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It’s their last summer before college, and Jaret and Peggy have fallen deeply in love. They exchange love letters, have pet names, and spend hours alone in their special clearing in the woods. For once, life is perfect. But Jaret and Peggy live in Gardener’s Point, a small town a hundred miles from New York City, and a place where girls only date boys. In Gardener’s Point, being different isn’t easy—but nothing could prepare them for the danger that lies ahead.A novel ahead of its time, Sandra Scoppettone’s 1978 lesbian young adult romance shows how Jaret and Peggy’s relationship affects their friends, family, and town, and how, when Jaret is assaulted by a classmate, love and friendship win out.
Me and Fat Glenda
Lila Perl has published over sixty volumes of fiction and nonfiction for young readers. In addition to the successful Fat Glenda series, Perl has twice been received American Library Association Notable awards for nonfiction. Perl is also a prominent writer on the holocaust, and is the recipient of the Sidney Taylor Award for Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story. This is the first installment of the “Fat Glenda” series which follows the hilarious antics of Sara and her new friend Glenda, who may not be as confident as she seems. The “Fat Glenda” series, which was hugely popular when it was originally published, is another series that allows readers to follow a character's life over time, like “Mockingjay.” Almost all of Perl's out-of-print works fetch double-to-triple digit prices on Amazon.
To All My Fans, With Love, From Sylvie
Set against a 1950s-era backdrop of James Dean billboards and jukeboxes blasting Elvis,Ellen Conford’s classic road adventure follows fifteen-year-old Sylvie as she leaves her foster home in New Jersey chasing dreams of celluloid stardom. Sylvie soon learns, however, that life isn’t like the movies as she ends up broke and alone.
Debutante Hill
Louis Duncan's 1958 young adult classic tells the story of what happens when the debutante tradition comes to one small town: the parties, the ball gowns, as well as one girl's growing sense of right and wrong.Lynn Chambers is popular, wealthy, and going (almost) steady with a handsome college boy. But when she decides not to be a debutante, Lynn finds herself on the outside, which leads her to a side of her town she barely knew existed. There she meets Anna, an artist overlooked by the debutante crowd, and bad boy Dirk Masters, who has a fast car, a quick temper, and a dark secret involving Lynn.
The Marble Orchard
Set in rural Appalachia (Kentucky), the book should have strong regional appeal Fans of writers like Donald Ray Pollock and Daniel Woodrell and Bonnie Jo Campbell should dig this book.Blurbs to come from Donald Ray Pollock, Glen Taylor and Michael Knight.Alex's debut short story collection was well-reviewed, and The Marble Orchard is a big stepping stone in the career of this rising young writer.Alex's writing has already won several awards, including Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing, the Barry Hannah Prize for Fiction, and the Eric Hoffer Award in General Fiction.
Fram
Fram is the story of Oscar, a minor bureaucrat in the US government's Bureau of Ice Prognostication, an agency created to compete with the Soviets during the heyday of the Cold War and still operating in the present without the public's knowledge. Oscar and his partner Alexi are tasked with inventing discoveries and settlements in the Arctic, then creating the paperwork and digital records to «prove» their existence, preventing the inconvenience and expense of actual exploration. The job is the closest Oscar has come to his boyhood dream of being a polar explorer, until he and Alexi are sent on a secret mission to the actual Arctic, which brings them into a mysterious tangle of rival agencies and espionage that grows more dangerous the farther north they travel. The trip also allows Oscar to reconnect with his wife, Julia, from whom he's grown alienated by years of lying about what he does for a living (a distance compounded by Julia's own secret government job), leading both of them to discover what can be lost if we let one part of ourselves—or one part of a story—distract us from everything else the world offers. Steve Himmer is the author of the novel The Bee-Loud Glade (2011) and editor of the web journal Necessary Fiction . His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications including the Millions , Ploughshares , Post Road , Hobart , 3:AM Magazine , and the Los Angeles Review . He lives with his wife and daughter near Boston, Massachusetts, where he teaches at Emerson College.
Point of Direction
Fans of western place-based writers Ivan Doig, Annie Proulx, Kent Haruf, and David Gutterson will be drawn to this novel.The language and tone of the book will appeal to fans of Nicole Krauss and Louise Erdrich. The element of adventure will appeal to fans of State of Wonder by Ann Patchett and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer.Author lives in Boulder, CO. Book should have appeal in Denver and Boulder in particularBlurbs to come from:William Haywood Henderson (Augusta Locke, among others)Tracy Ross (The Source of All Things)Laird Hunt (professor at Denver University and author of Kind One, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist )Jenny Shank (The Ringer)
Unravished
In this haunting new collection of stories from award-winning writer Hester Kaplan, the past has a way of showing up when it is least welcome. In the title story “Unravished,” a woman reconsiders her marriage to a man bent on destroying a world famous landscape. In “The School of Politics,” a bored museum director struggles to understand her youthful affair with a corrupt politician. The fastidious preservationist in “The Aerialist” makes an emergency appointment to see the dentist who gave him advice on love years before. When two prickly private school colleagues in “This Is Your Last Swim,” find they are the only people left on campus in the days before the world’s end, they urgently and uncharacteristically come clean with their old secrets and shames. Masterfully written and emotionally packed, these stories seduce and startle, and remind us of the shifting ways we choose to narrate our own lives.
Strike Back
Joe Burn's first book, Reviving the Strike, sold well, and this new book should be an essential buy for any store focused on labor/worker issues.Joe Burns is an experienced labor negotiator who has worked in the airline industry among many others. His profile in the union movement has only grown since the publication of Reviving the StrikeThe book will appeal to a broad base within the union movement–public sector workers like police and teachers, showing how they can use the tactics of the past to reinvigorate the movement today.Book is written in a non-academic style accessible to the union members and union activists as well as general readers.