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Soaring with
Fidel, David Gessner, cloth, April 2007, $24.95, 978-0-8070-8578-3
Library Journal, review in the April issue: “Good reading; recommended
for the biology and natural history collections of all libraries, especially
large public.”
On the Courthouse
Lawn, Sherrilyn A. Ifill, cloth, February 2007, $25.95, 978-0-8070-0987-1
“Mercogliano is, in effect, a cultural therapist who accurately diagnoses
and attentively ponders America's loss of childhood, offering fresh new ideas
and creative solutions. Ultimately, he is what all good therapists are: a
purveyor of hope. His message resonates with no one more than I, who grew
up in the 1950s in rural Nebraska. He will help us care for our most valuable
resource: children.” —Mary Pipher, author of Writing to Change
the World
Just Released
Without a
Map, Meredith Hall, cloth, April 2007, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7273-8
“Bone-honest and strong in its every line, this work of memory is a
remarkably deep retrieval of its times and souls, thereby reflecting our own.”
—Ivan Doig, author of Heart Earth
“… a fluid, beautifully-written, hard-won piece of work that belongs
on the shelf next to the best modern memoirs, and yet is in a category all
its own. It is a moving example of a difficult life redeemed first through
examination, then reflection, then finally—like a rough stone polished
until it gleams—into a genuine work of art.” —Dani Shapiro,
author of Family History
“This is an unusually elegant memoir that feels as though it’s
been carved straight out of Meredith Hall’s capacious heart. The story
is riveting, the words perfect. It is rare to read a work that that manages
to be at once artful and compelling, which for me best describes Meredith
Hall’s debut work. She is an author who deserves to be widely read. Few
people write like this. Fewer still have the courage to live like this—without
the comfort of any cliché.” —Lauren Slater, author of Opening
Skinner's Box
“Meredith Hall is a brave new writer who earns our attention.”
—Annie Dillard, author of For the Time Being
“Without a Map is a masterpiece.” —David James Duncan,
author of The Brothers K and God Laughs and Plays
“Without a Map is smart, sharp, and redemptively honest. ”
—Sven Birkerts, author of The Gutenberg Elegies
“Heartbreaking, uplifting, and luminous, Without a Map contains
some of the most lyrical and evocative prose I have ever read…A work
of extraordinary beauty and grace, Without a Map establishes Meredith
Hall as one of our most brilliant writers of personal nonfiction.” —Kim
Barnes, author of In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country
Kirkus, starred review in the January 1st issue: “An unusually
powerful coming-of-age memoir… Searching, humble and quietly triumphant:
Hall has managed to avoid all the easy clichés.”
Booklist, review in the December 15th issue: “Written in spare,
unsentimental prose, Without a Map is stunning; Meredy’s reunion
with her grown son (who was raised in poverty with an abusive father) is the
highlight. Book groups, take note."
Elle Magazine, Without a Map has won the nonfiction readers’
pick for the month of April; the book will be highlighted on the top of the
“Elle Must Read/Readers’ Prize 2007” page in the April
issue
O Magazine, Readers’ Room, book covered in the April issue
More Magazine, review in April issue
Library Journal, review in the February 1st issue
Publishers Weekly, review in the January 22nd issue
Body + Soul Magazine, book covered in June issue
Portland Press Herald, Q&A in April
Maine Sunday Telegram, Bowdoin Magazine, UNH Magazine, Maine Women’s
Journal, forthcoming
AARP, the magazine, review on website
Events
Longfellow Books (Portland, ME), Thursday, April 19th, 7pm
The Fertile Mind Bookstore (Belfast, ME), Saturday, May 5th 2pm
Blue Hill Books (Blue Hill, ME), summer event
Portland Public Library (Portland, ME), September 12th, noon
Soaring with
Fidel, David Gessner, cloth, April 2007, $24.95, 978-0-8070-8578-3
"Soaring with Fidel is a grand and cheering journey on the wings
of one of nature's most sociable predators." —Carl Hiaasen, author
of Nature Girl
“Gessner has reached his stride here, and this is the kind of book
they call ‘breakthrough.’” —Clyde Edgerton, author of
SOLO: My Adventures in the Air
"Chatty, refreshingly naive and just reckless enough to be lucky, Gessner
wins over everyone he meets. Soaring with Fidel has wings." —Scott
Weidensaul, author of Living on the Wind
“Exhilarating, hilarious, tender, this is David Gessner at this best..”
—James Campbell, author of The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and
His Family, Alone in Alaska’s Artic Wilderness
"Gessner's rollicking road-trip account of 21st Century hawkwatching
captures the essence of both migrating ospreys and the mixed bag of people
who track them. Equal doses of Jack Kerouac and Roger Tory Peterson promise
to enshrine Soaring with Fidel in the pantheon of great travel writing
and natural history." —Keith L. Bildstein, author of Migrating
Raptors of the World
Kirkus, review in the January 15th issue: “Gessner’s account
is filled with nitty-gritty details about the days and nights of an itinerant
birder and beautifully detailed descriptions of ospreys in action. When actual
observations were not possible, he imagined what the ospreys were doing and
writes intelligently…A grand adventure, not just for birders and nature
lovers.”
Booklist, review in the April issue: “This is a thoughtful and
loving examination.”
PW, review in the January 29th issue: Gessner writes beautifully,
with grace and humor.”
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