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Catching the Bullet and Other Stories by Daniel Hawkes Scarlet Tanager Books, 2000: Is elegant the right term for a world of fold-up baby strollers, big- timewrestling, and misplaced pants? These stories trace the awkward surfaces and clarifying depths in parenthood, working life, and love. They move with the assurance of a long forward pass, soaring and dropping right on target, its trajectory graceful and exact.
--Don Bogen, author of The Known World
$12.95 | ISBN 0-9670224-1-X | 64 Pages | In Stock: 2

THE INVESTIGATOR by Richard Moore Story Line Press

"Moore probes at the variations of normalcy and the edges of madness in this strange tale, building a sense of foreboding and revealing the truth, to the extent we can know it, only on the final page."
--Michele Leber, BOOKLIST

$18.95 | ISBN 780934-257770 | 220 Pages | In Stock: 2 (Signed)

Love: A Story of Images A Novella by Alison Hicks Amherst Writers & Artists Press, 2004

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This novella is a small, perfect miracle of understanding of how the heart works -- for and against us.
--Phyllis Theroux, author of Giovanni's Light and The Book of Eulogies

In Alison Hicks' intense, lyric story of one woman's--and every woman's coming of age from the inside out, we hear the clarion voice of the novelist at home in the usual terrain of the poet, the tale communicated in the spaces between pieces as much as through the narrative itself.
--Liz Abrams-Morley, author of Learning to Caculate the Half Life: Poems

Love: A Story of Images should be required reading for any college student facing the technical and moral choices inherent in writing her life.
--Elizabeth Mosier, author of My Life as a Girl

$15.00 | ISBN 0-941895-27-0 | 92 Pages | In Stock: 5

Commercial Fiction by Vernon Frazer Beneath the Underground Press, 2002

In Commercial Fiction, Vernon Frazer does to post-millennium America what Mark Twain did to its nineteenth century counterpart in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
--Garrison T. Steadwell

Instead of telling a story, Frazer places the reader in the middle of it. As a result, the kaleidoscopic reality of Commercial Fiction assumes an unprecedented immediacy…August Strindberg wrote A Dream Play. Vernon Frazer has written a dream of a novel.
--Palmer Ford Hamilton

$15.00 | ISBN 0-9633465-9-8 | 164 Pages | In Stock: 3

EDGES O Israel O Palestine by Leora Skolkin-Smith Glad Day Books, 2005

Edges is an elegant and moving novel. Leora Skolkin Smith has that rare gift of the writer who can convey the sensibility-the essence of place and its people-with precision and clarity. A moving and provocative debut.
Katherine Weber, author of The Little Women, The Music Lesson

Summary of the novel as written on the back of the book: EDGES is set in a pre-1967 Israel and Palestine. Liana Bialik is fourteen years old when the suicide of her American father forces her to return with her sister and mother to Jerusalem where her mother was born and grew up. Liana's family were once members of the 1940's Haganah and are now living among the complex tensions of Israel's modernalization and expansion. Liana learns about her mother's childhood in the old city, her tragic uncle. With her young lover she lives in the Palestinian world beyond Jerusalem's border. She grows away from her intense relationship with her mother into a womanhood formed by the boundary-less spaces of a lost geography and people.

$15.00 | ISBN: 1-930180-14-4 | 176 Pages | In Stock: 5

Olla Podrida A collection of short fiction by Carol Costa & Jim Woods Publish America, 2006

A collection of short fiction.

An Olla is a clay pot. The functional interpretation of the combination, Olla Podrida, is "a highly seasoned stew."

Carol Costa is the published author of several novels, short stories and non-fiction articles. She is an award-winning playwright and a member of the Dramatists Guild.

Jim Woods is the author of seven books and has published numerous articles in national magazines. He has contributed to various non-fiction anthologies.

$24.95 | ISBN: 1-4137-9990-6 | 284 Pages | In Stock: 3

Relic's Reunions by Vernon Frazer Beneath the Underground Press, 2000

Vernon Frazer's Relic's Reunions is a wonderful blend of two sorts of books. It is a great novel about entering your forties and facing the test of the high school reunion. It is a great subterranean novel, a worthy heir to Jack Kerouac and Chandler Brossard…
--Don Webb, author of Endless Honeymoon

Beneath the Underground, where Charles Mingus's underdog still resides, Vernon Frazer has been building a reputation as a "writer's writer." In Relic's Reunions, Edsel Relic, a high school outcast turned performance poet, receives a telephone call from his unrequited teenage love, who invites him to attend his 25th class reunion - just as he's reeling from a mid-life diagnosis of Tourette Syndrome…
--Richard Freeman, Editor, Plain Brown Wrapper

$16.00 | ISBN 0-9633465-6-3 | 239 Pages | In Stock: 3

Song for Salamander by Miriam Gallagher Trafford Publishing, 2004

When Salamander Quinn decides to liberate all the lost souls at St. Job's infirmary, he embarks on a Kafkasque journey. His plans are further complicated by the arrival of a mystery woman, who sets in motion a chain of startling events. Faced with mounting odds, as his past comes back to haunt him. he struggles to prevail. With the Health Service in crisis and Dublin in the grip of Global warming, he risks all to attain his goal. Powerful forces determine his ultimate destiny.
Miriam Gallagher and Trafford

What has been said about her work;

She shows vivid imagination and is something of a surrealist.
Irish Times

Vigorous and lively work. New York Daily News

Displays inventiveness and style. Sunday Tribune

Impressive. Books Ireland

$12.50 | ISBN: 141201299-6 | 238 Pages | In Stock: 2

Stay Tuned to This Channel and other stories by Vernon Frazer Beneath the Underground Press, 1999: The thirteen stories in Stay Tuned to this Channel explore the terra incognita of cutting-edge fiction in a manner as accessible as it is adventurous.
$14.00 | ISBN 0-9633465-4-7 | 141 Pages | In Stock: 3

The Fire That Burns Us by Flavia Cosma Singular Speech Press, 1996: As the title suggests, this novel brings in front of the reader an entire complex of emotions and life experiences, all of them being perceived as threatening and devouring. The symbolism of the fire is essential, placing the accent on the idea of internal combustion, purification and supreme suffering and sacrifice. The story in itself is not very complicated, a beautiful love story having as its main protagonists two young people: Alexander Visan and Anna, two young and free spirits destroyed by the rigidity and absurdity promoted by a communist system. Alexander decides to choose the exile, leaving behind his beautiful wife whose constant attempts to leave the country are met with refusal. Step by step, the inner struggle becomes the main character of this novel, two tormented souls trying to find a common path, although their communication is impossible. Her letters never reach him, his attempts to contact her are all in vain and their interior monologues are constantly separated by a permanent physical and spiritual wall. Different pieces of thoughts, different instances of consciousness make up the body of this psychological novel. --Ana Maria Felecan
$11.00 | ISBN: 1-880286-34-3 | 114 Pages | In Stock: 2

The Lion Killer by Jim Woods Publish America, 2005: The Lion Killer is a tale of conspiracy, murder, and intrigue that could be-might be-actually happening but if so, is not being reported in the press. Enter the shadowy world of political extremism where bullets, not ballots, are tools of those who would lead a country backward into the days of white supremacy and racial expression.
Jim Woods and Publish America
$19.95 | ISBN: 1-4137-6346-4 | 237 Pages | In Stock: 3

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