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Literature
	Finding My Distance: A Year in the Life of a Three-Day Event Rider A Memoir by Julia Wendell “Julia Wendell writes of her year in search of a connection with her horses. As humor, sadness, life, and death gallop across the pages, we find she is writing about other connections as well. Her connection to her world, her family, and to life itself intrigues us, and her honesty and thoughtfulness resonate throughout her work. Wendell takes us on a ride through her world, yet we find at the end of it that she has been describing our own world as well.” – Jim Wofford, Eventing coach and former Olympian Read an excerpt You can order Finding My Distance through: Amazon.com   —   or   —   directly through our distributor.
	The Magic Step by John Dranow In this retrospective novel, the protagonist retells the story of his youth as the son of an Arthur Murray Dance Studio franchisee. The novel artfully captures inevitable disillusionments in the passing of an era, which parallel the disillusionment of the story's narrator as he attempts, often painfully yet lovingly, to piece together the fragments of his and his family's past. Click to order
	The Intelligent Traveler's Guide to Chiribosco by Jonathan Penner "Some readers will be reminded of Nabokov by the lapidary turns of outrageous wit. Page by page it sparkles while it moves, like quicksilver. Any true lover of the art of fiction will marvel at the sleights of hand, any lover of great farce will relish the drollery of Mr. Penner’s imagination. I am glad it is no longer and no shorter, that its power to charm has been so exactly and economically assessed. Seldom is the showman’s tact so well demonstrated as in this exquisite management of absurdity." – R.V. Cassill Click to order
	Those Years: Recollections of a Baltimore Newspaperman by R. H. Gardner "An era of Baltimore history delightfully recalled – along with many of the memories that went into the making of its distinguished drama critic. I've read it twice and liked it even better the second time." – Josephine Jacobsen Click to order
	Life In The Middle Of The Century Two Novellas by John Dranow "What a wonderful pair of narratives! The Official and Final Version strives, with extraordinary success, to do what its era – the mid-sixties – urged us all to do: to 'tell it like it is.'" ... Funny, relentless in its evocation of thrill and innocence, and for both of these reasons profoundly moving, the story of Jay and Rachel overwhelmed me ... Zone One, which might be construed as a similar vision seen through the lens of the matured eye ... is nothing short of a triumph ... A first rate book! – Sydney Lea Click to order
	Inventions in a Grieving House: A Novella by Patricia Grossman This tender, subtle first novella begins with its very adult, preadolescent narrator, Mona, imagining a device that would waft her to the bathroom each morning to "do away with the necessity of taking the first step out of bed." She embellishes her world through inventions to mute the pain of her mother Cass's death in an accident, "a treacherous bend in the maze of the universe's order." Mona's father, who loved his wife but felt inadequate beside her creativity, retreats into an unvarying routine of work and solitary hobbies. Her grandmother copes with Cass's death by holding an exhibit of her paintings and making the rounds of New York galleries to gain posthumous recognition for her oeuvre. In an attempt to dissipate the stultifying atmosphere of grief, Mona engineers a camping trip – even designing a special tent to hold them all in comfort. But, of course, no one really changes. Back home, Mona devises a game based on the central figure in her fantasies, "the Decider, Who planned life's experiences." But even her invention, a metaphor for success and the continuation of life, cannot "quell the longing" for what has been irrevocably lost. Click to order
	On My Being Dead and Other Stories (Ha'penny Book Series) by L. W. Michaelson "What a wonderful collection of stories: full of wonder, full of wonderful characters ... I don't see how anyone could ever forget them." – Knute Skinner, Bellingham Review Click to order
Poetry
	1946 Poems by Matthew Graham In Matthew Graham's second collection of poems, 1946, the dust of an era is captured and held briefly. The glitter of the big bands, of postwar laundromats, of rusting bombers, and old photos of war heroes. What the speaker takes away from his own process is a haunting self-awareness and a profound nostalgia for a time that he was never really part of, but that shaped him nonetheless. Click to order
	Don't Go Back To Sleep Poems by Sarah Gorham That family life is a disease for which family life is the only cure drives Sarah Gorham's poems to the discovery that love, too, is a solution in which the very problem is beautifully and teasingly hidden. This strong book is full of fear and courage and good poems. "The poems of Sarah Gorham are rich in feeling and formally mindful. In her first book, Gorham approaches large subjects – mortality, faith, love – with an unflinching tenderness that never edges into sentimentality. Wise without being pompous, lucid without being flat, these quietly various verses will be a source of resilient pleasure to any attentive reader." – Alice Fulton Click to order
