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Constance, Across by Richard Cumyn ISBN # 978-1-926802-59-6 NOVELLA SERIES 124 pages $16.95 October 2011
“I get the urge for going but I never seem to go.” –Joni Mitchell. Constance Hardy is at a mental and emotional standstill and she seems to be doing nothing about it. But one winter morning, she witnesses a shocking death and her transformation begins. Finally, this middle-aged high school teacher, unhappy wife and mother of a troubled teenager, responds by detonating a series of personal explosions that hurl her as far as possible from her old self. Constance, Across grippingly affirms that the journey to selfhood is not the path we choose, but one that chooses us. Richard Cumyn is the author of five collections of short fiction, most recently The Young in Their Country (Enfield & Wizenty, 2010), and a novella, The View from Tamischeira (Beach Holme / Dundurn Press, 2003). A past fiction editor of The Antigonish Review, Richard is widely published in Canada, his work appearing regularly in The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, The Globe and Mail and The Literary Review of Canada, among others.
In the Mind’s Eye by Barbara Ponomareff ISBN # 978-1-926802-49-7 NOVELLA SERIES 120 pages $16.95 October 2011
Mahler’s Lament by Deborah Kirshner ISBN # 978-1-926802-61-9 NOVELLA SERIES 120 pages $16.95 October 2011
Gustav Mahler was 29 years old when he conducted his first symphony, “The Titan,” in Budapest on November 20, 1889. The performance was one of the biggest “disasters” of his career and it came on the heels of another catastrophe: an adulterous love affair with the wife of his patron, Maria von Weber. Mahler’s Lament is an elaborate and multi-layered portrayal of one of the world's greatest composers at this turbulent point in his life. Mahler is depicted as a morally ambivalent man who is forever reflecting on mortality and failure. It is the first ever historical fiction of his scandalous love affair. Written with grace and intelligence, this book brings to life the soul of a young genius. Deborah Kirshner has spent her adult life as a professional violinist. She studied with Itzhak Perlman at Brooklyn College, where she enrolled in a Masters program. In 2003 she published her first article, “The Genius of Django,” for The Walrus Magazine which earned her a Gold National Magazine Award in Arts and Literature. She subsequently published two more pieces that also received national attention. In 2006 she was awarded a fellowship for Creative Non-Fiction at the Banff Center. Mahler’s Lament is her first novella.
Surrender by Peter Learn ISBN # 978-1-926802-51-0 NOVELLA SERIES 114 pages $16.95 October 2011
It is the end of the Great War and returning soldiers are bringing their shattered minds back home with them. For Caitlin, who is one of the first female graduates in psychology and an intern at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, this is a critical time. Her professional and her emotional lives are complicated by a relationship with a young schizophrenic patient and the haunting encounter with a traumatized young lawyer just returned from the battlefield.
Surrender is a wacky tale about a defunct school mascot, Chester the Beaver, and how he comes back to haunt the school principal responsible for his demise. It is a witty and outrageously funny book, abounding in linguistic pyrotechnics and saturated with literary and pop cultural references. But underneath the comic surface of the story are deep questions concerning the nature of free will.
Sumptuously written and meticulously crafted, this novella brings to life an important part of Toronto’s past.
Surrender is a confection for the brain, candy for the wicked.
Barbara Ponomareff has been a child psychotherapist by profession. Since her retirement she has been able to pursue her life-long interest in literature, psychology and art. She has published a novella on the painter J.S. Chardin, and several short stories in various literary magazines, as well as poetry in anthologies and professional journals.
After growing up in Montreal, Peter Learn moved to Edmonton and met his wife, Paula. He spent his career there as an elementary school principal. After retiring, he travelled with his wife for two years before they settled in Canmore, Alberta. He is an active outdoorsman. Surrender is his first book.
Without Blue by Chris D’Iorio ISBN # 978-1-926802-55-8 POETRY SERIES 90 pages $16.95 October 2011
The poetry in Without Blue is postmodern in approach, but informed not only by theory and wide referentiality, but a groundedness in experience and social and political concerns. D’Iorio is a mature writer who waited a long time to perfect his art and craft and has developed a body of work which, even at its most oblique, can be relished for style, substance and technique.
jumping in the asylum by Patrick Friesen ISBN # 978-1-926802-57-2 POETRY SERIES 90 pages $16.95 October 2011
Wide-ranging in subject, deeply intuitive and layered in style, influenced equally by the cadences of jazz and by the Bible, the poems in jumping in the asylum will stand out among this distinguished author’s strongest work. An outstanding collection by a preeminent Canadian poet.
