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Historian and novelist Slotkin (The
Long Road to Antietam,
2012, etc.) writes more personally in these linked semifictional
stories based on his ancestors’ immigration from Eastern Europe
early in the 20th century.—Kirkus Reviews
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“Utterly original…the work of a master. In language that is
exquisite but also precise, Looney unspools a host of secrets.…
[T]hat rare, wonderful sort of fiction that casts a spell.”
—Laura Kasischke, National Book Critics Circle Award winner
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"Deeply moving, and often grim and uncomfortable in their
confrontations of unimaginable tragedies, each story evokes a
bold, emotional response.”
—Foreword Reviews
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“Kiska is the heart-wrenching story of a
fourteen-year-old girl living on the Aleutian Islands of
Alaska at the beginning of World War II. Her ordinary, happy
life in a small hunting village quickly changes when, after
Japan invades neighboring islands, she and the rest of the
islands’ inhabitants are rounded up by United States
soldiers and sent to internment camps."
—Foreword
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“Tony Hillerman fans will welcome Medhat’s excellent debut and
series launch… . [U]ses pathos and humor, tragedy and comedy, to
spin an entertaining and original mystery.”
—Publishers Weekly,
starred review
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[S]tories that deftly slip into the lives of
everyday New Yorkers . . . gorgeously nuanced. . . . Moss’
ability to probe the rich, complicated depths of those the city
views as ordinary—its doormen, library workers, waitresses, and
bench-sitters—and capture the profound currents of emotion found
in the everyday animates this collection and makes it uniquely
illuminating. Definitely worth reading.
—Kirkus
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Mara's dogged curiosity and integrity
give the novel an appealing energy. Blauner often reaches for a
quirky expression of detail that sometimes creates a charming
image, but when her writing is at its clearest and simplest,
Mara's wonder at her journey and the people she meets springs
off the page and welcomes the reader into her world.
—Kirkus
Washington State Book Awards finalist
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“A taut, compelling portrait of a small town’s underbelly.
With sinister imagery and crisp, evocative prose, Dower
pulls back the cloak of 1950s ‘innocence’ to expose the ugly
secrets that lie in wait, teeth grown sharp in the dark.”
—Billie Livingston,
The Crooked Heart of Mercy
and
One Good Hustle
“Think
Mad Men
but even madder.”
—Toronto
Star
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As this book shows, there are many similarities
between Christianity and Buddhism, such as the practices
of compassion, love, contemplation, and tolerance.”
—The Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
“In a world where the media relentlessly inflames fear and
hatred, here is a quiet voice espousing the triumph of love and
peace.”
—Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize
laureat
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“A poignant story of colonization and assimilation,
something I know a little bit about.
A
masterpiece.”
—Chinua Achebe
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Ligon handles this latticework with
impressive fluidity and dramatic momentum, the disparate voices
lacing the novel with the melancholy of aborted and fractured
love
—New York Times Book Review
“Unsettling.... Ligon’s is a convincing presentation of
human nature. Nikki laments at one point, “We’d end up
getting married … and I would shrink a little every year and
lose pieces of myself until there’d be nothing left. But
wasn’t that what happened to everyone?” Fear is what’s
driven Nikki in the past, and now her past has caught up
with her with a vengeance.”
—Foreword Reviews
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“Smelcer’s poems are for the taking, and he doesn’t want
them back. They’re ours to keep with their satire,
outrageously dark humor, and healing doses of pain.”
—Dale E. Seeds, Midwest Book Review Bookwatch
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"Carlon covers an unbelievable amount of
ground in one novel…. Part jazz panegyric, part world history
tour, altogether readable." --Kirkus
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"The novel's unfiltered lens reveals war's
cost to the human psyche, the amorality of concentrated wealth,
the cancer of racial and ethnic hatred, and the nearly
unresolvable conflict between familial loyalty and moral
responsibility."--Kirkus
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“Smelcer clearly knows
his way around Alaskan mountains.”
—David
Roberts, author of
The Mountain of My Fear, etc.
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News from Leapfrog Press
The 2019 Leapfrog Fiction Contest
is now open for entries. We are honored to have as our 2019
finalist judge writer Ramona Ausubel:
http://ramonaausubel.com/bio/.
Please see our
contest page
for more information.
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The first place
winners list for
our 2018 Leapfrog Fiction Contest are:
Why No Bhine (Why No Goodbye)
a
young adult novel in verse by Pamela Laskin
Vanishing
stories
by Cai Emmons
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Leapfrog Press
"The pulse of what's hot in the book publishing world."
--Boston Globe
Forthcoming Titles
Why
No Bhine
(Why No Goodbye)
Pamela Laskin
Vanishing
Cai Emmons
Lacandon Dreams
A Milagro Mystery
Katayoun Medhat
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