Peter Geye
SAFE FROM THE SEA
Against the dramatic northern Minnesota lakeshore, a son and his father reconnect thirty-five years after the father survived the tragic wreck of a great lakes ore boat.
Joyce Hinnefeld
STRANGER HERE BELOW
This is Hinnefeld’s second novel, and readers of her first, In Hovering Flight, should be happy to return to this rich story about the travails of women in the struggle to stay connected to one another across every boundary during one of the most difficult eras of the American experience—1908–1968.
John Addiego
TEARS OF THE MOUNTAIN
A wise and playful novel about America’s pioneer roots, westward expansion, manifest destiny, and how inextricably the past connects to the future.
Frederick Reuss
A GEOGRAPHY OF SECRETS
With the thoughtfulness of Le Carré and Graham Greene, this is a smart novel about the personal, domestic side of a government based on secrecy.
David Bajo
PANOPTICON
Public surveillance of even their most intimate moments reaches too deeply into the lives of three reporters in the California borderlands.
Colin Dickey
CRANIOKLEPTY - GRAVE ROBBING AND THE SEARCH FOR GENIUS PAPERBACK
Fully illustrated with some surprising images, this is a fascinating and authoritative history of ideas carried along on the guilty pleasures of an anthology of real-after-life gothic tales.
Masha Hamilton
31 HOURS PAPERBACK
A woman in New York awakens knowing, as deeply as a mother’s blood can know, that her grown son is in danger. She has not heard from him in weeks
Don Linn Reviews “Safe From the Sea”
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John Addiego
Writing is such hard work, and a novel is the hardest in my experience. Years of getting up before dawn, before the day job, trying to recapture the flow of a narrative; gathering notes and thoughts, researching, getting side-tracked; making little maps, making discoveries along the way, revising, revising, revising. I was ecstatic when this novel got accepted for print, and months later, when I received my first finished copy, filled with another kind of happiness.
When the publishing house puts loving attention into the presentation of a book, the author counts himself lucky. I held my first hardbound copy of Tears of the Mountain with utter delight. The cover art combines a period image with a kind of light-heartedness that invites a reader into the book. All the little things that I asked for were there: a map of the pioneer journey, a note to the reader, a list of historical events important to the story, my personal acknowledgements. These were touches that framed the reading experience in the way I’d hoped for.
As I begin this fun phase of talking to book sellers and buyers, hoping to interest them in my story, I’m so glad the book is handsome and has a feel, a heft, that’s pleasant for a reader to hold.