The Permanent Press

2016

From the Publishers It amazes me how things flip-flop. Last year we published eight novels, one memoir, and seven mysteries, and five of those novels were submitted for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: Eleanor Lerman’s Radiomen, two novels by Margaret Vandenburg—The Home Front and Weapons of Mass Destruction—Ivan Goldman’s The Debtor Class, and Paul Zimmer’s The Mysteries of Soldiers Grove. Whether any of them make it to these shortlists won’t be known until later this year. But we’re hopeful. Judy’s great-grandfather trained thoroughbreds and in 1909 his horse, Effendi, won the Preakness. He died at age ninety-two. Judy used to spend time with him during the summers in Laurel, Maryland. More than once, when a horse of his failed to finish in the money, he’d say, “Well he should have!” We feel the same about these five novels: if they don’t finish in the money, they should have. This year we are only publishing four novels, one memoir, and ten mysteries, seven of which will be submitted for the major mystery/thriller awards. These include another Sam Acquillo title from Chris Knopf, Back Lash. Howard Owen’s latest Willie Black story, Grace. Beth Terrell’s fourth Jared McKean title, A Taste of Blood and Ashes. and David Freed’s fifth in hs best-selling Cordell Logan series, Hot Start (Chris has already won the Nero Award, Howard the Hammett Prize, Beth was a finalist for the Shamus Award, and David won a Pulitzer Prize as a journalist). Joining them for award submissions are first novels from Alex Austin withNakamura Reality, Ira Gold with Debasements of Brooklyn, and a first thriller from acclaimed novelist Marian Thurm, The Good Life, a chilling tale inspired by a true story. Others include Connie Dial’s prequel to her Josie Corsino mystery series, Set the Night on Fire, a first thriller from Michael Ryan, Guy Novel, and a third from William Wells, Detective Fiction. Should none of them place in the money, I will repeat, “They should have!” We are also publishing an extraordinary memoir by Danner Darcleight, a young man in his thirties, considered by Doran Larson, an authority on prison writing, as “one of the top five writers I’ve ever come across.” Darcleight is serving a twenty-five-years-to-life sentence and his book, Concrete Carnival, will be submitted for every major non-fiction award. When it comes to novels, there are three exceptional ones: Kathleen Novak’s Do Not Find Me, another potential prize-winning first novel, John McCall’s first novel, The Weight, and Charles Davis’ historical and hysterical novel Hitler, Mussolini, and Me. Being a Brit he doesn’t qualify for awards in the States, but this is among our favorite 2016 titles. Lastly, a coincidence concerning two more novels we’ll be publishing: we start off our list in January with Anthony Schneider’s first novel, Repercussions, and conclude with Frederic Hunter’s Life In the Time of Apartheid—both centered in South Africa. Marty Shepard, Judith Shepard, Chris Knopf cover art: Mac Shepard (August 10, 1907 – May 14, 1972)

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Backlist 18 (Alphabetical listing by author)

Index 65 (Alphabetical listing by title)

Subsidiary Rights Agents 70 JANUARY Repercussions Anthony Schneider $28 cloth 230pp ISBN 978-157962-426-2

Henry Wegland, a former African National Congress activist now living in New York with his son, Glenn, and his daughter-in-law, encourages his grandson, Saul, to travel to South Africa and make a documentary about the people involved in the country’s liberation. Saul begins to unravel the dark secrets of his grandfather’s past and the shocking events that led to his escape from South Africa when he, Saul, is kidnapped in a rural town- ship. At the same time, Henry, now ANTHONY SCHNEIDER has been in his twilight years, must come to published in McSweeney’s, Conjunc- terms with Glenn and their strained tions, Mid-American Review, and relationship, making peace with the Details. Born in South Africa and choice he once made for the two of educated in the United States, he them. divides his time between London Spanning past and present, South and New York. Africa and New York, the interlock- ing narratives of Repercussions are a spellbinding portrayal of exile, the meaning of home, and how one man’s attempt to liberate his coun- try changed the lives of his family for generations.

2 JANUARY Detective Fiction William Wells $28 cloth 224pp ISBN 987-1-57962-431-6

A serial killer is on the loose in Naples, Florida, an enclave of wealth and privilege on the Southwest Gulf Coast. At first, the murders have been disguised as accidents, but when Police Chief Wade Hansen becomes suspicious, Mayor Charles Beau­ mont orders him to apprehend the killer before the truth becomes public knowledge. Hansen reaches out to retired Chicago homicide detective Jack Starkey. Starkey, who has been crime novels based upon his pal shot three times—twice on the job Starkey’s career. Starkey’s alter-ego and once in the army—is enjoying is Chicago homicide detective Jack every cop’s retirement dream, but Stoney. at the same time, misses the thrill Things are not what they seem, of the hunt, so he accepts the job. plot twists abound, and the bullets As the bodies stack up like cord- begin to fly. Starkey, in desperation, wood, Starkey searches for any- reaches out to the fictional Stoney, thing that the victims might have in to help him catch the killer. common. He decides to go under- cover as a member of the Naples WILLIAM WELLS was born in elite in an attempt to get himself Detroit, has lived in Chicago with noticed by the killer, drawing the his wife, Mary, and they now reside attention of Count Vasily Petrovich, on the Florida Gulf Coast. He who operates a hedge fund named graduated from Hamilton College, for the Atocha, a Spanish galleon served aboard a Navy destroyer, that sank in a hurricane off the and has worked as a radio disk Florida Keys in 1622. jockey, newspaper reporter, author When Starkey discovers that of an internationally syndicated all of the victims so far had been comic strip, speechwriter for the investors in that fund—and that governor of Michigan, and market- the count is not a count at all, but ing agency executive before found- a member of the Russian Mafia— ing a custom publishing company. he suspects that the Atocha Fund He has published two other novels, might have a substantial penalty for Ride Away Home and Face of the early withdrawal. Devil. Meanwhile, William Stevens, a Chicago Tribune police reporter, has been writing a series of best-selling

3 FEBRUARY Nakamura Reality Alex Austin $29 cloth 272pp ISBN 978-1-57962-409-5

To understand Japanese culture requires reading between the lines. This is Hugh Mcpherson’s chal- lenge in Nakamura Reality, a be- guiling blend of mystery, odyssey, inconsolable loss and obsession. To rendezvous with a former girlfriend, Hugh Mcpherson leaves his surfing-obsessed sons on an iso- lated California beach. When Hugh returns, the eleven-year-old twins have vanished. A ferocious riptide has swept Takumi and Hitoshi out to sea, their bodies unrecovered. quixotic journey across the Cali- Devastated by the loss, Hugh fornia landscape, encountering nu- and his Japanese wife, Setsuko, di- merous characters of ill will and vorce. Severing all ties to America, cross-purpose, but who inexorably Setsuko returns to Japan to live with lead him toward a film-industry her father, Kazuki Ono, a prominent firm called Nakamura Reality, and author of mind-bending novels. a labyrinth that challenges him to After grieving for ten years and separate reality from fiction to find longing for Setsuko, Hugh swims his way out—and perhaps back to out to sea to drown himself. As his sons. he sinks, his sons appear to him, holding the last letter that he had ALEX AUSTIN is an LA writer sent to their mother, begging her and journalist whose fiction has ap- forgiveness. peared in numerous magazines. His Abandoning his suicide, Hugh plays have been produced in Los swims back to shore. The incident Angeles, Portland and New York, awakens memories that throw doubt including Mimosa, the featured play on the accepted version of his sons’ in Wordsmiths Playwrights Festival deaths. Hugh’s doubts are intensi- and, The Amazing Brenda Strider, a fied when he learns that Kazuki Ono Backstage West Critic’s Pick. Aus- has come to California to finish a tin lives with his wife Eileen in the novel called Fingal’s Cave, the tale West Valley and has three children, of a brash American who marries a one of whom resided in Tokyo for Japanese woman against the wishes several years and married a Japa- of her father, a powerful business- nese woman, the springboard for man with ties to the Yakuza. Austin’s current novel. Provoked by his memories and obliquely revealing passages found in Kazuki’s books, Hugh begins a

4 FEBRUARY Do Not Find Me Kathleen Novak $28 cloth 242pp ISBN 978-1-57962-427-9

As a young man, Gigi Paulo arrives in New York and is immediately drawn to a girl he sees in a bar near Penn Station. Before he can approach her, she is gone. He returns to the bar for weeks, hoping to see her again. He dreams of her at night and searches the crowds for her face. Quiet and careful, he is not the type to become obsessed by a stranger. But obsessed he is. Two years later he meets her at a party. Her name is Corrine. She seems to like his cooking and the KATHLEEN NOVAK is a poet blues albums he collects, but she and writer who grew up on the iron- never stays with him for long. As he mining range of Northern Minne- discovers the secrets and violence of sota, the granddaughter of Italian her life, Gigi finds himself unable to and Croatian immigrants. A gradu- rescue her, and barely able to save ate of the University of Minne- himself. He flees New York, but his sota, she has worked as an English obsession with Corrine follows him, teacher, consultant, and freelance even when he returns to his home in writer. Her work has been recog- Northern Minnesota, where he mar- nized for its originality and poetic ries, has a daughter, and fishes the language. Ms. Novak lives in Min- deep, quiet lakes he knows so well. neapolis with her husband, daugh- After he dies, his daughter uncov- ter, and sagacious cat. ers her father’s desire for this unknown woman, leaving her to question the inherent perils of his life as well as her own. Dark and poetic, Do Not Find Me moves between the voices of Gigi Paulo and his daughter with a com- pelling grace, its haunting undercur- rents remaining long after the story has ended.

5 MARCH Set the Night on Fire Connie Dial $28 cloth 272pp ISBN 978-1-57962-402-6

In 1971, Josie Corsino is unmarried Josie Pastore, a fresh face chosen from her LAPD policewoman class to be an undercover operative. She is the first female allowed to work in this dangerous assignment, but as a college graduate from a working class family, she quickly finds acceptance among the department’s targeted groups. When the story begins, she’s im- mersed in the politics and schemes of one of the most active radical organizations in LA, but after to celebrities and political figures who three years in this assignment she’s are unwitting participants in a plan to weary of the lifestyle and tired of destroy innocent people and property. lying about who she is and what By the end, both her personal and she really believes. Josie wants to professional life are about to undergo “come up,” get retrained at the LA some drastic changes. Police Academy and do police work with the same opportunities as her CONNIE DIAL had firsthand ex- male counterparts. Before that can perience as an undercover officer happen, she’s arrested during a brutal in the LAPD. As a young cop in demonstration in downtown LA and the 1970’s, she was a member of upon being released from jail is told the Public Disorder Intelligence by her department contact that one Division and during that time met of her fellow undercover officers her husband, Detective Jon Dial, has disappeared. Members of his who had been undercover for six group have filed a missing person years. She moved on to work a report with the police department variety of policing jobs and retired in which they publicly blame the after nearly twenty-seven years LAPD for his sudden disappearance. as a captain and the commanding It would be an embarrassment for officer of the LAPD’s Hollywood the department to reveal that the Community Police station. officer was spying on this particular Set the Night on Fire is her sixth group, so Josie is given her final book and the fourth installment of the undercover assignment—find the Josie Corsino mysteries. Unnatural missing officer and bring him back. Murder followed Dead Wrong and For protection she forms an Fallen Angels. Her Detective Mike unlikely alliance with another UC as Turner mysteries include Internal her search leads to an underground Affairs and The Broken Blue Line. network of violent radicals with ties

6 APRIL The Good Life Marian Thurm $29 cloth 278pp ISBN 978-1-57962-428-6

In this powerful new book from an esteemed novelist and acclaimed short story writer, Marian Thurm expertly draws a chilling portrait of a marriage and the downward spiral of a loving husband and father who has bought a handgun as the novel opens. Stacy and Roger seem to have it all: a wonderful marriage, a luxury Upper East Side apartment with all the accoutrements of the wealthy, and two endearing young children enrolled in private schools. But what MARIAN THURM is the author of appears to be “the good life” to their three short-story collections and six family and friends is not what it novels; her novel The Clairvoyant seems in this fast-paced, suspenseful was a New York Times Notable Book. novel that shows the sinister effects Her short stories have appeared of a destructive marriage and the in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, pursuit of the privileged life. Michigan Quarterly, Boston Review, Thurm, who according to the Ontario Review, and many other New York Times Book Review, magazines, and have been included “writes brilliantly of the battle of in Best American Short Stories the sexes,” has done so again in The and numerous other anthologies. Good Life. Her books have been translated into German, Dutch, Swedish, and Japanese. She has taught creative writing at Yale, Barnard College, the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, and in the MFA programs at Columbia University and Brooklyn College.

7 APRIL The Weight John McCall $28 cloth 224pp ISBN 978-1-57962-442-2

Emmanuel Ferris is an everyman and his story is the story of every man’s struggle to sustain hope in the face of repeated defeat. His is a world of labor, love, and hope. His past is littered with failures, his present heaped with the burdens of all working class people who cannot escape the bondage of wage slavery. But while his body takes a pounding, his spiritual compass remains fixed on his true avocation. Middle-aged, with his marriage deteriorating, and hamstrung by a history of failures JOHN McCALL has worked as that have made rags of his ideals, an editor, columnist and freelance he is given one last chance to regain writer since 1982, also as a construc- his wife, his self-respect, his moral tion worker, dock hand, college pro- and economic solvency, and he fessor, and ambulance driver. He is decides, against the odds, (actually the past recipient of the International for reasons that have nothing to do Society of Weekly Newspaper Edi- with odds), to put everything on the tors’ Golden Quill Award for writ- line once more. Therein lies the tale. ing what was judged to be the best This carefully crafted novel is editorial to appear in any English- a sustained lyric, a paean to the language weekly anywhere in the American worker in all his grime world during a given year. and glory, that intelligent, vulgar, The late editor and critic Mal- capable American yeoman who colm Cowley, who rescued William takes all the hardship the world Faulkner from oblivion, discovered throws at him and still faces the young John Cheever, and secured future with courage and hope. publication for the unknown Jack Kerouac and many others, urged McCall to publish, writing, “You have the necessary,” and describing McCall’s stories as “dealing with an area new to American literature.” McCall is a three-time New Jersey State Council for the Arts fellow. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Story magazine, Grounds­ well, The Philadelphia Inquirer, On The Water, and many other maga- zines and periodicals.

8 MAY Back Lash Chris Knopf $29 cloth 192pp ISBN 978-1-57962-429-3

As Sam Acquillo tells us in the early pages of Back Lash, “Not everyone gets to live their adult lives orbiting a central mystery.” But that’s how it’s been for Sam, for whom a single, horrific event has helped define his entire exis- tence. Now that event has reached out from the deep past, an unwanted visitor, with secrets within secrets he’s forced to unpack like a Russian doll, each more ominous than the one before. What is revealed would be disturbing enough if it wasn’t Back Lash is CHRIS KNOPF’s thir- so personal. Not a welcomed devel- teenth mystery/thriller and seventh opment for a man who also once in the Sam Acquillo Mystery Series. said, “Avoidance, rationalization, The Last Refuge (2005) was a finalist and denial are highly underrated for The Connecticut Book Award. In coping strategies.” 2007, Two Time was one of thirteen The action moves from South- mysteries listed in Marilyn Stasio’s ampton to the Bronx, where Sam “Recommended Summer Reading” once prowled in the part-time care column in the New York Times Book of his father, owner of a truck repair Review. Head Wounds was cited as business and a temper that stood out one of the best mysteries of the year even on the mean streets of the city. in 2008 by both Mysterious Reviews It’s here that Sam learns that evil and Deadly Pleasures, and won the history doesn’t only repeat itself, 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award for it can improve upon the original Best Mystery. His thriller series product. That no matter how things featuring off-the-grid sleuth Arthur change, the world of cops and crim- Cathcart began with Dead Anyway, inals, priests, power brokers, wise which received starred reviews from guys, and even wiser old bartenders, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus stays the same. and Library Journal. It was named Or gets much, much worse. one of The Best Crime Novels of 2012 by the Boston Globe and won the 2013 Nero Award. The sequels, Cries of the Lost and A Billion Ways To Die, were released in 2013 and 2014.

9 JUNE Hitler, Mussolini, and Me Charles Davis $28 cloth 232pp ISBN 978-1-57962-432-3

Hitler visits Italy in 1938. An expa- triate Irish art historian is obliged to guide Mussolini and his guest round the galleries. Half fascinated, half repelled, he watches the tyrants, wrestling with the uneasy convic- tion that he ought to use the oppor- tunity to “do something” about them yet lacking the zeal that might trans- form misgivings into action. Thirty years later, his daughter comes across a compromising clip- ping showing her father with the dictators. Exposed as a collabora- CHARLES DAVIS was born and tor, the narrator explains what hap- brought up in England, but has lived pened, what he did and did not do, his adult life elsewhere, working in and why, revealing in the process the United States, Sudan, Turkey, the part the girl’s mother played in Ivory Coast, Spain, and now France. promoting the digestive disorders He is the author of three other novels that were to influence the course of published by The Permanent Press, the war. Walk On, Bright Boy (2007), Walk- To help his daughter understand, ing The Dog (2008), and Standing at he conjures a time before the crime the Crossroads (2011). that would define the century, a time For full biographical details and before these men became monsters information on other publications, inflated to fit that crime, showing visit: her the tawdry little people behind charlesdavis2.wix.com/charlesdavis. the myths, the real Hitler and Mus- solini, The Flatulent Windbag and The Constipated Prick. Based on historical events and using the tyrants’ own words, Hitler, Mussolini, and Me brings the dicta- tors down to earth, describing the murkier, more scurrilous aspects of their careers, and using jokes and scatology to weave a crazed path- way toward a cracked kind of moral- ity. It is the story of an ordinary man living in extraordinary times, times when being ordinary was an act of rebellion in itself.

10 JUNE Debasements of Brooklyn Ira Gold $29 cloth 256pp ISBN 978-1-57962-443-9

His father had warned Howie, “You can’t ride two horses with one ass.” But here he was, living a double life—one racketeering with his crew and the other sitting in cafés reading Penguin classics. To fit in, Howie hides his intel- lectual interests from his gangster friends, but they still suspect some- thing is not right about him. The real problem is that someone has been bad-mouthing Howie to Vinnie Five-Five, his captain. Howie thinks he could solve all IRA GOLD writes all the time and his problems by finding a way to publishes occasionally. leave Vinnie’s crew without anyone thinking he would turn rat. And while he goes about advancing this plan in his deliberate, half-baked way, a war breaks out between the Italians in Sheepshead Bay and the Russians in Brighton Beach. Now, beside his friends, he has enemies who wish him dead. So he must run from the basement apart- ment he rents from his sister—the one person who truly loves him— into the arms of demure and bookish Ariel, who likes her men rough and her sex rougher. Howie believes it necessary to continue keeping his erudition under wraps lest Ariel lose erotic interest. Will Howie survive the war? Will he survive Ariel’s wrath when she finds out she’s harboring not a thug but an esthete with PhD-level cultural knowledge? Why the hell not? But boy is she pissed.

11 JULY Guy Novel Michael Ryan $29 cloth 240pp ISBN 978-1-57962-440-8

Guy Novel marries a thriller to a shameless love story and fun ride, what Graham Greene might have called “an entertainment.” It takes place over one month in 1996, from early August to ear- ly September, as the Taliban were about to take over Afghanistan, Bill Clinton was running for re-election and most people still used answer- ing machines and HotMail became the latest new thing. The story is told retrospectively but vividly by Robert Wilder, a MICHAEL RYAN taught writing less-than-successful LA comic who at Iowa, Princeton University, the creates big problems for himself by University of Virginia, and Warren picking up a gorgeous bank clerk on Wilson College before becoming the afternoon of his wedding. These Director of the MFA Program in problems have the happy resolution Poetry at UC Irvine. He has pub- of the conventional plot of comedy: lished an autobiography, a memoir, boy meets girl, boy loses girl (twice), five books of poems, and a book boy gets girl (and vice-versa), but of essays. Four of the books were there are lots of turns along the way New York Times Notable Books of and lots of jokes and lots of play the year. The autobiography was with the gendered conventions of reviewed on the front page of the Romance. New York Times Book Review and The political and historical mo- the memoir was excerpted in the ment enters with a vengeance half- New Yorker. way through the story, and spirits His poetry has won many awards, our heroes to places as different as a including the Yale Series of Younger five-star Paris hotel, Clinton’s White Poets Award, a Guggenheim Fel- House, and a yurt in Turkmenistan, lowship, a Whiting Writers Award, while Robert learns something the Lenore Marshall Prize, and about loving another person for ex- the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. actly who she is. In addition, he has won awards Not an easy lesson to learn—for from the American Poetry Review, him or for any of us—but the medi- Ploughshares, the Virginia Quar- cine goes down effortlessly with the terly Review and the Poetry Society clarity and grace and laugh-out-loud of America. humor of Michael Ryan’s wide- Guy Novel is his first novel. circulated, wildly-celebrated writing.

