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Eve La Salle Caram's new short novel, published here in Trio for the first time, is a story not only about a search for a lost relative, but about finding the lost pieces of several lives. It is also the story the author's students at Los Angeles City College, who after reading her novel Rena, A Late Journey, have repeatedly urged her to write Looking For Johnny, the story that brings her Corpus Christi novels full circle. About: Looking F...

Since The Song of the Rhinoceros (1973) till his recent collections of poems entitled Wounds of the Old Trees (2011), the Iraqi poet Sadiq Assaieg proves to be a poet of vision, passion and sensation. For him, poetry is no more an act of inspiration, but it is a complex craft to be mastered and thought of. His poetry, since the sixties of the last century represents a sharp departure from classical and romantic traditions in Arabic poetry and ...

Irene Watson has written a psychologically savvy memoir about her childhood in a two room shack in rural Canada with a controlling, demand-ing mother, an emotionally absent father, and the affect of the death of her infant brother before she was born. With insight and intelligence she takes the reader through her step by step experience of resistance and revelation at a 28-day therapeutic treatment center. Told with courage and candor in an in...

When Malca Bernovski rides a horse offtrail in Nixon-era Washington DC, she discovers the wounded antiwar leader Gavin Hareen, prime suspect in the lethal bombing of an army truck. The budding love between the sheltered Malca, daughter of a Holocaust survivor, and the anguished, half-Syrian fugitive becomes a desperate struggle against injustice. From the White House to the Rockies, from the Warsaw Ghetto to the post-9/11 search of the love...

This is a journey of redemption for a lonely older man who finds love in a stray dog and pays the price for defending it. This book is dedicated to Lupe, and all the dogs who change our lives. Anastasio Quintana has never known love or acceptance until he find an injured stray dog who needs him. When he finally begins to have hope a tragic confrontation threatens his dog's life and forces him to defend her, with unforeseen cons...

Gage is a peerless judge of human nature. Wry, funny, forgiving, she reminds us at times of John Barth, Katherine Anne Porter, and Sherwood Anderson. Her little Putneyville is big enough to encompass every human vice and virtue, and reading its fables and foibles, we recognize these people-and then, perhaps, we blush. -Michael Carr, multiple best-selling editor In today's world of collapsing economies and ecosystems, can the ageless wisdom of ...

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This is the story of a lighthouse named Adam who decides to run off to play with his friends in the rain against his owner's wishes. When panic sets in, Adam tries to high-tail it back home and events spiral out of control.

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Julene Tripp Weaver's No Father Can Save Her tells in verse the tumultuous coming of age story of a girl growing up in Queens, NY during the 1960s and 70s. When the little girl's father dies, her uncle steps in inappropriately as her mother descends slowly into mental illness. This collection touches upon all kinds of relationships-family, friendships, sexual liaisons, and racial tensions-and the boundary crossings among them. The poems here a...

Parents worry about when to start teaching their kids about sex. Few received an adequate sex education from their own parents and being faced with it now can feel overwhelming. This book is the first of its kind to teach parents how to prepare themselves to meet the challenge. The author, a long-time sex educator, therapist, and researcher, knows the pain that many parents experience. Accordingly, she has developed a 9-step program to take...

A dystopian sci-fi novel imagines a future New England crippled by pollution and under the control of ruthless corporate patriarchs." -Kirkus Reviews (see complete Kirkus review here) "If you are prone to believe that even severe climate change will be well managed, that future governments will calmly move cities inland, providing good jobs in construction and engaging our better selves, Kitty Beer will turn you inside out. The compelling, g...

A powerful example of a sincere effort to practice what you live and what you preach. Making Gumbo helps us feel the discomfort that naturally occurs when an institution pursues diversity. It places the responsibility for diversity at all levels of the university, but emphasizes the critical role of leadership in this effort. Such leadership must at minimum be unwavering in its commitment to diversity and willing to take risks for change. C...

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