Poetry
 Dancing Fire
Poems
by Marjorie Sparkman Jackson
ISBN 978-156474-475-2
ISBN 156474-475-3
80 pages, paperback, $14.00
Publication Date: October 2008
These strong, clear, passionate poems invoke human lore from ancient classic myth up to the present psychological interpretations of the human heart. For the most part the book is about love. The poet celebrates love in all its joy and sensual pleasure, bu she is not afraid of the dark, and as the book progresses we get a deeper and deeper understanding of love’s pain, which is the pain of love lost, or worse, love abused.
Memoir
Dear Frank
A Father Remembers...
by Harry Turner
ISBN 978- 1-56474-476-0
ISBN 1-56474-476-0
416 pages, paperback, $18.95
Publication Date: Ocotober 2008
Harry Turner was a newsman for a long, lifetime career. In this personal, frank memoir, he recalls both the bright and the dark side of his life, a life of hard work, poverty, difficult marriages, alcoholism, current events, idealistic struggles, and (late in life) an absorbing and fulfilling single-parenthood. Turner grew up in the urban South during the Depression, began his newspaper career in Los Angeles after World War II, lived in San Francisco, Mexico, Tobgo, and Puerto Rico, where he became Managing Editor of the San Juan Star. Harry Turner’s writing style is professional, brutally honest, and fair. As a newspaperman, he knows how to tell a story; this memoir is anecdotal, occasionally funny, always entertaining. Most of all it is passionate and moving.
Fiction
Murder in Los Lobos
A Mystery on California's Central Coast
by Sue McGinty
ISBN 978-156474-477-9
ISBN 1-56474-477-7
216 pages, paperback, $14.95
Publication Date: October 2008
Everyone loves Connie Mercado, daughter of a prominent local family. Everyone, that is, except whoever pushed her off the cliff into the Pacific Ocean, ruining a perfect June morning and bringing turmoil to this small Central Coast community. Bella Kowalski, former nun, now an obituary writer for the local paper and an activist for nature conservancy, knows Connie’s murder had something to do with plans to build a profitable but ill-advised wastewater treatment plant on environmentally sensitive land. And Connie is only the first victim in what becomes a thorny scandal, involving powerful politicos, corrupt local government, greed, family secrets, and skullduggery.
|