12 AUGUST Hot Start David Freed $29 cloth 272pp ISBN 978-1-57962-433-0

A notorious, international big game hunter and his beautiful, former flight attendant wife are gunned down at long range late one swelter- ing summer night while swimming naked on their seaside estate in opulent Rancho Bonita, California. Police investigators are convinced that the killer is a strident, outspo- ken animal rights activist with both military experience and a criminal record. The evidence against him would appear overwhelming—until rumors begin to surface that others the Associated Press have hailed may have had their own reasons for the series for its veracity and fine committing murder. writing, vivid characters, gener- The last thing flight instructor, ous dollops of humor, and the kind aspiring Buddhist, and ex-govern- of pacing that keeps readers up at ment assassin Cordell Logan wants night. to do is become involved in the Hot Start may well be the best investigation. He and the accused, yet. however, have mutual friends. Reluctant at first, Logan finds him- DAVID FREED is an instrument- self caught up in an increasingly rated pilot, screenwriter and a Pulit- confounding enigma, one that swirls zer Prize-winning former journalist around a popular congressman with for the Los Angeles Times. His work close ties to the White House, a appears regularly in the Smithson- European call girl ring, and a ruth- ian’s Air and Space Magazine and less Czech crime boss who’ll stop the Atlantic, where he was hon- at nothing to protect his interests. ored in 2011 as a finalist in Feature Pursuing the truth will take Logan Writing by the American Society of to places few others would dare go, Magazine Editors. David also has exposing him to dangers that even worked extensively within the U.S. he may not survive. intelligence community. He lives in Along with its four predeces- Santa Barbara, California. sors in the Cordell Logan mystery/ thriller series—Flat Spin, Fangs Out, Voodoo Ridge, and The Three- Nine Line—Hot Start is a can’t-put- it-down page-turner that will leave audiences breathless. Critics from Booklist to Publisher’s Weekly to

13 SEPTEMBER Concrete Carnival Danner Darcleight $28 cloth 240pp ISBN 978-1-57962-437-8

You land in prison as a twenty- something, faced with the likelihood of spending the rest of your life behind the wall. What do you do? Danner Darcleight started writing. He writes about what he sees, what he has done, and the toll that such witnessing and his own past actions have exacted. Concrete Carnival brings us inside a maximum-security prison, introducing a colorful cast of rogues while revealing the day- to-day struggles experienced by millions of Americans now living long journey from hopelessness and inside the world’s largest prison addiction to love and redemption. complex. Haunted by his past, he slips DANNER DARCLEIGHT’s essays the surly bonds of heroin. He gets have appeared in the Kenyon Review, stripped, deloused, and assigned Stone Canoe, and the Minnesota an inmate number. He learns to Review, where he was nominated for navigate among sociopaths, gang- a Pushcart Prize. Two of his essays bangers, drug dealers, hustlers, appear in Fourth City: Essays from thieves, mercurial prison guards, the Prison in America (Michigan and his own grinding remorse. He State University Press 2014). He works through recurring thoughts of writes from a maximum-security suicide, benefits from serendipitous prison, where he is serving twenty- encounters, and ultimately meets a five years to life, and is grateful for loving woman who brings warmth the continued support of his loved to a harsh existence. ones. Darcleight pushes past the cli- chés and caricatures employed by pop culture, offering direct engage- ment with what it’s really like to do time. What begins as frontline reportage becomes an unforgettable case study in resilience and determi- nation against the worst imaginable odds. An exhilarating, picaresque ride through the sights, sounds, and emo- tions of prison life, Concrete Carni- val is a moving portrait of one man’s

14 SEPTEMBER A Taste of Blood and Ashes Jaden Terrell $29 cloth 256pp ISBN 978-1-57962-435-4

When Nashville PI and horse whisperer Jared McKean is hired to investigate a suspicious barn fire, he finds evidence of soring, the practice of using painful shoeing or caustic chemicals to affect the gait of a Tennessee Walking Horse. But the owners, Zane and Carlin Underwood, are known anti-soring activists. Carlin’s distress seems genuine, and Zane is confined to a wheelchair, paralyzed from the chest down during an attack by a JADEN TERRELL is a Shamus frenzied stallion. Jared believes Award finalist and the internation- someone else is behind the arson. ally published author of three Jared Knowing the arsonist is almost McKean mysteries. Terrell is a con- certainly someone in the commu- tributor to Now Write! Mysteries, a nity of those who breed and show collection of writing exercises pub- Walking Horses, Jared and his new lished by Tarcher/Penguin for writ- assistant, his half-sister Khanh, ers of crime fiction and is a recipient attend a local horse show in hopes of the 2009 Magnolia Award for of flushing out the culprit. There are service to the Southeastern Chap- suspects aplenty, including a groom ter of Mystery Writers of America. on the run from a powerful cartel, Terrell is active in the writing com- a modern-day robber baron, and a munity, serving as special programs beautiful gold digger whose dreams coordinator for the Killer Nashville are filled with fire. Thriller, Mystery, and Crime Lit- Secrets pile on top of secrets, and erature Conference and as a board as Zane’s memories of the events member for MWA and the Middle leading to his accident begin to Tennessee Chapter of Sisters in return, the situation becomes deadly. Crime. A graduate of the Citizen Jared and Khanh find themselves in Police Academy and the FBI/TBI the crosshairs of a killer who will do Citizen Academy, the former spe- anything to keep the past in the past. cial education teacher has a red belt in Tae Kwan Do and is certified in Equine Sports Massage Therapy. http://www.jadenterrell.com.

15 OCTOBER Grace Howard Owen $28 cloth 220pp ISBN 978-1-57962-434-7

Life is cheap on the poor side of town. For more than two decades, young black kids have been dis- appearing from Richmond’s East End. No bodies have ever been found, and the missing boys haven’t received much attention from police or the media. When the uncle of the latest missing kid takes matters into his own hands and holds the daily newspaper’s publisher hostage in the paper’s lobby, Willie Black gets involved, and things start to change. The world’s oldest night cops HOWARD OWEN, a veteran news- reporter knows something about the paper editor, and lives in Richmond, inequities of race and income. When Va., with his wife, Karen Van Neste Sam McNish, a crusader for social Owen. Grace is his fourteenth novel justice who grew up in the same and the fifth Willie Black mystery. hardscrabble Oregon Hill neighbor- The first, Oregon Hill, won the hood as Willie, is arrested shortly Dashiell Hammett Prize for best after a child’s body is discovered, crime literature in the United States the police start making the case that and Canada. It was followed by The McNish has been the demonic force Philadelphia Quarry, Parker Field, behind all the boys’ disappearances. and The Bottom. All of which have Willie, after working the traps received glowing reviews in the he’s developed from his too-many New York Times, Publishers Weekly, years as a night police reporter, isn’t Kirkus Reviews, and elsewhere. so sure. Owen’s earlier works include Little- As Willie teases out the real john, Fat Lightning, Rock of Ages story, he manages to antagonize and The Reckoning. his publisher and the city’s power structure as well as police chief L.D. Jones, but experience has taught him that the more people he pisses off, the closer he probably is to the truth. Along the way, he forms a strange alliance with Big Boy Sunday, a dangerous man who exhibits a strong interest in seeing that Willie finds the truth––although Willie will learn that Big Boy wants parts of that truth to remain hidden.

16 OCTOBER Love in the Time of Apartheid Frederic Hunter $29 cloth 272pp ISBN 978-1-57962-444-6

Gat, a 30-year-old member of the Katanga Gendarmerie, the Bel- gian colonial police force, is sent from the newly independent Congo to South Africa with a wallet full of blood money and instructions to “Disappear.” He arrives there, bearing a secret and searching for redemption. In Cape Town he meets Petra, the 18-year-old daughter of Piet Rous- seau, who heads the Bureau of State Security for the apartheid govern- FREDERIC HUNTER’s first en- ment. When Gat and Piet meet at counter with Africa came as a For- her parents’ home, their interaction eign Service Officer of the United is chilly, for Gat makes it clear that States Information Service assigned he does not believe in apartheid. to the Congo. He served there in And it soon becomes clear that Piet three posts: Coquilhatville, Bukavu, can employ draconian measures and Leopoldville. After taking a against anyone trying to oppose the master’s degree from UCLA in Afri- regime’s separation of the races. can Studies, he served as the Africa Gat and Petra are strongly at- Correspondent of the Christian Sci- tracted to one another. About to start ence Monitor. university, Petra wants desperately A playwright and screenwriter as to escape the overprotective care well as a novelist, his award-winning of her father. What better way to do stage work The Hemingway Play this than to begin a passionate love received a workshop production affair with a mysterious man she at the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights hardly knows? Conference and was produced by When Petra and Gat set off on PBS’ Hollywood Television Theater a road trip, the battle between Piet series. Movies Hunter has written and Gat is fully engaged, and the have been produced by PBS, ABC outcome for all three of these people and CBS. He has also taught screen- remains in limbo until the novel ends. writing at the Santa Barbara Writ- This historical novel, based on ers Conference, at the University actual events, provides a hair-rais- of California, Santa Barbara, and ing look at the worst-of-times under at Principia College where he also the Afrikaner regime. gave a course in Modern African Literature.

17 BACKLIST The following titles from both The rock ’n’ roll and an unconventional ‘kept’ Permanent Press and its Second woman.” —Publishers Weekly Chance Press imprint are arranged alphabetically by author. Locus Amoenus (See pages 65–69 for alphabetical Victoria N. Alexander listing by title.) $28 cloth 192pp ISBN 978-1-57962-391-3 “Locus Amoenus, is set in Amenia and A Thinking Man’s Bully relates the story of a modern-day Hamlet Michael Adelberg whose father died in 9/11. It is a scathing $26 cloth 190pp ISBN 978-1-57962-228-2 commentary on government-subsidized “The author, a ‘reformed high school food programs in schools, low-level abus- troublemaker,’ offers a fresh perspective es of authority in local government and on bullying by seamlessly intertwining the the destructive effects of war and pharma- actions, the results, and the lasting conse- ceuticals.” —The Millbrook Independent quences of brutality into a novel brim- ming with personality and narrative brio.” Naked Singularity —Publishers Weekly Victoria N. Alexander $24 cloth 190pp ISBN 1-57962-078-7 Saving the Hooker A provocative tale about a daughter’s Michael Adelberg choice to assist her father’s death from $28 cloth 192pp ISBN 978-1-57962-368-5 cancer is “touching and stunningly well “A funny tale of a lazy and unprincipled written.” —CityLink Magazine postdoc whose brain resides firmly in his crotch. There is plenty to like in Adel- Smoking Hopes berg’s comic romp, which also has a se- Victoria N. Alexander rious undercurrent: Who says a hooker $24 cloth 208pp ISBN 1-877946-69-9 needs saving, anyway? And what business “The narrator of this stunning first novel is it of a man? This one’s well-crafted and works as a hostess in a club for Japanese enjoyable if you’re up for a rather raunchy businessmen. A well-crafted bittersweet read.” —Kirkus story.” —San Antonio Express-News Castle Garden Washington Prize for Fiction Bill Albert $28 cloth 346pp ISBN 1-877946-67-2 Give My Heart Ease “In 1898, an 11-year-old runs from home, Grace Andreacchi hides out with ‘Buffalo Bill’s Wild West $24 cloth 224pp ISBN 0-932966-90-X Show,’ meets Wobblie leader Big Bill “A graphic, moving first novel about a Haywood, and famous and infamous oth- beautiful young woman caught in a sado- ers who cross the boy’s path. A rip-roaring masochistic love affair.” —Kirkus saga.” —Publishers Weekly New American Writing Award Desert Blues How to Beat the System Bill Albert Denison Andrews $24 cloth 188pp ISBN 1-877946-49-4 $28 cloth 284pp ISBN 0-932966-74-8 $16 paper ISBN 1-877946-65-6 “This trenchant cultural satire examines “A funny first novel pairs an awkward the life of a ’60s dropout who stayed orphaned adolescent immersed in 1950’s dropped-out.” —Kirkus

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Callgirl $28 cloth 296pp ISBN 1-877946-17-6 Jeannette Angell “What distinguishes this novel about an $26 cloth 248pp ISBN 1-57962-110-4 infantryman in Vietnam is the touching “An engrossing, no-holds-barred story of naiveté of its young hero, caught up in a college lecturer by day and a callgirl by something monstrous, trying merely to night.” —Kirkus survive.” —Kirkus a Book Sense selection Houri Madam Mehrdad Balali Jeannette Angell $29 cloth 304pp ISBN 978-1-57962-177-3 $18 paper 226pp ISBN 978-1-57962-116-2 “Journalist Balali’s bitter first novel about “A sympathetic biography of the madam Iran, from which he is now banned, con- of the escort service Angell worked for.” trasts his native country before and after —Publishers Weekly the Islamic revolution. Comparisons to The Kite Runner are unavoidable.” Someplace Like This —Kirkus Renée Ashley $26 cloth 192pp ISBN 1-57962-090-6 Mr. Right “A woman must put herself back togeth- Carolyn Banks er after being estranged from her second $25 cloth 256pp ISBN 0-933256-91-4 husband. A fine work about the ebb and “A too smart for her job teacher at a com- flow of relationships.” —Library Journal munity college is constantly looking for a Book Sense selection love in all the wrong places. That her Mr. Right turns out to be a reclusive novelist Entering Ephesus and self-confessed murderer works well Daphne Athas as a plot.” —Publishers Weekly $26 paper 440pp ISBN 0-933256-79-5 “A large novel within a well-known Love in Atlantis Southern landscape: the firewhich is in its Bonnie L. Barrett belly is considerable, is largely female and $24 cloth 182pp ISBN 0-933256-77-9 Promethean, amoral, devouring, a seeking “This appealing novel charts the rites of height in the perverse depths.” of passage of a 14-year-old, in a little —Times Literary Supplement beach town, recalling life in the ’30s with New American Writing Award affection.” —Publishers Weekly Revelation of Fire After Byron Alla Avilova Norman Beim $28 cloth 288pp ISBN 978-1-57962-168-1 $28 cloth 192pp ISBN 978-1-57962-387-6 “A Dutch scholar and a female archivist “This quaint epistolary novel is steeped in discover that a two hundred year old man- the lore of Lord Byron and his scandalous uscript is missing from Moscow’s Histori- exploits. Beim gives his tale a believable cal Archive. The story includes Russian period texture by referring throughout history, art, politics and religion.” to Gothic literature and incidents in By- —Around the World in Books ron’s life. We follow a likable rogue with old-fashioned swagger, and his adven- Alone in the Valley tures will appeal to readers of historical Kenneth Waymon Baker fiction.” —Publishers Weekly

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The Man On The Third Floor dent Warren G. Harding with a woman Anne Bernays half his age, while depicting an era that $26 cloth 184pp ISBN 978-1-57962-285-5 was notorious for financial chicanery.” “A middle-aged and apparently happy —Publishers Weekly married man finds himself falling in love with another man. Witty, full of surprises, Transvaal Episode sharp as a pin, above all a suspenseful and Harry Bloom unexpected exploration of the intricacies $22 paper 320pp ISBN 0-933256-25-6 and complications of the human heart.” “Bloom’s novel about the grisly aspects of —Michael Korda, Author of Her life in apartheid South Africa is a classic of modern literature and deserves a wide Upstate audience.” —Booklist Sallie Bingham $16 paper 128pp ISBN 1-877946-50-8 The Night Battles “A woman’s obsession drives an affair M.F. Bloxam out of control, violating social contracts $28 cloth 240pp ISBN 978-1-57962-171-6 and devastating the people in its path. “Bloxam delivers fine Sicilian literary Impressive.” —Library Journal horror in the vein of Tom Piccirilli and Sara Gran. Her ornate prose is the perfect Rain Dogs complement to her complex heroine and Baron R. Birtcher the creepy goings-on in this eerie novel.” $29 cloth 288pp ISBN 978-1-57962-318-0 —Publishers Weekly “White-knuckle tension and crisp, clean finalist ForeWord Magazine’s prose distinguish this outstanding stand- Book of the Year Award, 2008 alone from Birtcher. The narrator is run- ning a small-scale marijuana operation in A Richer Dust California, until bandits raid his farm. He Amy Boaz flees to Mexico, where he collides with $26 cloth 184pp ISBN 978-1-57962-159-9 the local drug lord. Many books call them- “Based on D.H. Lawrence’s 1924 pilgrim- selves thrillers, but this is the real deal.” age to Taos, N.M. where he hoped to cre- —Publishers Weekly, starred review ate an artist’s Utopia, Boaz’s diamond- cut debut follows Doll, a shy, near-deaf paint- Hard Latitudes er who accompanied him, where she finds Baron R. Birtcher love with a younger man.” $29.95 cloth 336pp ISBN 978-1-57962-390-6 —Entertainment Weekly “Birtcher returns to his Mike Travis series finalist ForeWord Magazine’s in this fast-paced mystery. It’s 2004, and Book of the Year Award, 2008 a panicked call from his brother reunites him with the families of fortune he turned Beat his back on when he became a cop. Fans Amy Boaz will hope that Birtcher’s engaging series $26 cloth 198pp ISBN 978-1-57962-186-5 has a long life.” —Booklist “A woman caught between stifling domes- ticity and passion flees to Paris, where she Fluke and her daughter have come to escape the Martin Blinder drama back home. A compelling picture of $24 cloth 216pp ISBN 1-57962-017-5 love and its attendant travails.” “Skillfully recreates the romance of Presi- —Publishers Weekly

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Redeeming Eve Silence Nicole Bokat Christopher Brookhouse $24 cloth 224pp ISBN 1-57962-064-7 $16 paper 152pp ISBN 978-1-57962-179-7 “When a literature scholar tries to model “A haunting novel of interlaced secrets, her hectic life on the elegant world of Jane suggesting how much goes unspoken: af- Austen, chaos ensues. A juicy book.” fairs, adoption, abortion. A memorable —McCall’s story by a writer who understands women better than most women understand them- The Great Equalizer selves.” —Doris Betts Rick Borsten $24 paper 334pp ISBN 1-579622-10-7 A Studied Madness Can a young man find love and fulfillment Heywood Hale Broun in a home for retarded adults? “A tender, $28 cloth 298pp ISBN 0-933256-00-0 loving story and a ringing reaffirmation of “The most ruefully articulate, inside look life.” —Chicago Sun-Times at the American theater in years.” New American Writing Award —John Barkham Oregon Book Award An Unclean Act Living Doll Dean Burgess Jane Bradley $26 cloth 254pp ISBN 1-57962-046-9 $24 cloth 202pp ISBN 1-877946-54-0 “A well-researched tale of love and faith “A literary gem capturing the reality of in 17th-century Massachusetts, this novel sexual abuse in a boldly different way. will help shake the dust from Puritan his- Powerful insights.” —Alida Brill tory books.” —Publishers Weekly a Book Sense selection East Justice Melanie Braverman Writer-in-Residence $24 cloth 133pp ISBN 1-877946-72-9 Herbert Burkholz “An exquisite evocation of loneliness and $28 cloth 310pp ISBN 1-877946-11-7 desire.” —Publishers Weekly “A writer-in-residence tells his gradu- ate students about a fictional American A Selfish Woman painter living in Ibiza. Kaleidoscopic and Christopher Brookhouse rewarding.” —Booklist $24 cloth 144pp ISBN 1-57962-036-1 “Brookhouse writes about a breast cancer Attic Light survivor and her year long relationship Carol Burnham with a younger man, beautifully captur- $24 cloth 192pp ISBN 1-877946-88-5 ing her acute sensibility to the passing “Infused with light and powered by dark- seasons.” —Publishers Weekly ness: the light of Greece, of California, and the darkness of history, myth, and Dear Otto deep passion. This novel is a feast for the Christopher Brookhouse senses.” —Alison Anderson $24 cloth 160pp ISBN 1-877946-63-X “With quirky elegance Brookhouse high- lights the interplay between reality, fic- Townie tion, and creativity while telling the story John Butman $24 cloth 192pp ISBN 1-57962-080-9 of three writers at a summer workshop.” “This inventive novel that approaches —Library Journal

21 The Permanent Press/Second Chance Press almost any situation as a comedy of man- “An entrancing novel. Like Mary Cassatt’s ners is built around the art of the deal, as art, its odd angles and delicate, inevitable a rich resident of a New England village details make themselves felt long after fin- takes in a homeless narrator and makes ishing this fine period piece.” —Newsday him his butler.” —Publishers Weekly a Book Sense selection The Dissemblers Ohio Angels Liza Campbell Harriet Scott Chessman $28 cloth 200pp ISBN 978-1-57962-205-3 licensed to Seven Stories Press “A female art-school graduate chasing $16.00 paper ISBN 1-57962-071-X the muse of Georgia O’Keeffe in Santa “When Virginia Greaves takes an over- Fe is drawn into a forgery ring. An affect- dose of sleeping pills, her daughter returns ing novel that draws emotional resonance and recognizes that opening up the cham- from the parallels she sees between her bers of the past is the only way to move life and O’Keeffe’s.” —Kirkus on.” —Publishers Weekly finalist 2011 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award Kuperman’s Fire John J. Clayton Millersberg $28 cloth 304pp ISBN 978-1-57962-152-0 Harry Cauley “On the cusp of a hoped-for merger with $26 cloth 206pp ISBN 1-57962-133-3 Chemicorp, Michael Kuperman learns “A chilling, beautifully characterized ac- that they are making chemicals for ne- count of a family torn apart after a dual farious clients. A morality tale combining murder strikes their small New Jersey thriller elements and Michael’s resonant, town on the eve of World War II. Heartfelt Jewish legacy. ” —Publishers Weekly and soundly crafted.” —Kirkus a Book Sense selection The Man I Never Wanted To Be Dobryd John J. Clayton Ann Charney $24 cloth 230pp ISBN 1-57962-014-0 $16 paper 172pp ISBN 978-1-57962-289-3 $16 paper ISBN 1-57962-057-4 “An illuminating, unsentimental, auto- “A harrowing novel about a fascinatingly biographical novel of a young Jewish girl flawed, arrogantly ‘nice’ character who when she, her mother and aunt are liber- is pulled into events that cause him to ated by Soviet soldiers after years of hid- question his basic beliefs about himself, ing from the Nazis.” —Library Journal including the belief that he is not the mur- dering kind.” —Publishers Weekly Rousseau’s Garden Ann Charney KAL Flight 007: $24 cloth 207pp ISBN 1-57962-033-7 The Hidden Story “A lovely little gem with insights for one’s Oliver Clubb own life.” —Library Journal $24 cloth 182pp ISBN 1-57962-136-8 “I have reached the conclusion that the Lydia Cassatt Reading the charges in this concise, splendid study are Morning Paper true. A bombshell.” —Newsday Harriet Scott Chessman $24 cloth 176pp ISBN 1-58322-272-3

