by Admin | Jul 31, 2020 | New Release, News
Austin, Texas, 31 July, 2020 – Plain View Press announces the release of Gypsy Spirit: and Other Stories of Childhood, Nature, Life Choices, Loss, and Love by Ute Carson, hitting bookstores and Amazon on July 31, 2020.
Gypsy Spirit contains a lifelong collection of published short stories, flash stories, essays, commentaries and memoirs of Ute Carson. A woman who survived World War II horrors in early life, Ute Carson tells vivid stories that reveal of a life rich in history and full of tenderness, joy, and celebration. With family photographs and children’s drawings, this collective family adventure is both entertaining and insightful for people of all ages. The captivating stories follow Ute Carson’s journey through Childhood, to Nature, to Life Choices, to Loss, and finally to Love.
A writer from youth and an M.A. graduate in comparative literature from the University of Rochester, German-born Ute Carson published her first prose piece in 1977. Colt Tailing, a 2004 novel, was a finalist for the Peter Taylor Book Award. Carson’s story “The Fall” won Outrider Press’s Grand Prize and appeared in its short story and poetry anthology A Walk through My Garden, 2007. Her second novel In Transit was published in 2008. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and magazines in the US and abroad. Carson’s poetry was featured on the televised Spoken Word Showcase 2009, 2010, 2011, Channel Austin. A poetry collection Just a Few Feathers was published in 2011. The poem “A Tangled Nest of Moments” placed second in the Eleventh International Poetry Competition 2012. Her chapbook Folding Washing was published in 2013 and her collection of poems My Gift to Life was nominated for the 2015 Pushcart Award Prize. Save the Last Kiss, a novella, was published in 2016. Her poetry collection Reflections was out in 2018. She received the Ovidiu-Bektore Literary Award 2018 from the Anticus Mulicultural Association in Constanta, Romania. In 2018 she was nominated a second time for the Pushcart Award Prize by Plain View Press. Ute Carson’s website is www.utecarson.com.
Copies of Gypsy Spirit, paperback (ISBN: 9781632100764) can be purchased on Amazon or in quantity from Plain View Press.
by Admin | Jul 30, 2020 | New Release, News
Austin, Texas, 31 July, 2020 – Plain View Press announces the release of The Last Resort: A Novel by Kay Tobler Liss, hitting bookstores and Amazon on July 31, 2020.
A Manhattan attorney in turmoil finds a remote resort on the end Long Island, where a surfer, a fisherman, and a Native American woman fighting to preserve ancestral land, give him an appreciation of nature, environmental and social justice, and a new purpose in life. With career and marriage in turmoil, he drives desperately away from all he knows to an out-of-season resort on Long Island. As he struggles to put his life back together, the tension between past and present comes alive and he finds new meaning in life through the natural world and social justice for a long-oppressed race of people.
As a writer and editor, Kay Tobler Liss worked for newspapers and magazines in New York and Maine for many decades, including Sunstorm Arts, House and Hamptons Magazine, and was managing editor of The Shelter Island Reporter. Liss studied Literature at Bard College and Environmental Studies at Southampton College and taught courses in both fields in New York and Maine. She lived in Montauk, New York for 13 years and now lives in Maine.
“The Last Resort depicts the spiritual journey of a broken man who replenishes his spirit and finds his true self in reconnecting with the natural world. In scenes of surfing in the wild ocean, the blossoming of a romance, and the struggles of the native Montauketts to reclaim their ancestral land, Liss captures the essence of Montauk in all its raw beauty. With luminous prose embedded with philosophical ruminations and Native American truths, this haunting, dreamlike narrative will linger long in the reader’s consciousness.”
—Celine Keating, author of Layla and Play for Me, and co-editor of On Montauk: A Literary Celebration
Copies of The Last Resort, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-63210-080-1) or ebook (ISBN: 978-1-63210-081-8), can be purchased through Amazon, retail bookstores, or ordered in quantity from Plain View Press.
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by Admin | Jul 30, 2020 | New Release, News
Austin, Texas, 30 July, 2020 – Plain View Press announces the release of All My Parents: Seeking a Sense of Self in Family, by Nancy Henderson-James, hitting bookstores and Amazon on July 30, 2020.
