Lillian Lorraine was a naive 15-year-old chorine on Broadway when she attracted the notice of the notorious 41-year-old Florenz Ziegfeld. Accustomed to getting what he wanted, Ziegfeld took Lillian under his wing and into his arms, giving her coveted numbers in the Ziegfeld Follies and taking control of her career. But Lillian's rebellious spirit chafed against him, refusing to play according to his rules, and nearly destroying her own career in the process. The Adored One follows her through rise and fall after rise and fall as she comes of age in a world where her youthful beauty was an asset-and a liability.
Beauty and the Bear. Can these opposites fake their way to something real? Sheldon has an invitation to his ex's Christmas Eve wedding. Theo has doting but impatient parents with a yenta on call. Agreeing to be each other's dates, they become friends as they practice for their upcoming events. But when all the rehearsing starts feeling a little too real, and both men's pasts come roaring back to haunt them, will they be able to pull off the ultimate holiday masquerade?
Tributaries: Essays from Woods and Waters
Ryan Brod
Islandport Press
Tributaries: Essays from Woods and Waters is a collection of contemporary outdoor essays written through the lens of a late-30-something. Tributaries explores complex, evolving relationships between fathers and sons; between fishing buddies; between anglers and guides; and between outdoorspeople and the lands and waters they cherish. Rendered in vivid detail, Tributaries examines tensions between presence and memory, illuminating fleeting yet transcendent moments we long to preserve.
Hung up? Fed up? Uptight? Overworked? Underpaid? Too busy to say? Have you ever wished for a different kind of self-help book to embark you on a new kind of journey toward understanding and recovery? Bern Porter (1911-2004) shines a light on self-help, both as an industry and a personal pursuit, through his wit-filled, self-help “founds” appropriated from books, magazines, newspapers, brochures, advertisements, and junk mail. A selection of 200+ founds from six of Porter’s previous books, all out-of-print, this artist’s book is a profound and curative dialogue manifesting itself in the form of questions, statements, and prompts that walk the perilous line between sincerity and satire. With pinpoint precision, he skillfully recontextualizes the humanity often lacking in the original source material. Born in Houlton, Maine, Bern Porter was a physicist, writer, concrete and visual poet, publisher, book artist, and quintessential modern day renaissance artist and thinker like no other.
French Boy: A 1950s Franco-American Childhood
Denis Ledoux
Soleil Press
French Boy: A 1950s Franco-American Childhood is an intimate look into the life of a Maine boy and into a culture shared by hundreds of thousands of Mainers. Denis Ledoux’s life is typical of many Franco Mainers in his generation. As such, it is an important addition to our larger understanding of an ethnic group which has profoundly influenced our state and nation over the course of the last century. Author's Note: “Memoirs such as my French Boy are ones of overlooked details, of information often thought to be marginal and so too frequently lost to history. A basic function of memoir is to give witness to a time and to values gone by, and French Boy succeeds admirably at this function, transcending the life of the individual who is its subject. French Boy is as important as the Franco community it portrays.”
Imagine creation. . .Imagine is a rite of creation. It may also be considered a literary epic pointing to the ancient human questions "Why creation?" and "What is the meaning of human life?" The epigraph “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?” of the painter Paul Gaugin presents the focus on the human being within the creation as well as the unsettling human question, "Why does the violent creation exist?" “Prelude” begins the prose and free verse literary form of Imagine with time before and during creation. “Naked” describes the darkness, danger, violence of human life on earth, as “Presence” relates the seeming human necessity for and relation to a creator. In “Imagine” Loreen appears, with the beauty, joy and wildness, life, intelligence and self awareness of the questioning living human being. Lastly, “Silence” presents the possible future of the mysterious creation. Imagine: imagine creation.
Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings & Touching in the Wake of the Virus
Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings is an ecstatically wrought exploration of re-entering the world after a pandemic that never seems to end. Written by acclaimed poet, performer, cultural theorist Adeena Karasick, and visualized by designer, author, vis lit pioneer Warren Lehrer, the two extended poems foreground language as an organism of hope. They highlight the concept of opening as an ever-swirling palimpsest of spectral voices, textures, whispers and codes transported through intralingual invention, philosophical, geographical, and bodily space. Lehrer choreographs Karasick’s words on the stage of the page via typographic compositions that give form to the interior, emotional, metaphorical, historical and performative underpinnings of the texts. Together, the writing and visuals engage the reader to become an active participant in the experience/performance of the poems. This exquisitely produced, hardcover, smyth-sewn book printed on acid-free paper is augmented by a soundtrack recording performed by Karasick with music by Grammy-award winning composer/musician Frank London.
Refused a Second Date is a collection about first dates that prevent chances of there being a second one. The poems center on first date impressions, intergenerational dating patterns, racism in dating, mental health, religion as it relates to sex, and queerness.
Douglas The Rabbit's Winter Holiday Surprise
Terry Perkins Mitman
Walk With Me, LLC
In Douglas the Rabbit’s Winter Holiday Surprise, Douglas invites his friends to a celebration on the hill. Each animal brings a unique gift, and together they share an unexpected and magical moment. Author's Note: This book, the last in the Douglas the Rabbit Adventure Series, is written with special thanks for skidding geese, falling snow, shooting stars, and all the rest—starting with my dad—who remind me to slow down and witness the playful humor and natural beauty all around us. Like the first three stories in the series, this one includes seasonal touches, fun facts, and food for thought. Enjoy! For more information on books in this series, click on the cover image.
Shad Hadid and the Forbidden Alchemies
George Jreije
Harper Collins
After defeating the necromancers and bringing alchemy back to the Alexandria Academy, Shad Hadid is ready for an exciting second term at school. It doesn’t hurt that he’s being called a hero, but the new lessons are harder than he expected and his mentor is nowhere to be found. When Shad intercepts a letter from an informant with a possible clue for thwarting the necromancers’ evil plans once and for all, he's determined to help. Joined by his friends, Shad embarks on a perilous journey across Lebanon to track down this secretive stranger. But shadowy forces lurk around every corner, eager to take revenge on the Alexandria Academy's young heroes—and not everyone is as they seem. Unable to tell who they can trust, will Shad and his friends be able to find what they seek and save their school?
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