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Seasons Fellow Travelers Judith Beth Cohen James Cook $24 cloth 224pp ISBN 0-932966-23-1 $18 paper 240pp ISBN 1-57962-052-3 “In the ’60s, the counter-culture ran head “This compelling novel based on Armand on into radical New England individual- Hammer, oil magnate, bootlegger, self- ism. Cohen has caught its significance bet- proclaimed friend of Lenin, and world ter than anyone I know.” class womanizer provides an intriguing —Hayden Carruth glimpse into the Soviet Russia of Lenin and Stalin.” —Forbes Magazine Life Goes Sleeping Reed Farrel Coleman The Gesture $20 paper 230pp ISBN 978-157962-192-6 John Cobb Cooper “This hard-boiled detective novel, with $28 cloth 253pp ISBN 0-933256-69-8 salty, quick-witted dialogue recalls pulp “A provocative novel about a bomber fiction of the 40’s.” —Publishers Weekly squadron based in England during World War II. Below the surface it touches Little Easter nerves of military competence and racial Reed Farrel Coleman bigotry.” —Publishers Weekly $18 paper 221pp ISBN 1-57962-139-2 “A somber and gripping crime story.” The Sorcerer —Publishers Weekly Anne Eliot Crompton $24 cloth 176pp ISBN 0-933256-36-1 They Don’t Play Stickball in “This classic of children’s historical fic- Milwaukee tion recreates the life of prehistoric hunt- Reed Farrel Coleman ers who roamed the world 50,000 years $16 paper 208pp ISBN 1-57962-016-7 ago. A rare book, entertaining for older “A mystery with good lines and a sound readers as well.” —Booklist sense of pacing.” —Boston Globe Exiles Walking the Perfect Square M. Cruz Reed Farrel Coleman $28 cloth 294pp ISBN 0-932966-71-3 $20 paper 264pp ISBN 978-1-57962-290-9 “In Jordan, a diplomat’s wife is attracted “Coleman blows the dust off mystery con- to a Muslim bureaucrat. Their affair is an ventions with a mystery that would get authentic exploration of the harsh contra- under anyone’s skin.” dictions of marriage, friendship, and per- —New York Times sonal identity.” —Library Journal a Book Sense selection The Geometry of Love Gulf Stream North Joan Fay Cuccio Earl Conrad $24 cloth 172pp ISBN 1-877946-82-6 $26 cloth 248pp ISBN 0-933256-13-2 “Darcy is fleeing her estranged husband, $18 paper ISBN 0-933256-17-5 whom she left lying in the wreckage of her “A graphic recounting of five days at sea. kitchen. Her halting courage and uncom- The crew is black, the captain white, but mon longing will disturb the reader for a all are bound together in the mystique and long time.” —Publishers Weekly commerce of fishing.A first class reissue.” finalist Oklahoma Book Award —San Diego Union

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Branches Walk On, Bright Boy Mitch Cullin Charles Davis $24 cloth 198pp ISBN 1-5796-061-2 $26 cloth 144pp ISBN 978-1-57962-153-7 “A chillingly effective novel-in-verse “A haunting, Gothic novel of a Spaniard, told by a murderous Texas sheriff who is whose horrifying encounters with human- bound to remind readers of the narrator of ity during the ruthless Inquisition would Thompson’s 1952 classic, The Killer In- seem reason to lose faith. But it is also an side Me.” —Ellery Queen assertion of spirituality and speaks to con- temporary collusions of political expedi- The Cosmology of Bing ency and religious faith.” Mitch Cullin —ForeWord Magazine $24 cloth 208pp ISBN 1-57962-030-2 a Book Sense selection “Sexual confusion and academic infight- ing abound in this comic novel about an Walking the Dog aging astronomy professor. It has enough Charles Davis edge to keep it poking away at your $16 paper 160pp ISBN 978-1-57962-167-4 memory.” —New York Times “An episodic, antic romp with outrageous humor, much of it metaphorically sexual Undersurface and highly literate prose: the Marx Broth- Mitch Cullin ers meet the Oxford English Dictionary.” $24 cloth 166pp ISBN 1-57962-077-9 —The Independent “Cullin uses a true story to record the un- raveling of a high school English teacher The Conduct of Saints as he moves inexorably from heterosexual Christopher Davis life to a gay nightlife, and ultimately to $28 cloth 264pp ISBN 978-1-57962-315-9 murder.” —Kirkus “The Nazis have been driven out of Italy in 1945. Few remain, hoping to avoid de- tection. The children of Rome struggle to Whompyjawed survive, Davis’ range is breathtaking. His Mitch Cullin technique is subtle, but never obscure. $16 paper 188pp ISBN 978-1-57962-199-5 The Conduct of Saints captures the time “Cullin has created the loneliness and and the place of post-WWII Europe; it is a emptiness of a small West Texas town, profoundly atmospheric novel with an un- with a vivid sense of place and time that forgettable cast of characters. Once again, stays with you.” —Horton Foote Davis’ work commands our attention.” Notable Book, American Library Assoc. —Huffington Post

Standing At The Crossroads And the Angels Sing Charles Davis J. Madison Davis $26 cloth 160pp ISBN 978-1-57962-213-8 $28 cloth 303pp ISBN 1-877946-70-2 “A remarkable journey through the real “Set in a prisoner-of-war camp hous- and imagined landscapes of civil war-torn ing German POWs during World War II. Africa, by turns hopeful, harrowing, amus- A harrowing picture of Nazism on U.S. ing, educational, and horrific, painted with soil.” —Washington Post the broad-brush strokes of a moral fable finalist Oklahoma Book Award and the intricate attention to detail of the best short fiction.”—NY Journal of Books

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Bottom Line $24 cloth 176pp ISBN 0-933256-78-7 Marc Davis “A terrifyingly funny editor harbors pow- $28 cloth 248pp ISBN 978-1-57962-316-6 erful urges, including his intention to “The story’s practical depiction of life in marry against the wishes of his mother, the corporate world has flows into a fast- fornicate with every woman he sees, and action drama of humanity. The mystery is murder mom when her meddling becomes intriguing. The road to its solution is clev- serious.” —Publishers Weekly er. The surprises stick in the memory. And a falling character in a falling world finds The White Road his anchor after all.” —Café Libre Robert DeMaria $25 cloth 272pp ISBN 1-57962-073-8 Duck Alley $22 paper ISBN 1-57962-044-2 Jim DeFilippi “An engrossing story of four young peo- $24 cloth 238pp ISBN 1-57962-024-8 ple pursuing their dreams and pursued by “A moving, funny, ultimately tragic story their demons during the tumultuous ’50s.” of two buddies growing up in the 1950s. —Publishers Weekly Ingenious.” —Philadelphia Inquirer Licking Our Wounds The Regulators Elise D’Haene William Degenhard $18 paper 208pp ISBN 1-57962-322-0 $28 cloth 598pp ISBN 0-933256-22-1 “Offbeat and bawdy, D’Haene presents a “This novel about Dan Shays manages lesbian whose lover has decamped, and to endow the uprising known as Shays whose vagina has gone numb. A witty Rebellion with all the sweep of a minor view of a gay world darkened by AIDS, epic.” —New York Times yet not without hope.” —Kirkus Small Press Book Award The Field Susie Bright’s Best American Erotica Dola de Jong $24 cloth 215pp ISBN 0-933256-02-7 Fallen Angels $16 paper ISBN 0-933256-05-1 Connie Dial “An overwhelming tragedy of refugees $29 cloth 296pp ISBN 978-1-57962-274-9 escaping Europe during World War II, this “Throughout her investigation Captain novel tells us more about history than do Josie Corsino remains aware of her moral books of history themselves.” and legal duties as a cop, at the cost of —St. Louis Globe-Democrat important relationships and possibly her career. Much of the story covers how her Warp & Weft choices affect her colleagues and family, Edward J. Delaney leaving the reader in suspense over how $26 cloth 240pp ISBN 1-57962-098-1 her life, and the case, will work out. This “Three men slog through days and wile gives Fallen Angels its insidious quality.” away the nights in a working-class town —NY Journal of Books in this lyrical, somber, graceful book.” —Publishers Weekly Dead Wrong winner PEN Winship Award Connie Dial $28 cloth 208pp ISBN 978-1-57962-334-0 The Satyr “In Dial’s second mystery featuring LAPD Robert DeMaria Capt. Josie Corsino, she faces a potential

25 The Permanent Press/Second Chance Press powder keg in her department. While $26 cloth 254pp ISBN 1-57962-047-7 checking out a likely false alarm, Sgt. “An engaging tale about an Italian peasant Kyle Richards kills a suspect who turns who becomes the food taster for a brutal out to be a suspended officer. Corsino ma- Duke. Ingenious fiction with fascinating neuvers through personal and professional details about love and death in 16th Cen- minefields toward a painful resolution.” tury Italy.” —The Independent —Publishers Weekly a Book Sense selection Unnatural Murder The Discoveries of Connie Dial Mrs. Christopher Columbus: $28 cloth 208pp ISBN 978-1-57962-369-2 His Wife’s Version “The LAPD becomes involved in the case Paula DiPerna of a murdered Hollywood transvestite, $22 paper 224pp ISBN 1-57962-096-5 and Capt. Josie Corsino stumbles across “This delightful tale embraces the idea a cover-up. Josie has problems, too. She’s that Columbus’ wife was responsible for separated from her husband, vaguely hop- launching the notion to sail west. A first- ing for a reunion, but when her former class romantic adventure.” —Booklist lover is temporarily transferred to the Hol- lywood division her own life implodes. The Alibi Breakfast Cops are human, author Dial reminds us. Larry Duberstein Very human. Despite all that messy hu- $24 cloth 229pp ISBN 1-877946-59-1 manity, cops really do try to do the right “An endearing portrait of modern fam- thing—even if the right thing will hurt ily life from a husband/dad’s perspective, them.” —Mystery Scene Magazine whose witty, self-effacing, funny insights are immensely appealing.” —Kirkus Internal Affairs finalist Bruce P. Rossley Award Connie Dial $26 cloth 280pp ISBN 978-1-57962-184-1 Carnovsky’s Retreat “Dial, a former LAPD commanding offi- Larry Duberstein cer, puts a lot of heart into her gritty, pow- $28 cloth 273pp ISBN 0-932966-83-7 erful debut about a principled cop working “I would have enjoyed The Bonfire of the in Internal Affairs, doing the right thing in Vanities a lot more if I hadn’t just read an organization that rewards the weak and Carnovsky’s Retreat. Tom Wolfe is good. destroys the strong.” —Publishers Weekly Larry Duberstein is wonderful.” —San Francisco Examiner The Broken Blue Line Connie Dial The Day the Bozarts Died $28 cloth 256pp ISBN 978-1-57962-200-8 Larry Duberstein “Good cops, bad cops and a truly evil cop. $26 cloth 168pp ISBN 1-57962-134-1 That’s the mix served up in Dial’s her sec- “An entertaining tableaux of fractious mi- ond Mike Turner novel. Brash and bold, it nor artists trying to do their work while combines police procedural with character managing the demands of conventional study for a riveting read.” life.” —Publishers Weekly —Richmond Times Dispatch a Book Sense selection The Foodtaster Eccentric Circles Ugo DiFonte Larry Duberstein

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$24 cloth 191pp ISBN 1-877946-20-6 “This is a masterful story about extra- “Fifteen stories are filled with images, in- marital relations and the complications cidents, truths, and ironies that will con- inherent therein. It’s the work of a master tinue to amuse after you’ve put the book wordsmith whose intimate knowledge of away.” —Los Angeles Reader the human heart and who understands that a good question can sometimes be worth a The Handsome Sailor thousand answers.” Larry Duberstein —Small Press Reviews $25 cloth 240pp ISBN 1-57962-007-8 “This account of Herman Melville’s ‘lost’ Bloodlines last 30 years sketches a sleek, intimate Bruce Ducker portrait of the passionate, eccentric writer. $18 paper 264pp ISBN 1-57962-041-8 It should put most historical novelists to “A timely, suspenseful, and historically shame.” —Publishers Weekly detailed novel about the nefarious deal- Notable Book of the Year, New York Times ings of people who profited from the Ho- locaust.” —Publishers Weekly The Marriage Hearse Larry Duberstein Lead Us Not into $24 cloth 160pp ISBN 0-932966-76-4 Penn Station “A charming book with as charming a phi- Bruce Ducker landering anti-hero as the ’80s have pro- $24 cloth 224pp ISBN 1-877946-36-2 vided.” —Milwaukee Journal “This evocative bildungsroman chronicles New American Writing Award the summer adventures of three teenagers finalist Boston Globe Competition on the cusp of manhood in 1950’s Brook- lyn. Genuine, absorbing, and compelling.” The Mt. Monadnock Blues —Publishers Weekly Larry Duberstein winner Colorado Book Award $26 cloth 232pp ISBN 1-57962-093-0 “A sensitive, solid novel about a gay man who is made a sudden parent by tragedy. Marital Assets Bruce Ducker Family conflict enters the picture when $26 cloth 252pp ISBN 1-877946-26-5 his homophobic brother-in-law pushes to “Ducker surveys the subtle, treacherous contest the will.” —Publishers Weekly landscape of love and betrayal in this poi- gnant story of four middle-aged, well- to- Postcards from Pinsk do friends.” —Publishers Weekly Larry Duberstein $26 cloth 244pp ISBN 1-877946-04-4 “Shrinks should have the answers to life’s Boat of Stone Maureen Earl crises. That’s what a 59-year-old Boston $28 cloth 254pp ISBN 1-877946-21-4 psychiatrist thinks until his wife of 35 “A fascinating twist on the Holocaust as years suddenly leaves him. Fine pathos, experienced by a boatload of Jewish refu- irony, and wit.” —Rocky Mountain News gees, refused entrance to Palestine, who New American Writing Award are imprisoned by the British on the island of Mauritius.” —New York Times The Twoweeks Larry Duberstein Gulliver Quick $28 cloth 254pp ISBN 978-1-57962-224-4 Maureen Earl

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$28 cloth 293pp ISBN 1-877946-10-9 The Widow’s Husband “A kaleidoscopic novel about an artist, his Sheila Evans wives and lovers, who are never far from $24 cloth 224pp ISBN 1-57962-111-2 tragedy, caught up in self-destructive, ma- “Evans takes the ultimate cliché—a mid- nipulative relationships.” —Booklist dle-aged man who cheats on his doormat wife, leaving her destitute and heart­ To Enter Jerusalem broken—and fleshes it out with complex Craig Eisendrath characters, awkward situations aplenty, $16 paper 197pp ISBN 978-1-57962-161-2 and a protagonist who emerges to inde- “Eisendrath, a former foreign service of- pendence.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer ficer, follows another who forges a career in politics and enters the world stage. Rich Zulus characters and sharp dialogue provide a Percival Everett snapshot of a contentious period in Ameri- $22 paper 248pp ISBN 0-932966-97-7 can history.” —Booklist “A dark, comic, moralizing story about the only fertile woman who survives a nuclear holocaust.” —San Francisco Chronicle The Stone Lion New American Writing Award William Eisner $29.95 cloth 341pp ISBN 978-1-57962-312-8 Bobby Sands and the “Told through the eyes of a collection of Tragedy of Northern Ireland characters, this is a tale of business and John Feehan personal intrigue. Filled with humor and $24 cloth 160pp ISBN 0-932966-63-2 insight, Eisner’s latest novel is a fascinat- “Bobby Sands, who died a prisoner on ing story of people attempting to navigate a hunger strike, was elected, against all complex terrain while keeping the simple odds, to the British Parliament. Feehan things in plain sight.” —Booklist makes understandable a people’s plight.” —Publishers Weekly The Mr. and Mrs. Club Alan Emmet $24 cloth 224pp ISBN 1-57962-032-9 “Berry Fleming is one of the $18 paper ISBN 1-57962-087-6 ablest of our Southern writers; a “Revealing the darker side of married life mature, deft, literary craftsman.” in the 1950s, Emmet’s funny and disturb- —Orville Prescott, The New York Times ing novel gives us a rare glimpse into a pe- riod of American history that is frequently “His works have been hailed by critics romanticized.” —Booklist with comparisons to those of Welty, O’Hara, Twain, and Faulkner. He is Stanley, California one of America’s greatest authors.” Sheila Evans —Resolution of the Georgia $26 cloth 200pp ISBN 1-57962-094-9 State Senate A wife agrees to relocate with her second husband to a town she lived in earlier and Colonel Effingham’s Raid abhorred. Is it worth it, or should she leave Berry Fleming her marriage? “A bit like Cheever’s The $28 cloth 287pp ISBN 0-933256-67-1 Swimmer.” —Kirkus “Stumbling across Colonel Effingham’s Raid and author Berry Fleming is like

28 The Permanent Press/Second Chance Press finding a gold key that unlocks a door to delightful.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer a room filled with forgotten riches. It is New American Writing Award a gem that sparkles as brightly today as when it first appeared in 1943. Fleming Family Reunion and is a masterful Southern writer long over- Other Stories looked.” —The Tennessean Berry Fleming New American Writing Award $24 cloth 160pp ISBN 1-877946-08-7 “Berry Fleming still shames most other Country Wedding American writers. His nine decades of Berry Fleming observations give his last works a special $24 cloth 128pp ISBN 0-933256-74-4 patina. Unlike most contemporary writ- “Philip Eldridge, in New York en route to ers, he can be read again and again with South America, is invited by his old flame pleasure.” —Bloomsbury Review to a pre-wedding dinner, where Flem- ing’s usual glimmering sensibilities are on Lucinderella display.” —Publishers Weekly Berry Fleming $24 cloth 192pp ISBN 0-933256-70-1 The Affair at Honey Hill “A funny, endearing Southern comedy- Berry Fleming of-manners concerning the whacked out $24 cloth 96pp ISBN 0-932966-96-9 world of Lucinda Fannin, best-selling “Fleming’s interest in the delicate mecha- novelist who is returning to Georgia after nism of the human heart makes his his- triumphs in the Big Apple.” —Kirkus torical novel about a Confederate soldier New American Writing Award a timeless tale.” —Orlando Sentinel The Make Believers Berry Fleming The Bookman’s Tale $28 cloth 428pp ISBN 0-933256-71-X Berry Fleming “An epic. Fleming’s aristocrats are the $24 cloth 160pp ISBN 1-877946-02-8 descendants of Faulkner’s Sartoris and “A publisher sails to the Caribbean in Compson families. Illicit love, southern pursuit of a woman he hasn’t seen for 30 justice in the early 20th century, the con- years. As he wonders how his odyssey flict between the desire to become an artist will end, he listens to various passengers and the assumption of family responsibili- relate, a la Chaucer, their ‘Tales.’ A seam- ties are the themes governing this splendid less narrative with a stunning climax.” novel.” —Kansas City Star —Publishers Weekly New American Writing Award Captain Bennett’s Folly Reflections: Conversations Berry Fleming with Berry Fleming $24 cloth 144pp ISBN 0-932966-93-4 $28 (video or DVD) ISBN 1-877946-34-6 “A consistently engaging romp that fol- “Fleming, interviewed at his home and lows a group of greedy, sleazy relatives studio shortly before his death at age 90, who travel to the Florida Keys to keep reminisces about his life and writing in their eccentric uncle from signing over his this thoughtful tribute. This video will re- prime Georgia real estate to his comely acquaint viewers with a notable writer.” new housekeeper. Witty, challenging, —Booklist and erudite, the sexual undercurrent is

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Siesta “Florio’s outstanding first novel intro- Berry Fleming duces foreign correspondent Lola Wicks, $28 cloth 352pp ISBN 0-933256-66-3 pulled out of Afghanistan and assigned to “One of the charms of this romance is its irrelevant suburbia where she discovers leisurely contemplative Chesterfieldian the corpse of a former colleague. Quirky prose style that befits its locale, a little and cantankerous, Lola is grudgingly will- Georgia cotton town with a cast of char- ing to learn from experience. Believable acters like those in a Tennessee Williams action complements razor-sharp observa- play.” —Albuquerque Journal tions of people and scenery.” New American Writing Award —Publishers Weekly, starred review finalist International Thriller Writers To the Market Place Award for Best First Novel Berry Fleming winner Pinckley Prize for Crime Fiction $28 cloth 528pp ISBN 0-933256-72-8 “The lives of several Southerners, jour- Dakota neying to a new life in Manhattan, reveal Gwen Florio truths about human love, betrayal, ethics, $28 cloth 264pp ISBN 978-1-57962-362-3 and morality. Breathtakingly skilled, the “Florio follows up her well-received de- sentences flow like verse.” but with another Badlands scoop for for- —Bloomsbury Review mer foreign correspondent Lola Wicks. New American Writing Award When a presumed runaway from the near- by Blackfoot reservation is found frozen Who Dwelt by a in the snow, Lola’s nose for a good story Churchyard kicks in. A gripping read, sure to make Berry Fleming readers restless for a third Lola Wicks $24 cloth 160pp ISBN 0-932966-88-8 mystery.” —Booklist “Beautiful and totally original, this comes as close to describing immortality as any- The Long War Dead thing I’ve ever read. Lyrical, solitary and Bryan Alec Floyd grand, it’s a novel of rare power.” $16 paper 96pp ISBN 0-932966-45-4 —Rod MacLeish “Terse, hard hitting poems that treat the National Public Radio Morning Edition Vietnam war in the style of the Spoon New American Writing Award River Anthology: portraits (often posthu- mous) of 47 marines who served in Viet- The Winter Rider nam and what the war did to them.” Berry Fleming —Los Angeles Herald Examiner $24 cloth 173pp ISBN 0-933256-76-0 “When a car breaks down, a novelist and Prayerfully Sinning a young violinist prepare to hike in search Bryan Alec Floyd of help. What ensues is an unexpected $26 cloth 92pp ISBN 0-932966-49-7 adventure in the backwoods of Georgia. $16 paper ISBN 0-932966-48-9 Fleming’s style is beautifully suited to this A novel in verse recounting the brief love tale.” —Los Angeles Times affair of a lapsed Jesuit priest and an alco- holic coed. “An honest attempt to evoke Montana feelings accurately and descry intimate Gwen Florio passions.” —Best Sellers $28 cloth 208pp ISBN 978-1-57962-336-4