Without Blue gives Postmodernism a soul! Chris has degrees in Literary Studies & Semiotics and Law from the University of Toronto. He works for an accounting firm providing tax advice on equitybased compensation, and also serves on the board of directors for SKETCH working arts for Toronto’s homeless and street involved youth. He is involved with the editorial collective for influencysalon.ca. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in Filling Station and other journals, and he is a past winner of the Hart House Literary Contest. This is his first book of poetry.
When the Earth by Lisa Young ISBN # 978-1-926802-63-3 POETRY SERIES 90 pages $16.95 October 2011
Young’s exploration of the moment probes the boundaries between the everyday and the esoteric. With clarity and simplicity, she maps out a reality that is both spiritual and pragmatic. From “Field and Sky” to the “Observatory,” When the Earth investigates the invisible world, conjured by urban and natural landscapes as well as the terrain of our essential relationships. Lisa Young's poetic seismograph records the heart's subtlest stirrings.
A former resident of Winnipeg, Patrick Friesen moved to the west coast of Canada in 1996 and now lives on Vancouver Island. He has published more than a dozen books of poetry and a book of essays. A Broken Bowl (1997) was short-listed for the Governor General’s Award, and Blasphemer’s Wheel won the Manitoba Book Award. He has also written several stage and radio plays, text for dance, and recorded two CDs of spoken word and improv music with Marilyn Lerner. His most recent book was Earth’s Crude Gravities (Harbour, 2007).
And, tell, tulip, the summer by Allan Graubard ISBN # 978-1-926802-64-0 POETRY SERIES 120 pages $16.95 October 2011
And, tell, tulip, the summer charts a journey over several years and continents amidst the turmoil and conflict that mark our time. Episodic, combustive, lyrical and urbane, its poems and stories capture and captivate the world we know and wish to know. The book unfolds like a storied map, from the war-torn Balkans, to the Sahel, where sand and sky compel extreme disjunctions, to Paris and New York, where culture and commerce dance their deadly tango, to Cajun Louisiana, where cane farmers struggle to survive. A compelling odyssey through fascinating times.
Lisa Young’s work has appeared in Jones Av., Misunderstandings Magazine, Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, and Rampike, among others. She is a fiction editor and senior poetry editor for Existere. She belongs to the Plasticine Poetry Collective, and Moosemeat as well as a few other long-standing writing groups in Toronto. When the Earth is her first poetry collection.
New Yorker Allan Graubard’s poems, plays, literary and art criticism have been published in the United States and internationally, often in translation. His poetry books include Rom Amor and For Alejandra. Notable among his plays is Woman Bomb/Sade. His most recent publication is the anthology Invisible Heads: Surrealists in North America, an Untold Story.
Constance, Across by Richard Cumyn ISBN # 978-1-926802-59-6 NOVELLA SERIES 124 pages $16.95 October 2011
“I get the urge for going but I never seem to go.” –Joni Mitchell. Constance Hardy is at a mental and emotional standstill and she seems to be doing nothing about it. But one winter morning, she witnesses a shocking death and her transformation begins. Finally, this middle-aged high school teacher, unhappy wife and mother of a troubled teenager, responds by detonating a series of personal explosions that hurl her as far as possible from her old self. Constance, Across grippingly affirms that the journey to selfhood is not the path we choose, but one that chooses us. Richard Cumyn is the author of five collections of short fiction, most recently The Young in Their Country (Enfield & Wizenty, 2010), and a novella, The View from Tamischeira (Beach Holme / Dundurn Press, 2003). A past fiction editor of The Antigonish Review, Richard is widely published in Canada, his work appearing regularly in The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, The Globe and Mail and The Literary Review of Canada, among others.
