Sweet Malida: Memories of a Bene Israel Woman – Zilka Joseph
"Sweet Malida" by Zilka Joseph - 60 pages, 2024 - $19.95 & S+H - Who are the Bene Israel Jews of India? Where did they come from? How did they survive in India? "Sweet Malida" is a moving, multi-layered, richly sensory and informative collection of poems and short prose inspired by this ancient community to which the poet herself belongs. Using various poetic forms, the poet launches on an imaginative journey, delving into the history, especially the food and culinary customs of this small community of Indian Jews, explores its special connection to the Prophet Elijah, while seamlessly weaving in memories, bringing to life the past and lost loved ones as well.…

small mammals – Cati Porter
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 74 pages - 2023, ISBN: 978-1-952781-15-5 $19.95 + S&H In Cati Porter’s fourth collection of poetry, small mammals, maternal love is extended to an assemblage of creatures big and small, with a focus on those most misunderstood of mammals, the human teenager. Everyday encounters become sublime: a conversation with a Rite Aid drugstore clerk, watching a documentary about ants with her son, a Sunday drive to look for wild burros. With equal parts curiosity and concern, small mammals takes an up close and personal look at the complexities of mothering teenage boys. It is the “What to Expect…” book you didn’t know you needed, bearing witness to what it means to be tender, vulnerable, and alive.…

The Man Who Loved His Wife – Jennifer Anne Moses
Fiction, short stories. Paper, Perfect Bound. 172 pages 2021, ISBN: 978-1-936419-96-8 $20.95 + S&H Jews being Jewish: that’s the subject of Jennifer Anne Moses’s new collection of short stories. Whether in Tel Aviv, suburban New Jersey, or the Deep South, the characters who populate the pages of The Man Who Loved His Wife grapple with God, their loved ones, fate, death, hope, Hitler, transcendence, and the 4000 year old history of Judaism. With a Yiddish sensibility born of passion, an eye for detail, and a deadpan sense of humor reminiscent of Singer, Salinger, and Tillie Olsen, Moses captures singularly Jewish and wholly human characters as they live and breathe through their stories Lovely, tender, and hard to put down, these are short stories that leave you yearning for more.…

Notes from the Dry Country – Ellen Aronofsky Cole
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound 84 pages 2019, ISBN: 978-1-936419-87-6 $16.95 + S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. What if your death was born with you when you were born, your shadow twin, and walks around with you wherever you go,…

In Which We See Our Selves: American Ghazals – Eric Torgersen
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 44 pages 2017, ISBN: 978-1-936419-72-2 $12.95 + $4 S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. With In Which We See Our Selves, Eric Torgersen begins with the formal structure of the ghazal as popularized by Agha Shahid…

Memos from the Broken World – Jean Nordhaus
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 80 pages 2016, ISBN: 978-1-936419-56-2 $15.95 & S+H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. Taking her title from the kabbalist creation tale of the clay vessels that had to break so God’s light could scatter through the…

The Kingdom Where No One Keeps Time – Helen Ruggieri
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 80 pages 2015, ISBN: 978-1-936419-55-5 $15.95 + S&H   Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. The Kingdom Where No One Keeps Time is also available on Kindle This book is about loss – parents, lovers, friends, pets, all…

Alloy – Jan Bottiglieri
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 82 pages 2015, ISBN: 978-1-936419-52-4 $15.95 + S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. A butterfly casts the shadow of a man; a homesick mermaid cleans teeth; a young girl pushes a heavy iron, singing. In Alloy,…

A Brief Moment of Weightlessness – Victoria Fish
Fiction – Short Stories. Paper, Perfect Bound. 145 pages 2014, ISBN: 978-1-936419-40-1 $16.95 + S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. A Brief Moment of Weightlessness is a collection of short stories that illuminate the beauty and extraordinariness of “ordinary” lives.…