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Make It Stay tale is as inexorable and engrossing as a Joan Fank recurring nightmare.” —Kirkus $16 paper 160pp ISBN 978-1-57962-330-2 “Love in an age of freedom, friendship at Inland an age when years begin to count, loyalty K.C. Frederick in a time of suffering, and hope in the face $28 cloth 270pp ISBN 1-57962-135-X of despair, this novel as it all. Guaranteed “An engagingly written Cold War tale of to touch the reader’s heart.” —Café Libri conflicted loyalties (set on the campus of a small college town at the start of the Mc- The Great Far Away Carthy era) and possible hope at the dawn Joan Frank of a new frontier.” ––Booklist $26 cloth 160pp ISBN 978-1-57962-148-3 winner PEN/Winship Award “The narrator reminisces on how she’d joined a clan of young adults in a sleepy After Lyletown California town in the ’70s. A bittersweet K.C. Frederick tale capturing the essence of youth and $28 cloth 244pp ISBN 978-1-57962-219-0 lost innocence.” —Publishers Weekly “A remarkable cautionary tale from K.C. finalist Northern California Book Award Frederick—a PEN Award-winner. His pacing is deliberate and the contemplation Accomplices much deeper, resulting in an absorbing K.C. Frederick examination of how violence can alter $26 cloth 246pp ISBN 1-57962-091-4 lives for years, no matter the ideology “Two residents of a central European fueling it.” —Publishers Weekly country come together amid the turmoil and panic of a nation whose social struc- Looking For Przybylski ture has been upended. Its mix of Kafka- K. C. Frederick like meditation and postmodern thriller $28 cloth 232pp ISBN 978-1-57962-273-2 proves fascinating.” —Booklist “Ziggy Czarnecki, a numbers runner from Detroit, is on a quest to find Przybylski, Country of Memory a former adversary, and ask him, ‘Did K.C. Frederick you turn me in?’. On his cross-country $24 cloth 240pp ISBN 1-57962-013-4 odyssey, Ziggy meets a microcosm of $16 paper ISBN 1-57962-056-6 American goofballs. His woebegone out- “In the shadowy lands of Eastern Europe, siders are reminiscent of Elmore Leon- this brilliantly disconcerting novel evokes ard’s tough-tender guys and dolls, not a Kafka. Its greatest triumph is its atmo- bad literary role model.” —Kirkus sphere and the strangest, most beguiling effect is how it begins to remind us of Flat Spin where we ourselves live.” David Freed —Philadelphia Inquirer $29 cloth 300pp ISBN 978-1-57962-272-5 “A thoroughly entertaining debut star- The Fourteenth Day ring flight instructor and former black-ops K.C. Frederick specialist Cordell Logan. Cordell’s wise- $25 cloth 198pp ISBN 1-57962-065-5 cracking persona and flight scenes meld “Centers on a trio of exiles from a land seamlessly into the story. This is a keeper” torn by civil war, as they struggle to find —Booklist their bearings far from home. Frederick’s

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Fangs Out ways. Here, the context is crucial to the David Freed hero’s personal dilemma regarding ques- $29.95 cloth 304pp ISBN 978-1-57962-333-3 tions of self and society.” —Booklist “Cordell Logan, the Southern California flight instructor and former black-ops spe- My Father’s Fighter cialist, returns in his second adventure. As Ronald K. Fried in Flat Spin (2012), Freed combines an in- $24 cloth 174pp ISBN 1-57962-101-5 triguing mystery with some engaging ban- “This fast-moving, thought-provoking ter from the Spenser-like hero and several novel does a superb job of presenting exciting flying scenes.” —Booklist boxing’s underside. Along the way, Fried also provides excellent psychological in- Voodoo Ridge sights.” —The Rocky Mountain News David Freed Notable Book of the Year, New York Times $28 cloth 288pp ISBN 978-1-57962-355-5 “As Cordell Logan pilots his plane he Ideal Marriage spots something metal protruding from a Peter Friedman remote mountain canyon. It turns out to be $24 cloth 150pp ISBN 1-57962-100-7 the wreckage of a small plane that disap- “A light, airy, puckish novel with charm to peared nearly 60 years ago. The tension- spare chronicling the life of a high school packed plot and the fine prose, including student and his quest to lose his virgin- well-drawn characters and vivid portraits ity after discovering his parents’ copy of of the natural landscape, are just what fans H. Van de Velde’s 1926 book, Ideal have come to expect from this author.” Marriage.” —Publishers Weekly —Associated Press Damaged Goods The Three-Nine Line Thomas Friedmann David Freed $20 paper 280pp ISBN 0-932966-64-0 $29 cloth 280pp ISBN 978-1-57962-399-9 “Damaged Goods belongs to the 1980s as “Freed’s outstanding fourth Cordell Lo- Portnoy’s Complaint and Bruce Jay Fried- gan mystery takes the wise-cracking U.S. man’s A Mother’s Kisses belonged to the government agent to Hanoi, where three ’60s.” —Sylvia Rothchild ex-POWs, once guests of the notorious Hanoi Hilton, are participating in a rec- Flesh onciliation ceremony with their former David Galef guards. Freed pulls off the remarkable $28 cloth 256pp ISBN 1-877946-55-9 feat of writing an entertaining first-class “A witty novel in which an English pro- suspense yarn while addressing serious fessor recounts his fascination with a political and personal issues in an even- charismatic colleague’s sexual obsession handed, informed manner.” (big women) and the depths to which it —Publishers Weekly, starred review leads them both.” —Kirkus Christmas in Paris 2002 How to Cope with Suburban Ronald K. Fried Stress David Galef $26 cloth 152pp ISBN 1-57962-114-7 $28 cloth 280pp ISBN 1-57962-131-7 $16 paper ISBN 1-57962-141-4 “Galef’s tracks the parallel ordeals of a “Many novels have worked post-9/11 psychiatrist who resides in an upscale sub- themes into their narratives in contrived urb and a computer-geek pedophile whose

32 The Permanent Press/Second Chance Press dreamy pursuit of nubile preadolescent $28 cloth 248pp ISBN 978-1-57962-182-7 boys focuses on the psychiatrist’s son. “A fast-paced addition to boxing litera- Don’t miss this one.” —Kirkus ture. Plentiful action, pungent dialogue a Book Sense selection and colorful peripheral figures ranging a Kirkus Best Book for 2006 from Ken Kesey and Neal Cassady and a promoter resembling Don King. Enter- Turning Japanese taining. A winner!” —Kirkus David Galef an Indie Next List selection $16 paper 240pp ISBN 1-57962-010-8 “The allure and peril of living as an expa- The Debtor Class triate seen through the eyes of a 22-year- Ivan G. Goldman old who finds the Japanese alien and $28 cloth 224pp ISBN 978-1-57962-389-0 irresistible. A nicely detailed exploration “This amazing book is peopled by the low- of cultural dislocation.” —New York Times est of the low: crooked cops, embezzling assistants, jailhouse bullies, bill collectors. Goldenrod It’s also one of the year’s funniest efforts, Peter Gault good-natured and warmhearted, with the $24 cloth 207pp ISBN 0-932966-82-9 author displaying great verbal skills and “A very funny book about the volcanic characters drawn from a remarkably fer- experience of being young, bursting with tile imagination. This one needs lots of the vital juices that activate the adolescent word of mouth to become the cult classic male.” —Newsday it deserves to be.” —Booklist Africa Speaks Jam Mark Goldblatt Alan Goldsher $24 cloth 176pp ISBN 1-57962-037-X $26 cloth 272pp ISBN 1-57962-040-X $16 paper ISBN 1-57962-089-2 “This excellent first novel offers a wild “This story of street-smart black life is ride through the world of music and deliv- both hip and moving, for what it reveals ers a well-paced and entertaining story.” of essential humanity.” —Kirkus —All About JAZZ Isaac: A Modern Fable Rights Ivan Goldman Lawrence Goldstone $28 cloth 222pp ISBN 978-1-57962-229-9 $28 cloth 268pp ISBN 1-877946-13-3 “The biblical Isaac is now living in con- “The murderous undertow of urban pov- temporary Los Angeles. When by chance erty, homelessness, political and media he meets Ruth, their relationship makes hucksterism, celebrity seeking, welfare him happier than he’s been in a long time, and legal systems blind to their own injus- but he knows that it has a built-in expi- tices, come under satiric scrutiny in this ration. We know something Ruth doesn’t novel.” —Library Journal know, and it’s painful being unable to New American Writing Award comfort her. Any story with characters so real that we wish we could reach in and Attempted Chemistry give them a hug demands to be read.” Jeff Gomez —Booklist $28 cloth 304pp ISBN 1-57962-075-2 The Barfighter “Entertaining scenes tracing the ups and Ivan G. Goldman downs of insecure couples coping with

33 The Permanent Press/Second Chance Press success, failure, lust, indifference, and in- Steinbeck and Faulkner. Superbly drawn fidelity.” —Publishers Weekly domestic particulars as the work ethic meets biblical despair.” —Kirkus Crossing the River edited by Ray Gonzales The Tall Boy $16 paper 208pp ISBN 0-932966-80-2 Jess Gregg An anthology of 70 poets writing west of $18 paper 276pp ISBN 1-57962-119-8 the Mississippi, including William Pitt “A fascinating, funny and terrifying mem- Root, Alberto Rios, Naomi Shihab Nye, oir of life before Gay Pride. Beautifully Jim Simmerman, Sandra Alcosser. written.” —Matt Crowley, author of The Boys in the Band. Sticklebacks and a Book Sense selection Snow Globes B.A. Goodjohn Brian in Three Seasons $26 cloth 192pp ISBN 978-1-57962-155-1 Patricia Grossman $16 paper ISBN 978-1-57962-178-0 $26 cloth 224pp ISBN 1-57962-122-8 “In this magical debut, working-class “The neatly ordered days of a gay man in British council-estate life becomes a quo- New York are disrupted when he makes tidian wonderland starring children clever an unexpected emotional connection with and strange and very real. A cozy, richly one of his anonymous sexual contacts. written delight.” —Kirkus Deftly done.” —Kirkus a Book Sense selection winner Ferro-Grumley Award The End of It Looking for Heroes Mitchell Goodman Patricia Grossman $28 cloth 288pp ISBN 0-933256-10-8 $18 paper 248pp ISBN 978-1-57962-149-0 A novel about an American fighting in “An affecting tale of suburban familial Italy during World War II. “A classic; the angst. Grossman makes quiet desperation single American masterpiece about our palpable.” —Publishers Weekly most dreadful war.” —The Nation Prisoners of Flight Peregrine’s Rest Sid Gustafson Jennifer Gostin $18 paper 176pp ISBN 1-57962-088-4 $18 paper 286pp ISBN 1-57962-000-0 Two former prisoners of war crash-land in “Oozes darkness and deceit with more Glacier National Park and have to survive than a cursory nod to Gothic convention a harsh winter. “A haunting novel about as it pokes into the darkest corners of the the psychological damage wrought by the psyche, rousing the most frightening crea- Vietnam War.” —The Independent tures imaginable: twisted human beings.” —The San Francisco Review Milk Emily Hammond The Deer Mouse $26 cloth 256pp ISBN 1-57962-034-5 Ken Grant $20 paper ISBN 1-57962-086-8 $24 cloth 205pp ISBN 1-877946-84-2 “Sad, funny, and startling, this appealing $16 paper ISBN 1-57962-015-9 first novel explores family horrors and “Immensely powerful first novel set in abiding love through unique and engaging Wyoming, reminiscent, in its originality, of characters.” —Booklist

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First Tiger romance. This concept is great fun, enliv- George Harrar ened by Hayes’ brisk and handsome writ- $25 cloth 240pp ISBN 1-57962-051-5 ing style. It’s a page-turner with a corpse “Although Harrar presents a teen who we can fall in love with, runes we should continues to break the law, readers will be have read, and a sword-hacked scholar drawn to this compassionate and extreme- in a carpeted study of prim, modern-day ly sharp young man.” —Library Journal London.” —New York Journal of Books City of Discontent A Year of Cats and Dogs Mark Harris Margaret Hawkins $28 cloth 424pp ISBN 0-933256-75-2 $28 cloth 206pp ISBN 978-157962-189-6 “This biography of poet Vachel Lindsay “An engaging, odd ball, moving novel is a lively, swift-moving, sympathetic about a woman who, after her lover has story of a man who deserves to be remem- left her, discovers her animals do more bered.” —Library Journal than fill a void when she realizes she can New American Writing Award read their thoughts.” —The Independent Killing Everybody How to Survive Mark Harris A Natural Disaster $28 cloth 278pp ISBN 0-933256-65-5 Margaret Hawkins “Happily for anyone who’s ever indulged $28 cloth 200pp ISBN 978-157962-204-6 in a nice imaginary murder, this deadpan “Hawkins follows her winning debut with comedy of rage and its consequences is an even more arresting work, a droll and back.” —San Francisco Chronicle unnerving novel of extreme familial dys- function. Incisive, hilarious, dark, and pi- Gulf Boulevard quantly pleasurable tale.” —Booklist Dennis Hart $29.95 cloth 319pp ISBN 978-157962-353-1 Resolve “A comic thriller complete with a beach- J.J. Hensley front Florida locale, everyman hero, Mafia $28 cloth 248pp ISBN 978-1-57962-313-5 thugs, colorful characters, and ubiquitous “After a student is found dead, Professor jokes. Jason Najarian wins $63 million in Cyprus Keller conducts an independent the lottery, and relocates to a beach house investigation to clear his name and solve on a barrier island near Sarasota, Fla. But the murder. Recalling the circumstances not all is rosy. Jason’s ex believes she de- of the case as he competes in a long-dis- serves some of his windfall, something is tance run through Pittsburgh, he knows definitely wrong with his neighbor Sal, one other runner isn’t going to make it to and men in black with binoculars are the finish line because he is going to kill hanging about. It’s a lot of fun.” him.” —Kirkus —Publishers Weekly “An impressive first novel with an artfully constructed mystery”—Publishers Weekly My Lady of the Bog finalist International Thriller Writers Peter Hayes Award for Best First Novel $28 cloth 272pp ISBN 978-157962-354-8 “Peter Hayes turns the discovery of a Hermanos! beautiful female cadaver into an enchant- William Herrick ing murder mystery, ghost story, and $24 paper 316pp ISBN 0-933256-42-6

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“A fine, original, intelligent, and unsenti- MacKinlay Kantor’s Andersonville.” mental novel about the International Bri- —Publishers Weekly gade. It’s a story of the lost illusions of the Dead Center 20th century.” —Publishers Weekly Joanna Higgins New American Writing Award $28 cloth 272pp ISBN 978-1-57962-212-1 Writer’s Choice Award “A physician is arrested for the 20-year- old murder of his friend—an incident that, The Itinerant at the time it happened, was thought to William Herrick be a hunting accident. His wife is the wid- $26 cloth 228pp ISBN 0-933256-45-0 ow of the man he’s accused of murdering, $18 paper ISBN 0-933256-46-9 and his two adopted daughters are the vic- “A rowdy book; Tom Jones with a lacing tim’s children. A very well-crafted novel, of Karl Marx, as its hero plunges through reminiscent of Scott Turow’s Presumed the 20th century—the Depression, the Innocent.” —Booklist Spanish Civil War, World War II—at a gallop.” —Louisville Courier-Journal Three Minutes on Love Roccie Hill The Last to Die $28 cloth 272pp ISBN 978-157962-169-8 William Herrick “In Hill’s wonderful debut, young Rosie $24 cloth 128pp ISBN 0-933256-47-7 Kettle departs to chase her dreams in $16 paper ISBN 0-933256-48-5 1960s San Francisco, and lands a job as a “This fictional journal is that of Che Gue- photographer. A powerful romance about vara in the jungle, on the run and at bay. the intersection of love, art and indepen- Philosophy becomes poetry as Che relives dence.” —Publishers Weekly the exaltation of combat for a cause, as well as failed campaigns, jealousies, be- When I Was Elena trayals.” —Publishers Weekly Ellen Urbani Hiltebrand $28 cloth 304pp ISBN 1-57962-124-4 The Anarchist “When she was 22, Hiltebrand joined Joanna Higgins the Peace Corps and went to Guatemala, $29.95 cloth 384pp ISBN 978-157962-356-2 where she discovered that her every pre- “In her second historical novel, Higgins conception about the country was inad- paints a vivid picture of the tumultuous equate or wrong. This memoir will have times surrounding the assassination of great appeal.” —Booklist President McKinley. The book’s many a Book Sense selection perspectives, successfully giving the read- er a balanced view not only of an exciting Small Kingdoms and often overlooked period in American Anastasia Hobbet history. Highly recommended for histori- $29 cloth 344pp ISBN 978-1-57962-191-9 cal fiction fans.” —Library Journal “A captivating novel fixed mostly on a Kuwaiti family and their American neigh- A Soldier’s Book bors, the patchwork of ethnicity, class and Joanna Higgins religion that forms that society, and com- $24 cloth 208pp ISBN 1-57962-009-4 peting prejudices, discontents and diffi- “A wrenching fictional diary of a Union culties.” —New York Times prisoner battling to survive in a Confed- “Elegant, haunting, and enlightening.” erate prison, worthy of comparison to —Booklist

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Beehive “While Art Buchwald has lamented the Andy Hoffman decline in humor writing, Holland con- $16 paper 219pp ISBN 1-877946-35-4 tinues non-stop, offering this anecdotal “A hapless Census Bureau employee res- volume probing the peculiarities of our cues his high-powered girlfriend from presidents.” —Publishers Weekly kidnappers in Beirut in this frothy, amus- a Book Sense selection ing debut.” —Kirkus Night Train Blues Apology for Big Rod Edward Hower Charles Holdefer $24 cloth 221pp ISBN 1-877946-71-0 $24 cloth 160pp ISBN 1-877946-93-1 “A child grows up in a dysfunctional fam- “This whimsical novel celebrates its rep- ily that is near self-destruction. The book robate hero who drifts from job to job, is breathtakingly fresh and gripping.” ducks parental responsibility, and even —Philadelphia Inquirer steals from the dead.” —Kirkus Queen of the Silver Dollar Back In The Game Edward Hower Charles Holdefer $24 cloth 220pp ISBN 1-877946-92-3 $28 cloth 206pp ISBN 978-1-57962-265-7 “A 21-year-old former rodeo rider and “This breezy, satisfying, middle-of-the- recovering alcoholic lands herself at a road, funny sports novel, describes a Connecticut asylum where she learns maturing pro athlete’s often bumpy transi- that the biggest ghosts from our pasts are tion from youthful dreams to mainstream ourselves.” —Publishers Weekly American life.” —Publishers Weekly Lost & Found The Contractor Babette Hughes Charles Holdefer $24 cloth 224pp ISBN 1-57962-072-8 $26 cloth 200pp ISBN 978-1-57962-173-5 “Hughes’ father, a Jewish bootlegger, was “A horrifyingly persuasive first-person killed by a rival Mafia gang in 1924, when narrative about private contractors serv- she was two. An affecting memoir that ing as interrogators in secret prisons and depicts the scars that silence and neglect outnumbering U.S. troops in Iraq—an un- wrought.” —Publishers Weekly settling and timely book that is also fine literary prose.” —The Independent Chez Bernice: Easy But Fabulous Recipes Nice Bernice Hunt Charles Holdefer $18 paper 224pp ISBN 1-57962-136-8 $25 cloth 254pp ISBN 1-57962-038-8 This is the book every cook hopes to find: A tale of a man too nice for his own good. delicious, eclectic, every-day familiar, “This truly eccentric novel, with its well- or unusual and exotic recipes. What they earned humor and poignant story, will have in common is their lack of fuss and reward readers with an unusually compel- ease of preparation. ling hero.” —Booklist Irregulars Hail to the Chiefs Marilyn Jacovsky Barbara Holland $16 paper 160pp ISBN 1-57962-018-3 $28 cloth 272pp ISBN 1-57962-081-7 An offbeat mystery about a lesbian

37 The Permanent Press/Second Chance Press psychotherapist who poses as a human de- affairs, the vagaries of tides, and queasy coy to trap a serial killer. “Compelling, en- step-sibling relationships turns into a mur- tertaining and told with stupendous style.” der investigation. Assured storytelling, —Midwest Book Review clean prose and impeccable pacing distin- guishes this regional crime novel.” Expiration Date —Publishers Weekly Sherril Jaffe $28 cloth 192pp ISBN 978-1-57962-215-2 Cruise Control “A funny, sexy look at a woman’s emer- Victoria Jenkins gence in her 80’s, written with warmth, $16 paper 144pp ISBN 1-57962-045-0 humor, wisdom and sublime control. A “A dark novel about a screenplay writer rare and much-needed novel that investi- who takes to the road after she is shat- gates old age without cuteness and with tered by a tough divorce. Jenkins knows sexual candor.” —Kirkus her way around the nuances of character, mood, and setting.” —Publishers Weekly A Garden of Aloes G. Davies Jandrey The Culling $18 paper 240pp ISBN 978-1-57962-158-2 Robert Johnson “A compelling debut centered around a $29 cloth 326pp ISBN 9-1-57962-351-7 group of women and girls living in a mo- Robert Johnson tackles an issue that most in the media, the arts, and entertain- tor court in Tucson, who find in each other ment industry—even the environmental friendships that are literally lifesaving. community—are afraid to discuss direct- Suspenseful, heartbreaking, and heart- ly: overpopulation. The gravity of the is- warming.” —Tucson Weekly sues is woven into the story with plenty of colorful characters, gallows humor and a The Door In the Wall suspenseful plot making for an entertain- Benita Kane Jaro ing and thought-provoking debut. $28 cloth 323pp ISBN 1-877946-39-7 —New York Journal of Books “Recreates events in the waning Roma Republic. A compelling picture of the fol- Shadow in a Weary Land ly, corruption, and ruthless ambition that Harry Jones destroyed it and led to Caesar.” $24 cloth 221pp ISBN 1-877946-15-X —Allen Ward, University of Connecticut “Both parties to the Israeli-Palestinian dis- pute get to air their views in this suspense- Out of Body and Mind ful political thriller.” Veronica Jean —Publishers Weekly $16 paper 166pp ISBN 1-877946-51-6 “A rare book you’ll tell all your friends to A Buried Land read, about a young woman convicted of Madison Jones murdering her former art teacher with a $28 cloth 296pp ISBN 0-933256-64-7 poisoned apple.” —Library Journal “The critics who lamented that William Faulkner’s death left nothing in the South An Unattended Death but an aching vacuum ought to take a good Victoria Jenkins look at Madison Jones and his ability to il- $28 cloth 216pp ISBN 978-1-57962-284-8 luminate the dark grottoes of the midnight “The discovery of a body of the appar- soul.” —Chicago Sun-Times ent victim of a sailboat accident, secret

