In her debut story collection DEER, Susan Tepper takes us into the forest of her imagination, shining a light on a pack of off-kilter characters caught in unusual and compelling circumstances. Tepper is one of the most original voices in fiction I've heard in quite a while. While reading her loopy-beautiful dark narratives, I was reminded of the first time I read Denis Johnson. Yes, she 's that good. This is a writer to watch! - Jamie Cat Callan, The Writer's Toolbox &amp; French Women Don't Sleep Alone

Deer & Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Tepper, Susan

Contemporary

Wilderness House Press

In 1956 Khrushchev s Thaw triggers the Hungarian Revolution and upheaval in the Soviet Empire. During Khrushchev s first state visit to Helsinki, Dosha, star rider of the Soviet Dressage Team and her horse defect with the help of local Gypsies. The novel follows the life of Dosha, a Gypsy in disguise. It offers unique insight into the tribal life of nomadic Gypsies, who under Stalin joined partisans fighting Nazi invaders, only to face entrapment during Khrushchev s Thaw. By then Dosha and her talented circus horse have been drafted into the dressage team in Leningrad. Navigating political intrigue, narrowly escaping discovery by the KGB, she enters a love forbidden to Gypsy women. One goal remains uppermost in her mind leading her tribe and her horse to freedom in the West. Discoveries: A Kircus Service: "Meyer's writing is crisp and speedy, crackling with sharp metaphors and rich descriptions." Julia Ann Charpentie,Foreword Reviews: "Edgy, entertaining, and filled with political stratagem, even a jaded fan of novels set during the Soviet era will not be disappointed. Indeed, Meyer's knowledge and research shine on every page." Dorothy Morkis, US Olympic Dressage Rider: "The brilliance with which Sonia Meyer portrays both the magical connection between a horse and rider performing the intricate movements of dressage, and the intuitive love and feeling are to my mind unsurpassed in fiction." Rene Schwiesow, Massachusetts poet and writer, co-host of Plymouth's Art of Words: "There is richness to her images, depth in her characters, and fluidity in her narration."

Dosha; Flight of the Russian Gypsies

Sonia Meyer

Literary

In these quasi-diary entries, Tepper allows the reader to thumb through an imagined ship&rsquo;s log to find that eternal sea in which Freud was most at home. This is a perceptive love story.

From the Umberplatzen

Susan Tepper

Frances Metzman has found the secret of presenting a mood in a short story that sometimes takes a novelist many pages to achieve. Her new short story collection, The Hungry Heart, combines tales of suspense, passion and empathy in artful and sophisticated story-telling.

The Hungry Heart: Stories.

Frances Metzman

In 1928, Massachusetts water authorities began land takings for the construction of the Quabbin Reservoir, in the Swift River Valley. Unknown to the authorities was the fact that, subsisting in the more remote, forested tracts of the valley, there was a secretive band of mixed-race hunter-gatherers who had been there for over ten generations. Mitchell's book is the story of the exodus of this tribe and the young anthropologist who first discovers them. The novel takes the form of a legal deposition, taken at the Everglades City Court House, in 1929, concerning the fate of these people. John Hanson Mitchell (http://johnhansonmitchell.com/) is the author of Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on Once Square Mile (Counterpoint) and eight other books on cultural and environmental history, the most recent of which is The Paradise of All These Parts, A Natural History of Boston (Beacon Press). He is also the creator and editor of the award-winning magazine, "Sanctuary", published by the Massachusetts Audubon Society.

The Last of the Bird People

MITCHELL, John Hanson

Jasmin's Summer Wish is a picture book about a girl in New York City who wishes for year-round Summer weather. Her wish comes true, and when the hot climate changes the city's environment, Jasmin learns a valuable lesson about the importance of seasons.  This is the first children's book to include Sikh characters in an urban setting. We hope this project can contribute really cool characters that Sikh kids in urban communities can identify with. The diverse cast in Jasmin's Summer Wish encourages an inclusive play environment, and the story is one that can be shared and loved by everyone.

Jasmin's Summer Wish

Children's Books

Glines, Elizabeth

Liz Glines

Science, Nature & How It Works

She was cold, she was alone, and she knew she was going to die. 
In the middle of an epic ice storm, Kitty Stevenson, an eccentric old woman, self-exiled to rural Canada from New York society, realizes that she is having a heart attack. She had survived Nazi Germany - she can survive this too. Her neighbors mount a heroic effort to save her. She lives to tell her tale of self-reliance, incredible wealth, poverty, and escape on the eve of a World War. Kitty is ultimately confronted by what she perceives as a personal moral failure. 
A strong character, Kitty Stevenson is molded by the Depression and toughened by an intense encounter with Nazi Germany. In the end, she has only one story left to tell: a tale of murder. But, "It was war, damn it, it was war."

Poplar Hill

Glines, Stephen Ramey

In 1999, Marjorie Harvey published a collection of her "One Voice" columns from the Littleton Independent. In the last few years, she began to select new columns for a second volume, but she was too busy writing, having fresh experiences, and growing seriously old to concentrate on a second book. It took two hospitalizations and entering hospice care to focus her attention. In the last two months of her life, although often confined to her bed, she made the final column selections, edited them, and wrote the introductory material.

One Voice: More Notes From the Common

Susan Tepper's new novel is a picaresque romp. A Gulf War vet battling PTSD is tricked into chauffeuring millionaire country music legend Billy Bud Wilcox from Newark to Colorado. Everything goes wrong. Tepper expertly skewers a vast collection of characters on a wildly entertaining road trip from hell.

What Drives Men

Office

Tepper, Susan Isla

Humor & Satire

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