by Admin | May 26, 2020 | New Release, News
Plain View Press announces the publication of the historical fiction novel Victoria’s War by Catherine A. Hamilton, hitting bookstores and Amazon on June 2, 2020. Inspired by events lost in World War II history, the book gives voice to the courageous Polish women kidnapped into real-life slave labor operation during the Nazi occupation of Poland.
Victoria’s War, a historical fiction novel by Catherine A. Hamilton, tells the story of Polish teenager Victoria Darski, who was sold into slavery during the Nazi occupation of Europe, and the deaf daughter of the German baker who bought her.
Copies of Victoria’s War, paperback (ISBN: 9781632100689) or ebook (ISBN: 9781632100696), can be purchased through Amazon, retail bookstores, or ordered in quantity from Plain View Press.
“Lagodny, Poland—September 1, 1939 — RADIO changed Victoria Darski’s world. It brought swing jazz and blues into her living room. And on the first of September, when she sat on the high-backed sofa and reached for the brass knob on the cabinet radio, it brought news of war.” In Victoria’s War, the lives of two young women intertwine when Victoria Darski, Polish and Catholic, is bought by the German Tod family and held in their bakery attic—the same place where Etta Tod, deaf and mute, hides her anti-Nazi paintings.
Victoria’s War is the debut novel from author Catherine A. Hamilton, who actively publishes and blogs at www.catherineahamilton.com. Of Polish descent, Hamilton has articles and poems published in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, The Oregonian, the Catholic Sentinel, the Dziennik Związkowy, and the Polish American Journal. She authored the chapter about Katherine Graczyk in Forgotten Survivors: Polish Christians Remember the Nazi Occupation, edited by Richard C. Lukas. She is available for public events and book club interaction.
“A searing reminder of the many lesser-known World War II stories that still need to be told.”—Kirkus Reviews
“[A] page-turning tour de force of historical fiction…”—Krysia Jopek, author of Maps and Shadows
“[A] riveting debut….of one Polish woman’s plight and her unlikely friendship with the deaf-mute daughter of her captors….I could not put it down.” —Brigid Pasulka, winner of the 2010 PEN/Hemingway Award for A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
by Admin | Jan 8, 2020 | New Release, News
Austin, Texas, January 9, 2020- Plain View Press is proud to offer the latest work from Douglas Nordfors, Half-Dreaming: poems, in bookstores everywhere on Jan 10, 2020.
Half-Dreaming uses abstract thought to question, perceive, and come to terms with the concrete world, navigating the complexities of being human. Poems about love, friendship, death, work, politics, the environment, creativity, complex feeling, and perception may start with an inner, abstract spark, and then reach for outer connection. Others start from concrete circumstance, and then let imagination provide answers and healing. In the end, the abstract and concrete become interchangeable.
Seattle native and Virginia resident Nordfors gives each poem a unique feel, changing tone and style to fit the needs of a particular subject, mood, or situation, much like a chameleon. A teacher of writing and literature, Nordfors has also published poetry books Auras (Plain View Press 2008) and The Fate Motif (Plain View Press 2013). Since 1987, he has published poems in numerous journals, including Quarterly West, California Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, The Iowa Review, Poet Lore, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, The Seattle Review, and The Sycamore Review.
“The poems in Half-Dreaming, … fly like birds around twin flagpoles—the abstract vs. the concrete, the self as stable vs. the self as always in the process of creating itself, what is knowable about the world vs. what is, and always will be, mystery. … Over many years, Nordfors has quietly built a body of work that generously rewards sustained attention.” —Steve Bellin-Oka, author of Instructions for Seeing a Ghost
“Every poem brings a new revelation, you’ll find no artifice or filler here. … It is a deft and elegant book, and, for those who seek refuge in poetry, a welcome reprieve from the political noise.” —Sarah Estes, author of Hive Bone, and Field Work
Copies of Half-Dreaming: poems can be purchased through Amazon, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-63210-070-2) or ebook (ISBN: 978-1-63210-071-9), through retail bookstores, or ordered in quantity from Plain View Press, https://www.plainviewpress.com
View the page listing at Half-Dreaming: poems
by Admin | Dec 26, 2018 | New Release, News
Released on January 2, 2019. America Abroad is part adventure and part history, told in crisp narrative poems rich in imagery. It can be purchased on Amazon.
With the keen eye of an historian, David Radavich explores America’s complex history of discovery, destruction, and quest for power. A myriad of voices (Ponce de Leon, Uncle Sam, Lady Liberty) convey America’s adventurism with clear-eyed honesty. Visit the Book Gallery for more information on the book.
by Admin | Dec 11, 2018 | New Release, News
My Mother’s Daughter by Rebecca Thaddeus was released on January 1, 2019. It can be purchased on Amazon.
My Mother’s Daughter is a fast-paced, page-turning historical fiction about a mother’s daughters, set in an era of southern plantations and slavery.
—Nancy King, author of Opening Gates and other novels at www.nancykingstories.com
From slavery through abolition and women’s suffrage, Thaddeus’ sweeping story of four generations of mothers and daughters carries the reader away, down the Mississippi River on a keelboat, beneath the tunneling branches of the Natchez Trace, into the shanties and mansions of the old South, into a bygone time that both unsettles and delights.
—Elaine McCullough, Professor Emerita of English, Ferris State University
My Mother’s Daughter follows Eugenia and her family through more than a century of changes in the American South. From Eugenia’s trip from Philadelphia to rural Natchez, to the stories of her children, the plot’s well-drawn characters and experiences of slavery and its aftermath are compelling.