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In the Name of Lively, well-drawn supporting characters Sarah Pogford add to the fun.” —Publisher’s Weekly Jon Edward Jordan $16 paper 160pp ISBN 978-1-57962-166-7 Vulture au Vin This novel touches on issues of school Lisa King violence. “A poignantly sympathetic pro- $29.95 cloth 320pp ISBN 978-1-57962-357-9 tagonist and vivid characters. Bittersweet, “A plum assignment turns threatening for funny, and timely.” —Kate Kristensen Wine Digest writer Jean Applequist. Hav- ing honed her amateur sleuthing skills and an Indie Next List selection established both credibility and contacts in Death in a Wine Dark Sea, Jean is back The Nihilesthete in her investigative mode. King’s second Richard Kalich Applequist outing is a brisk entertainment $16 paper 160pp ISBN 1-57962-079-5 with some nice plot turns and definite ap- “One of the most powerfully written books peal to oenophiles. (Wine lovers)” of this decade. The attacks on the bastions —Booklist of rationality are as poignant as those in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” —San Francisco Chronicle Darling Clementine New American Writing Award Andrew Klavan $18 paper 160pp ISBN 1-57962-138-4 “This novel, a small treasure, recounts A Good Divorce the psychosexual odyssey of Samantha, John Keegan an obsessive poet in search of sanity and $26 cloth 224pp ISBN 1-57962-092-2 sexual fulfillment.” —Small Press “When a man’s wife abruptly leaves him for a female lover, there is the question of what is best for the children. “An earnest Son of Man family drama from the author of Piper.” Andrew Klavan —Kirkus $24 cloth 187pp ISBN 0-932966-86-1 “Klavan’s imaginative reconstruction of Piper the life of Jesus is strewn with four-letter John Keegan words and Joycean erotic fantasies.” $25 cloth 288pp ISBN 1-57962-029-9 —Publishers Weekly Piper, the daughter of Kathryn and Tom Scanlon, assumes a cover-up when her Nothing Serious mom drowns in the Jacuzzi of Tom’s boss. Daniel Klein “A fast-paced, warm hearted chronicle.” $28 cloth 208pp ISBN 978-1-57962-314-2 —Publishers Weekly “Seeking employment, Digby Maxwell receives a most unlikely job offer: editor- Death In A Wine Dark Sea in-chief of a minor philosophy magazine. Lisa King He accepts, planning to fake his way $29.95 cloth 352pp ISBN 978-1-57962-282-4 through. Klein’s second existential novel “This absorbing first mystery introduces is thought-provoking, with a heavier dose San Francisco wine critic Jean Applequist, of sharp humor. This is an exceptional sto- an unapologetic, tell-it-like-it-is gal with ry sprinkled with philosophical overtones a penchant for wine and men. This tale of and rounded out with the perfect amount lust, greed, and revenge offers surprises of symbolism and allegory.” even a seasoned reader won’t see coming. —Booklist, Starred Review

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The History of Now this taunt, streamlined, tale of a man in- Daniel Klein vestigating his own murder. An absorbing $28 cloth 296pp ISBN 978-1-57962-181-0 update of the classic film, D.O.A., that “How the past influences what follows, finds its author so completely in the zone are the themes of this gently philosophi- that not a word is wasted.” —Kirkus cal family chronicle which combines fea- winner 2013 Nero Award tures of Our Town with the fatalism of The Bridge of San Luis Rey.” —Kirkus Cries of the Lost Silver medal ForeWord Magazine’s Book of Chris Knopf the Year Award, 2010 $28 cloth ISBN 978-1-57962-332-6 “Knopf’s entertaining follow-up to Dead Black Swan Anyway finds market researcher Arthur Chris Knopf Cathcart still searching for clues to the ac- $28 cloth 304pp ISBN 978-1-57962-216-9 tions of his murdered wife, and the secrets “Sam Acquillo and his girlfriend are de- that died with her. Knopf has fun with the livering a sailboat to a friend when a fierce cat-and-mouse games, both cerebral and storm blows them to Fishers Island, where physical, as Cathcart strives to stay a step murder transpires. Knopf has mastered the ahead of his mysterious pursuers. verbal drill for tough guys in tight situa- —Publishers Weekly tions, and like Sam’s nautical know-how, his banter with imperfect strangers is a cut A Billion Ways to Die above the norm. (Called out on a tactless Chris Knopf remark and asked what’s wrong with him, $29 cloth 272pp ISBN 978-1-57962-363-0 he replies: “Chronic inappropriateness.”) “At the start of Knopf’s highly inventive This unexpected sail into danger makes third Arthur Cathcart mystery, armed men for a stimulating story.” seize Cathcart and girlfriend Natsumi —Marilyn Stasio, New York Times and threaten them with torture unless they reveal the location of a missing bil- Cop Job lion dollars, of which they know nothing. Chris Knopf Throughout, Cathcart proves as nimble on $28 cloth 304pp ISBN 978-1-57962-393-7 his feet as he is quick witted. “In this enjoyable sixth Hamptons mys- —Publishers Weekly tery, Sam Acquillo, joins forces with attor- ney Jackie Swaitkowski, when a murder Elysiana case threatens to get ugly. The Southamp- Chris Knopf ton police haul a lifeless, disabled, and $28 cloth 304pp ISBN 978-1-57962-198-8 disturbed veteran out of a pond. Then an “Chris Knopf has created another gripping attack on Sam’s grown daughter makes thriller on an offshore island by the Jersey the investigation personal. Sam and Jackie Shore.” —The Hartford Courant once again make a formidable team as he “Sensual, sexual, violent, ingenious, searches for answers and payback.” Bravo.” —Luxury Reading —Publishers Weekly “Everyone should be reading Elysiana this season.” —Booklist, starred review Dead Anyway Chris Knopf Hard Stop $28 cloth 248pp ISBN 978-1-57962-283-1 Chris Knopf “Nothing will prepare Knopf’s fans for $28 cloth 264pp ISBN 978-1-57962-183-4

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“In Knopf’s rewarding fourth mystery, McDonald.” —Publishers Weekly Sam Acquillo is still a magnet for trouble a Book Sense selection as he is drawn back into the deadly machi- runner up Connecticut Book Award nations of corporate intrigue, where the payoff may be wealth or death” Striking Out —Publishers Weekly Robert Lamb finalist Connecticut Book Award $28 cloth 264pp ISBN 1-877946-06-0 “Takes the reader through the adventure Head Wounds of being young and intense. An absolute Chris Knopf pleasure.”—Atlanta Journal Constitution $28 cloth 272pp ISBN 978-1-57962-165-0 “Ex-boxer and former corporate exec Sam Acquillo becomes the prime suspect in the “Fran Landesman writes funky, murder of a local builder in Knopf’s su- gritty, light verse; low-life, worldly, perb third Hamptons mystery. Brisk pac- sweetly cynical and, on occasion, ing and sharp dialogue carry the reader mildly obscene.” along, but it’s the endearing and deeply —Publishers Weekly flawed Acquillo that’s the heart and soul of this exceptional series.” —Publishers Weekly More Truth Than Poetry listed as one of Deadly Pleasures Fran Landesman Best Mystery/Crime Novels of 2008 $16 paper 64pp ISBN 0-932966-13-6 finalist ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award The Ballad of the Sad Young Benjamin Franklin Best Mystery Award Men and Other Verse Fran Landesman The Last Refuge $16 paper 64pp ISBN 0-932966-18-7 Chris Knopf $20 paper 256pp ISBN 1-57962-137-6 Invade My Privacy “The spare, eloquent style of this mystery Fran Landesman gives shapely form to a story narrated $16 paper 64pp ISBN 0-932966-44-6 by Sam Acquillo, a 52-year-old who has opted out of his fast-track life and gone Rebel Without Applause to seed at his parents’ summer cottage in Jay Landesman Southampton. You’ll want to spend time $28 cloth 286pp ISBN 0-932966-75-6 with these characters.” —New York Times “Funny, moving, tragic, and outrageous. finalist Connecticut Book Award Of all the published reminiscences of bo- hemian America in the ’50s and ’60s, this Two Time is the best.” —Robert Stone Chris Knopf New American Writing Award $26 cloth 262pp ISBN 978-157962-129-5 $18 paper ISBN 978-157962-164-3 A Week in Winter “Robert Parker’s Spencer has nothing Barth Landor on Chris Knopf ’s Sam Acquillo when it $24 cloth 160pp ISBN 1-57962-099-X comes to snappy, hard-boiled repartee or “A taut, strong debut about the futile ef- commentary.” —Southampton Press forts of a Foreign Service officer to save “Worthy of Elmore Leonard or John D. a family of Jewish refugees in a war torn

41 The Permanent Press/Second Chance Press country. A highly effective and affecting “At 66, Lawder signed on for the Peace tale.” —Kirkus Corps and shipped out to impoverished Mali. A tale of survival and wonderment. Marginalia It’s been quite a journey.” —The Nation Doran Larson $24 cloth 176pp ISBN 1-877946-90-7 The Atom Station A writer of children’s books delights his Halldor Laxness readers, yet his work fills him with despair $16.95 paper 202pp ISBN 0-933256-31-0 until he meets a troubled 13-year-old girl. “Describes the reaction to a U.S. attempt “A modern fable, capable of poignancy to buy land for a nuclear base in Iceland and the jolt from a perfectly placed in- with rich, lyrical prose. Among the many sight.” —New York Times vivid characters, the narrator brings to mind heroines like Jane Eyre.” —Booklist Dark & Light Halldor Laxness was awarded the Nobel Michael Laser Prize for Literature in 1955 $18 paper 232pp ISBN 1-57962-132-5 “A moving, convincing, and entirely un- Passing Off sentimental story of a love that bridges Tom LeClair ethnic and social divides; that succeeds $24 cloth 176pp ISBN 1-877946-77-X even when—perhaps even because—it “Passing Off is like reading a Ken Follet doesn’t triumph.” —John Barth thriller with a basketball overlay. Elegant writing.” —The Nation My Impending Death Michael Laser Lincoln’s Billy $28 cloth 272pp ISBN 978-1-57962-400-2 Tom LeClair “The moral of this fine novel is that there’s $28 cloth 176pp ISBN 978-1-57962-408-8 hope for everyone, unless of course you “The man who tells his own sad tale as screw it up. Laser works writing magic, ‘Lincoln’s Billy’ is William Herndon, and a run-of-the-mill story becomes some- Lincoln’s first and very best biographer. thing quite engaging. The novel becomes He failed to publish an unexpurgated bi- a seesaw of tender moments, total screw- ography of Lincoln, so Tom LeClair has ups, and suspense. Laser lulls you into dis- stepped in to write this bawdy expose like of his protagonist and then mounts a of young Lincoln, a tough sinewy novel steamroller of a novel. This book is a well- about the very nature of narrative voice.” written, welcome surprise.” —Kirkus —The Daily Beast Old Buddy Old Pal The Sign of Jonah Michael Laser Boeli van Leeuwen $24 cloth 160pp ISBN 1-57962-021-3 $18 paper 203pp ISBN 1-57962-145-7 “Has something for everyone who’s ex- “Packed with big thoughts and questions perienced the difficulties of friendship or van Leeuwen, mixing meta-fiction, magi- found themselves in a relationship that no cal realism, and literary allusion, describes longer makes sense.” —CityLink the moral challenges his aging narrator faces.” —Kirkus Fishing in the Sky Donald Lawder A Theory of All Things $24 cloth 207pp ISBN 1-877946-89-3 Peggy Leon

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$28 cloth 272pp ISBN 978-1-57962-195-7 $24 cloth 207pp ISBN 1-877946-98-2 “Five siblings are drawn back into each “This remarkable novel captures, with other’s orbit during a crisis. Each takes compassion and humor, the Depression turns telling the story via e-mails, texts ambience of rural life, as two 18-year- and phone conversations. Quirky, touch- old friends head to Chicago for the 1934 ing, funny and eminently readable.” World’s Fair.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer —Kirkus an ALA Best Book for Young Adults Mother Country Serendipity Green Peggy Leon Rob Levandoski $26 cloth 238pp ISBN 1-57962-095-7 $25 cloth 270pp ISBN 1-57962-063-9 “This darkly funny novel celebrating $18 paper ISBN 1-57962-042-6 small-town legends written in a 13-year- “A hilarious swipe at small-town narrow- old orphan’s voice, shows a deep talent for mindedness. The laughs may be easy, but precise, lyrical descriptions that connect they are also very funny. A stylish new people to one another.” —Booklist black comedy.” —New York Times a Book Sense selection Ezra Pound: Radiomen The Voice of Silence Eleanor Lerman Alan Levy $29 cloth 288pp ISBN 978-1-57962-383-8 with photographs by Horst Tappe “When Laurie calls into a late-night ra- $16 paper 160pp ISBN 0-932966-25-X dio show to talk to a psychic, she has “Alan Levy introduces Pound to readers, no idea that this connection will turn her and gives them a feel for both the man and world upside down. The psychic is part his ideas.” —Best Seller of a cult-like organization known as Blue Awareness. Laurie wants to be left alone, Vladimir Nabokov: but the Blue Awareness becomes increas- the Velvet Butterfly ingly menacing, as she discovers that an Alan Levy alien she saw as a child wants something with photographs by Horst Tappe from her now. This novel is both a sharp $16 paper 164pp ISBN 0-932966-41-1 send-up of Scientology and an intriguing “This introductory portrait of Nabokov aliens-among-us-tale.” —Booklist includes two fine critical essays and the most extensive Nabokov bibliography yet Fresh Eggs published.” —Bloomsbury Review Rob Levandoski $26 cloth 254pp ISBN 1-57962-048-5 W.H. Auden: In the Autumn “The perils of factory-egg farming are of the Age of Anxiety on Gothic display as a man tries to save Alan Levy his family farm, but his daughter’s affin- with photographs by Horst Tappe ity for the downtrodden poultry results in $16 paper 160pp ISBN 0-932966-31-4 her growing feathers. A distinctive literary “Takes you to Auden’s home in Austria to voice.” —Kirkus ask him questions; the conversation on the a Book Sense selection lawn that one dreams of. A fine tribute.” —Best Seller Going to Chicago Rob Levandoski

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So Many Heroes The Valdepeñas Alan Levy Richard Lortz $28 paper 384pp ISBN 0-933256-12-4 $24 cloth 224pp ISBN 0-933256-06-X “Levy lived through the Russian invasion $10 paper ISBN 0-933256-49-3 of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and has writ- “The story begins with a group of vaca- ten about it with an intimacy of detail and tioners on an island off the coast of Spain emotion that transcends mere journalistic then becomes progressively surrealistic. reporting.” —Newsweek Suspense builds in this hard-to-put-down book.” —Library Journal Long Island Poets edited by Robert Long Under the Neem Tree $16 paper 192pp ISBN 0-932966-72-1 Susan Lowerre An anthology of poems by 27 poets, $28 cloth 256pp ISBN 1-877946-03-6 that includes Philip Appleman, Edward $20 paper ISBN 1-57962-140-6 Butscher, Barbara Guest, David Ignatow, “Of the many descriptions I have read of Kenneth Koch, Howard Moss, Ann Porter, Americans adapting to African culture, Fairfield Porter and others. Ms. Lowerre’s is one of the most honest and absorbing.” —New York Times Bereavements New American Writing Award Richard Lortz $24 cloth 215pp ISBN 0-932966-08-X Pretend All Your Life “This novel explores the mysterious and Joseph Mackin occult events set in motion by a pathetic $26 cloth 200pp ISBN 978-1-57962-196-4 notice in The Village Voice: ‘Mother who “This smart, powerful, moving, and heart- lost son seeks son who has lost mother.’ felt novel is the best reflection on post- Artful and compelling.” —Booklist 9/11 America written to date.” —Small Press Reviews Dracula’s Children Richard Lortz Catbird $24 cloth 208pp ISBN 0-932966-15-2 Stephen March New York ghetto children turn into “child- $26 cloth 202pp ISBN 1-57962-126-0 creatures” at night and prey upon the un- “The breakup of his marriage forces a suspecting. “Absolutely chilling.” young Southerner to reach back into his —San Francisco Chronicle Named one of family’s past. A likeable first novel that’s 1982’s Most Outstanding Books of the Year unerringly true in its evocation of South- by the University of Iowa’s. Books for Young ern mores.’’ —Kirkus Adults Program a Book Sense selection Lovers Living, Lovers Dead Strangers in the Richard Lortz Land of Egypt $24 cloth 223pp ISBN 0-933256-28-0 Stephen March “A perfect horror of a book; the sort of $28 cloth 248pp ISBN 978-1-57962-185-8 subtle menace last evinced in Henry “A well written, will plotted coming of James’ The Turn of the Screw. It should age tale where the 16 year-old narrator, keep a vast readership in its terrifying sentenced to probation for vandalizing a grasp.” —San Diego Union synagogue, must assist a Holocaust survi- vor.” —Publishers Weekly

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Change of Partners “This remarkable novel of adventure and David Margolis ideas involving two military men. It enter- $24 cloth 231pp ISBN 1-877946-87-7 tains and enlightens, exploring the cost of “Vivid detail makes this tale of communal the American quest for power.” living in the ’70s fascinating; a counter- —Publishers Weekly culture gone awry.” —Kirkus 1996 Best Fiction List Dictionary of Literary Biography The Stepman David Margolis Grendel’s Game $24 cloth 192pp ISBN 1-877946-76-1 Erik Mauritszon “A novel about a man fleeing a flounder- $29.95 cloth 360pp ISBN 978-157962-398-2 ing marriage. Margolis writes lyrically “Chief Walther Ekman of Weltenborg, about the way relationships can be eaten Sweden, the clever, overweight hero of up by pettiness.” —Kirkus this well-constructed and multilayered debut, receives a bizarre letter from some- Out After Dark one signing himself Grendel, who boasts Kai Maristed of his taste for human flesh. Soon a series $28 cloth 328pp ISBN 1-877946-30-3 of missing-person make it clear that he’s “A fascinating story of a brother and sister, a threat and Ekman is one of his targets. abandoned in childhood and determined An excellent cast of characters, especially to survive in an inchoate and unfeeling Ekman, will leave readers hoping to see world.” —Anne Bernays more of them in a sequel.” —Publishers Weekly Looking After Pigeon Maud Carol Markson Murder at Bean & Beluga $16 paper 192pp ISBN 978-1-57962-187-2 Diane Mayo “The narrator is five-year-old Pigeon who $16 paper 64pp ISBN 0-932966-33-0 observes her family’s changes during the 25 illustrations summer after her parents’ separation. She “A Gorey-esque tale of carnage amid tortellini that, squashed by corpses, are sews a neat tapestry of family flaws.” upped in price.” —The Village Voice —School Library Journal Rust Death in Venice, California Vinton Rafe McCabe Julie Mars $28 cloth 192pp ISBN 978-157962-352-4 $28 cloth 293pp ISBN 978-1-57962-226-8 “Death in Venice, California is McCabe’s “Mars focuses on the new start: a wom- homage to Thomas Mann’s 1912 novella. an’s rediscovery of herself. Along the way Darkly comic and at times quite erotic, the author writes of the dusty landscape this is an elegantly written and artfully as well as the almost-barren emotional plotted gay novel that will make you think landscape of her two main characters. The seriously about art, relationships, obses- overall effect is incantatory, transforming sions, ageism, philosophy, pornography the hard-luck story of two ordinary people and sex.” —The Gay & Lesbian Review into something magical.” —Kirkus winner Foreword Indiefab Award for Best LGBT Novel Home is the Exile Hilary Masters Natural Bridges $28 cloth 288pp ISBN 1-877946-73-7 Debbie Lynn McCampbell

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$26 cloth 238pp ISBN 1-877946-79-6 $24 cloth 187pp ISBN 1-877946-40-0 “Fern has the trashiest family imaginable. “This powerful novel explores the roots Working in a gas station, her struggles are of a Puerto Rican inner-city community those of all women whose potential is un- through voices filled with fury, heat, and dervalued. Her victory gives us all hope.” very little love.” —Boston Phoenix —San Francisco Review Shelby Adulteries, Hot Tubs, and Pete McCormack Such Like Matters $28 cloth 267pp ISBN 1-877946-47-8 William McCauley “Shelby Lewis drops out of school to ‘find $16 paper 176pp ISBN 978-1-57962-154-4 himself,’ only to discover that the jour- “Biting and insightful stories about well- ney is as incomprehensible in the ’90s as to-do middle-agers, bored with their lives, it was in the ’60s. Filled with comic dia- who pass the time indulging in sexual ad- logue.” —Publishers Weekly ventures, pointless gossip, and other emp- ty shenanigans.” —Booklist School for Hawaiian Girls Georgia Ka’apuni McMillan Need $18 paper 200pp ISBN 1-57962193-7 William McCauley “The 1922 murder anchors this absorbing $24 cloth 152pp ISBN 1-57962-109-0 debut set vividly in Hawaii. A dramatic Stories about Western aid workers and na- glimpse of a troubled Hawaiian family.” tive Africans. “McCauley’s evocation of —Publishers Weekly place is masterful, and provides a level of engagement reminiscent of Hawthorne or The Inbetween People Melville.” —Seattle Times Emma McEvoy $26 cloth 176pp ISBN 978-157962-311-1 The Turning Over “The novel tackles the complex theme of William McCauley what the war over the fate of Israel has $24 cloth 232pp ISBN 1-57962-012-4 meant for its inhabitants in moving and $16 paper ISBN 1-57962-058-2 highly personal terms. A poetic and pain- “Set in Sierra Leone in 1987, this novel ful examination of the legacy of loss in a could occur in any developing African land with a long history of it.” —Booklist country. It has appeal as an adventure story, a modern love affair, and a tragedy.” Knock Knock —Library Journal Suzanne McNear $28 cloth 200pp ISBN 978-1-57962-286-2 Planet of the Dates “McNear sketches the life of her alter Paul McComas ego, March Rivers, describing people $26 cloth 176pp ISBN 978-1-57962-160-5 and events in striking, original and funny “For anyone who’s ever wondered if all ways. An editor at Playboy has stories teenage boys think about is sex. While worth telling for those interested in the Phil’s romances are often painful, he finds self-dramatizing stars of the American lit- his happily-ever-after with a mix of humor erary scene of the ’60s and ’70s.” —Kirkus and charm.” —Publishers Weekly An Almost Life A Nation of Amor Kevin Mednick Christopher McConnell $28 cloth 240pp ISBN 978-1-57962-157-5

