Site Map

Get involved!

Questions?
Suggestions?
Email the webmaster

Archie Brodsky, Preventing Boundary Violations in Clinical Practice, co-authored with forensic psychiatrist Thomas Gutheil of Harvard Medical School (Guilford Press). This is Archie's 16th co-authored book.

Amy L. Clark, A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness.

Priscilla Cogan, The Unraveling Thread. A humorous novel that asks, "Where is Mary Poppins now that you really need her?"

Susan Fleet, Absolution. Read about this crime thriller here.

Kate Genovese, Two Weeks Since My Last Confession. A riveting tale of a large Cambridge Catholic family. More about it here.

Suzanne Gordon, Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care &minus The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work (ILR Press). The book portrays the origins of the current crisis in nursing and its effect on both nurses and patients.

Sue Katz, Thanks but No Thanks: The Voter's Guide to Sarah Palin. Sue wrote it in exactly 4 weeks of all-nighters. Line up for it here.

A.C. Kemp, The Perfect Insult for Every Occasion: Lady Snark's Guide to Common Discourtesy (Adams Media). Read about it here.

Ruth Lepson, Saturation. Poetry..

Cathryn McIntyre, Honor in Concord: Seeking Spirit in Literary Concord. Memoir and fiction that incorporates the literary history of Concord. More info here.

Gloria Mindock, Nothing Divine Here (U Soku Stampa). A full-length poetry collection.

Yleana Martinez (as Annie Bryant), Isabel's Texas Two-Step .

Ruth Nemzoff, Don't Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with Your Adult Children (Palgrave Macmillan). Learn more about it here. Order from Powell's.

Robert Picard, Cooking at Sea: Fundamentals of Provisioning and Offshore Cookery (Onboard Chef).

Paul Sherman, Big Screen Boston: From Mystery Street to The Departed and Beyond, the first book about movies made in Boston, reviewing the cinematic quality and local color of both famous and forgotten films, from Hollywood to homegrown. Learn more here.

Janet Spurr, Beach Chair Diaries: Summer Tales from Maine to Maui. More about it here.

Christa Terry, iDo: Planning your Wedding with Nothing but 'Net. Resources that give you the freedom to plan a wedding from anywhere, at any time, using your computer. Order from Powell's.

Kath Weston, Traveling Light: On the Road with America's Poor. Weston rode a bus for five years around the country, meeting people who are moving through poverty.

Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki and Paul Buhle, A People's History of American Empire (Metropolitan Books). Zinn is a character and narrator in this graphic novel..

Jeannette Angell, Madam (Permanent Press/Harpercollins). The author of her own memoir about being a prostitute, Callgirl, Angell ventures a sympathetic biography of a woman known as Peach, the madam of the escort service where Angell worked. Writing Peach's story in the first person, Angell gets at the human side of the business.

Sherry Argov, Por Que Los Hombres Se Casan Con Las Cabrones (Editorial Diana), the Spanish language audio book of Why Men Marry Bitches (Simon & Schuster). Also Por Que Los Hombres Aman a Las Cabrones (Why Men Love Bitches).

Mary Bonina, Living Proof (Cervena Barva Press). Chapbook of narratives, lyrics, dialogues and found poems exploring relationships: family, friends, lovers, nature and the larger world.

Anne Brudevold, editor, Eden Waters Press HOME anthology (Eden Waters Press) an anthology of more than three dozen pieces of poetry, prose, art and photography, all on the theme of home, widely interpreted. Brudevold is also a contributor. Read about Anne and the book, including Lisa Beatman's review, here.

Helen Marie Casey, Inconsiderate Madness (Black Lawrence Press). Narrative sequence of poems about Mary Dyer, who lived in Boston and Rhode Island in the 17th century and was persecuted and hanged for her religious beliefs.

