Fiction
Non Fiction
Times and Tides of Tuberculosis
Perceptions Revealed in Literature, Keats to Sontag
by Thomas Daniel, M.D.
ISBN 978-1-56474-544-6
176 pages, paperback, $16.95
Publication date: October 2013
What great writers said about the dread disease
This is a study of changing attitudes—of patients, the medical community, and society in general—towards tuberculosis, over the course of a century and a half. As TB became better understood scientifically, treatment of the disease changed for the better, and the attitudes became more hopeful. This book illustrates these changing attitudes with the life stories and sample works of well-known writers—novelists, essayists, and poets. Not all of these writers had TB themselves, but they all were well enough acquainted with the disease to write about it eloquently. This added dimension gives the book another identity: in addition to medical and social history, Times and Tides of Tuberculosis offers literary history and criticism.
Memoir
Kismet
From the Joy of Romance to the Agony of Alzheimer's
by Elizabeth Gibbons Van Ingen
ISBN 978-1-56474-545-3
264 pages, paperback, $16.95
Publication date: October 2013
For better and for worse, “kismet” means fate
Liz was a young, naive California girl when she met and married Tony, a dashing Dutch-American international businessman. They met and married in Tehran, and for the next two decades they lived a glamorous life of travel and adventure. The couple lived in Iran under the Shah, cosmopolitan Morocco, Apartheid South Africa, and later placid Iowa. Then, as the years passed, the tale turned for the worse, as Tony declined into Alzheimer’s dementia, and Liz took on the role of primary caregiver and head of the family. At home in Colorado, Liz reflects that her life and marriage have been an adventure in self-discovery.
France with My Father
A journey through memory, art, time, and family
by Elizabeth Gibbons Van Ingen
ISBN 978-1-56474-550-7
176 pages, paperback, $14.95
Publication date: November 2013
Merci Beaucoup!
When her 86-year-old father called to invite her on a three-week trip to France, Janine was thrilled. They traveled around France, eating wonderful food and drinking good wine, visiting haunts of the painter Paul Cézanne, and researching their family history. Janine’s grandparents were born in France, and exploring their heritage united the father and daughter. Full of descriptions of French cuisine, art, the landscape, and culture, France with My Father is a loving appreciation of the often-maligned French people who were kindness personified to the white-haired father and his daughter. The two of them drove from Paris to Provence and, in spite of often getting lost, found their way to a closer relationship.
Poetry
Home Ground
Poems
by Jeanne Lohmann
ISBN 978-1-56474-552-1
104 pages, paperback, $14.00
Publication date: November 2013
Lohmann celebrates her life with gratitude, zest, and a wry sense of humor.
In Home Ground Jeanne Lohmann celebrates her life with gratitude and zest, a wry sense of humor. The poems speak of the vagaries and wisdom of aging, the complex beauty of nature, memories of parents, friends and growing up. Through love and loss and change the work of these generous poems is an adventurous search for “home ground.”
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