You are invited to attend Catherine’s Hamilton’s Zoom Book Launch and Reading Event
WHEN: Thursday, October 8, 2020
At 7 – 8 P.M. Central Time
More event details are on the Malvern Books website at:
https://malvernbooks.com/event/catherine-a-hamilton-austin-book-launch/?instance_id=3336
You can join with the link on that page.
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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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.
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
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