This new edition of the highly acclaimed Vignettes & Postcards: Writings from the Evening Writing Workshop at Shakespeare and Company Bookstore, Paris, edited by Erin Byrne and Anna Pook, is aninvitation to discover what Allen Ginsberg called "the bewildering beauty of Paris."Don George, Billy Collins, Marcia DeSanctis, KimberleyLovato, the SpokenWord poets of Paris, and others wander boulevards, meander through markets, venture across twilit bridges and tiptoe into grandes appartements.  We sip Champagne, taste history, and savor la bonne vie. Next, Jean-Bernard Ponthus, Jane Weston, and the other Paris writers await in the upstairs library at Shakespeare and Company with the ghosts of Walt Whitman and Sylvia Plath,the Mirror of Love, and the timeless mystique of beloved original stories.Photographs by William Curtis Rolf and sketches by Candace Rose Rardon and Colette Hannahan combine with the stories and poems to offer a nouvelle vision of Paris. Vignettes & Postcards is a series of destination-specific anthologies edited by Erin Byrne and published by Reputation Books, collections that go deep into the experience of travel to uncover secrets, traditions, and meanings of various cultures worldwide.  Each volume presents stories by well-known and gifted writers, tales that trace journeys, both inner and outer, to entice and transport readers. Winner of Paris Book Festival Award for Travel Book.

Vignettes & Postcards from Paris

Literature & Fiction

Byrne, Erin

Literary

Amphorae Publishing Group, LLC

The swamps and bayous around Cherokee Crossing, Arkansas have always been dark and mysterious, but on this summer day two boys stumble across the remains of a baby girl, headless and badly decomposed. Hick Blackburn, a reluctant sheriff with a troubled past is called to the scene. With nothing to go on except the baby’s race and sex, the task of discovering who she is and how she died challenges all of Hick’s investigative skills. But Hick faces a deeper challenge. The vision of the infant has left him shattered, a reminder of a war crime he has tried to lock away, a crime that has begun to eat away at the edges of his life, destroying him one relationship at a time.
With the aid of his deputies, Hick will begin to piece together his investigation, an investigation that will lead him to question everything. As he is forced to examine the town he grew up in, he will come to terms with the notion that within each of us lays the propensity for both good and evil. His investigation will turn up lies and ignorance, scandal and deceit, and the lengths a mother will go in order to hide her shame.

Beneath Still Waters (Hick Blackburn)

Graham, Cynthia A.

United States

The Best Hardcore Band in PA is the coming of age story of Cyrus, Jeff, and Mindy as misfit teens in a place where they'll never be considered "normal"--Cyrus for being gay and losing his mother at age twelve; Jeff for playing hardcore music featuring the "devil's lyrics" and questioning his sexuality in this town filled with churches; and Mindy for being Korean in a place where anyone non-white doesn't always fit in. The boys navigate their complicated feelings with each other, their parents, and the town, while forming the best ever hardcore band in PA, their only hope of escaping this place.

The Best Hardcore Band in PA

Teen & Young Adult

Elenbark, Bill

Folk wisdom varies from region to region, and the Ozark Mountain variety was, and still is, peculiar and very special to the residents of this grand range. For the most part, early Ozarkers, though scattered, were bound together by common geography, religion, ethnic background, language, customs, dress, architecture, and even hardship. Wisdom as it related to survival and just getting by was accumulated and freely shared among these isolated residents. The people living throughout the Ozark Mountains often had to depend on each other for medical treatment, weather and crop information, and any number of other elements associated with living in a remote environment far from stores, physicians, and newspapers.

Folk Wisdom of the Ozarks: Sayings, Sage Advice, and Superstitions

Jameson, W.C.

Genre Fiction

Twenty-five-year-old fraternal twins, Naomi and Penelope Dotson, discover the dead bodies of their parents in the lake house on the edge of Centerville. While still in shock, the twins strive to discover the murderer and are drawn into two other related investigations-the kidnapping of nine-year-old Jamie Reed and the disappearance of Keith Evans, a deadbeat dad. When a car tries to run the twins down, they know they are getting close to the truth. In the process of chasing these criminals, they learn it's hard to run in high heel shoes.

Mystery, Ink.: A Killing Strikes Home

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Flood, Paffi

Mystery

This is the story of the travels of Antonio Beltrán, a migrant farm worker from Mexico. The descriptions of landscapes are as accurate as the characters in the story, and here is an opportunity to look at what may be a different side to immigration for some, because the author has met many of what American politicians are prone to label "illegal aliens." The story becomes contemporary by introducing cartel activity that the author considers the scourge of Mexico. It is also an opportunity to understand the feelings and concerns of some of our neighbors south of the border.

To the Harvest: A Novel of a Migrant Farm Worker

Duncklee, John

Aubrie Elliot is a middle-aged lesbian who isn’t quite sure what that means or how she got there. But everything suddenly seems bittersweet as she grapples with her new body, her old relationship, and her surprise at suddenly being “halfway there.” Told in a series of humorous vignettes, Aubrie offers a frank look at the ups and downs that come with looking forward and back. It's like sitting down with an old friend! 

Halfway There: My Lesbian Life at Middle Age

LGBTQ+ Books

Elliot, Aubrie

Biographies & Memoirs

Middle-age is challenging enough, but when Nancy Nau Sullivan suddenly finds herself caring for two children, grappling with her mother’s death, and caring for her ailing father while at the same time navigating a contentious divorce and dealing with long-simmering sibling rivalries, she wonders how she can keep herself sane. Things get even more complicated when her siblings accuse her of “kidnapping” their father and carting him―and his Cadillac―off to Anna Maria Island, Florida, where they are greeted by Hurricane Josephine. In this gripping memoir, Sullivan guides the reader through the chaotic whirlwind of unexpected and unwanted change and offers a common sense and humorous guide to surviving family relationships.

The Last Cadillac: A Memoir

Sullivan, Nancy Nau

Community & Culture

The intensity of two boys' feelings for each other threatens to be overwhelmed by family tensions that rip them apart before their relationship even starts. Mateo's father is overly obsessed with his fifteen-year-old son's baseball achievements to the exclusion of other interests (manga, indie rock music, and Stick -- the boy from the "troubled" family down the street, the one with thirteen children of mixed races). Mateo's mother comes from a sprawling Puerto Rican family that provides little privacy and complicated support as Mateo and his father clash over a baseball injury that jeopardises his season. Down the street, Stick is dealing with the sudden loss of his father and living up to an image he believes his father saw in himself, one that wasn't gay, which drives him to drink and do drugs beyond anything he and Mateo have experimented. They come together and fall apart. Like a mantra, Mateo repeats the words from one of the band's songs whenever he gets hurt or afraid: I WILL BE OKAY. Unfortunately, it doesn't always work.

I Will Be Okay

Children's Books

When two investigators, Cameron Chandler and Yuri Webster, discover a body next to a pile of stolen signs, what began as a prank becomes a murder investigation. The local candidate for the U.S. Congressional seat gets all of the endorsements, but he can't compete with the unlimited resources of his opponent. Funded by an east coast family in the oil business, the out-of-state candidate takes the state by storm, marrying the daughter of a local prestigious family and flooding the airwaves with ads, many of them negative. Cameron and Yuri soon find themselves targets in a battle between the local candidate, big oil interests, and anti-big oil activists.

Campaigning Can Be Deadly

Stuart, Charlotte

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