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RT P. ARTHUR: SELECTED WORKS
“Arthur makes me nostalgic for places I’ve never been” – The Virginian‑Pilot
“Masterfully depicts life on and around the Chesapeake.” – Currents
“Passionate knowledge, keen observation.” – The News Journal, Delaware
“As tough and genuine as a waterman’s palm, these rhythms are the sway of boats on tide waters, wind, straining ropes, and snapping sails.” – Ghent Magazine
“A powerful introduction to those who do not know the Bay – a delightful reminder for those who do.” – Eastern Shore News
A poet of international renown, Robert P. Arthur is a virtuoso practitioner of a wide variety of forms. His work displays an acute feel for drama and a vivid sense of place. This collection includes the best of hundreds of individual poems written by Arthur over a forty‑year career, including The Arrow, The Poetess of Blue Streak Grill, and many more. Also, poems in series, including Vija’s War and Crazy Horse’s Woman. Emotionally and intellectually charged monologues portray such diverse characters as disillusioned Jamestown settlers, Crazy Horse’s death‑obsessed lover, a Latvian child caught up in the chaos of World War II, Appalachian snake handlers, Chesapeake Bay watermen, and painter Vincent van Gogh, as well as the voice(s) of Arthur himself.
These works immortalize a doomed natural world of grief, joy, and unparalleled beauty. Both accessible and lyrical, they’ll delight and move both poetry lovers and those who never thought poetry was for them.
Trade Paperback, $19.95
Black Gum Against Thunder, by Robert P. Arthur
“Arthur makes me nostalgic for places I’ve never been” – The Virginian‑Pilot
“Masterfully depicts life on and around the Chesapeake.” – Currents
“Passionate knowledge, keen observation.” – The News Journal, Delaware
“As tough and genuine as a waterman’s palm, these rhythms are the sway of boats on tide waters, wind, straining ropes, and snapping sails.” – Ghent Magazine
“A powerful introduction to those who do not know the Bay – a delightful reminder for those who do.” – Eastern Shore News
Attracting national and international attention, Arthur’s work is a virtuoso performance of a wide variety of poetic forms and techniques, informed by an acute sense of drama and place.
This first-ever collection includes the best of Robert P. Arthur’s hundreds of poems written over a forty-year career. They include The Arrow, Wikipedia, The Poetess of Blue Streak Grill, Cattle Sleeping (or Sleeping Cattle), Appearances, Sunday Seizures, and poems in series: Vija’s War, and Crazy Horse’s Woman. Many are emotionally and intellectually charged monologues from the mouths of such diverse characters as disillusioned Jamestown settlers, Crazy Horse’s death/love-obsessed woman, a Latvian child caught up in World War II, Appalachian snake handlers, Chesapeake Bay watermen, Vincent van Gogh, traumatized children, and Arthur himself. Together, they immortalize a doomed natural world with unparalleled beauty.
Accessible yet lyrical, these poems will move you whether you like other poetry or not. “We are all murdered: all….”
Arthur’s poems focusing on place have been pod-cast from San Francisco and his poem/plays produced on stage in Virginia, Maryland, Washington D.C., Pennsylvania, New York City, and St. Petersburg, Russia.
Ebook Edition, $6.99
Nesting Dolls, by Salena Fehnel
“Suspenseful and moving . . . This author has a talent for telling a story and telling it well.” – ABNA Breakthrough Novel Award
“Like the nesting dolls of the title, the story moves backward through time, masterfully disclosing the mysteries of three generations of dysfunction. What we learn is that violence and alcoholism are not random, but historical . . . Lyrical and passionate, Nesting Dolls is an excellent debut.” — Kaylie Jones, author of Lies My Mother Never Told Me
“By turns poignant, funny, and frightening, NESTING DOLLS is a gorgeously-written reverse fairy tale the reader will be reluctant to set down.” – Lenore Hart, author of Becky and The Raven’s Bride
Seventeen-year-old Valentine never imagined her life as a fairytale. Growing up, she’s barely getting by, spending her time, energy, and money caring for her younger brother, Jonathon, and herself. Her mother lives recklessly and selfishly, occasionally sobering just enough to see her children through glassy eyes. After yet another violent episode involving her mother’s boyfriend, Valentine decides to run away, taking Jonathon with her. In search of a better life, she gets half-way across the country . . . only to receive such shocking news, it forces her to turn the car around.
Twenty years earlier, Valentine’s mother Theresa, the privileged daughter of a small-town police chief and a strict, repressive mother, finds herself desperate and devoid of options when she lands in Los Angeles, 13 years old, pregnant, and utterly without a clue. Life on the street is ten times meaner than she ever imagined, and as she struggles to get through each day, week, and month, she holds on to the hope of finally getting herself back to upper-class suburban bliss . . . if she can only make it out of LA in one piece.