Jeannette Cezanne, Open Your Heart with Geocaching (Dreamtime Publishing). Introduces a hobby that helps participants get closer to nature -- and to their own natures in the process. Geocaching players hunt for hidden "caches" using a handheld GPS receiver but can also enrich players' lives, bring families closer together, and enable a deeper appreciation of the world around us. Also: Open Your Heart with Reading (DreamTime Publishing), Cézanne’s exploration of the art and love of reading that will help you understand your passion for a great story well told, help you recognize what separates the magnificent from the mediocre, and open your heart – and your life – in a new way. Interviews with authors and readers.

Priscilla Cogan, Double Time (Two Canoes Press). A novel-within-a-novel structure, Double Time answers the question: Can a tale of forbidden love rescue a felon from two feuding hostages?

Anita Diamant, The Red Tent: Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Novel (Picador reissue edition) In the Bible, Dinah's life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour in Genesis, but this novel is written in her voice. It reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood--the world of the red tent. Diamant combines storytelling with a new view of biblical women's society.

Louise Dunlap, Undoing the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing (New Village Press). Shows how to find your powerful voice and understand your audience. Dunlap has been an activist writing instructor since the Free Speech Movement of the 60s.

Suzanne Gordon, Three Nurses on the Front Lines: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work (ILR Press). Gordon trails three outspoken nurses on their rounds. One works with cancer patients, another with homebound elderly, a third mediates between patients and families, doctors and nurses. Gordon shows glimpses of large and small life dramas, and considers prejudice and ignorance about nursing. Why is their care denigrated, while doctors are elevated? How will sweeping changes in health care affect them and, ultimately, us?

Amy Hoffman, An Army of Ex-Lovers (University of Massachusetts Press). Boston's weekly Gay Community News was “the center of the universe” during the late 1970s, writes Amy Hoffman in this memoir of gay liberation before AIDS, before gay weddings, and before The L Word.

Karen Kahn (co-author Patricia A. Gozemba) Courting Equality: A Documentary History of America's First Legal Same-Sex Marriages (Beacon Press). Lushly illustrated with photographs by Marilyn Humphries, this book vividly chronicles the events that led up to same-sex marriage in Massachusetts.

James Kates, translator, Say Thank You by Mikhail Aizenberg (Zephyr Press). J. Kates translated into English this collection of poetry by the contemporary Russian poet who lived at the heart of the last generation of poets that came to maturity under the regime of the Soviet Union and who conveys the wildly erratic internal, personal climate of the political global warming that Russia has undergone

Maxine Kumin, Still to Mow: Poems (W.W. Norton). In her seventeenth book of poetry, Kumin’s signature nature poems are luminously invigorated by darker human realities. Potently, she focuses on myriad subjects, including the pleasures of horse keeping, Dick Cheney’s “canned hunting,” and the disappointments and joys of marriage.

Eve LaPlante, Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewell (HarperOne). The biography explores the inner life of the repentant Salem witch judge who transformed himself into an earlier abolitionist and proponent of equal rights for Native Americans and women.

Ruth Lepson and Rusty Crump, Morphology (Blazevox). Lepson's small, dream prose poems, and the photographer/printmaker/painter Crump's visual art create collaborative improvisations, making synesthetic leaps between the visual and the verbal that pursue a kind of social dreaming in which everyone is included.

Sydney Lewis, co-author of Studs Terkel's Touch and Go: A Memoir (The New Press). Lewis is low-profile on the book cover, but title page, which lists authors as Studs Terkel with Sydney Lewis, acknowledges his essential role in bringing out the 95-year old legendary interviewer and oral historian's own life story.

Artemis March, Dying into Grace: Mother and Daughter − a Dance of Healing (Quantum Lens Press). Intertwines the author's caregiving story with the story of Olwen, her mother. All the dimensions of dying - physical, medical, emotional, relational, spiritual, are part of the intimate dance. Beautiful and grueling, it leads to the unexpected gift of mutual healing and grace. Copies are now available through www.dyingintograce.com".

