A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor USEFUL PHRASES FOR IMMIGRANTS: STORIES by May-lee Chai (Durham, NC: Blair, October 23, 2018). 166 pp, $16.95; paperback ISBN 9780932112767. “Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most importantly, it finds homes for us everywhere.” —Hazel Rochman…
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Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor ACTS OF ALLEGIANCE: A NOVEL by Peter Cunningham (New York: Arcade Publishing, September 11, 2018). First North American Edition; 296 pp, $22.99; hardback ISBN 97816287295535; also available as e-book. UK edition: Dingwall, Ross-shire: Sandstone Press, 2017; paperback. “’All men are loyal, but…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor A HISTORY OF SILENCE: FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE PRESENT DAY by Alain Corbin, translated by Jean Birrell (Cambridge, UK & Medford, MA, USA: Polity Press, June 2018). 160 pp, paperback $19.95. Also available as hardcover and e-book. French edition: Paris: Éditions…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor A GIFT FROM ABUELA by Cecilia Ruiz (Candlewick Press, August 7, 2018). 38 pp, hardback $15.99. “Sweet are the uses of adversity….” —William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Act II, Scene I) Indie publishers bring all types of books to life. Some…
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A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor FOR SINGLE MOTHERS WORKING AS TRAIN CONDUCTORS by Laura Esther Wolfson (University of Iowa Press, June 1, 2018). 144 pp, paper original $19.95. Also available as e-book. “Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.” —Rita Mae Brown, Starting from…
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A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor MEM: A NOVEL by Bethany C. Morrow (Unnamed Press, May 22, 2018). 192 pp, hardcover, $25.00. Also available as e-book and audiobook. “Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.” Christina Rossetti “Remember”…
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A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor THE LIBRARY: A CATALOGUE OF WONDERS by Stuart Kells (Counterpoint Press, 2018). 224pp, hardcover, $26.00. li · brar · y “What the libraries of the future will be like is something we should be imagining now.” —Neil Gaiman, 2013 Lecture for The…
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A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor A GOOD DAY FOR SEPPUKU: SHORT STORIES by Kate Braverman (City Lights, 2018). 248pp, trade paperback original, $15.95. “—tell me, how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!” —Medea to Jason, Medea by Euripides Who knew metaphorical seppuku could…
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A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor AMBIGUITY MACHINES AND OTHER STORIES by Vandana Singh (Small Beer Press, 2018). 320pp, paper, $16.00. “Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society…
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A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor Book: A Surgeon in the Village: An American Doctor Teaches Brain Surgery in Africa Boston: Beacon Press, March 27, 2018. 288 pp., paperback $18.00, ISBN 9780807005866; hardcover $27.95, ISBN: 9780807044889; e-book $25.95, ISBN: 9780807044926. (Hardback originally published 2017.) First published 2016 by…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor Book: Belladonna New York: New Directions, October 31, 2017. 400pp., $19.95, paperback ISBN: 9780811227216, e-book ISBN: 9780811227223. Author: Daša Drndić Croatian novelist, playwright, literary critic, and translator Daša Drndić is a member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University…
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A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor Book: The End We Start From New York: Grove Press, November 7, 2017. 136 pp., $22.00 cloth, ISBN: 97808021268940. Author: Megan Hunter British writer Megan Hunter, a Manchester native, lives in Cambridge. She holds a BA from Sussex University and an MPhil from…