In All My Parents: Seeking a Sense of Self in Family, Nancy Henderson-James contemplates the impact of her ancestors and descendents on her relationship to family. She delves into the lives of parents and grandparents and how their personality traits and passions affected life and those of her children and grandchildren. When she married at 23, her husband’s family also influenced her and their children, and at times stepped in to teach her how to be a mother. The arrival of her grandchildren brought her life into balance, revealing that family is to nurture and love, to care for each tiny human who joins our lives, to appreciate each unique personality and the pure joy inherent in participating in family life. From her grandparents, to her parents and surrogates, to her children and grandchildren, Henderson-James follows the family arc and discovers a way back to family integration. Copies of All My Parents, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-63210-072-6) or ebook (ISBN: 978-1-63210-073-3), can be purchased through Amazon, retail bookstores, or ordered in quantity from Plain View Press.
Living her first two years in Washington state, Nancy Henderson-James spent the rest of her childhood years abroad in Portugal, Angola, and the former Southern Rhodesia. Often schooled away from her family, a variety of adults substituted as parent figures in her life, experiences which shaped her and her world view. Nancy graduated from Carleton College and received her library science degree at Pratt Institute. She worked as a high school librarian in Durham, North Carolina, where she has lived with her husband for 46 years. Nancy authored At Home Abroad: An American Girl in Africa (2010), which was honored with the Reviewers Choice Award by Reader Views.
All My Parents takes a deeper look into issues of attachment disruptions. For all who have lived globally mobile lives, or grown up in families whose parents are divorced, or worked with children of refugees, foster kids, or any other number of ways attachment patterns are interrupted, this is an important book. It reveals how such a story impacts the deepest places of a soul and family relationships.
—Ruth E. Van Reken, co-author of Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds and co-founder, Families in Global Transition
by Admin | Jun 23, 2020 | New Release, News
Plain View Press announces the timely release of The Talking Cure: New and Selected Poems by Jack Coulehan, hitting bookstores and Amazon on July 1, 2020. The Talking Cure highlights physician Jack Coulehan’s poetic career, exploring the poetry of tenderness and steadiness in medical practice—observing moments, healing gestures, and internal response that reveal the worth of the individual and an ethic of compassion. A virtual book launch reading, hosted by The Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, will take place on Wednesday, July 17 at 6:30 PM EDT.
A physician by trade, poet-author Coulehan uses poetry to reflect and express the trials and triumphs of keeping the body well and of facing death. The Talking Cure contains new poems plus selections from six previous books. The poems look beyond the difficulties of physical existence to see the worth and holiness of the individual with directness, passion, and humor. They show an ethic of compassionate solidarity between patient and doctor, person and family, the individual and the community. Copies of The Talking Cure, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-63210-078-8) or ebook (ISBN: 978-1-63210-079-5), can be purchased through Amazon, retail bookstores, or ordered in quantity from Plain View Press.
An Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Jack Coulehan was formerly director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including Bursting with Danger and Music (Plain View Press, 2012). A medical educator, his medical writing includes essays on clinical trials, medical ethics, and humanities, and an award-winning textbook, The Medical Interview: Mastering Skills for Clinical Practice. Information about his books can be found at Jack Coulehan’s website.
For reviews and purchase information, visit The Talking Cure: New and Selected Poems . Find out how a physician uses poetry to make the practice of medicine more compassionate and ethical.
by Admin | Jun 23, 2020 | New Release, News
Plain View Press announces the release of Coming To Be: A Novel by Rebecca Thaddeus, hitting bookstores and Amazon on June 30, 2020.
In Coming To Be by Rebecca Thaddeus, a devastating blow forces Carly to reconcile her past, with the help of her best friends. Remembering the music and sexual revolution of the 70’s, she re-examines past assumptions and life with a bipolar husband, only to discover the inexplicable joy of Plato’s “coming to be.”
With a doctorate in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Rebecca Thaddeus taught at Loyola University, the University of Illinois in Chicago, and Ferris State University for a total of 38 years. With a propensity for historical fiction, her first novel, One Amber Bead (2011), was set during World War II. My Mother’s Daughter (2019) was set in early 19th Century Mississippi. Her third novel, Coming To Be (2020), recreates the era of the sixties. Her books and blog posts can be found at oneamberblog.blogspot.com.
Copies of Coming To Be, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-63210-074-0) or ebook (ISBN: 978-1-63210-075-7), can be purchased through Amazon, retail bookstores, or ordered in quantity from Plain View Press.
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