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“I don’t recall ever reading such an engag- fine example of the power and resonance ing story about a trial lawyer.” of short fiction.” —Kirkus —Peter Friedman, The New School “Fast-paced and, entertaining.” —Kirkus Surviving the Flood Stephen Minot Billy’s Blues $28 cloth 306pp ISBN 0-933256-62-0 C. Rips Meltzer “This wry novel belongs to that category $24 cloth 176pp ISBN 1-57962-005-1 of books whose purpose is to set the re- “Combining fact, folklore, and a shop- cord straight. In this case, the Official Re- worn twist of revisionist history, Meltzer’s port is the Book of Genesis. A lively, at eccentric novel about the legendary Billy times bawdy story.” —New York Times the Kid is a hoot.” —Publishers Weekly Jerome Lowell DeJur Award The Vandal Tom Molloy Serpent in the Garden of $24 cloth 178pp ISBN 0-932966-98-5 Dreams “This eloquent novel charts the pilgrim- Robin Messing age of a veteran of the Korean War who $16 paper 168pp ISBN 978-157962-162-9 leaves wife, child, and domestic bliss.” “A sensitive, exquisitely observed witty —Publishers Weekly novel where a fine loneliness jousts with the irrepressible need for love and the The Chester Chronicles body’s prerogatives.” —Phillip Lopate Kermit Moyer $18 paper 160pp ISBN 978-1-57962-211-4 1933 “An eloquent, stylish novel-in-stories nar- Philip Metcalfe rated by an ‘Army brat.’ This evocative $28 cloth 316pp ISBN 0-932966-87-X cycle bring to mind the stories of Lorrie “Metcalfe distills the personalities, view- Moore.” —Publishers Weekly points, and day-to-day reactions of five in- winner 2011 PEN New England/ L.L. volved witnesses to Hitler’s consolidation Winship Award for fiction of power. An exciting, historically impor- tant book.” —Publishers Weekly No Good Deed New American Writing Award Paul Nathan $24 cloth 202pp ISBN 1-877946-56-7 The World in Pieces “A sprightly performance as Bert Swain Bart Midwood investigates the death of a man who, as a $24 cloth 208pp ISBN 1-57962-008-6 child, was the lead witness in the prosecu- “This haunting story of ‘how delicate and tion of a couple accused of sexual abuse of complicated is the life of human relations’ children.” —Publishers Weekly is a reason to renew acquaintance with an unjustly neglected novelist.” —Kirkus Protocol For Murder Paul Nathan Bending Time $24 cloth 176pp ISBN 1-877946-46-X Stephen Minot $16 paper ISBN 1-877946-64-8 $16 paper 89pp ISBN 1-877946-96-6 “Bert Swain returns to a major medical “The 12 stories focus on the powerful, of- research facility, to solve a serious crime ten corrosive effect that time’s passage can and save his job.” —Publishers Weekly have on our memories and expectations. A

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Why Sarah Ran Away with Three Wishes for Jamie the Veterinarian Charles O’Neal Liz Newall $26 cloth 256pp ISBN 0-933256-08-6 $24 cloth 171pp ISBN 1-877946-45-1 $18 paper ISBN 0-933256-09-4 “Steeped in sadness, humor, and wisdom, “A sensitive love story with adventure, Newall’s fictional creations disarm us laughter, tears, and a sprinkling of Irish with their small town ways.” —The State folklore.” —Los Angeles Times Colonfay Baby Jesus Pawn Shop Myles O’Grady Lucia Orth $25 cloth 254pp ISBN 1-57962-068-X $29 cloth 381pp ISBN 978-1-57962-170-4 The sins of French collaboration with the “The suffering of the Filipino people un- Nazis affect the next generation in this der the tyrannical Marcos regime is the novel. “The writing is complex. I am very setting for an impossible love affair in impressed.” —David Malouf this earnest, elegant novel. Orth’s forceful condemnation of the dictatorship domi- The Curse of the Montrolfes nates the book.” —Kirkus Rohan O’Grady illustrated by Edward Gorey Fat Lightning $24 cloth 230pp ISBN 0-933256-43-4 Howard Owen $16 paper ISBN 0-933256-44-2 $24 cloth 181pp ISBN 1-877946-41-9 “A dark Gothic tale of adventure, passion, “A wise, warm, deeply satisfying story intrigue, and love; a whirlwind of haunted that resonates with imagery invoking the dreams, violent murders, ruthless crimi- spiritual tradition of such Southern writers nals, a stolen treasure, an ancestral curse, as Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor.” and the mysterious hanging of an innocent —Publishers Weekly man.” —Best Sellers Harry and Ruth The Freewayfarers’ Book of Howard Owen the Dead $25 cloth 288pp ISBN1-57962-066-3 John Okas “A strong fifth novel depicts two elderly $28 cloth 268pp ISBN 1-877946-60-5 lovers tying up loose ends and saying “The playful, spirited sequel to Routes goodbye. A complicated drama, told with continues the mythological history of the compassion and humor.” —Kirkus Black family in the 1930s and 1940s who continue their spiritual quests, worldly Littlejohn and otherworldly pursuits.” —Kirkus Howard Owen $18 paper 209pp ISBN 1-877946-37-0 Routes “This warm and generous novel is a heart- John Okas felt celebration of the endurance of the hu- $26 cloth 225pp ISBN 1-877946-43-5 man spirit.” —New York Times “An offbeat romp through American his- tory, from reconstruction through the birth Oregon Hill of jazz, turning American myth and folk- Howard Owen lore on its head as its fairy-tale characters $28 cloth 240pp ISBN 978-1-57962-208-4 chase after life, freedom, and the pursuit “Willie Black covers the night beat for a of happiness.” —Kirkus hard-pressed daily in Richmond. Owen

48 The Permanent Press/Second Chance Press has recruited his sick, sad, and creatively “The prodigal daughter of Owen’s Little- crazy characters from a rough neighbor- john, returns to her birthplace hoping to hood. Willie speaks in a crisp and colorful sell Littlejohn’s house. Her homecoming urban idiom we can’t wait to hear again.” is complicated by the drowning of her el- —Marilyn Stasio, New York Times derly cousin. A haunting murder mystery.” winner 2012 Hammett Prize —Publishers Weekly The Rail The Philadelphia Quarry Howard Owen Howard Owen $26 cloth 240pp ISBN 1-57962-043-4 $28 cloth 224pp ISBN 978-1-57962-335-7 “A rich, multi-layered narrative focus- “Owen is particularly good at character ing on a major-league baseball star fallen development and takes a familiar race and from grace, and his son and half-sister. Yet class struggle plot to a new level. His sec- another volume in a remarkable body of ond entry featuring crime reporter Willie work.” —Richmond Times Dispatch Black is a stellar mystery deserving of a wide readership.” —Library Journal The Reckoning Howard Owen Parker Field $28 cloth 222pp ISBN 978-1-57962-207-7 Howard Owen “Should appeal to readers of Southern fic- $28 cloth 224pp ISBN 978-1-57962-361-6 tion and to genre fans who favor character “In Hammett Prize-winner Owen’s enjoy- driven crime stories.” —Booklist able third mystery featuring Richmond newspaper reporter Willie Black, Willie Turn Signal rushes to the scene of a shooting in Mon- Howard Owen roe Park. The deliciously flawed Willie $26 cloth 228pp ISBN 1-57962-103-1 must contend with ex-wives and offbeat “An absorbing critique of suburban Amer- friends, not to mention an adversarial rela- ica that could as easily be described as a tionship with newspaper management and hallucinatory horror or a comic send up of Richmond police on his way to righting the publishing business.” another injustice.” —Publishers Weekly —The Independent a Book Sense selection The Bottom Howard Owen Fall Asleep Forgetting $28 cloth 208pp ISBN 978-1-57962-392-0 Georgeann Packard “Willie Black longs for the days when re- $28 cloth 256pp ISBN 978-1-57962-202-2 porters were bourbon soaked and bringing “Forget reading some mindless chick lit down scoundrels. Nowadays, Willie’s pa- novel; take this one to the beach instead. per in Richmond is staffed by sycophants, It is full of lust, heated sexual encounters and he loves to tell us all about it, until and intense emotions that stem from fresh he’s interrupted by a series of murders. and recharged connections.” Willie faces the killer, while displaying an —Entertainment Realm easy humor and a sweet good nature that finalist Lambda Literary Awards, Bisexual belies his cynicism.” —Booklist Fiction and Lesbian Debut Fiction Rock of Ages Paint the Bird Howard Owen Georgeann Packard $26 cloth 216pp ISBN 1-57962-128-7 $28 cloth 240pp ISBN 978-1-57962-317-3

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“Packard’s book layers symbolism on its but honest affections can displace ven- pages, but it’s also an entrancing exercise geance.” —Library Journal in employing language to explore and de- fine the nature of love and the meaning Up, Down, & Sideways of life framed against death. The lyrical Robert H. Patton narrative edges toward the surreal, how- $24 cloth 156pp ISBN 1-877946-91-5 ever, beginning to end, the novel is a po- “A droll, assured, entertaining send-up of etic meditation. Brilliantly imagined and Wall Street which follows the fortunes of rendered.” —Kirkus, Starred Review 24-year-old whiz kid Philip Halsey, who having dropped out of college at the age Hotline Heaven of 20, has parlayed a relatively small stake Frances Park into a major portfolio.” —Kirkus $24 cloth 144pp ISBN 1-57962-011-6 “This novel about two lost souls brought But When She Was Bad... together by a telephone hotline is about Lou Peddicord dilemmas, with writing so rich you can $16 paper 208pp ISBN 1-57962-067-1 smell the coffee, taste the cakes, feel the “A tale of a good guy outwitting a nasty weight of depression and the joy of escap- scheming woman who wants to keep ev- ing it.” —CityLink erything for herself, including his son. Lively and well written.” —Kirkus The Speed of Light Susan Pashman The Absence of Angels $24 cloth 207pp ISBN 1-877946-86-9 W.S. Penn “A precise and troubling portrait of a smug $28 cloth 274pp ISBN 1-877946-42-7 and cultured man who doesn’t recognize “Alley Hummingbird, with white and In- his own despair. A vivid cautionary tale dian blood in his veins, has a special bond about the emptiness of life when conquest with his Nez Perce grandfather whom he replaces love.” —Kirkus hears through the ether from where the old man lives. A tender coming-of-age saga.” Dardedel: Rumi, Hafez & —Kirkus Love in New York Manoucher Parvin The History of Rome Hanks $26 cloth 254pp ISBN 1-57962-082-5 and Kindred Matters “This spirited novel-in-verse blends so- Joseph Stanley Pennell cial commentary with a tricky love story $28 cloth 363pp ISBN 0-933256-32-9 $20 paper ISBN 0-933256-33-7 across the ages involving 14th-century This Civil War novel, the literary event Persian poets, Hafez and Rumi, and a teen- of 1944, was edited by Maxwell Perkins. aged New York beauty.” —Kirkus “Such a picture of the Civil War has not heretofore been painted. A fantastic book.” Life Between Wars —Philadelphia Inquirer Robert H. Patton $28 cloth 250pp ISBN 1-877946-97-4 Cool’s Ridge “Focusing on a homicide, with a large Ursula Perrin cast of strangely intertwined characters $28 cloth 320pp ISBN 1-877946-68-0 in a confused, but still functioning com- “A troubled young woman on a commu- munity. Patton shows how unconventional nal farm must cope with an inadequate

50 The Permanent Press/Second Chance Press marriage and with her severely dysfunc- $26 cloth 246pp ISBN 1-57962-130-9 tional family before discovering who she “This new twist on the expatriate novel, is and what she really wants.” —Kirkus with nods to Graham Greene, Joseph Con- rad and Paul Bowles, is about two men Rhonda The Rubber Woman and their delayed but fated battle for ret- Norma Peterson ribution.” —NEWPAGES.com $28 cloth 248pp ISBN 1-57962-003-5 a Book Sense selection “Even little kids know about Georgia Say- ers’ promiscuity and taunt her daughter Freeing Vera who, encouraged to hit the carnival stage Elissa Raffa as Rhonda the Rubber Woman, gives life $20 paper 264pp ISBN 1-57962-120-1 to a heroine who embellishes the con- “A feisty young lesbian has grown up in tortions of fate with a few twists of her a troubled home: her mother has MS, and own.” —New York Times her father is emotionally abusive. In the an ALA Best Book for Young Adults end she frees herself.” —Kirkus

Mutual Life & Casualty Time Among the Dead Elizabeth Polinar Thomas Rayfiel $26 cloth 223pp ISBN 1-57962-112-0 $26 cloth 160pp ISBN 978-1-57962-201-5 “Two sisters inhabit a fragile home and “An old Victorian aristocrat struggles to suffer their parents’ unhappy union that understand a new generation.” —Kirkus poisons their adolescence and haunts them “A truly enchanting novel.” as adults. Fully realized characters, frank —Small Press Reviews exploration of women’s self-assigned “Fully satisfying on all levels.” roles and tight writing make this a satisfy- —San Francisco Book Review ing effort.” —Publishers Weekly The Kiss of the Prison American D*R*E*A*M*S Dancer Bruce Price Jerome Richard $28 cloth 266pp ISBN 0-932966-37-3 $26 cloth 200pp ISBN 1-57962-102-3 “A funny, stylistically innovative novel “A concentration camp survivor witnesses that includes everything a popular novel a murder in San Francisco and realizes should have: romance, sex, adultery, that the suspect, a neo-Nazi skinhead, crime, religion, sickness, death, and even is innocent. “This novel plunges us into Texas.” —Publishers Weekly moral quandaries and modern mysteries that are riveting.” —Sandra M. Gilbert Private Moments in finalist PEN Hemingway Award Public Places Phyllis Prinz & Stephanie Saia Mr. Porter and the $16 paper 72pp ISBN 0-932966-04-7 Brothers Jones “Saia photographed nearly 100 human be- Margaret Reinhold ings at commodes. Absolutely a volume of $24 cloth 192pp ISBN 1-57962-031-0 curiosity.” —Los Angeles Times An obsessive man befriends two brothers, each having secret affairs with the other’s The Cleansing wife. “A quirky, original, curiously satis- George Rabasa fying work.” —Kirkus

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What Are We Doing in ship among those who like their suspense Latin America? tales literate and full of local color.”—NPR Robert Riche $24 cloth 223pp ISBN 1-877946-01-X Clay Walls “Riche’s novel has little to do with Latin Kim Ronyoung America, but lots to do with life in a sub- $28 cloth 304pp ISBN 0-932966-66-7 urb. Quickly paced, with salty wit.” $20 paper ISBN 1-877946-78-8 —Small Press “A new contribution to American ‘literary ethnography,’ this fictionalized account is Something in Vallarta a Korean-American complement to Alex Robert Richter Haley’s Roots.” $24 cloth 208pp ISBN 1-877946-09-5 —Christian Science Monitor “One part Raymond Chandler and two New American Writing Award parts Hunter Thompson, this atmospheric mystery introduces us to a gringo beach All Cry Chaos bum hired by an obnoxious resident of the Leonard Rosen American section of Puerto Vallarta, who $29 cloth 332pp ISBN 978-1-57962-222-0 thinks his live-in girlfriend is cheating on “Weaving fractals and chaos theory into him.” —Publishers Weekly an international mystery that also con- fronts great moral and theological ques- Dear Mr. Carson tions. A literate, complex tale. Highly Elizabeth Ridley recommended.” —Library Journal $26 cloth 200pp ISBN 1-57962-125-2 finalist Edgar Award “Love, death and fat camp push an over- ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year weight teenager to a dramatic act of inde- pendence when she decides she’s going The Tenth Witness to write and direct an award-winning Leonard Rosen movie and be a guest on Johnny Carson’s $29 cloth 288pp ISBN 978-1-57962-319-7 talk show. A warmhearted coming-of-age “This prequel to the acclaimed All Cry novel.” —Publishers Weekly Chaos goes back in time to show how Henri Poincaré became an Interpol agent. Throwing Roses It is a complex, dark, and disturbing story, Elizabeth Ridley beautifully told and based in part on his- $24 cloth 131pp ISBN 1-877946-29-X tory. Rosen combines a probing Holocaust “A teenager crippled in a car accident is story with elements of an action thriller. sent to England on a visit organized by a A fine novel and further indication that Special Assistance group. She runs away Rosen is a writer of immense talent.” and is rescued by a middle-aged transves- —Booklist, starred review tite with a heart of gold. Deeply felt, lyri- cal writing.” —Publishers Weekly Melov’s Legacy Sam Ross Drake’s Bay $28 cloth 308pp ISBN 0-933256-56-6 T. A. Roberts $20 paper ISBN 0-933256-57-4 $26 cloth 176pp ISBN 978-1-57962-197-1 “A story of childhood told with under- “This absorbing tale of action and ro- standing, acute perception, and rare com- mance, should find a substantial reader- passion.” —Chicago Tribune

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There’s a Man with a Gun Humbert Humbert. Compelling!” Over There —Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha R.M. Ryan $29 cloth 272pp ISBN 978-1-57962-385-2 The Honorable Correspondent “In this autobiographical novel, Ryan, a Henry Scholder young American desperate to avoid Viet- $26 cloth 214pp ISBN 1-57962-085-X nam in 1968 is drafted, but manages to “Scholder’s considerable knowledge of maneuver his way into a post as a transla- Europe, the Middle East, and finance tor. The book’s message is clear: the Army blends real events and rumors, giving is not a game, and no matter what you tell us a dramatically satisfying explanation yourself, you are still a trained killer. Ryan for much of the violence and terrorism offers a side to Vietnam that most people that has afflicted the world for the last 30 don’t see. He drives his points home about years.” —The Independent the dangers of the military and how it af- fects people.” —Publishers Weekly The Wars of Love Mark Schorer Tattoo the Wicked Cross $24 cloth 176pp ISBN 0-933256-34-5 Floyd Salas $16 paper ISBN 0-933256-35-3 $22 paper 352pp ISBN 0-933256-27-2 “Among 20th Century Americans of let- “An extraordinarily evocative novel set ters, few rival Mark Schorer. This highly on a California prison farm for juveniles. acclaimed novel is a beautiful story, de- One of the best first novels of the past ten picting with nightmarish intensity the de- years.” —Saturday Review terioration of three men and the woman who tries to dominate their lives.” Call Me When You Land —New York Times Michael Schiavone $28 cloth 240pp ISBN 978-1-57962-221-3 China: An Uncensored Look “Schiavone’s debut literary novel delves Julian Schuman into the sad relationships between a single $5.95 paper 253pp ISBN 0-933256-41-8 mother and her son and between her and “It is fortunate for those who wish to know the bottle. Well written and thoughtful.” how it was in China during the momentous —Kirkus years from 1948 through 1953 that Second Chance Press reprinted this book.” The Double Life Of —Foreign Service Journal Alfred Buber David Schmahmann The Grievers $28 cloth 200pp ISBN 978-1-57962-218-3 Marc Schuster “Reads like a lost Nabokov novel; the $26 cloth 176pp ISBN 978-1-57962-263-3 prose meticulously wrought, the plot “Like the movie Four Weddings and a deeply complex and layered, exploring Funeral, Marc Schuster’s The Grievers the inner life of a man distanced from both blends the post-juvenile humor of adults himself and reality by his own lies and a refusing to grow up with aching pathos soul full of secret, shameful desires.” and biting touches of genius. Comedy —Small Press Reviews travels hand in hand with tragedy in this “Schmahmann has created a character novel, neither any further away than the with the vividness of J. Alfred Prufrock or next page, but both singing in tune.” —Café Libri

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The Singular Exploits of into the hearts and psyches of one family. Wonder Mom & Party Girl By examining them intensely and relent- Marc Schuster lessly, Ms. Scofield has managed to exam- $28 cloth 288pp ISBN 978-1-57962-217-6 ine us all.” —Dallas Morning News “Wounded over the collapse of her ‘per- American Book Award fect’ suburban family, Audrey Corcoran, finalist National Book Award feels her efforts have come to naught. Notable Book of the Year, New York Times When the owner of a local greasy spoon talks her into going on a date and intro- Gringa duces her to jazz and cocaine, she thinks Sandra Scofield it’s time to loosen up. This debut offers $28 cloth 267pp ISBN 0-932966-85-3 both a satiric look at our consumer cul- “Masterfully conveyed through fully real- ture and a poignant portrait of addiction, ized, complex characters and situations, but it’s the funny dialogue that is the true Gringa succeeds in creating a richly sen- showcase for Schuster’s talent.” sory portrait of a world of exile, both in a —Booklist foreign land and within one woman’s own skin.” —New York Times Homebodies New American Writing Award Joan Schweighardt $24 cloth 205pp ISBN 1-877946-44-3 More Than Allies “Schweighardt looks at a troubled fam- Sandra Scofield ily with honesty and humor in this dark $24 cloth 176pp ISBN 1-877946-32-X comedy.” —Kirkus “Ms. Scofield refuses to trivialize or sen- timentalize domesticity. The burdens of Island parenthood are confronted head on. At its Joan Schweighardt core is a deep-rooted belief in the nurtur- $24 cloth 187pp ISBN 1-877946-16-8 ing ethos.” —New York Times “Complex emotional issues are handled finalist Oregon Book Award with skill in a provocative novel about two couples and a crippled adolescent vaca- Walking Dunes tioning on an island as a severe hurricane Sandra Scofield approaches.” —Publishers Weekly $18 paper 248pp ISBN 1-57962-027-2 “A finely etched portrait of an intelligent Virtual Silence but flawed young man under difficult cir- Joan Schweighardt cumstances. Scofield’s subtly nuanced $24 cloth 176pp ISBN 1-877946-61-3 portrayal of the awkwardness, confusion, “Ginny Jarrell’s sense of self is shattered and inchoate desires of adolescence is re- one morning when a disturbed young man markable for its balance, insight, and cu- opens fire in a diner, killing one of her mulative power.” —Publishers Weekly friends. Ginny tries to protect herself by taking a vow of silence. Unusual and qui- Harry’s Absence etly powerful.” —Library Journal Jonathan Scott $24 cloth 224pp ISBN 1-57962-074-4 Beyond Deserving “‘Death is a living thing, and this is a Sandra Scofield biography of one.’ Scott’s father, a prom- $28 cloth 310pp ISBN 1-877946-07-9 inent New Zealander, died in a mountain- “A deep well of a book that spirals down eering accident before Jonathan was two.

