Workshop leaders Linda Watanabe McFerrin  and Joanna Biggar are off on another adventure. They have floated down the Canal du Midi in France, danced in the sunlight of southern Greece, toasted the best of times in Ireland,  devoured the culture and countryside of southern Italy, wandered through landscapes lost and found in Costa Rica with their merry band of travel writers … and now they land in faraway Indonesia to explore an island that is known as an earthly Paradise. The writers return with a varied collection of tales, some mystical, some funny, some terrifying—each in a different, highly personal voice. From temples to Balinese feasts to classical music and dance, the writers here sample and share the multiple faces of Bali.

Wandering in Bali: A Tropical Paradise Discovered (Wanderland Writers presents)

Travel

McFerrin, Linda Watanabe

Writers, Wanderland

Travel Writing

Wanderland Writers

They’re off on another adventure, this time to the City of Light. More than a city, Paris is actually a world of its own, and as these very imaginative literary wanderers discover, it’s a destination layered in time. This time workshop leaders Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Joanna Biggar and their worldly companions uncover some surprising new facets of the much-celebrated metropolis. Their personal lives connect with all that makes Paris astounding. Addressing Parisian luminaries, art, fashion, music, cuisine and passion, they present a sometimes shimmering, sometimes shadowy picture of a city that defies cliché.

Wandering in Paris: Luminaries and Love in the City of Light (Wanderland Writers presents)

Biggar, Joanna

Thirty stories and poems by the award-winning Wanderland Writers. Workshop leaders Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Joanna Biggar led a search for the soul of southern Spain. Along the way the writers discovered a country ripe with contradiction: an arid landscape filled with lush gardens; the practice of elaborate Christian rituals in churches echoing a rich Islamic past; a land of bullfighters, gypsies, poets, philosophers and scholars; a place where duende and alegria coexist. As they spread out in this inviting territory, they encountered—and wrote about—Columbus and the Christian monarchs; tapas and toreadors; sherry and sangria; caliphs and communists; flamenco and, yes, flamingos.

Wandering in Andalusia: The Soul of Southern Spain (Wanderland Writers presents)

King, Laurie McAndish

Sigmon, Anne

Pramik, MJ

Gardner, Rita

Maskaleris, Thanasis

Europe

Wandering in Costa Rica: Landscapes Lost and Found (Wanderland Writers presents)

Central America

This time Wanderland Writers venture deep into Cornwall, exploring its craggy coasts, its castles, its contrasts. They find, of course, its legacy of Camelot, the lingering shadows of Arthurian legend, tragic love, magic, and Merlin. They also find its sorrows, buried deep in its history like the now closed mines, where the windswept moors and jagged coasts made everyday events of shipwrecks, isolation, cave-ins. Yet, as workshop leaders Joanna Biggar and Linda Watanabe McFerrin and their fellow travelers discover, that is not the whole story. They also encounter the wonderful and hospitable Cornish, with their enchanting accents, their delightful yarns, their humor, their endurance. They wander, bicycle, hike and kayak to explore hills, waterways, villages and moors in search of the spirit of artists and writers who have come before them to leave an imprint on this untamed land.

Wandering in Cornwall: Mystery, Mirth and Transformation in the Land of Ancient Celts (Wanderland Writers presents)

Caught between being a child and a teenager, ten-year-old multiracial Ellen must adapt to an entirely different culture and new relatives when her family moves to Japan to care for her ailing grandmother

Namako: Sea Cucumber

Literature & Fiction

United States

Coffee House Pr

"Delightfully disgusting, Dead Love is the new horror genre at its best. Fans of Twilight, World War Z, and Neil Gaiman will devour this fine novel whole."—ForeWord Magazine "This novel about a live dead girl combines an international chase, the suspense of a thriller, a soupçon of sensuality, some wonderfully lyrical episodes, and a set of brand new rules for ghouls. It is as delectable and dangerous as a plate of fugu. I read it in a single sitting."—Tim Cahill, author of Pass the Butterworms, Hold the Enlightenment, and Jaguars Ripped My Flesh "Linda Watanabe McFerrin charms us with a winding tale of an evil enchantment. A wondrously wild story, told as if the deadpan voice of Dashiell Hammett had been mixed with the song of an artful siren."—Susan Griffin, author of A Chorus of Stones and The Book of Courtesans Zombies in Japan? You bet your life! Dead Love is an artful supernatural thriller that follows a cast of nefarious characters—both human and otherworldly—as they foul one another's plans and power plays in a conspiracy of global proportions. It begins when Clément, a lovesick ghoul, falls for beautiful young Erin. Unfortunately, she is marked for death by the Japanese mob (the yakuza). Using secrets learned from a Haitian witch doctor, and taking us to Tokyo, Amsterdam, and Malaysia, Clément finds a way to rescue and possess her—but not at all in the manner he expected. Linda Watanabe McFerrin is a Bay Area–based contributor to numerous journals, newspapers, magazines, anthologies, and online publications. She received the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and is the author of the award-winning novel Namako: Sea Cucumber and the short story collection The Hand of Buddha. Her website for her new book is deadlovebook.com.

Dead Love

Genre Fiction

Stone Bridge Press

"Delightfully disgusting, Dead Love is the new horror genre at its best. Fans of Twilight, World War Z, and Neil Gaiman will devour this fine novel whole."—ForeWord Magazine"This novel about a live dead girl combines an international chase, the suspense of a thriller, a soupçon of sensuality, some wonderfully lyrical episodes, and a set of brand new rules for ghouls. It is as delectable and dangerous as a plate of fugu. I read it in a single sitting."—Tim Cahill, author of Pass the Butterworms, Hold the Enlightenment, and Jaguars Ripped My Flesh"Linda Watanabe McFerrin charms us with a winding tale of an evil enchantment. A wondrously wild story, told as if the deadpan voice of Dashiell Hammett had been mixed with the song of an artful siren."—Susan Griffin, author of A Chorus of Stones and The Book of CourtesansZombies in Japan? You bet your life! Dead Love is an artful supernatural thriller that follows a cast of nefarious characters—both human and otherworldly—as they foul one another's plans and power plays in a conspiracy of global proportions. It begins when Clément, a lovesick ghoul, falls for beautiful young Erin. Unfortunately, she is marked for death by the Japanese mob (the yakuza). Using secrets learned from a Haitian witch doctor, and taking us to Tokyo, Amsterdam, and Malaysia, Clément finds a way to rescue and possess her—but not at all in the manner he expected.Linda Watanabe McFerrin is a Bay Area–based contributor to numerous journals, newspapers, magazines, anthologies, and online publications. She received the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and is the author of the award-winning novel Namako: Sea Cucumber and the short story collection The Hand of Buddha. Her website for her new book is deadlovebook.com.

POST-Apocalyptic Valentine

Poetry

7.13 Books

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