Established in 2011, Northampton House Press is dedicated to publishing talented new writers and furnishing good books for all readers. Our diverse, award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and audiobooks are distributed by Ingram, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, IndieBound, Baker & Taylor, AbeBooks, Target, Powell’s, Overdrive, Wordery, Books A Million, Follett, Audible, and many other outlets. NHP’s YA imprint is Overdue Books, and our audiobook imprint is Polyhymnia Audio. For our newest titles, check below, for other titles, try the categories listed above. Happy reading!
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Upcoming and Recent Releases
Publishing December 2, available for pre-order now: ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN? by Amanda Cockrell
“Cockrell’s unerring sense of time and place allows her to present California without cliché, then and now, as she shifts between past and present time. A mesmerizing read.” —Lee Smith, author of Fair and Tender Ladies, On Agate Hill, Saving Grace
“Filled with thought-provoking revelations and moments of discovery . . . highly recommended as a starting point for discussions about friendship and betrayal, freedom and repression.” – Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review
“Stunned me like a dove-disappearing magician . . . as fun to read as the numbers on a lottery ticket that wins. Don’t miss it.” – Peter Coyote, author of Sleeping Where I Fall, The Rainman’s Third Cure and others.
Elizabeth “Liza Jane” Sydney, a beloved, old-school Movie Star, is used to getting what she wants. Her film career took off in the Golden Age of Hollywood and barely survived Sen. Joe McCarthy’s infamous Red Scare hunt for Communists. Some of her costars and writer friends weren’t so lucky. Now in her 80s, Liza Jane’s a legend. But even legends eventually pass. She has a plan for that, too. Her will stipulates she must be buried in the oak grove in her backyard, local ordinances be damned.
When she dies shortly after signing, a volatile assortment of industry friends, family, former lovers, rivals, charitable beneficiaries, and paparazzi descend. Some of Liza Jane’s friends fight to uphold her wishes. Others try to break the will. And as her past is told in alternating chapters, her eccentric last wishes make sense. It’s a timely tale of betrayals of friends by friends – including the worst one of all: by their country’s own government.
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Love in Country, by Richard Gayton
“This is a powerful, deeply moving novel in which my heart was wholly bound up with Ian, Reese, Doc, Thumper and Burd.” – Editors’ Choice, Historical Novel Society, 2024
Of the 2,700,000 Americans who served in Vietnam, likely about 250,000 were gay or bisexual and approximately 4,500 of those were KIA, though no records were kept. This novel is dedicated to them, along with all the other soldiers, sailors, marines, and air force personnel who died there, or brought home the trauma.
In 1968, John Reese and Ian Alexander fall in love after barely surviving the overrunning of their firebase by the North Vietnamese. Reese is falling apart, both from PTSD and fear of exposure, while Ian supports him.
Their relationship is an open secret to their squad, some of whom accept it and others recoil. But Doc, Thumper, and Burd have more important issues: survival. Burd hides his homophobia. Doc has his own issues with religion. Thumper’s overwhelmed with combat, as well as with being a Black soldier in a white-led Army.
Just before Tet, their leave is canceled for a Phoenix mission to kidnap a village official thought to be a communist operative. In charge will be Captain Heinrick, a student of Asian culture with a traumatic secret: his Vietnamese wife and son were murdered by the VC. Heinrick changes the mission to assassination, which challenges each soldier to decide what is acceptable in war. Reese wavers between following orders and defending his lover.
Running headlong into several NVA regiments, the squad faces annihilation in a massive firefight. As they near the target, Heinrick orders a civilian killed to protect their presence. The squad must warn their base of the NVA incursion. But Ian, John, and the Captain will clash in a disastrous confrontation as the squad calls on all their skill and courage to try to escape….
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BLOSSOMS ON A POISONED SEA, by Mariko Tatsumoto.
Honorably mentioned at the annual Freeman Book Awards, this elegantly told yet horrifying novel is based on the true story of one of history’s most shocking corporate betrayals and industrial disasters.
Yuki is the daughter of a poor fisherman. Kiyo’s the son of a senior executive at Chisso, a huge chemical conglomerate. In 1956, they meet and become friends, then gradually fall in love. But then all living things in the once beautiful Minamata Bay suddenly die. The impoverished people living around it begin suffering from a terrifying disease that causes agonizing pain, paralysis, and death . . . including Yuki’s family. With no fish to catch and incapacitated from the disease, her parents are starving. As the sole wage earner, Yuki’s reduced to low-paying, backbreaking work as a laborer, then as a house cleaner.
The citydwellers, who work at Chisso, turn their backs on the lower-class fisherfolk, who largely tend to get the disease. The corporation stonewalls, denying culpability. Kiyo fails to convince his father to get the company to help. As the suffering spreads, Kiyo helps researchers find answers to the devastating neurological disease. Blocked by the government and the corporate-influenced media, Yuki and Kiyo must fight both the Japanese government and a powerful and ruthless corporation to save her family and the bay.
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SURVIVING GRIEF, by Victoria Mitchell, RN, LCSW
Grief is a part of life. If we live life joyfully, if we love deeply . . . we open our hearts to the pain of loss. You can’t have joy without sorrow. They’re inextricably intertwined.
In Surviving Grief, Victoria Mitchell takes us on a journey through this truth. She focuses on what we grieve, how, and, ultimately, what healing looks like. Victoria threads her own grief stories throughout as she illustrates the value of your own story and the importance of sharing it.
Whether it’s the death of a loved one, the loss of a relationship, or sorrow surrounding other life changes, she addresses each with vulnerability and authenticity. In later chapters, she offers valuable suggestions for helping others through loss, and looks at how we face our own mortality. As she did for hundreds of clients throughout her counseling career, Victoria will help you assemble a toolbox of coping skills and self-care practices, allowing you to endure and learn from the most difficult times of your life.
Over eight years as a psychiatric nurse and thirty-plus years as a psychotherapist, VICTORIA L. MITCHELL, RN, LCSW has helped hundreds of patients deal with serious issues of depression, anxiety, grief, and trauma. In this volume, as in her first book, Happiness Calling, she shares what she’s learned in her decades with clients, and in her own journey from fear to freedom.
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THE NIGHT BAZAAR: LONDON, the third volume of the Night Bazaar series, edited by Lenore Hart
“Together the tales form a sumptuous carnival, offering a tantalizing glimpse into the mystical underworld of plague-ridden Europe. These dark flights of fancy delight.”
– Publisher’s Weekly on The Night Bazaar Venice
In volume three of this widely-praised dark fantasy anthology series, the Night Bazaar, a secret marketplace of the rare, strange, occult, and dangerous, journeys to 19th century London. There, as usual, its vendors will purvey curious services, forbidden wares, and rare objects which cannot be had elsewhere, for any price. The midnight market has operated throughout history in various locales, appearing in a city for one week only.
This time the Bazaar’s proprietress, the enigmatic and unflappable Madame Vera, escorts the reader on an eerie, fantastical British tour in ten linked short stories by various authors. Some tales feature such recognizable luminaries as Sherlock Holmes, occultist Madam Blavatsky, and Queen Anne Boleyn. Several take place during the Bazaar proper, while others occur earlier or later, tied to its 1880s London appearance by a curse or spell – or, by an object found, inherited, purchased, or stolen during the decades since, by the unsuspecting, foolish, or greedy (though seldom the completely innocent). Together, these ten linked stories take readers on a fantastical journey into astonishment, dread, and dark delight. But be warned: as usual, each object or service comes with a gift, a curse, or a haunting. . . .
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