In the Mind’s Eye by Barbara Ponomareff ISBN # 978-1-926802-49-7 NOVELLA SERIES 120 pages $16.95 October 2011
Mahler’s Lament by Deborah Kirshner ISBN # 978-1-926802-61-9 NOVELLA SERIES 120 pages $16.95 October 2011
Gustav Mahler was 29 years old when he conducted his first symphony, “The Titan,” in Budapest on November 20, 1889. The performance was one of the biggest “disasters” of his career and it came on the heels of another catastrophe: an adulterous love affair with the wife of his patron, Maria von Weber. Mahler’s Lament is an elaborate and multi-layered portrayal of one of the world's greatest composers at this turbulent point in his life. Mahler is depicted as a morally ambivalent man who is forever reflecting on mortality and failure. It is the first ever historical fiction of his scandalous love affair. Written with grace and intelligence, this book brings to life the soul of a young genius. Deborah Kirshner has spent her adult life as a professional violinist. She studied with Itzhak Perlman at Brooklyn College, where she enrolled in a Masters program. In 2003 she published her first article, “The Genius of Django,” for The Walrus Magazine which earned her a Gold National Magazine Award in Arts and Literature. She subsequently published two more pieces that also received national attention. In 2006 she was awarded a fellowship for Creative Non-Fiction at the Banff Center. Mahler’s Lament is her first novella.
Surrender by Peter Learn ISBN # 978-1-926802-51-0 NOVELLA SERIES 114 pages $16.95 October 2011
It is the end of the Great War and returning soldiers are bringing their shattered minds back home with them. For Caitlin, who is one of the first female graduates in psychology and an intern at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, this is a critical time. Her professional and her emotional lives are complicated by a relationship with a young schizophrenic patient and the haunting encounter with a traumatized young lawyer just returned from the battlefield.
Surrender is a wacky tale about a defunct school mascot, Chester the Beaver, and how he comes back to haunt the school principal responsible for his demise. It is a witty and outrageously funny book, abounding in linguistic pyrotechnics and saturated with literary and pop cultural references. But underneath the comic surface of the story are deep questions concerning the nature of free will.
Sumptuously written and meticulously crafted, this novella brings to life an important part of Toronto’s past.
Surrender is a confection for the brain, candy for the wicked.
Barbara Ponomareff has been a child psychotherapist by profession. Since her retirement she has been able to pursue her life-long interest in literature, psychology and art. She has published a novella on the painter J.S. Chardin, and several short stories in various literary magazines, as well as poetry in anthologies and professional journals.
After growing up in Montreal, Peter Learn moved to Edmonton and met his wife, Paula. He spent his career there as an elementary school principal. After retiring, he travelled with his wife for two years before they settled in Canmore, Alberta. He is an active outdoorsman. Surrender is his first book.
Without Blue by Chris D’Iorio ISBN # 978-1-926802-55-8 POETRY SERIES 90 pages $16.95 October 2011
The poetry in Without Blue is postmodern in approach, but informed not only by theory and wide referentiality, but a groundedness in experience and social and political concerns. D’Iorio is a mature writer who waited a long time to perfect his art and craft and has developed a body of work which, even at its most oblique, can be relished for style, substance and technique.
jumping in the asylum by Patrick Friesen ISBN # 978-1-926802-57-2 POETRY SERIES 90 pages $16.95 October 2011
Wide-ranging in subject, deeply intuitive and layered in style, influenced equally by the cadences of jazz and by the Bible, the poems in jumping in the asylum will stand out among this distinguished author’s strongest work. An outstanding collection by a preeminent Canadian poet.
Without Blue gives Postmodernism a soul! Chris has degrees in Literary Studies & Semiotics and Law from the University of Toronto. He works for an accounting firm providing tax advice on equitybased compensation, and also serves on the board of directors for SKETCH working arts for Toronto’s homeless and street involved youth. He is involved with the editorial collective for influencysalon.ca. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in Filling Station and other journals, and he is a past winner of the Hart House Literary Contest. This is his first book of poetry.
When the Earth by Lisa Young ISBN # 978-1-926802-63-3 POETRY SERIES 90 pages $16.95 October 2011
Young’s exploration of the moment probes the boundaries between the everyday and the esoteric. With clarity and simplicity, she maps out a reality that is both spiritual and pragmatic. From “Field and Sky” to the “Observatory,” When the Earth investigates the invisible world, conjured by urban and natural landscapes as well as the terrain of our essential relationships. Lisa Young's poetic seismograph records the heart's subtlest stirrings.
