The Earth Knows My Name, by Patricia Klindienst (hardcover, April 2006, $26.96, 0-8070-8562-6)
New York Times, feature with photos, Garden Editor Anne Raver and Patricia Klindienst will travel to St. Helena Island, South Carolina to profile the gardens of the Gullah elders, Thursday, April 20th
Booklist, review with jacket art, April 1st:
"A lyrical account"
Tavis Smiley, interview will be releasing nationally on Friday, April 14th
C-Span/ Book TV will be covering the New York Public Library event on April 19th. The event, called Who's Afraid of Iran? will feature Lila Azam Zanganeh in discussion with Azar Nafisi, Shirin Neshat, Roya Hakakian, Azadeh Moaveni, Sussan Deyhim. There will be also be a reading, music and food.
Brian Lehrer Show /WNYC (NPR in New York) will run a live interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh and some combination of the contributors on Tuesday, April 18th at 11:00am
Back to Press for Second Printing
Unchosen, by Hella Winston (hardcover, November 2005, $24.95, 0-8070-3626-9)
New York Times, Op-Ed to run Sunday, April 16th
My Father's Keeper, by Jonathan G. Silin (hardcover, May 2006, 0-8070-7964-2)
Q Syndicate, review by Richard Labonte will run in gay publications over the next two weeks:
"Philosophical and dispassionately analytical, emotional and passionately personal: the balanced tension implicit in these expressive extremes makes this a special book."
—Richard Labonte
Flashback, Penny Coleman (hardcover, May 2006, $23.95, 0-8070-5040-7)
Booklist, *starred review* April 15th issue
Library Journal, *starred review*:
"By sharing women's stories of suicide and loss, Coleman hopes both to provide ameans of healing for the present and to issue a warning for the future. Similar to Keith Armstrong's Courage After Fire: Coping Strategies for Troops Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and Their Families, this is a well-researched and well-documented publication with a uniquely human touch. An essential part of any public library collection."
"This poet contemplates the natural world with deep and soulful attention, and then, with simple words sparely arranged, verbalizes the relationship between Earth and the human spirit. She provides the modern voice of the spirituality inherent in consideration of Nature."
Global Values 101, edited by Holbrook, Kim, Palmer, Portnoy (paperback original, $14.00, 0-8070-0305-0)
Tikkun magazine, March/April issue:
"Equal parts social movement overview and undergraduate course reader, Global Values 101 is an introduction to some of the central issues of contemporary progressive politics... Global Values 101 is a valuable primer for young activists."
—Liz Winter
Boston Firsts, by Lynda Morgenroth (hardcover, June 2006, $19.95, 0-8070-7130-7)
Bostonia, story on Lynda Morgenroth, Summer 2006
Tour Update
Porter Square Books, Friday, June 23rd at 7pm
Harvard Bookstore, Thursday, July 6th at 6:30pm
Boston Public Library, Wednesday, June 28th at 6pm
Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA), Thursday, July 20th at 7:30pm
Book Ends (Winchester), Thursday, June 8th at 7pm
Village Bookstore / Littleton (MA) Public Library, Friday, July 14th at 6:30pm
National Heritage Museum (Lexington, MA), Tuesday, July 18th at 2pm
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