Gloria Mindock, Blood Soaked Dresses (Ibbetson Street Press). Poetry about the atrocities committed in El Salvador during the 1980-1992 civil war, based on the author's talks with El Salvadoran refugees and years of research. It "coaxes to the page the voices of the dead who lie, less in peace, than in restless obsession with the atrocities they suffered."

Lynda Morgenroth, Boston Firsts: 40 Feats of Innovation and Invention That Happened First in Boston and Helped Make America Great (Beacon Press). Paperback edition. Describes the first madame, the first public library, the first ready-made suit, the first school desegregation court case, the one - and only - automatic bargain basement, and many more Boston firsts.

Susan Oleksiw, A Murderous Innocence (Five Star). The fifth title in the Mellingham series featuring Chief of Police Joe Silva. The death of two men in a small town leads to a mystery involving decent people caught up inn the sweeping destruction of drug addiction. People hardly know what is happening to them until it’s too late.

Marge Piercy, Pesach for the Rest of Us: Making the Passover Seder Your Own (Schocken). The feminist poet and novels offers secular and religious Jews a more satisfying and meaningful way to celebrate the holiday. She delves into all the rituals and practices, and she reminisces about the seders spent with her grandmother when the author was a child She also offers recipes, poems, and blessings.

Gail Pool, Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America (University of Missouri Press). An accomplished book reviewer and review editor analyzes the inner workings of the troubled field of book reviewing, discussing how the trade works, why it so often works badly, how it might improve, and, above all, why book reviews are important.

Maria Termini, Solitude and Splendor: Living in the Schoolhouse (PublishAmerica). Termini describes how she survived and thrived in my handyperson’s special of an old, one-room schoolhouse in the rugged wilderness of western Maine. Without electricity, a phone or running water, she survived the cold and a chimney fire, bonded with bats and mice, followed her artistic inspiration, and savored everyday joys.

Jean Trounstine, co-ed. with Karen Propp, Why I'm Still Married: Women Write Their Hearts Out in Love, Loss, Sex, and Who Does the Dishes (Plume). Paperback edition. Twenty-four women writers share their experiences with marriage, whether it lasted a single year or many. Contributors from a broad cross-section of ages, geography, ethnicity and sexual orientation.

Mary Susannah Robbins, ed., Against the Vietnam War: Writings by Activists (Rowman & Littlefield). This new revised edition includes essays by Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Dave Dellinger, Staughton Lynd and others.

Leslie Wheeler, Murder at Gettysburg (World Wide Library). Pb edition. Miranda Lewis accepts an invitation from her old college roommate and her roommate's father to attend the reenactment of the Gettysburg Battle over July 4th, hoping to recapture the magic of the long-ago summer she spent with them. But the jaunt down memory lane turns into a nightmare when her roommate's husband, a Confederate reenactor, dies unexpectedly during Pickett's Charge.

Jeanne Williamson, The Uncommon Quilter (Potter Craft). Based on the author's experience creating one small art quilt every week from 1999 through 2005, it features 52 quilts, illustrated instructions, and shows how to create artwork using everyday materials and found objects. This book is for quilters, sewers, paper- and mixed-media artists, as well as for anyone who appreciates contemporary visual art. www.theuncommonquilter.com.

Cynthia Winfield, Gender Identity: The Ultimate Teen Guide (Scarecrow Press). "Is it a boy or a girl?" The ages-old delivery room question has answers more complicated than simply, "It's a boy! (or girl!)." This book encourages readers to "think outside the box," to recognize places where they cross gender lines, and to consider whether the time has come to change expectations or definitions within popular culture.

Howard Zinn, A Young People's History of the United States, adapted for young readers by Rebecca Stefoff. Zinn's first book for young adults retells US history from the viewpoints of slaves, workers, immigrants, women, and Native Americans. Color images, a glossary, primary sources. Volume 1 starts with Christopher Columbus's arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians and leads the reader through the strikes and rebellions of the industrial age.