Yearly Archives: 2013

Respite Bilingual (English/Italian) edition of poetry by James Cascaito about New York and Rome, the Hudson and the Tiber. Poetry GET IT AT: Abe’s Books

In Like Company: The Salt River Review & Porch Anthology In Like Company (327 pages) is a selection of poetry and prose taken from Porch, a print magazine (1977–1981), and The Salt River Review, an online magazine (1997–2010), both of which were founded and edited by James Cervantes. It features the work of ninety-three poets andContinue reading “James Cervantes”

Native State: A Memoir A Los Angeles Times Notable Book of the Year. “An exemplary memoir that starts with ‘California as suspect, ersatz Eden, needful of unmasking’ and opens out into the rest of the world.” – Seattle Weekly.

Away She Goes!: Riding Into Women’s History Most people take it for granted: riding a bike. In the late 1800s, the bicycle first came to the United States from Europe. This new “steel horse” was wildly popular. But for women, who either worked in factories or stayed at home, the bicycle liberated them like nothingContinue reading “Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin”

Cloven Tongues of Fire A spiritual story, a religious story, a love story. This novella is all three in one. It’s the story of a man, Nathan Tillery, who sets out to seek salvation… and runs into a wall. It’s the story of his loving wife, Emma Jean, who keeps faith with both to herContinue reading “Christopher Cook”

Amo Black humor science fiction satire in which Amo is a feminist centerfold from outer space sent to earth to teach earthmen equality.  “The most sexually vivid novel ever written by a woman.” -David Markson.  “A women’s liberation classic.”-Library Journal

Yezidismo A brief description of Yezidis’ beliefs and their persecutions; relations with Old Testament customs and their possible relation with Patristic cases of Zósimo and Origenes. Yezidismo is a henotheist religion. It is an Old Religion and not well known in Spanish-language countries. This book tries to shed some light on it.

Winter Bloom: A Heart Warms in San Miguel “In well-crafted narrative that deftly weaves present and past, Patricia Jean Browne shares her experience in a convention-bound, gender-scripted marriage over forty years. … the reader learns the devastating costs for women of traditional marriage and motherhood and the layers of self-deception that are required to repressContinue reading “Patricia Jean Browne”

Private Spaces, Public Places: a woman at home in the world A collection of 20 plus essays finding the author, Lucina Kathmann in widely varied roles and spaces; mothering six adopted orphans in her home in the center of Mexico; tutoring middle school math students in Chicago, creating a story about a backward jumping kangarooContinue reading “Lucina Kathmann”

The Buen Provecho Book: Capturing the spice of Mexico through Popular Food and Sayings Sui generis… Mexican cooking and culture through Spanish language Mexican food expressions. This book is not only about recipes. The Buen Provecho Book is also about the psyche of the Mexicans, and about understanding that essential nature through their food andContinue reading “Patricia Juana Merrill Márquez”