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His account of parental loss should attract $16 paper 135pp ISBN 0-932966-17-9 readers.” —Booklist Easy-to-prepare gourmet recipes, com- piled from dinners shared at friends’ The Shadow Man houses. Sofia Shafquat $28 cloth 269pp ISBN 1-877946-25-7 More Food of My Friends “Disarming and honest. Thelma and Lou- Judith Shepard ise without the gunfire. An inspireddebut.” $16 paper 176pp ISBN 0-932966-29-2 —Booklist “Its orientation is toward healthful eating using natural, fresh ingredients, but in- The Ringer cludes some lavish meat dishes and rich Jenny Shank desserts, too, for ‘Moderation in every- $29 cloth 304pp ISBN 978-1-57962-214-5 thing, including moderation.’ ” “An entertaining, suspenseful tale with —Bloomsbury Review a compelling climax featuring a young baseball player seeking solace on the field Seascapes for the loss of a father killed by police in Judith Shepard a botched drug raid, a veteran Denver po- $16 paper 67pp ISBN 0-932966-56-X lice officer scarred by a split-second deci- This volume of contemplative poems sion, and the women—mother/widow and “shines with original imagery and sensory wife—seek to move forward with their impressions.” —Uta Hagen lives.” —Library Journal finalist Reading the West Book Award; win- Do-it-Yourself Psychotherapy ner Amazon Breakthrough Novel Martin Shepard, M.D. 2012 High Plains Book Award $20 paper 160pp ISBN 1-57962-142-2 “A provocative, interesting self-help book Grandma Gets Laid of the no-nonsense genre. It deserves Ken Shakin success.” —West Coast Review $16 paper 192pp ISBN 978-1-57962-163-6 “This may not be a book for everyone, but Dying: a Guide for if you’re up to hip, wild, weird, smart-ass Helping and Coping fast mouth, and into off-the-wall offensive Martin Shepard, M.D. humor, some of it laugh out loud, Ken $24 cloth 208pp ISBN 1-57962-069-8 Shakin’s third fiction foray into dysfunc- “This warm, yet unflinching look at the tion is an absolute hoot.” dying process serves to dispel misconcep- —The Independent tions and fears. It is a profound, uplifting, enlightening, comprehensive, humane ex- As the Crow Flies ploration of a process that for all of us is Judith Shepard an inevitable part of life.” $16 paper 96pp ISBN 0-932966-46-2 —Journal of Family Therapy A second collection of poems from an actress/writer/publisher. Contains reflec- Fritz tions from childhood to adult life. Martin Shepard $28 cloth 256pp ISBN 0-933256-14-0 Food of My Friends: $18 paper ISBN 0-933256-15-9 the Best Meals in Town The biography of the founder of Gestalt Judith Shepard Therapy. “A masterful yet loving portrait

55 The Permanent Press/Second Chance Press offering a Fritz Perls to whom few, if any, of filial duty and motherly love.”—Kirkus were privy.” —Psychology Today Maggie’s Farm On the Record John Sherry Martin Shepard $26 cloth 246pp ISBN 0-932966-50-0 $25 cloth 144pp ISBN 1-57962-117-1 “A well written, humorous, and insightful — reflections plus a CD — book, full of good talk and good informa- “A memoir and CD set with Shepard’s in- tion on the precarious human condition.” sights on the world and an intimate look at —Peter Matthiessen his own life. His highly opinionated com- mentary on such topics as religion, abor- The Disappearance tion, war, why people lie, politics, fear, Efrem Sigel death, education, sex and marriage are $28 cloth 264pp ISBN 978-1-57962-180-3 thought-provoking and his easygoing mu- “One idyllic summer day Joshua and Na- sic offers a striking contrast to Shepard’s thalie Sandler return from an errand and passionate commentary.” find their son has vanished. Mystery turns —Publishers Weekly the pages, but it’s Sigel’s insights into the manifestation of grief that elevates this The Reluctant Exhibitionist tale.” —People Martin Shepard an Indie Next List Selection with an introduction by D.M. Thomas $5.95 paper 280pp ISBN 0-932966-57-8 An Occasional Hell “His memoir records many couplings and Randall Silvis triplings with a dynamic gusto reminiscent $28 cloth 256pp ISBN 1-877946-24-9 of Henry Miller. Like Miller, he makes sex “An engaging murder mystery; a genu- seem positively enjoyable, which is quite inely literary work.” —L A. Reader an unusual talent in our era of screwed up finalist Hammett Prize screwing.” —D.M. Thomas Under the Rainbow The Seducers Randall Silvis Martin Shepard $24 cloth 128pp ISBN 1-877946-28-1 $26 cloth 260pp ISBN 0-932966-12-8 “Donald’s friends are dying, his son at- A psychiatrist is sued by a patient for mal- tempts suicide, his mistress is a control practice. “A literate, thoughtful explora- freak, and his married life isn’t so hot. Out tion of a controversial subject. The court- of this bleak material comes a very funny room scenes are among the most interest- novel.” —Library Journal ing in this novel, where truth is lost in the shuffle. A readable, gripping story.” Rolling Thunder —St. Louis Globe-Democrat William Simmons $28 cloth 275pp ISBN 1-57962-019-1 The Violent Child “This novel features two offbeat celeb- Michael Sheridan rity kings of morning FM rock radio, fast $26 cloth 221pp ISBN 1-57962-035-3 talking mavens of witty irreverence who “A sensitive study of working class perils find themselves tethered to their lurid and as a boy-tuned-man struggles to love the painful past. Simmons’ brisk voice is hard tough but fragile contradictions that are to resist.” —Publishers Weekly his mother. A moving, unflinching portrait

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The Parallax View levels as two high school graduates, Alex Loren Singer and Diaz, take a road trip across the coun- $16 paper 185pp ISBN 0-933256-21-3 try and come face-to-face with America.” Newsmen photographed in a short film —The Kaleidoscope clip as they witnessed the President’s as- sassination mysteriously die in a series My Brother’s Passion of accidents. “Chilling and clever, here D. James Smith art doesn’t only imitate life; it carries it a $22 cloth 128pp ISBN 1-57962-107-4 good deal further.” —Saturday Review “A lyrical novel of rural California about a young Vietnam vet’s tragic unrequited Home to India love for a local girl. A dreamlike portrait Jacqueline Singh done with a masterfully light hand.” $24 cloth 217pp ISBN 1-877946-85-0 —Publishers Weekly “A subtle tale of cultures in conflict. Hel- en follows fellow student, Tej, to Punjab, The Drowning of a Goldfish marries him, and recounts her rough ad- Lidmila Sovakova justment to Punjabi culture.” $24 cloth 152pp ISBN 0-932966-95-0 —Publishers Weekly “Lovingly conveys fleeting moments of a small child’s world in pre-World War A Moveable Famine II Czechoslovakia, and later on the drab John Skoyles world of Stalinist Eastern Europe.” $28 cloth 295pp ISBN 978-1-17962-358-6 —Los Angeles Times “John Skoyles invites readers to join him on a romp through 1970s academia. Near- Maybe I’ll Call Anna ly everyone is at least a little quirky, these William Browning Spencer are poets, after all! These poets, students $16 paper 216pp ISBN1-57962-054-X and teachers do plenty of bed-hopping and “This suspense novel benefits from boun- bar-hopping, with occasional breaks for cy, uncluttered writing and an effectively poetry-related activities. Skoyles’ prose is chock-full of images that must have been subtle evocation of the ’60s counter-cul- drawn from the poetic corner of his cre- ture. A crisp, engaging read.” ative mind. There’s every reason to read —The Plain Dealer his delightful book.” —Associated Press New American Writing Award The Patron Saint of Resumé with Monsters Red Chevys William Browning Spencer Kay Sloan $16 paper 212pp ISBN 1-57962-026-4 $18 paper 221pp ISBN 978-1-57962-172-8 “A milestone in the world of popular lit- “Two young girls whose mother is mur- erature, as it’s the only up-beat Lovecraft dered want to do something about it. book I’ve ever read. A writer of wit, style, Fresh, and elegantly written.” —Booklist and imagination.” A Barnes & Noble Discover Great —Austin American-Statesman New Writers Selection The Return of Count Electric I-State Lines & Other Stories Charles Hugh Smith William Browning Spencer $20 paper 264pp ISBN 1-57962-127-9 $24 cloth 220pp ISBN 1-877946-27-3 “A wonderful story that works on many “Stories with insights, with humor, with

57 The Permanent Press/Second Chance Press just enough malice to keep the reader hon- $22 paper 320pp ISBN 978-1-57962-175-9 est. Wonderful, most of them; weird, all of “In the 1920s, the Newton gang—J. Wil- them.” —Los Angeles Times lis Newton and his brothers Joe, Jess and Dock—grabbed more cash than did the Dies Irae Dalton gang, Jesse James, and Butch Cas- Ruby Spinell sidy put together. Willis’ voice is lively, $24 cloth 208pp ISBN 0-877946-00-1 impertinent, jocular, and honest. Perfect “In the mail barrel at a Catholic monas- for true crime fans.” —Booklist tery, Sister Damian finds three severed hands and feet, which starts this drama.” In the Age of Love —Publishers Weekly Michael Stein $26 cloth 152pp ISBN 978-1-57962-150-6 The Last Days of Il Duce “Who hasn’t wondered what’s become of Domenic Stansberry a past love? Stein ponders this question $16 paper 168pp ISBN 978-1-57962-074-2 with candor and grace; his characters are “A gut-wrenching tale of doomed lovers satisfyingly complex, and his prose is lean in San Francisco. Noir heroes are always and spare.” —Booklist doomed. So it is for failed lawyer Niccolo a Book Sense selection Jones, who lets his love for his brother’s wife fester.” —Booklist The Lynching Tree finalist Edgar Award Michael Stein finalist Hammett Prize $24 cloth 193pp ISBN 1-57962-070-1 “This crisp novel has an original slant on Manifesto for the Dead race relations and social responsibility, Domenic Stansberry teaming a young black policeman and an $24 cloth 182pp ISBN 1-57962-059-0 experienced white officer in a predomi- “It takes courage to attempt a noir novel nantly white New Jersey suburb. Highly about noir master Jim Thompson, and a great deal of skill to pull it off. But recommended.” —Library Journal Stansberry’s novel about him is fascinat- ing; mixing fact and fiction at the end of Probabilities Thompson’s life, when he fears he’s being Michael Stein framed for a murder.” $24 cloth 175pp ISBN 1-877946-57-5 —San Francisco Chronicle “An appealing story of a teenager living through the complexity of a premature The Spoiler adulthood. Comparisons between 16-year- Domenic Stansberry old Will Sterling and the immortal Holden $22 paper 278pp ISBN 1-57962-049-3 Caulfield are inescapable. An absolute Regarded as one of the best sports mys- charmer.” —Kirkus teries ever written—and one of the best books about baseball—it’s “in the tradi- The Rape of the Muse tion of Graham Greene; moving, black, Michael Stein totally absorbing.” —Los Angeles Times $28 cloth 206pp ISBN 978-1-57962-223-7 finalist Edgar Award “Based on a true story of an art-world rivalry and courtroom drama, Michael All Honest Men Stein’s The Rape of the Muse is a novel Claude and Michele Stanush every aspiring artist should read. It’s an

58 The Permanent Press/Second Chance Press experience the reader will never forget.” Wrongful Reconciliation —Portland Book Review Peter Svenson $24 cloth 176pp ISBN 1-57962-115-5 The White Life “This sequel begins a year after Budge’s Michael Stein wife leaves him, when he jumps at her $16 paper 173pp ISBN 1-57962-025-6 invitation to drive with her to California. “A jewel of a novel; an eloquent look at Yet they still grate on each other’s nerves. the complex emotions involved in practic- Svenson’s strength is his candidness, ing medicine.” —Publishers Weekly which will win sympathy from feminist readers too.” —Kirkus This Room is Yours Michael Stein Racing The Devil $24 cloth 190pp ISBN 1-57962-106-6 Jaden Terrell “Stein’s fourth novel is a sensitive medita- $28 cloth 264pp ISBN 978-1-57962-271-8 tion on the trials of caring for a deteriorat- “A fine new series features one of the ing parent. A clear, insightful portrait with most intriguing protagonists in years, one prose that is always sharp and assured.” rarely encountered in detective fiction. A —Publishers Weekly top-quality read from a promising writer.” —Mystery Scene Magazine The Chaleur Network Richard Stern A Cup Full Of Midnight $26 cloth 246pp ISBN 0-933256-18-3 Jaden Terrell $16 paper ISBN 0-933256-19-1 $28 cloth 288pp ISBN 978-1-57962-225-1 Fuses two themes: wartime espionage and “A worthy successor to the author’s top- a father’s attempt to understand his dead notch debut. Fans of mainstream PI novels son. “A brilliant conception by an authen- definitely need to check out Terrell.” tic talent.” —Commonweal —Booklist A Relatively Young Man River of Glass Peter Svenson Jaden Terrell $16 paper 160pp ISBN 978-1-57962-147-6 $29 cloth 272pp ISBN 978-1-57962-360-9 “In this third Budge Moss novel, he has “Jared McKean takes on a case with an just returned to Matty Klein, 80, after nine unexpected family connection when a incommunicado days of sex with his ex- scarred Vietnamese woman shows up at wife of 26 years, and confessed all. A sar- his door, claiming to be his half-sister. She donic romp.” —Publishers Weekly wants Jared’s help in finding her daughter, who is in the hands of brutal sex slavers. In Washed Up with a Broken addition to the story’s emotional rewards, Heart in Rock Hall Terrell offers insights into the mechanics Peter Svenson of domination and submission.” $24 cloth 165pp ISBN 1-57962-108-2 —Publishers Weekly “Dumped by his provider wife, smarting and bewildered Budge Moss, a 55 year- What Do Cowboys Like? old ossifying writer pokes fun of himself. Ann Tracy A sad-funny tale of rising from the ashes $22 cloth 126pp ISBN 1-57962-52-4 for the Viagra set.” —Kirkus “Louise, a shy 17-year-old high school girl, narrates this charming story, filled

59 The Permanent Press/Second Chance Press with humor and the warmth of reminis- operates drones, from an air-conditioned cence.” —Southern Book Trade base. His wife, Rose, spends her days waging a different sort of battle: Their Angels in the Morning 4-year-old son, Max, has autism. Van- Sasha Troyan denburg draws overt parallels between $26 cloth 176pp ISBN 1-57962-083-3 the two home fronts. Her depictions of “An enchanting, meticulous memory both autism and the drone program are novel, set in rural France, narrated by convincing, and she moves confidently a ten-year-old girl whose voice may be between perspectives. The novel is sche- the novel’s strongest achievement as the matic, but also profoundly timely.” household’s emotional foundations are —The New York Times eroding.” —San Francisco Chronicle a Book Sense selection Weapons of Mass Destruction The Baby Lottery Margaret Vandenburg Kathryn Trueblood $28 cloth 208pp ISBN 978-1-57962-401-9 $28 paper 252pp ISBN 978-1-57962-176-6 “A crack shot, Billy Sinclair leads his Ma- “Divorce, kids, careers, boyfriends, find- rine unit’s sniper team as they enter Fallu- ing yourself announces itself early on as jah in 2004, but he carries a heavy burden: mainstream women’s fiction. Five col- the unexplained suicide of his best friend lege friends are nearing 40, and their lives the day before 9/11. This is the story of a haven’t turned out exactly as planned. dedicated soldier who can’t escape a tor- Trueblood’s juggling various points of mented family. A skilled writer who has views shows that simple formulas don’t done her homework, Vandenburg not only work for today’s woman.” —Booklist immerses herself in her characters, but a Book Sense selection seems to accept their rather black-and- white world view.” —Kirkus The Sperm Donor’s THE VASSI COLLECTION Daughter & Other Tales of a ten volume erotic fiction collection Modern Family “Marco Vassi’s life and his writing were Kathryn Trueblood so intimately connected that it was often $24 cloth 144pp ISBN 1-57962-006-X hard to tell which was at the service of $16 paper ISBN 1-57962-053-1 the other. These 10 novels stand as vivid “The language in this collection of short documentation of the crazy wisdom and stories blooms with the allure and heady exhilarated sexual explorations that oc- fragrance of jungle flora. Even her charac- curred during what was known as ‘the ters, commonplace citizens at first glance, sexual revolution.” —LIBIDO harbor a drop of wild blood that curdles and froths against the threat of too much All of the THE VASSI COLLECTION titles domesticity.” —Seattle Times are sold as $20/title trade paperbacks volume 1: THE STONED APOCALYPSE The Home Front ISBN 0-933256-81-7 Margaret Vandenburg volume 2: MIND BLOWER $28 cloth 212pp ISBN 978-1-57962-386-9 $18 paper 212pp ISBN 978-1-57962-420-0 ISBN 0-933256-82-5 “This sharply observed novel concerns volume 3:THE GENTLE DEGENERATES two wars. Todd is an Air Force major who ISBN 0-933256-83-3

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The Last Bastion “This incredibly original and beautiful Peter Wensberg tour-de-force about one summer and two $16 paper 229pp ISBN 1-57962-001-9 14-year-old boys is comic and tender, hu- “Sharp but sparkling social satire in a sto- morous and sad, tragic and happy. It’s a ry about the introduction of women into ‘classic.’” —The New York Times ‘the last bastion,’ Boston’s men-only so- cial clubs. Clever writing.” —Booklist To Account for Murder William C. Whitbeck As I Walked Out $28 cloth 272pp ISBN 978-1-57962-206-0 One Evening “The 1945 gangland slaying of Michi- Donald Wetzel gan Senator Warren G. Hooper, who was $16 paper 141pp ISBN 1-877946-94-X about to testify in a probe of government “Wetzel fears Alzheimer’s and, as a re- corruption, was shocking. Whitbeck, nowned writer, his life force is at stake. Chief Judge of the Michigan Court of Ap- His distinctive rhythm offers a captivating peals, follows in the tradition of Michi- look at his wisdom and talent.” gan Supreme Court Justice John Voelker —Rocky Mountain News (‘Robert Traver’) the author of Anatomy of a Murder, another thinly fictionalized The Lost Skiff account of a true murder case.” —Clews Donald Wetzel introduction by Mark Harris Every Boat Turns South $24 cloth 192pp ISBN 0-933256-60-4 J.P. White “A sequel to his much heralded The Rain $28 cloth 240pp ISBN 978-1-57962-188-9 and the Fire and the Will of God. A Huck “This stylish debut novel brings to mind Finn-like adventure captured with cel- John D. MacDonald’s Florida noirs, but ebratory zest.” —Publishers Weekly with a modern sensibility. White’s vivid prose, layered plot line and detailed acu- Pacifist men of Caribbean sailing all boost his im- Donald Wetzel pressive yarn.” —Publishers Weekly introduction by William Eastlake $24 cloth 208pp ISBN 0-932966-70-5 Chasing Shadows “The story of a life lived passionately ac- Fred Wilcox cording to principles; principles severe $24 cloth 197pp ISBN 1-877946-75-3 enough to land Wetzel in prison and gen- “Wilcox, a nice kid from the sticks, came erous enough to accommodate a friend- to New York City with dreams of living ship with Louis Lepke, chief killer for the hip life in the ’60s and turning out Murder, Inc. Wetzel’s voice, savage and great art. He wound up spending most sane, is itself an act of war against war.” of his days chasing down free drinks and —Tobias Wolff cheap thrills at Manhattan dives. He has a Writer’s Choice Award deft touch for conjuring up the right pe- finalist Boston Globe Press Competition riod details.” —Kirkus The Rain and the Fire The Zeal of the Convert: and the Will of God The Life of Erskine Childers Donald Wetzel Burke Wilkinson introduction by Edward Abbey $28 cloth 272pp ISBN 0-933256-53-1 $24 cloth 208pp ISBN 0-933256-58-2 “Childers, one of the unsung heroes of

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Ireland’s struggle for independence, be- guys launch newly minted sage Pasqual as came involved in Irish politics in 1908 as the hot new guru of Maui’s sub-culture. an advocate of home rule, smuggled guns Funny, captivating, wise.” to Irish liberationists, and in 1919 joined —San Francisco Books and Travel Sinn Fein. His martyrdom is stirringly related.” —Publishers Weekly Toucan Whisper, Toucan Sing Homunculus Robert Wintner Robert Wintner $26 cloth 256pp ISBN 1-57962-076-0 $25 cloth 264pp ISBN 1-57962-062-0 “A saucy tale of a pair of brothers at a An American expatriate community in Mexican seaside resort. Antonio, whose Mexico consists of would-be artists and spectacular physique creates a demand writers who share a common bond of among the gringas for his services, and his booze and sexual desires. Told with wit younger brother Baldo, a simple-minded and compassion for losers and drifters that mute who lops off the heads of coconuts Bukowski and Kerouac embraced. with a machete for the guests and one day lops off the face of a fisherman.”—Kirkus In a Sweet Magnolia Time Robert Wintner The Wood of Suicides $28 cloth 272pp ISBN 1-57962-123-6 Laura Elizabeth Woollett “ ‘Segregation is per se inequality,’ wrote $28 cloth 192pp ISBN 978-1-57962-350-0 federal judge Waites Waring in 1951 in “A schoolgirl’s crush on her male teacher Brigg’s vs. Board of Education, a state- leads to mutual destructive obsession in ment that both helped pave the way for this well-drawn, compelling debut novel.” school integration and made Waring a —Shelf Unbound much-maligned figure among the white elite in his hometown of Charleston. His Seducing the Spirits transformation from segregationist to in- Louise Young tegrationist is told by a colleague who $29 cloth 304pp ISBN 978-1-57962-190-2 undergoes his own transformation after “A lush tropical jungle bordering Colum- Waring’s funeral.” —Kirkus bia becomes the home for a grad student in tropical ornithology. Young writes in Lonely Hearts, living botanical color, providing breath- Changing Worlds taking visions of a perfect paradise. The Robert Wintner delicate balance of living among indig- $24 cloth 240pp ISBN 1-57962-028-0 enous people while respecting their val- Short comic stories about searching for ues, culture and lifestyle is a lesson well love in unlikely places, be it Death Row, learned.” —BlogCritics.com or bounding off a wrestling mat, or a man gazing out his window for 30 years. When Time Ran Out: Coming of Age in the The Prophet Pasqual Third Reich Robert Wintner Frederic Zeller $25 cloth 264pp ISBN 1-57962-050-7 $16 paper 208pp ISBN 1-877946-38-9 “The Tourist Bureau wouldn’t want you to (8 pages of photographs) know about Wintner’s Hawaii, but his ob- “An account of his childhood in Nazi Ger- servations ring true, as three world-weary many, Zeller’s book, like Anne Frank’s