A former resident of Winnipeg, Patrick Friesen moved to the west coast of Canada in 1996 and now lives on Vancouver Island. He has published more than a dozen books of poetry and a book of essays. A Broken Bowl (1997) was short-listed for the Governor General’s Award, and Blasphemer’s Wheel won the Manitoba Book Award. He has also written several stage and radio plays, text for dance, and recorded two CDs of spoken word and improv music with Marilyn Lerner. His most recent book was Earth’s Crude Gravities (Harbour, 2007).
And, tell, tulip, the summer by Allan Graubard ISBN # 978-1-926802-64-0 POETRY SERIES 120 pages $16.95 October 2011
And, tell, tulip, the summer charts a journey over several years and continents amidst the turmoil and conflict that mark our time. Episodic, combustive, lyrical and urbane, its poems and stories capture and captivate the world we know and wish to know. The book unfolds like a storied map, from the war-torn Balkans, to the Sahel, where sand and sky compel extreme disjunctions, to Paris and New York, where culture and commerce dance their deadly tango, to Cajun Louisiana, where cane farmers struggle to survive. A compelling odyssey through fascinating times.
Lisa Young’s work has appeared in Jones Av., Misunderstandings Magazine, Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, and Rampike, among others. She is a fiction editor and senior poetry editor for Existere. She belongs to the Plasticine Poetry Collective, and Moosemeat as well as a few other long-standing writing groups in Toronto. When the Earth is her first poetry collection.
New Yorker Allan Graubard’s poems, plays, literary and art criticism have been published in the United States and internationally, often in translation. His poetry books include Rom Amor and For Alejandra. Notable among his plays is Woman Bomb/Sade. His most recent publication is the anthology Invisible Heads: Surrealists in North America, an Untold Story.
Rain Dance by Viktor
Mitic
ISBN # 978-1-926802-66-4 Hard Cover Art 120 pages $39.95 October 2011 Published by Fourfront Editions, an imprint of Quattro Books Inc. This series of paintings called Rain Dance are reproductions of the recent rain inspired paintings of Viktor Mitic. The sequence is a kind of ‘aleatory art’ in which natural rain is the constant painting partner of the artist as he creates mostly non-figurative works using the random effects of natural rain. There are remarkable results when he is working outside with his canvasses on the ground under the random effects of natural rain and thunderstorms during his painting processes. It is as if several senses are at work in the creation of these paintings. There are startling and beautiful effects from this inspired method of painting. In these canvasses there is a feeling of an almost lunar calm together with a muted immanence of solar violence in the segregated warmer colours in many of these paintings. This is an intense inner mythic-like world he has constructed that compliments and includes nature, where even acid rain, like smog sunsets, can add to the effects in the creation of paintings. Viktor Mitic was born in Belgrade, Serbia. He was classically trained in art schools in Europe and later completed a degree in art from the University of Toronto. He has produced a major body of work over the last twenty years. His controversial works using bullets have garnered much international media attention. Mitic’s work has been reviewed by the BBC, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Telegraph Journals, and Biggs Museum of Modern Art. He has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions in both private and public galleries. His notable collectors includes: National Gallery of Grenada, York University Art Gallery, Hon. Stephen Harper, Hon. Jean Chretien, Hon. Bob Rae.
