Fiction. Paul Kerschen's virtuosic debut dives into mythologies from around the world and brings back strange treasure. By turns lyrical, funny, enigmatic and harrowing, these nine stories leap with audacity and grace across styles and settings, from ancient Greece and Palestine to the border towns and office parks of today. A soldier returned from Iraq is haunted by the vision of a giant holding the world on his shoulders. A dying writer creates a secret dictionary and receives a divine visit. A migrant worker in the Southwest confronts the deadly emptiness of the desert. The labors of Hercules, the resurrection of Lazarus and the founding of Rome are given startling new tellings. THE DROWNED LIBRARY is in a class all its own, and introduces a remarkable new writer.

The Drowned Library

Literature & Fiction

Kerschen, Paul

Literary

Foxhead Books

In The Fall

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Literary Nonfiction. Art. THE LITTLE BOOK OF TERROR is a treasure that defies easy classification: more than a collection of paintings, more than a compilation of piquant, compelling essays, it can be thought of as a secular missal, offering a new liturgy for observing the Rite of The Contrary. THE LITTLE BOOK OF TERROR is a literary missile, as well—Daisy Rockwell's searing images and carefully-crafted prose aim directly at the bloated heart of Imperial pretension. On impact, Rockwell's work makes rubble of propaganda passing as conventional wisdom, leaving in its place a new vista from which to consider the "Global War on Terror" and its complicated combatants. For Rockwell's legions of readers and admirers, THE LITTLE BOOK OF TERROR is a blast of a different kind: a stirring read, a poignant comment, and a collection of sights not soon forgotten.

The Little Book of Terror

Rockwell, Daisy

Fiction. THE SAME TERRIBLE STORM introduces us to a fierce and lyrical writer who, in his depiction of contemporary Appalachian life, is equal parts uncompromising and compassionate, and able to eerily channel a wide spectrum of distinctive voices—coal miners, musicians, pill poppers, snake handlers, writers, marijuana farmers, brutal men and complicated women, knowing children and dangerous elders—all of them filled with yearning, all of them inextricably bound to their time and place. An extraordinary debut collection.

The Same Terrible Storm

Compton, Sheldon Lee

Fiction. Tempted by an extramarital affair with a housefly, frustrated by a serial killer who won't commit to the murder, simply bewildered by one's nearest and dearest: THREE SQUARES A DAY WITH OCCASIONAL TORTURE is a book about ordinary people with extraordinary problems. Readers may be surprised to find themselves in these stories; but they will also find insight, care and compassion, along with humor in all shades of black. Julie Innis writes stories for here and now. To call them absurdist would be absurd.

Three Squares A Day With Occasional Torture

Innis, Julie

Fiction. Women's Studies. 1903: a Mennonite woman gives birth to a daughter named Agnes. The child bears a birthmark known in Low German as Tieja Kjoaw, the Tiger's Scar. The mark portends greatness or tragedy. Agnes becomes the matriarch of a family struggling for greatness: her husband shaves his entire body to win God's favor; a tornado carries her daughter away on a clear winter day; convinced he is a modern Moses, her son frees a truckload of cattle; her granddaughter butchers a cat to save her marriage; a tiger residing in her daughter's backyard claims to be the love of Agnes' life.

Shaken in the Water

Penner, Jessica Dawn

Contemporary

For the first time in print, a federal hate crimes prosecutor takes the reader inside the grand juries, courtrooms, and killing fields of the Deep South, where, as native son William Faulkner put it, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." In an emotionally candid, self-effacing and plain-spoken account, Howard Feinstein tells true tales from a time many would rather forget. Secrets once thought buried forever resurface in this engaging memoir of a young attorney thrust "behind the lines" into a cauldron of hate and violence, including, the fatal Ku Klux Klan bombing of a Florida civil rights pioneer and his wife, unsolved for sixty years but not forgotten, due to the persistence of their crusading daughter; a KKK reign of terror targeting interracial association in rural south Georgia, under the protection of a drug-running sheriff and his allies; the brutal, unprovoked attack by a deputy sheriff on a house-hunter across the lake from New Orleans, who found himself in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and the wrong color; the harassment and abuse of a single mother and her young son, who moved into a previously all-white neighborhood in the mountains of central Pennsylvania; and, a vicious Klan rampage on the edge of Louisiana's cajun country, operating out of a U.S. military

Fire on the Bayou

Biographies & Memoirs

Feinstein, Howard L.

Historical

Mission Critical is the new book by award-winning educator and writer Eric A. Combs, in which he shares his experiences and frustrations from within the American public school system. He recounts riveting stories as a successful military Senior Non-Commissioned Officer who retires from the service and enters the challenging world of public education. Combs discovers a dangerously-broken system, barely held together by hard-working teachers, parents and administrators. These frustrated factions must work together, dealing with the constant ebb and flow of unpredictable political whims while, at the same time, providing a challenging and rewarding education for the leaders of tomorrow.

Mission Critical: A Veteran's Tour of Duty Inside Public Education

Education & Teaching

Combs, Eric a.

Schools & Teaching

Fiction. Daniel is a twenty-first century connoisseur with distinctive and often anachronistic tastes—aesthetic, culinary, and even mind-altering. When Daniel sets out to seek answers about his past in long-sealed documents, he makes a startling discovery that leads him on a cross-country quest. In the course of his travels, he becomes preoccupied with Antoinette, an enigmatic archivist who may hold the key to his search. When he discovers she may be involved with his closest friend, Roger, he comes to distrust them both. His quest becomes a dangerous obsession that drives him to the brink of madness. Rockwell's prose evokes the dark humor of Edgar Allan Poe and the uneasy aristocrats of Edith Wharton in this new novel of aesthetic obsession.  "With huge amounts of imagination and flair, Daisy Rockwell has written a wonderfully funny but ultimately chilling parable about the wages of connoisseurship. I thrilled to it."—Henry Alford

Taste

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

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