New Release: My Mother’s Daughter by Rebecca Thaddeus

New Release: My Mother’s Daughter by Rebecca Thaddeus

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

New Release: Joan of Arkansas by Madeleine Herrmann

New Release: Joan of Arkansas by Madeleine Herrmann

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

 

New Release: Magpie Mind by Eileen Berry

New Release: Magpie Mind by Eileen Berry

“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

New Release: Forever Turn The Midnight Carousel: Poems and Short Stories by Matthew Abuelo

New Release: Forever Turn The Midnight Carousel: Poems and Short Stories by Matthew Abuelo

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

New Release: The Dove Shall Fly by Judith Austin Mills

New Release: The Dove Shall Fly by Judith Austin Mills

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

New Release: Whispers from the Aural World by Karolyn Redoute

New Release: Whispers from the Aural World by Karolyn Redoute

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