NEW BOOKS
— Nonfiction —
Good Naked
How to Write More, Write Better, and Be Happier
by Joni B. Cole
From veteran teacher and acclaimed author Joni B. Cole comes the revised and expanded edition of her popular writing guide Good Naked. Once again, Cole’s humor and wisdom shine through as she debunks long-held misconceptions of how we’re supposed to write, replacing them with advice that works. In this edition, Cole offers more stories, strategies, tips on craft, and exercises to serve new and seasoned writers from the first draft to the final edit. Writers will even find help making peace with rejection.
Published by University of New Mexico Press (September 1, 2022)
Remembering Tony Jarvis
Portrait of a Headmaster
The story of the Rev. F. Washington Jarvis, iconic headmaster of Boston’s Roxbury Latin School, the oldest American school in continuous existence, founded in 1645 by the Puritan John Eliot.
Published by Short Story America Press, 2021.
Racing the Clock
Running Across a Lifetime
Award-winning biologist and natural historian Bernd Heinrich is known for his beautiful books on animals, including One Wild Bird At a Time, The Homing Instinct, and Ravens in Winter. His latest book, however, is this memoir about his experiences running.
Racing the Clock combines personal anecdote with Heinrich’s research on the science of running and its relationship with aging.
Published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins (July 6, 2021)
A Scientific Life on the Edge
My Lonely Quest to Change How We See Addition
A memoir about influential researcher Stanton Peele’s life and his tumultuous career in the addiction field.
Published by Broadrow Publications, 2021.
“Stanton Peele is a true pioneer of addiction research and theory. His ideas must be reckoned with by anyone who is serious about understanding addiction.”
— Maia Szalavitz, Author, Unbroken Brain, A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
“Stanton Peele had it nailed in the 1970s. We should’ve listened then. The disease model has been a slippery slope for many of our families who are held hostage by an addiction treatment industry that has acted as an arm of the industrial prison complex—ensnaring and diverting its victims into an abstinence-driven model where failure to comply is sanctioned, criminalized, and shamed.”
— Carol Beyer, cofounder, Families for Sensible Drug Policy
When the Irish Invaded Canada
The outlandish, untold story of the Irish American revolutionaries who tried to free Ireland by invading Canada.
"Christopher Klein's fresh telling of this story is an important landmark in both Irish and American history." —James M. McPherson
Published by Doubleday
The Book Keeper
A Memoir of Race, Love, and Legacy
Decades after Julia McKenzie Munemo’s father committed suicide, she learned that he made his living writing interracial pornography under pseudonym. She hid the stack of his old paperbacks from her Zimbabwean husband, their mixed-race children, and herself before realizing her obligation to understand her racial legacy.
The Book Keeper is equal parts love story, family interrogation, and racial reckoning as Munemo comes to terms with her whiteness, and with her history.
Published by Swallow Press
Preaching Happiness
Creating a Just and Joyful World
by Ginny Sassaman, M.S., C.I.P.P
To create more thriving, peaceful, and content personal lives as well as to create the conditions for maximum well being for all humans, animals, and the planet requires soul deep transformation. Through a series of secular sermons on a wide range of happiness skills, this book teaches and encourages that transformation.
Published by Rootstock Publishing