And twenty years before even that, in suburbia, Theresa’s mother, Caroline, plays the part of doting wife like a pro, but behind the designer skirts and lipstick smiles lies a married life of severe physical and emotional abuse. After having two children, Caroline settles into the idea of living in home with a man who terrifies her…only to have the love of her life show up on her doorstep, asking her to make a choice that will forever change her path and those of the women who will come after her.
Nesting Dolls is the multigenerational story of three women, how their lives connect and diverge, and how they support or betray each other due to circumstances and the choices they make. Their lives each span a different time, a different life, but ultimately converge in a single theme: how mothers and daughters are truly bound together forever, no matter what they may imagine, dream, or regret.
Trade Paperback, $13.95 Ebook Edition, $5.99
Formula One Thrillers, by Ken Vose
Oversteer
“Vose has also done some racing himself and … does a credible job of offering a pretty good driver’s-eye view of the sport, both on and off the track.” — Larry Edsall, Autoweek
When ace driver Pete Hawthorn is offered the chance to return to the Formula One circuit with Scuderia Vitale, a new F-One team, he jumps at it. His dreams are dimmed, though, by a decades-old tragedy: the mysterious disappearance of his father, James, somewhere in the jungle near Rio de Janeiro, where he was competing in the World Cup Rally twenty years before.
Denis Windsor, who owned the team Pete’s father drove for back then, turns out to also be the moneyman behind the new Vitale team. But Pete puts his suspicions aside as the team works around the clock to ready the powerful new cars. It’s only after the final test session, when Pete and teammate Alberto Vaccarella prove the cars to be fast and reliable enough for the upcoming season, that the past returns with a vengeance as the team arrives at the Circuit Nelson Piquet in Rio de Janeiro. Ebook Edition, $2.99, U.S.
Trade Paperback, $19.95 Ebook Edition, $2.99
Dead Pedal
“This is a wonderful book for anyone who wants to find out what automobile racing is all about … Frankly, you’ll get more out of a late night under the blankets with a flashlight and a book like this than in ten showings of DAYS OF THUNDER.” — Automobile Magazine
Pete Hawthorn’s solving of the decades-old riddle surrounding his father’s disappearance in the Brazilian jungle, as told in OVERSTEER, has led to another mystery: the “accidental” racetrack deaths of three members of an elite French racing fraternity. Three men with but one thing in common: all were part of an anti-Nazi resistance group in occupied France during World War Two. There were rumors one member had collaborated with the Gestapo to save the life of a beautiful woman, but no proof ever surfaced.
Now the last living member, Andre Montand, has received a package identical to those received by the other racers who died. It contains a small slab of machined metal often placed in the footwell to keep the driver’s left leg from bouncing around in the cockpit; a ‘dead pedal.’
Pete agrees to drive with Montand in the Mille Miglia, the twisting, dangerous thousand-mile race around Italy, to protect him and unmask the killer. But is he prepared for the twists and turns of one of the most demanding races ever run … and treachery and betrayal that stretches back to the darkest days of the Nazi occupation?
Trade Paperback, $18.95 Ebook Edition, $4.99
MURDERER’S WAKE, by J. C. Alonso Jr.
At sea on a cargo ship, then through the barrios and whorehouses of Caribbean ports, Cesar Santino must wrestle with his convictions to answer this question. His father, a cargo ship captain, takes Cesar’s younger brother to sea for the summer. When Roby falls overboard and his body’s never recovered, Cesar is unable to accept this as an accident. He drops out of school and signs on the same ship as an ordinary seaman, determined to uncover the truth and render justice. A hard-edged sea thriller, but also a psychological study of vengeance and redemption.
Trade Paperback, $12.95 Ebook Edition, $3.99
Many Heads and Many Hands: James Madison’s Search for a More Perfect Union, by Mau VanDuren
“Those who care about the future of democracy will appreciate Mr. VanDuren’s vigorous and rigorous examination of the way Dutch and English influences worked from the European Middle Ages down through New England, New Amsterdam, and New York to the Federalist Papers and the American Constitution in the late 1780s.” — John C. Kemp, Plimoth Plantation
Have you ever wondered why we practice separation of church and state? Have secular marriage and freedom of religion? Or enjoy democracy and the rule of law? And equality under the law? No taxation without representation? As Americans, we hold these concepts dear. Our republic was founded on them and we find them in our Constitution, of which James Madison was the main author.
Madison’s vast knowledge of history was supported by a keen understanding of human nature. Alone in his library, he studied ancient and contemporary nations, foremost the Dutch Republic.
From a cave in South Africa to the Roman Rhine, into Dark-Ages Paris, through the Burgundian lands to the marshes of Holland, and via the fields of England to the shores of America, this is a titanic story of scholars, pastors, princesses, and generals, and of common people too, striving over the centuries for security and freedom, and at last building a government that can promise them both, within the confines of a just law.
Trade Paperback, $19.95 Ebook Edition, $7.99
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