Anne Brudevold, editor,
Journey Anthology by Eden Waters Press. Journeys to Israel, Syria, Ireland, all
over the USA, and interior journeys; stages of life, emotion, spirituality. 51
contributors; poets, memoirists, artists, photographers.
Anita Diamant, Day After
Night (Scribner). Four women, with four different stories of surviving the
Holocaust, find themselves in an internment camp. Novel based on the true story
of a dramatic rescue of more than 200 prisoners at the Atlit camp. By the
author of The Red Tent.
Steve Early, Embedded
with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home (Monthly
Review Press). A Labor journalist tackles hot issues facing unions today from
immigrant worker organizing to schisms over internal democracy and to obstacles
to labor law reform.
Stephen
Fake, The Scramble for Africa: Darfur-Intervention and the USA (Black Rose
Books). Exposes the damaging role played by US leaders, NGOs, and corporate
media outlets. Shows how the West has failed Sudan's Darfur region.
Nancy
B. Finn, co-author, Digital Communication in Medical Practice (Springer).
Electronic medical records help doctors and patients research healthcare
options, allow daily monitoring from home, and protect unauthorized access.
Real-life case studies show how the technology is deployed and is critical to
healthcare.
Patricia A. Gozemba,
co-author, Courting Equality: A Documentary History of America's First Legal
Same-Sex Marriages (Beacon Press). Paperback edition of the sumptuously
illustrated chronicle.
Lee Ann Hoff,
People in Crisis: Clinical and Diversity Perspectives, 6th edition (Routledge).
Classic text expanded to include new expertise on resilience, workplace
violence, war and trauma, and youth violence, and a new emphasis on diversity.
Lee Ann Hoff,
Violence and Abuse Issues: Cross-cultural Perspectives for Health and Social Services. (Routledge).
A multi-disciplinary text addressing interpersonal violence and its prevention across the life-span, as well as state-sponsored violence and its damaging consequences for individuals, families, communities, and whole nations.
J. Kates,
translator/co-editor, Contemporary Russian Poetry (Dalkey). Bilingual
collection of poems by 44 living Russian poets, many previously unpublished in
the West.
Judah
Leblang, Finding My Place: One Man's Journey from Cleveland to Boston and Beyond (Lake
Effect Press). Memoir in episodes, from a boyhood in 1960s Cleveland to the
present-day gay Mecca of Provincetown, to life as a hard of hearing man with a
funny name, navigating middle age in Boston. Buy it here.
Ruth
Lepson, I Went Looking For You (BlazeVox Books). Lepson's poems are about
places, mainly Swampscott, a Massachusetts town on the ocean, strangers
overheard and seen, works of art, aging parents, deceased friends, and love
that persists across disconnections.
Randy Susan Meyers, The
Murderer's Daughters (St. Martin's). The novel, which follows thirty years of
two sisters' lives after their father murders their mother, has been praised as
"mesmerizing" "complex" and "empathic."
Li Mo, Spirit Bridges:
Coming of Age in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Madrid and New York City in the
1960s (Streetfeet Press), follows her as she gains knowledge, joy, and optimism
through extraordinary challenges.
Susan Oleksiw,
co-editor, Deadfall: Crime Stories by New England Writers (Level Best Books).
From rural Maine to a mall parking lot, from a Cambridge therapist's office to
church bingo, good and bad guys and gals struggle for love, honor, money, and
truth.
Mark Schafer,
translator, Before Saying Any of the Great Words, David Huerta Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press).
A bilingual anthology of work by one of Mexico' most important living poets.
Info. at www.beforesaying.com.
Barbara Schwartz, Mercy,
Mandates, Merger (Cambridge
Books). Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, founded by the Jewish community, and
Deaconess Hospital, founded by Methodists, had a mission: to give care without
discrimination. This is the inside story of challenges they faced when they
merged as Beth Israel-Deaconess, and more recent challenges from fiscally-focused
health care trends. Based on research and interviews with staff and senior
administrators.
Cecilia Tan, Mind
Games (Ravenous Romance) A woman
with suppressed psychic abilities, leads a quiet, lonely life until her sister
goes missing. She begins to have dreams about a dream lover who visits her at
night - could someone be stalking her in her dreams? A novel of love, suspense
and scorching sex.
Kath Weston, Traveling
Light: On the Road with America's Poor (Beacon). Paperback edition. Raised
working class, an anthropologist crosses the U.S. by bus: she swaps advice,
snacks, favors and worldviews with her fellow travelers, people living poor in
the world's wealthiest nation.
Carol Wintle, Empowering Children to Help Stop Bullying at School (Character Development Group Inc.). A unique guide for teachers, counselors, parents, students, and staff. For more information, visit www.carolwintle.com.
Howard Zinn, State of
the Union 2009: Notes for a New Administration (Back Pages Publishers). Zinn pulls together the
strands of past and present in his open call to the American public to find an
active role in shaping the future of America. Available from www.backpagesbooks.com
