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Oscar Wilde's Crucifx
Maarten Asscher
$17.95 USD, Trade Paper Original and $9.99 USD, Ebook
May 2025 | ISBN 978-1-94023-21-0 (print) | ISBN 978-1-94023-22-7 (ebook)
Dutch author Maarten Asscher uses a crucifix given to Wilde's early sweetheart, Florence Balcombe (who would later marry "Dracula" author Bram Stoker), as a fulcrum to examine Wilde’s artistic development, including tours of Greece and America, and encounters with Walt Whitman and Arthur Conan Doyle. Asscher supplements historical fact with imaginative reconstruction, resulting in a literary tour de force.
I Could Have Been More Wrong
Kevin McCaffrey
$14.99 USD, Trade Paper Original and Ebook
February 2024 | ISBN 978-1-94023-19-7 (print) | ISBN 978-1-94023-20-3 (ebook)
The poems of I Could Have Been More Wrong come out of nowhere to proclaim eccentric half-truths with deceptive simplicity. Declaring that the spirit of life is the spirit of play, Kevin McCaffrey delights in confronting the cacophonies of experience and trying to make them rhyme. These verses, mostly set in traditional forms, draw energy from the joy of singing out, almost spontaneously, about the sometimes quirkily ordinary vicissitudes of being.
Illustrations by Dana Dumont.
Jigsaw, Some Pieces Missing
Louisa Foulke Newlin
$9.95 USD, Trade Paper Original
July 2022 | ISBN 978-1-94042-318-0
What do we remember of our formative years? For Louisa Foulke Newlin the answer is, practically everything. The recollections in JIGSAW capture not only the cultural atmosphere of the ’40s and ’50s, but also the emotions of a young woman finding her place in the world. By turns comic, insightful, and poignant, the puzzle-pieces of this narrative are assembled into a satisfying whole
Pirate's Gold
Andrew Coe
$24.95 USD, Trade Paper Original and Ebook
August 2021 | ISBN 978-1-940423-16-6
A Gilded Age Saga of Family, Money, and (Maybe) Murder
• 400 Pages, Full Color, Fully Illustrated •
Drunk at the State Department
William V. P. Newlin
$17.00 USD, Trade Paper Original and Ebook
May 2019 | ISBN 978-1-94042-314-2
A Memoir. Mad Men meets the Foreign Service in this candid depiction of the hidden worlds of a high-functioning alcoholic.
Sacred Bones
Michael Spring
$14.95 USD, Trade Paper Original and Ebook
July 2015 | ISBN 978-1-940423-10-4
Based on the true story of Deusdona (“God’s gift”), a ninth-century Roman deacon who worked in the catacombs digging up worthless bones and selling them off as the holy remains of saints and martyrs.
The Ambassador to Brazil
Peter Hornbostel
$15.95 USD, Trade Paper Original and Ebook
June 2015 | ISBN 978-1-940423-11-1
Anthony Carter is the United States Ambassador to Brazil in March 1964, when a secret task force of U.S. warships sets sail to help the military in a planned coup d’état. Hornbostel weaves fact and fiction to tell a tale of political intrigue, a love affair with a Brazilian mistress, Marina, and Carter’s struggle between the deceptions that surround his public work and the intensity of his private life.
Apples and Oranges
Maarten Asscher
$15.95 USD, First U.S. Trade Paper Original and Ebook
March 2015 | ISBN 978-1-940423-06-7
Are comparisons across genres inherently invalid, or can they be illuminating? In 22 wide-ranging essays, Dutch author Maarten Asscher maintains that comparisons can be the highest form of argument
17 Stone Angels
Stuart Archer Cohen
$15.95 USD, First U.S. Trade Paper Original and Ebook
July 2014 | ISBN 978-1-940423-05-0
Crimes of the lowest and highest order come together in Buenos Aires, one of the most dangerous and beautiful cities on earth, when corrupt police chief Miguel Fortunato is assigned to invesitgate a murder he committed.
The Voyage of the UnderGod
Kirby Smith
$15.95 USD, Trade Paper Original and Ebook
August 2014 | ISBN 978-1-940423-02-9
A political satire about charismatic right-winger Luther Dorsey’s last grasp for the greatness he thinks he deserves, UnderGod tells the tale of a reality-TV tall ship’s sailing voyage around Cape Horn.
Laughing Cult
Kevin McCaffrey
$13.95 USD, Trade Paper Original and Ebook
April 2014 | ISBN 978-1-940423-00-5
A highly accessible collection that combines a quirky sensibility with traditional poetic forms to create miniature sketches marked by romantic ambiguity, occultism, science fiction, and quirky angst.
Invisible World
Stuart Archer Cohen
$15.95 USD, Trade Paper and Ebook
July 2014 | ISBN 978-1-940423-04-3
An invitation from a dead man propels Chicagoan Andrew Mann to abandon his mundane existence and embark on a perilous journey from Hong Kong to Inner Mongolia in search of a fabled map of the Invisible World.