsahta Press //
Present Tense, Anna Rabinowitz, Omnidawn Publishing
torch song tango choir, Julie Sophia Paegle, Univ of Arizona Press //
War & Love, Love & War, Aharon Shabtai, New Directions Books
Page updated November 27, 2010