The Permanent Press Ord: 139 books

When twenty-year-old Jess discovers that her mother has woven their family history from lies, she begins searching for her sperm donor daddy. In the sixties, when Jess was born, it was still common practice to recruit sperm donors from among medical students. Jess identifies her father in his class yearbook and runs away from home to find him as a practicing MD.

East Justice is a small fictional town in rural Iowa, which harbors a tiny enclave of Jewish families. Among them lives Grace, a young woman with the cauterized “tongue of a bird,” farmer, quilter, and keeper of family secrets.   Through a succession of lucid scenes delivered in the measured...

As a young man, Dr. Nathan Kline enjoys excellent health, good looks, and a prestigious Park Avenue ophthalmology practice. He is also blessed with a gorgeous young wife, abundant friends, and two infant daughters who adore him. But whoever appreciates what comes so easily? “We take notice of our...

Ernest DeWalt has every right to feel reclusive. He can’t drink, he can’t make love, he has lost all faith in a world gone mad with violence and greed. Now that all his old coping mechanisms are denied him, DeWalt, a private investigator turned novelist, attempts to flee the corruption of both...

This magical novel about urban mixed-blood Indian life has as its narrator-protagonist, Albert “Alley” Hummingbird, a self-conscious, overweight, shy college student who hides his feelings with humor, and who longs to reconcile the two cultures that have formed him.

Lovesick Budge Moss, middle-aged author on the skids, sails his boat one way to Rock Hall on Chesapeake Bay, with only his cat for company—and then he sells the boat. His wife has left him, his home and possessions are gone, but he’s determined to reestablish his bearings and write a thinly disguised tale about this lonely passage in his life*.*

In the memoir As I Walked Out One Evening Donald Wetzel explores what it is like to enter into the realm of old age. He approaches the changes within his life with the same sense of humor and of awe with which he approaches everything. He is looking for clues. Running through his family is a propensity...

An anthology of seventy poets writing west of the Mississippi, including William Pitt Root, Alberto Rios, Naomi Shihab Nye, Jim Simmerman, and Sandra Alcosser.

Love-battered Budge Moss, the once-prominent author now largely forgotten by the reading public, emerges from his crisis of separation and pending divorce under the protective wing of Matty Klein, an elderly widow in whose home—and heart—he now resides.

Hilary Masters’s eighth novel explores a continent of abandonment—of a child by a parent, of a people by their country, and of ideals by the nation founded upon them.

Back home in Wyoming, June used to be a star bronco rider and a honky-tonk queen. Now, at 21, having ridden too many barstools into oblivion, she finds herself at The Pines, an elegant New England mental hospital and rehab center for out-of-control celebrities, eccentric millionaires, and assorted troubled souls.

The Do-It-Yourself Psychotherapy**Book is based upon the two secret factors behind every successful psychotherapy. Using these ingredients, Dr. Martin Shepard presents an action-oriented program designed to help you feel better, achieve more, and maximize your potential for a full and rich life.

In A Sweet Magnolia Time makes a major contribution to American history and American literature, for it explores the life and times and legacy of Waties Waring, the South Carolina federal judge whose epic opinion in Briggs v. Elliot that “separate but equal is not equal,” predated by two years of the 1954 Supreme Court Decision that came to the same conclusion.

At times hilarious, at other times thoughtful, this book is more than an account of a family which goes to live on a farm. The events described here took the Sherry’s deep into a terra incognita of the spirit as well as the land. It is that quality: the sense of adventure and of patterns being broken which gives Maggie’s Farm a flavor all its own.