In Jonah Raskin’s Dark Land, Dark Mirror, we meet a group of characters right out of a Raymond Chandler novel or a Quentin Tarantino movie. The protagonist, Tioga Vignetta, is a female private eye. Hunker down with a glass of wine and start reading this page-turner.”

Dark Land, Dark Mirror: Tioga Vignetta Noir (Volume 1)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Raskin, Jonah

Mystery

McCaa Books

Three eighteen-year-old southerners start the day of March 25, 1931, not knowing that the events soon to occur in Scottsboro, Alabama will lead them and the South on an inexorable journey of change: Clarence Norris, black, is boarding a freight train as a hobo in Chattanooga; Waights Taylor, white, is a student at the University of Alabama; Rosa McCauley Parks, black, is a resident of Pine Level, Alabama. The three become involved in the Scottsboro events in different ways with profound implications to the region and their lives. Three cities—Scottsboro, Montgomery, and Birmingham—are the critical points for the events about to unfold: Clarence Norris becomes one of the Scottsboro Boys; Waights Taylor is from an upper middle class Birmingham family; Rosa Parks will spark the start of the civil rights movement in Montgomery. Each city bears the scars of its segregated past leading to the second emancipation of African Americans from the yokes of slavery and segregation. Our Southern Home—Scottsboro to Montgomery to Birmingham: The Transformation of the South in the Twentieth Century is a narrative history and is based on four broad themes: (1) The inevitability of change for better or worse; (2) The Scottsboro period in the 1930s represents the nadir in Alabama's segregated history; (3) The importance the accident of birth places on most individuals, and the resulting extreme disparities between being born white or black in the South; (4) Southerners, black and white alike, are inexplicably connected, both figuratively and literally, in ways the region has yet to fully recognize and accept. The life stories of Clarence Norris, Waights Taylor, and Rosa Parks are the book's consistent thread through the twentieth century, the tragedy of the Scottsboro Boys and their trials, and other important civil rights moments in Montgomery, Selma, and Birmingham.

Our Southern Home: Scottsboro to Montgomery to Birmingham--The Transformation of the South in the Twentieth Century

Biographies & Memoirs

Taylor Jr. Jr, Waights

Community & Culture

The Healdsburg Literary Guild is delighted to publish this new book, Healdsburg Alive!—Eight Sonoma County Writers Pay Homage to a Great Northern California Town. It follows a number of previous Guild publications, including Present at the Creation and three books entitled A Day in the Life of Healdsburg, in addition to several poetry chapbooks. This new book provided writers in the Healdsburg area with a four-session workshop in which to hone their writing skills along with an opportunity to publish their pieces. Armando Garcia-Dávila, Healdsburg’s 2002–2003 Literary Laureate, led the workshop. The price of admission included marvelous meals prepared by Armando. The workshops met four times in 2010—once in each season. Armando opened sessions with a discussion of writing prompts, techniques, seeds, and subjects the participants might consider. Writers were then on their own for about three hours to wander Healdsburg and surrounding areas in Sonoma County, looking for inspiration for a story or a poem. Although the stated premise of the workshop was to write a piece that matched each season, writers followed whatever muse grabbed them and led their pens in preparation of a first draft. The group then reconvened and writers read their drafts. A lively discussion followed, offering each writer comments, ideas, and encouragement. Armando then selected and edited pieces for the book. And voila, we have Healdsburg Alive! We hope you enjoy it.

Healdsburg Alive!: Eight Sonoma County Writers Pay Homage to a Great Northern California

Literature & Fiction

Beckman, David

Garcia-Dávila, Armando

Jeremiah, Simon

Mechling, David

Mechling, Mona

Peasley, Chris

Taylor Jr., Waights

van Veen, Margo

Literary

A big, bold book about the life and times of James McGrath, an extraordinary American Teacher, Mentor, Cultural Ambassador, and Pedagogical Pilgrim. McGrath began to teach in 1952; he is still teaching at age 84. He has taught in the United States, Europe, and Asia and he has taught sculpture, painting, weaving, the history of the arts, and he has also been an artist for his entire adult life. His students include John Haugse, Christine Taylor Patten, William Wiley, Robert Hudson, William Allan, Kevin Red Star, and Jeanette Katoney. As a teacher he has worked closely with Irene Oliver-Lewis, Betty Taira, and Tom and Joan Rudholm and many more. From 1962 until 1973 he was a teacher and an administrator at the Institute for American Indian Arts and influenced a generation of Native American artists. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he still teaches and makes art.

James McGrath -- In a Class By Himself

RASKIN, JONAH with a Preface By Bill Ayers

"The body was bruised in several places. Dry blood and saliva were evident over parts of his face and near the mouth. Joe knelt down and read the piece of paper: mcgrath this here you last warnin. you and that black basterd rucker git outta town or you gonna be next." In Touch of Redemption, the second book in the Joe McGrath and Sam Rucker Detective Novels, the two men embark on a difficult journey—an attempt to find the murderers of Joe’s father twenty-five years ago. It is 1948 in segregated Alabama, and Joe, a white man, and Sam, a black man, face numerous obstacles, the least of which is the racism and bigotry of the time, while struggling with the challenges of solving a murder case a quarter century old. The men face corrupt judges and law enforcement officials, and a secret fraternity of men determined to maintain the Southern way of life and ‘the operation,’ their illegal liquor business. All this occurs against a backdrop of a seemingly bucolic small Southern town, Montevallo, home to a college for women.

Touch of Redemption: A Joe McGrath and Sam Rucker Detective Novel

Collection of poetry based on the life and mental meanderings of a mid-life gay poet with a minister for a mother, an ex-FBI agent for a grandfather, and a penchant for irony.

The Gift of Bad Timing

Sussman, KP

Poetry

90 is the new: Poems

Ginzberg, Vilma Olsvary

Octogenarian on Fire is the third book of poetry by Vilma Olsvary Ginzberg about aging. Whether intended or not, this trilogy is an extraordinary view on the later years of life. The poems exalt the thrills of living to an older age, while not hiding behind some false veneer of the issues and problems that we must all face some day.

Octogenarian on Fire: New Poems: 2013-2017

Jonah Raskin’s raucous oddball noir, set in the hotels, cantinas, and marijuana fields of Sonoma Valley, is a steamy pozole peppered with characters like Billy Bones, No Name, and Turquoise Woman, with an unforgettable turn by a snubnose-packing private eye named Tioga and her sidekick/lover Camilla. A definite contact high.

Dark Day, Dark Night: A Marijuana Murder Mystery

Product Description In Vallejo, California, in 1954, a most extraordinary football season came to its conclusion for the Vallejo High School team. The team was undefeated, and Sports Illustrated wrote that the team was most likely the best high school football team in America. In addition, the magazine wrote that Dick Bass, the team's star running back, was the best running back in the nation. The young men on the team had experienced something that only dreams are made of-a special time, a special season, and a season to remember. The Apache Gift tells the story of this incredible experience. About the Author Ed Sowash is a retired high school and college football coach. He coached for 36 years - 16 in high school, 7 in J.C. and 13 in major college. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he moved to Vallejo, California, in 1943, so his father could work at Mare Island during WWII. Ed and his wife, Darla live in Windsor, California, in the Sonoma County Wine Country.Dale Flowers lives in Aptos, California. He is a retired international organization training and development consultant. He has worked with indigenous peoples and programs in North America, Africa, the Middle East and East Asia.

The Apache Gift: An Incredible Experience

History

Sowash, Ed

Flowers, Dale

Americas

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