*Dorothy Hearst, Promise of Wolves paperback, early July, 2009
Dorothy Hearst reads from her spellbinding Booksense pick about which Jean Auel, author of The Clan of the Cave Bear and The Shelters of Stone, proclaims, “If you loved Watership Down, you should not miss reading Promise of the Wolves.“

*Maud Carol Markson, Looking After Pigeon, novel, August 2009
Andre Dubus said of Markson’s first novel: “It may be the best story we have about marital love.” Now, in a new and moving coming-of-age story, Markson explores family love through the eyes of her compelling narrator, Pigeon.

*Wendy Nelson Tokunaga, Love in Translation, novel forthcoming, fall 2009
Jazz vocalist and Japanese karaoke singer Wendy Nelson Tokunaga is also a prize-winning and much-praised author whose Love in Translation is part mystery, part love story and all heart.

*Dana Fredsti and Cynthia Gentry, What Women Really Want in Bed, Fall 2009
Garnering praise from Playgirl as well as worker-owned feminist cooperative Good Vibrations, Gentry and Fredsti follow their popular book Secret Seductions and Cynthia’s What Men Really Want in Bed with a look at the ladies.

*Jessica Barksdale Inclan, The Beautiful Being, novel, Oct. 2009
National bestseller and prolific contemporary author Jessica Barksdale Inclan brings us the exciting conclusion of her second paranormal romance trilogy.

*Kathryn Ma, All That Work and Still No Boys, short story collection, Oct. 2009
Winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, Kathryn Ma’s intelligent and witty collection exposes the deepest fears and longings that we mask in family life and observes the long shadows cast by history and displacement.