The Ballad of Martin B. by Michael Mirolla ISBN # 978-1-926802-53-4 NOVELLA SERIES 134 pages $16.95 October 2011
The Ballad of Martin B. uses the punk world as a background for its plot. It follows a young anarchist whose determination to tear down society’s complacency is being guided by ghosts of past thinkers. Not only does the narrative realistically capture the squalor and degeneracy of a very raw underground scene, it also engages the reader intellectually by delving into age-old philosphical issues. This book is a Clockwork Orange on anti-depressants. What Anthony Burgess really wanted to convey but couldn’t quite get down to it because he was afraid of the raw sexual slashing and clashing. Michael Mirolla’s publications include two novels: Berlin (a Bressani Prize winner and finalist for the Indie Book and National Best Books Awards) and The Facility, which features a string of cloned Mussolinis; two short story collections and a poetry collection (Light And Time, Guernica Editions, 2010). His short story “A Theory of Discontinuous Existence” was a Journey Prize Anthology selection, while “The Sand Flea” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
BACKLIST QUATTRO FICTION Retina Green by Reinhard Filter ISBN # 9781926802114 Tobacco Wars by Paul Seesequasis ISBN # 9781926802121 Gaze by Keith Cadieux ISBN # 9781926802107 The Sea by Amela Marin ISBN # 9781926802091 The Panic Button by Koom Kankesan ISBN # 978-1-926802-30-5 Grace by Vanessa Smith ISBN # 978-1-926802-26-8 Break Me by Tom Reynolds ISBN # 978-1-926802-32-9
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Shrinking Violets by Heidi Greco ISBN # 978-1-926802-36-7 $16.95 Real Gone by Jim Christy ISBN # 9781926802015 $16.95 The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon by Michael Wex ISBN # 9780978280628 $16.95 A Gardener on the Moon by Carole Giangrande ISBN # 9781926802053 $16.95 Good Evening, Central Laundromat by Jason Heroux ISBN # 9781926802046 $16.95 Of All the Ways To Die by Brenda Niskala ISBN # 9780981018669 $16.95 The Cousin by John Calabro ISBN # 9780981018638 $16.95
Harbour View by Binnie Brennan ISBN # 9780981018645 $16.95 The Extraordinary Event of Pia H. by Nicola Vulpe ISBN # 9780981018607 $18.95 A Pleasant Vertigo by Egidio Coccimiglio ISBN # 9780981018652 $14.95 Wit in Love by Sky Gilbert ISBN # 9780978280666 $16.95 Room Tone by Gale Zoë Garnett ISBN # 9780978280611 $16.95
Sew Him Up by Beatriz Hausner ISBN # 9781926802022 $16.95 Psychic Geographies and Other Topics by Gregory Betts ISBN # 9781926802008 $16.95 The Sylvia Hotel Poems by George Fetherling ISBN # 9780981018690 $15.95 Ten Thousand Miles Between Us by Rocco de Giacomo ISBN # 9780981018676 $16.95 A River at Night by Paul Zemokhol ISBN # 9780981018614 $16.95 This Is How I Love You by Barbara Landry ISBN # 9780978280697 $15.95 Looking at Renaissance Paintings by Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni ISBN # 9780978280680 $15.95
The Hawk by Rob Rolfe ISBN # 9780978280673 My Etruscan Face by Gianna Patriarca ISBN # 9780978280635 Garden Variety Edited by Lily Contento ISBN # 9780978280642 MIC CHECK Edited by David Silverberg ISBN # 9780978280659 Evidence by Samuel Andreyev ISBN # 9780981018683
QUATTRO POETRY Rough Wilderness by Rosemary Aubert ISBN # 9781926802411 Saugeen by Rob Rolfe ISBN # 9781926802398 Book of Disorders by Luciano Iacobelli ISBN # 978-1-926802-28-2 Strong Bread by Giovanna Riccio ISBN # 978-1-926802-34-3 Interstellar by Allan Briesmaster ISBN # 9780978280604 hold the note by Domenico Capilongo ISBN # 9781926802084 syrinx and systole by Matthew Remski ISBN # 9781926802077
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FOURFRONT EDITIONS Behind the Whip: Dominatrix by Maria Coletsis ISBN 9781926802381 Hard Cover Art Photography $40
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Rain Dance by Viktor
Mitic
ISBN # 978-1-926802-66-4 Hard Cover Art 120 pages $39.95 October 2011 Published by Fourfront Editions, an imprint of Quattro Books Inc. This series of paintings called Rain Dance are reproductions of the recent rain inspired paintings of Viktor Mitic. The sequence is a kind of ‘aleatory art’ in which natural rain is the constant painting partner of the artist as he creates mostly non-figurative works using the random effects of natural rain. There are remarkable results when he is working outside with his canvasses on the ground under the random effects of natural rain and thunderstorms during his painting processes. It is as if several senses are at work in the creation of these paintings. There are startling and beautiful effects from this inspired method of painting. In these canvasses there is a feeling of an almost lunar calm together with a muted immanence of solar violence in the segregated warmer colours in many of these paintings. This is an intense inner mythic-like world he has constructed that compliments and includes nature, where even acid rain, like smog sunsets, can add to the effects in the creation of paintings. Viktor Mitic was born in Belgrade, Serbia. He was classically trained in art schools in Europe and later completed a degree in art from the University of Toronto. He has produced a major body of work over the last twenty years. His controversial works using bullets have garnered much international media attention. Mitic’s work has been reviewed by the BBC, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Telegraph Journals, and Biggs Museum of Modern Art. He has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions in both private and public galleries. His notable collectors includes: National Gallery of Grenada, York University Art Gallery, Hon. Stephen Harper, Hon. Jean Chretien, Hon. Bob Rae.