—Maryanne Heidemann, Co-founder (1981-present) of the No-Name Book Club
by Admin | Nov 18, 2018 | New Release, News
Privileged to live on a big estate, Joan loves to commune with nature. With typical teenage dilemmas and school assignments that challenge her thinking, she is immersed in the complex workings of American politics when some parents want to fire her science teacher. This story reminds us that the younger generation are our future problem solvers.
Madeleine Herrmann also published Partita” A Psychological Mystery in 2009 and Isabelle’s Dream in 2012.
Publication Date: 8/24/2018
ISBN: 978-1-63210-038-2
228 pages, $18.95
YA Fiction: Action & Adventure / General
YA Fiction: Coming of Age
YA Fiction: Nature & the Natural World / Environment
by Admin | Nov 18, 2018 | New Release
“Magpies were always there in our English garden, pecking around and singling out particular objects. Beautiful black and white birds with loud calls to each other. That is the way this book was put together.”
— Eileen Berry
This cumulative collection of poetry inspires the mind and imagination with memories and images of people, places, and changes over the years. An inspired geologist who loved the earth and it’s inhabitants, Eileen often spoke of the blackbirds in her garden. Their chatter and happy activity represents the way life builds by memories of tiny events. This book reveals snippits of events of her life.
— Pam Knight, publisher/ writer/ poet
Publication Date: 6/20/2018
ISBN: 978-1-63210-027-6
80 pages, $14.95
Poetry: American General
by Admin | Nov 18, 2018 | New Release
I have the privileged of reading yet another amazing work by Matthew Abuelo! Midnight Carousel will take you on a colorful, yet deep, deep as a midnight sky, ride. The ever turning spiral of emotions are filled in every line, stanza and verse as you are brought high and then downward again. The love of a city that is wrapped up in the arms of an old lover, that is slowly deteriorating around some while flourishing around newfound mistresses of whose sole purpose is to dine on the fatted-calf. Matthew paints a glorious picture with words as he shows the side of the “city that never sleeps” that very few and only those true professionals who keep the midnight oil burning long after midnight ever see. I highly recommend reading Midnight Carousel and following this profound writer. I look forward to interviewing him again very soon.”
—Mary E. Rapier, aka Art Sees Diner
Publication Date: 5/22/2018
ISBN: 978-1-63210-035-1
138 pages, $16.95
Literary Collections : American – General
Poetry : American – General
Fiction : Political
by Admin | Nov 18, 2018 | New Release
Plain View Press announces the release of The Dove Shall Fly by Judith Austin Mills. A sequel to Bones at Goliad, this is the third novel in the Texas Revolution novel series by this author. The initial book in the series is How Far Tomorrow: Remembering the Georgia Battalion in Texas
“A sprawling novel focuses on the burgeoning revolution in 19th-century
Texas. …a substantial piece of thoughtful historical fiction.”
—Kirkus Reviews
In the Texas Revolution of 1836, fighters and those fleeing after the Alamo and Goliad brace for a last clash. Born in Mexico’s San Antonio, Captain Juan Seguin risks all in championing the break-away republic. Private James Trezevant, one of few Georgia Battalion survivors, makes his way toward the attack at San Jacinto. The Harper women scramble for the safety of the American border. Yarico and anyone else identified as a slave stay wary during calls for “liberty or death.”
Publication Date: 05/17/2018
ISBN: 978-1-63210-013-9
344 pages, $21.95
Fiction : Historical – General
Fiction : War & Military
Fiction : Cultural Heritage
by Admin | Nov 18, 2018 | New Release
Shells, ears, damaged mirrors—the images in Karolyn Redoute’s powerful new book, Whispers from the Aural World—conjure a mysterious emotional landscape that is as real as the lost city of Detroit where she grew up, and as heartbreaking as the silence between parents and children or, later on, between lovers. Redoute makes us feel that there’s hope, that through the discipline of poetry we can force the shards of broken glass into focus and find our whole reflections again.
— Maura Stanton, author of Immortal Sofa
Prophecy and memory exist on the same plane in Whispers from the Aural World by Karolyn Redoute. Children pause in the space between hours, a father drives a house like a car, and a staircase patiently anticipates turning into a story. With homegrown mysticism, Redoute discovers magic in the corners of rooms and in the corners of the mind, building a delicate bridge across childhood loss and wonder to an adult understanding of identity.
— James Cihlar, author of The Shadowgraph
Publication Date: 4/30/2018
ISBN: 978-1-63210-034-4/
80 pages, $14.95
Poetry : American – General
Body, Mind & Spirit / Mindfulness & Meditation
by Admin | Nov 18, 2018 | New Release
Bob Pfieffer’s second poetry collection dares us to be “good to one another,” to be “serious about experience,” and “to enjoy / the smallest fragments of life.” It’s a book about fatherhood, citizenship, and—first and foremost—love.
— James Davis May, author of Unquiet Things
Unquestionably the poems of this book express empathy at every turn: for past girlfriends, polar bears, animals struck by cars, tsunami victims, a mother diagnosed with cancer, a girlfriend become wife, a baby daughter…Underpinning the voice of this emotionally rich book is a belief in our shared humanity and the ultimate hope for redemption through love.
— Beth Gylys, author of Sky Blue Enough to Drink
Publication Date: 3/5/2018
ISBN: 978-1-63210-029-0
98 pages, $14.95
Poetry: American General
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