	The Interlude: Fables of the Twice-Fallen Angels A Poem by D.W. Fenza Readers who enjoy traditional verse will delight in this book-length poem, a highly concentrated farce. A modern lawyer, "whom we shall leave / unnamed," stumbles through the ruins of his marriage, failed affairs, unemployment and atheism; attempts to cheat the system backfire. Click to order
	New World Architecture Poems by Matthew Graham "Upon discovering Mr.Graham's poems in small magazines, I then began actively to search for further work and have since avidly followed his poetry. Mr. Graham's artistry is well-accomplished, finely-crafted, and I am most pleased and excited to welcome his first collection of poetry..." – Carolyn Forche Click to order
	The Maze Poems by Mick Fedullo "If among young American poets there is a gifted life that is not the standard 'poetic' life it is Mick Fedullo's, living and writing poems with Pima Indian children on the Gila River Reservation in Arizona; Fedullo remind me of the voluntary cleric, Vincent Van Gogh, helper among the courageous miners of the Borinage and this parallel holds for the poems as well – this is a book radiant with a people and a southern landscape, the intensity and the power of these poems cannot be forgotten." – Norman Dubie Click to order
	The Eye That Desires to Look Upward Poems by Steven Cramer "There is a disarming beauty and a resonant calm to Steven Cramer's poetry. The graces and sly ironies of the world haunt these poems, and they are as startling as starlight rippling through an empty meadow. This is a superb debut." – David St. John Click to order
	The Halo of Desire Poems by Mark Irwin "This is a very clean cut poetery. It is the promise and precision of real life." – Yehuda Amichai Click to order
	What Happens Poems by Robert Long "Robert Long makes scintillating metaphors ... in poems as witty as they are, at times, troubling. Here is a collection that rates, and will get, a hearty welcome." – James Schuyler Click to order
	Days of Summer Gone Poems by Joe Bolton There are many things to praise in Joe Bolton's poems: their wit, their easy conversation, their sensitivity to the swellings of longing with loss. What's most striking, however, is the fully articulated voice, measured with melody, grace, and humor, with which Bolton addresses us. Such confidence of expression, rare in the work of a young poet (Bolton was born in 1961), brings an engaging intimacy to the narratives, lyrics, and laments that fill Days of Summer Gone-, the reader is drawn into the influence of a voice that is both warm and edgy with sharp perceptions. As the title of the volume suggests, it is the past which animates these poems: the past of summer days; of first, last, and lost loves; of memories caught in photographs; of an America not yet unsettled by history, as in "Speaking of the South: 1961" John F. Kennedy is alive and loved, and the moon remains Somewhat of a mystery, and suburbs and shopping malls, Are mainly somebody's bad idea and you can still Speak of the South in a voice not wholly laden with loss. It is a past marvelously evoked, in the long poem "The Green Diamonds of Summer" which ends the book, by the image of baseball games put out by the relentless approach of evening. This is a fine volume, individual and accomplished; its impressively modulated sadness is made the more powerful by news of Bolton's suicide. Click to order
	The Rain That Falls This Far Poems by Dennis Hinrichsen "Rarely does a new poet so immediately impress with an individual voice and curious vision as does Hinrichsen in his first book... A remarkable debut." – Booklist Click to order
	Once Out of Nature Poems by Jim Simmerman "These are evocative and beautifully rendered poems. Time and again I found myself stopping to draw breath, moved and sometimes startled at the aching rightness of the image, the felicity of the line. Simmerman is clearly among the best poets of his generation." – Raymond Carver Click to order
Children
	The Ballerina and the Gargoyle by Jack Stephens Sooner or later, everyone dreams of doing something nearly impossible. For Kate, a dedicated young ballerina, dancing is as close as she can come to flying. Until, one day during a quiet moment in an unlikely place, she takes a leap of imagination and sees how one needn't have wings to soar. Click to order
	Sandcastle Seahorses by Nikia Clark Leopold A family of sea horses takes over a sandcastle on the beach until it is time to return to the sea. Click to order
	The Octopus Who Wanted to Juggle by Robert Pack and Nancy Willard Though he begins badly, Sam the octopus learns to juggle after secret advice from a wise old crab. Click to order