63 The Permanent Press/Second Chance Press diary, is seen through the eyes of an adolescent whose understanding of the horrors about to take place is imperfect, but whose awareness, sadly, is forced to develop.” —Publishers Weekly New American Writing Award The Mysteries of Soldiers Grove Paul Zimmer $28 cloth 192pp ISBN 978-1-57962-388-3 “Cyril and Louise reside in a senior citi- zen’s home when Cyril is taken hostage by a gun-brandishing lunatic in the middle of a crime spree, robbed and tossed by a remote roadside. There is terror, courage, and page after page of gorgeous prose. If you appreciate the very finest of Ameri- can literature, read this novel. Gunfire optional.” —Mystery Scene Magazine Giving It All Away: The Doris Buffett Story Michael Zitz $28 cloth 224pp ISBN 1-57962-209-7 “An inspiring story of Warren Buffett’s older sister, Doris, who is determined to give all her money away to others who have, like her, been unlucky in life. This is a readable portrait of a remarkable individual.” —Kirkus

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TITLE PAGE TITLE PAGE Absence of Angels, The/Penn...... 50 Branches/Cullin...... 24 Accomplices/Frederick...... 31 Brian in Three Seasons/Grossman...... 34 Adulteries, Hot Tubs, and Such Broken Blue Line, The/Dial...... 26 Like Matters/McCAuley...... 31 Buried Land, A/Jones...... 38 Affair at Honey Hill, The/Fleming...... 29 But When She Was Bad/Peddicord...... 50 Africa Speaks/Goldblatt...... 33 Call Me When You Land/Schiavone...... 53 After Byron/Beim...... 19 Callgirl/Angell...... 19 After Lyletown/Frederick...... 31 Captain Bennett’s Folly/Fleming...... 29 Alibi Breakfast, The/Duberstein...... 26 Carnovsky’s Retreat/Duberstein...... 26 All Cry Chaos/Rosen...... 52 Castle Garden/Albert...... 18 All Honest Men/Stanush...... 58 Catbird/March...... 44 Alone in the Valley/Baker...... 19 Chaleur Network, The/Stern...... 59 American Dreams/Price...... 51 Change of Partners/Margolis...... 45 An Almost Life/Mednick...... 46 Chasing Shadows/Wilcox...... 62 An Occasional Hell/Silvis...... 56 Chester Chronicles, The/Moyer...... 47 An Unattended Death/Jenkins...... 38 Chez Bernice/Hunt...... 37 An Unclean Act/Burgess...... 21 China: An Uncensored Look/ Anarchist, The/Higgins...... 37 Schuman...... 53 And the Angels Sing/Davis...... 24 Christmas in Paris 2002/Fried...... 32 Angels in the Morning/Troyan...... 60 City of Discontent/Harris...... 35 Apology for Big Rod/Holdefer...... 37 Clay Walls/Ronyoung...... 52 As I Walked Out One Evening/Wetzel...... 62 Cleansing, The/Rabasa...... 51 As the Crow Flies/Shepard...... 55 Colonel Effingham’s Raid/Fleming...... 28 Atom Station, The/Laxness...... 42 Colonfay/O’Grady...... 48 Attempted Chemistry/Gomez...... 33 Concrete Carnival/Darcleight...... 14 Attic Light/Burnham...... 21 Conduct of Saints, The/Davis...... 24 Baby Jesus Pawn Shop/Orth...... 48 Contours of Darkness/Vassi...... 60 Baby Lottery, The/Trueblood...... 60 Contractor, The/Holdefer...... 37 Back in the Game/Holdefer...... 37 Cool’s Ridge/Perrin...... 50 Back Lash/Knopf...... 9 Cop Job/Knopf...... 40 Ballad of the Sad Young Men/ Cosmology of Bing, The/Cullin...... 24 Landesman...... 41 Country of Memory/Frederick...... 31 Barfighter, The/Goldman...... 33 Country Wedding/Fleming...... 29 Beat/Boaz...... 20 Cries of the Lost/Knopf...... 40 Beehive/Hoffman...... 37 Crossing the River/Gonzales...... 34 Bending Time/Minot...... 47 Cruise Control/Jenkins...... 38 Bereavements/Lortz...... 44 Culling, The/Johnson...... 38 Beyond Deserving/Scofield...... 54 Cup Full of Midnight, A/ Terrell...... 59 Billion Ways to Die, A/Knopf...... 40 Curse of the Montrolfes, The/ Billy’s Blues/Meltzer...... 46 O’Grady...... 48 Black Swan/Knopf...... 40 Dakota/Florio...... 30 Bloodlines/Ducker...... 27 Damaged Goods/Friedman...... 32 Boat of Stone/Earl...... 27 Dardedel/Parvin...... 50 Bobby Sands and the Tragedy of Dark & Light/Laser...... 42 Northern Ireland/Feehan...... 27 Darling Clementine/Klavan...... 39 Bookman’s Tale, The/Fleming...... 29 Day the Bozarts Died, The/Duberstein...... 26 Bottom Line/Davis...... 25 Dead Anyway/Knopf...... 40 Bottom, The/Owen...... 49 Dead Center/Higgins...... 36

65 TITLE PAGE TITLE PAGE Dead Wrong/Dial...... 25 Flat Spin/Freed...... 31 Dear Mr. Carson/Ridley...... 52 Flesh/Galef...... 32 Dear Otto/Brookhouse...... 21 Fluke/Blinder...... 20 Death in a Wine Dark Sea/King...... 39 Food of My Friends/Shepard...... 52 Death in Venice, California/McCabe...... 45 Foodtaster, The/DiFonte...... 26 Debtor Class, The/Goldman...... 33 Fourteenth Day, The/Frederick...... 31 Debasements of Brooklun/Gold...... 11 Freeing Vera/Raffa...... 51 Deer Mouse, The/Grant...... 34 Freewayfarers’ Book of the Dead/Okas...... 48 Desert Blues/Albert...... 18 Fresh Eggs/Levandoski...... 43 Detective Fiction/Wells...... 3 Fritz/Shepard...... 55 Devil’s Sperm is Cold, The/Vassi...... 60 Garden of Aloes, A/Jandrey...... 38 Dies Irae/Spinell...... 58 Gentle Degenerates/Vassi...... 60 Disappearance, The/Sigel...... 56 Geometry of Love/Cuccio...... 23 Discoveries of Mrs. Christopher Gesture, The/Cooper...... 23 Columbus, The/DiPerna...... 26 Give My Heart Ease/Andreacchi...... 18 Dissemblers, The/Campbell...... 22 Giving It All Away, Do-it-Yourself Psychotherapy/ The Doris Buffett Story/Zitz...... 64 Shepard...... 55 Going to Chicago/Levandoski...... 43 Dobryd/Charney...... 22 Goldenrod/Gault...... 33 Do Not Find Me/Novak...... 5 Good Divorce, A/Keegan...... 39 Door in the Wall, The/Jaro...... 38 Good Life, The/Thurm...... 7 Double Life of Alfred Buber, The/ Grace/Owen...... 16 Schmahmann...... 53 Grandma Gets Laid/Shakin...... 55 Dracula’s Children/Lortz...... 44 Great Equalizer, The/Borsten...... 21 Drake’s Bay/Roberts...... 52 Great Far Away, The/Frank...... 31 Drowning of a Goldfish, The/ Grendel’s Game/Mauritszon...... 45 Sovakova...... 57 Grievers, The/Schuster...... 53 Duck Alley/DeFilippi...... 25 Gringa/Scofield...... 54 Dying/Shepard...... 55 Gulf Boulevard/Hart...... 35 East Justice/Braverman...... 21 Gulf Stream North/Conrad...... 23 Eccentric Circles/Duberstein...... 26 Gulliver Quick/Earl...... 27 Elysiana/Knopf...... 40 Guy Novel/Ryan...... 13 End of It, The/Goodman...... 34 Hail to the Chiefs/Holland...... 37 Entering Ephesus/Athas...... 19 Handsome Sailor, The/Duberstein...... 27 Erotic Comedies, The/Vassi...... 60 Hard Latitudes/Birtcher...... 20 Every Boat Turns South/White...... 62 Hard Stop/Knopf...... 40 Exiles/Cruz...... 23 Harry and Ruth/Owen...... 48 Expiration Date/Jaffe...... 38 Harry’s Absence/Scott...... 54 Ezra Pound: the Voice of Silence/Levy...... 43 Head Wounds/Knopf...... 41 Fall Asleep Forgetting/Packard...... 49 Hermanos!/Herrick...... 35 Fallen Angels/Dial...... 25 History of Now, The/Klein...... 40 Family Reunion/Fleming...... 29 History of Rome Hanks/Pennell...... 50 Fangs Out/Freed...... 32 Hitler, Mussolini, and Me/Davis...... 10 Fat Lightning/Owen...... 48 Home Front, The/Vandenburg...... 60 Fellow Travelers/Cook...... 23 Home is the Exile/Masters...... 45 Field, The/de Jong...... 25 Home to India/Singh...... 57 First Tiger/Harrar...... 35 Homebodies/Schweighardt...... 54 Fishing in the Sky/Lawder...... 42 Homunculus/Wintner...... 63

66 TITLE PAGE TITLE PAGE Honorable Correspondent, The/ Looking After Pigeon/Markson...... 45 Scholder...... 53 Looking for Heroes/Grossman...... 34 Hotline Heaven/Park...... 50 Looking for Przybylski/Frederick...... 31 Houri/Balali...... 19 Lost & Found/Hughes...... 37 How to Beat the System/Andrews...... 18 Lost Skiff, The/Wetzel...... 62 How to Cope with Suburban Stress/ Love in Atlantis/Barrett...... 19 Galef...... 32 Lovers Living, Lovers Dead/Lortz...... 44 How to Survive a Natural Disaster/ Lucinderella/Fleming...... 29 Hawkins...... 35 Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper/ I-State Lines/Smith...... 57 Chessman...... 22 Ideal Marriage/Friedman...... 32 Love in the time of Apartheid/Hunter...... 17 In a Sweet Magnolia Time/Wintner...... 63 Lynching Tree, The/Stein...... 58 In the Age of Love/Stein...... 58 Madam/Angell...... 19 In the Name of Sarah Pogford/Jordan...... 39 Maggie’s Farm/Sherry...... 56 In Touch/Vassi...... 60 Make Believers, The/Fleming...... 29 Inbetween People, The/McEvoy...... 46 Make It Stay/Frank...... 31 Inland/Frederick...... 31 Man I Never Wanted to Be, The/ Internal Affairs/Dial...... 26 Clayton...... 22 Invade My Privacy/Landesman...... 41 Man on the Third Floor, The/Bernays...... 20 Irregulars/Jacovsky...... 37 Manifesto for the Dead/Stansberry...... 58 Isaac: A Modern Fable/Goldman...... 33 Marginalia/Larson...... 42 Island/Schweighardt...... 54 Marital Assets/Ducker...... 27 Itinerant, The/Herrick...... 36 Marriage Hearse, The/Duberstein...... 27 Jam/Goldsher...... 33 Maybe I’ll Call Anna/Spencer...... 57 June Mail/Warmbold...... 61 Melov’s Legacy/Ross...... 52 KAL Flight 007: The Hidden Story/ Milk/Hammond...... 34 Clubb...... 22 Millersberg/Cauley...... 22 Killing Everybody/Harris...... 35 Mind Blower/Vassi...... 60 Kiss of the Prison Dancer, The/Richard...... 51 Montana/Florio...... 30 Knock Knock/McNear...... 46 More Food of My Friends/Shepard...... 55 Kuperman’s Fire/Clayton...... 22 More Than Allies/Scofield...... 54 Last Bastion, The/Wensberg...... 62 More Truth Than Poetry/Landesman...... 41 Last Days of Il Duce/Stansberry...... 58 Mother Country/Leon...... 43 Last Refuge, The/Knopf...... 41 Moveable Famine, A/Skoyles...... 57 Last to Die, The/Herrick...... 35 Mt. Monadnock Blues, The/Duberstein...... 27 Lead Us Not into Penn Station/Ducker...... 27 Mr. and Mrs. Club, The/Emmet...... 28 Licking Our Wounds/D’Haene...... 25 Mr. Porter and the Brothers Jones/ Life Between Wars/Patton...... 50 Reinhold...... 51 Life Goes Sleeping/Coleman...... 22 Mr. Right/Banks...... 19 Lincoln’s Billy/LeClair...... 42 Murder at Bean and Beluga/Mayo...... 51 Little Easter/Coleman...... 23 Mutual Life & Casualty/Polinar...... 48 Littlejohn/Owen...... 48 My Brother’s Passion/D. James Smith...... 57 Living Doll/Bradley...... 21 My Father’s Fighter/Fried...... 32 Locus Amoenus/ Alexander...... 18 My Impending Death/Laser...... 42 Lonely Hearts, Changing Worlds/ My Lady of the Bog/Hayes...... 35 Wintner...... 63 Mysteries of Soldiers Grove, The/ Long Island Poets/Long...... 44 Zimmer...... 64 Long War Dead, The/Floyd...... 30 Nakamura Reality/Austin...... 4

67 TITLE PAGE TITLE PAGE Naked Singularity/Alexander...... 18 Relatively Young Man, A/Svenson...... 59 Nation of Amor, A/McConnell...... 46 Reluctant Exhibitionist, The/Shepard...... 56 Natural Bridges/McCampbell...... 45 Repercussions/Snyder...... 2 Need/McCauley...... 46 Resolve/Hensley...... 35 Nice/Holdefer...... 37 Resumé with Monsters/Spencer...... 57 Night Battles, The/Bloxam...... 20 Return of Count Electric, The/Spencer...... 57 Night Train Blues/Hower...... 37 Revelation of Fire/Avilova...... 19 Nihilesthete, The/Kalich...... 39 Rhonda The Rubber Woman/Peterson...... 51 1933/Metcalfe...... 47 Richer Dust, A/Boaz...... 20 No Good Deed/Nathan...... 47 Ride Away Home/Wells...... 61 Nothing Serious/Klein...... 39 Rights/Goldstone...... 33 Ohio Angels/Chessman...... 22 River of Glass/Terrell...... 59 Old Buddy, Old Pal/Laser...... 42 Ringer, The/Shank...... 55 On the Record/Shepard...... 56 Rock of Ages/Owen...... 49 Oregon Hill/Owen...... 48 Rolling Thunder/Simmons...... 56 Other Hand Clapping, The/Vassi...... 60 Rousseau’s Garden/Charney...... 22 Out After Dark/Maristed...... 45 Routes/Okas...... 48 Out of Body and Mind/Jean...... 38 Rust/Mars...... 45 Pacifist/Wetzel...... 62 Saline Solution, The/Vassi...... 60 Paint the Bird/Packard...... 49 Satyr, The/DeMaria...... 25 Parallax View, The/Singer...... 57 Saving the Hooker/Adelberg...... 18 Parker Field/Owen...... 49 School for Hawaiian Girls/McMillan...... 46 Passing Off/LeClair...... 42 Seascapes/Shepard...... 55 Patron Saint of Red Chevys/Sloan...... 57 Seasons/Cohen...... 23 Peregrine’s Rest/Gostin...... 34 Seducers, The/Shepard...... 56 Philadelphia Quarry, The/Owen...... 48 Seducing the Spirits/Young...... 63 Piper/Keegan...... 39 Selfish Woman, A/Brookhouse...... 21 Planet of the Dates/McComas...... 46 Sensual Mirror, The/Vassi...... 60 Postcards from Pinsk/Duberstein...... 27 Serendipity Green/Levandoski...... 43 Prayerfully Sinning/Floyd...... 30 Serpent in the Garden of Dreams/ Pretend All Your Life/Mackin...... 44 Messing...... 47 Prisoners of Flight/Gustafson...... 34 Set the Night on Fire/Dial...... 6 Private Moments in Public Places/Prinz...... 51 Shadow in a Weary Land/Jones...... 38 Probabilities/Stein...... 58 Shadow Man/Shafquat...... 55 Prophet Pasqual, The/Wintner...... 63 Shelby/McCormack...... 46 Protocol For Murder/Nathan...... 47 Siesta/Fleming...... 30 Queen of the Silver Dollar/Hower...... 37 Sign of Jonah, The/van Leeuwen...... 42 Racing the Devil/Terrel...... 59 Silence/Brookhouse...... 21 Radiomen/Lerman...... 43 Singular Exploits of Wonder Mom & Rail, The/Owen...... 49 Party Girl, The/Schuster...... 54 Rain & Fire & Will of God, The/Wetzel 62 Slave Lover/Vassi...... 60 Rain Dogs/Birtcher...... 20 Small Kingdoms/Hobbet...... 36 Rape of the Muse, The/Stein...... 58 Smoking Hopes/Alexander...... 18 Rebel Without Applause/Landesman...... 41 So Many Heroes/Levy...... 44 Reckoning, The/Owen...... 49 Soldiers Book, A/Higgins...... 36 Redeeming Eve/Bokat...... 21 Someplace Like This/Ashley...... 19 Reflections/videocassette...... 29 Something in Vallarta/Richter...... 52 Regulators, The/Degenhard...... 25 Son of Man/Klavan...... 39

68 TITLE PAGE TITLE PAGE Sorcerer, The/Crompton...... 23 Undersurface/Cullin...... 24 Speed of Light, The/Pashman...... 50 Unnatural Murder/Dial...... 26 Sperm Donor’s Daughter/Trueblood...... 60 Up, Down, & Sideways/Patton...... 50 Spoiler, The/Stansberry...... 58 Upstate/Bingham...... 20 Standing at the Crossroads/Davis...... 24 Valdepeñas, The/Lortz...... 44 Stanley, California/Evans...... 28 Vandal, The/Molloy...... 47 Stepman, The/Margolis...... 45 Violent Child, The/Sheridan...... 56 Sticklebacks and Snow Globes/ Virtual Silence/Schweighardt...... 54 Goodjohn...... 34 Vladimir Nabokov: the Velvet Butterfly/ Stone Lion, The/Eisner...... 27 Levy...... 43 Stoned Apocalypse/Vassi...... 28 Vulture au Vin/King...... 39 Strangers in the Land of Egypt/March 44 Voodoo Ridge/Freed...... 32 Striking Out/Lamb...... 41 W.H. Auden: In the Autumn of the Age Studied Madness, A/Broun...... 21 of Anxiety/Levy...... 43 Surviving the Flood/Minot...... 47 Walk On, Bright Boy/Davis...... 24 Tackling the Team/Vassi...... 60 Walking Dunes/Scofield...... 54 Tall Boy, The/Gregg...... 34 Walking the Dog/Davis...... 24 Taste of Blood and Ashes, A/Terrell...... 15 Walking the Perfect Square/Coleman 23 Tattoo the Wicked Cross/Salas...... 53 Warp & Weft/Delaney...... 25 Tenth Witness, The/Rosen...... 52 Wars of Love, The/Schorer...... 53 Theory of All Things, A/Leon...... 42 Washed Up with a Broken Heart in Rock There’s a Man with a Gun Over There/ Hall/Svenson...... 59 Ryan...... 53 Weapons of Mass Destruction/ They Don’t Play Stickball in Vandenberg...... 60 Milwaukee/Coleman...... 23 Week in Winter, A/Landor...... 41 Thinking Man’s Bully, A/Adelberg...... 18 Weight, The/McCall...... 8 Third Way, The/Warmbold...... 61 What Are We Doing in This Room is Yours/Stein...... 59 Latin America?/Riche...... 52 Three-Nine Line, The/Freed...... 13 What Do Cowboys Like?/Tracy...... 59 Three Minutes on Love/Hill...... 36 When I Was Elena/Hiltebrand...... 36 Three Wishes for Jamie/O’Neal...... 48 When Time Ran Out/Zeller...... 63 Throwing Roses/Ridley...... 52 White Hand, The/Warmbold...... 61 Time Among the Dead/Rayfiel...... 51 White Life, The/Stein...... 59 To Account for Murder/Whitbeck...... 62 White Road, The/DeMaria...... 25 To Enter Jerusalem/Eisendrath...... 28 Who Dwelt by a Churchyard/ To the Market Place/Fleming...... 30 Fleming...... 30 Toucan Whisper, Toucan Sing/ Whompyjawed/Cullin...... 24 Wintner...... 63 Why Sarah Ran Away with the Townie/Butman...... 21 Veterinarian/Newall...... 48 Transvaal Episode/Bloom...... 20 Widow’s Husband, The/Evans...... 28 Trap, The/van der Velde...... 61 Winter Rider, The/Fleming...... 30 Turn Signal/Owen...... 49 Wood of Suicides. The/Woollett...... 63 Turning Japanese/Galef...... 33 World in Pieces, The/Midwood...... 47 Turning Over, The/McCauley...... 46 Writer-in-Residence/Burkholz...... 21 Two Time/Knopf...... 41 Wrongful Reconciliation/Svenson...... 59 Twoweeks, The/Duberstein...... 27 Year of Cats and Dogs, A/Hawkins...... 35 Under the Neem Tree/Lowerre...... 44 Zeal of the Convert, The/Wilkinson...... 62 Under the Rainbow/Silvis...... 56 Zulus/Everett...... 28

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