The Ballad of Martin B. by Michael Mirolla ISBN # 978-1-926802-53-4 NOVELLA SERIES 134 pages $16.95 October 2011
The Ballad of Martin B. uses the punk world as a background for its plot. It follows a young anarchist whose determination to tear down society’s complacency is being guided by ghosts of past thinkers. Not only does the narrative realistically capture the squalor and degeneracy of a very raw underground scene, it also engages the reader intellectually by delving into age-old philosphical issues. This book is a Clockwork Orange on anti-depressants. What Anthony Burgess really wanted to convey but couldn’t quite get down to it because he was afraid of the raw sexual slashing and clashing. Michael Mirolla’s publications include two novels: Berlin (a Bressani Prize winner and finalist for the Indie Book and National Best Books Awards) and The Facility, which features a string of cloned Mussolinis; two short story collections and a poetry collection (Light And Time, Guernica Editions, 2010). His short story “A Theory of Discontinuous Existence” was a Journey Prize Anthology selection, while “The Sand Flea” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
BACKLIST QUATTRO FICTION Retina Green by Reinhard Filter ISBN # 9781926802114 Tobacco Wars by Paul Seesequasis ISBN # 9781926802121 Gaze by Keith Cadieux ISBN # 9781926802107 The Sea by Amela Marin ISBN # 9781926802091 The Panic Button by Koom Kankesan ISBN # 978-1-926802-30-5 Grace by Vanessa Smith ISBN # 978-1-926802-26-8 Break Me by Tom Reynolds ISBN # 978-1-926802-32-9
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Shrinking Violets by Heidi Greco ISBN # 978-1-926802-36-7 $16.95 Real Gone by Jim Christy ISBN # 9781926802015 $16.95 The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon by Michael Wex ISBN # 9780978280628 $16.95 A Gardener on the Moon by Carole Giangrande ISBN # 9781926802053 $16.95 Good Evening, Central Laundromat by Jason Heroux ISBN # 9781926802046 $16.95 Of All the Ways To Die by Brenda Niskala ISBN # 9780981018669 $16.95 The Cousin by John Calabro ISBN # 9780981018638 $16.95
Harbour View by Binnie Brennan ISBN # 9780981018645 $16.95 The Extraordinary Event of Pia H. by Nicola Vulpe ISBN # 9780981018607 $18.95 A Pleasant Vertigo by Egidio Coccimiglio ISBN # 9780981018652 $14.95 Wit in Love by Sky Gilbert ISBN # 9780978280666 $16.95 Room Tone by Gale Zoë Garnett ISBN # 9780978280611 $16.95
Sew Him Up by Beatriz Hausner ISBN # 9781926802022 $16.95 Psychic Geographies and Other Topics by Gregory Betts ISBN # 9781926802008 $16.95 The Sylvia Hotel Poems by George Fetherling ISBN # 9780981018690 $15.95 Ten Thousand Miles Between Us by Rocco de Giacomo ISBN # 9780981018676 $16.95 A River at Night by Paul Zemokhol ISBN # 9780981018614 $16.95 This Is How I Love You by Barbara Landry ISBN # 9780978280697 $15.95 Looking at Renaissance Paintings by Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni ISBN # 9780978280680 $15.95
The Hawk by Rob Rolfe ISBN # 9780978280673 My Etruscan Face by Gianna Patriarca ISBN # 9780978280635 Garden Variety Edited by Lily Contento ISBN # 9780978280642 MIC CHECK Edited by David Silverberg ISBN # 9780978280659 Evidence by Samuel Andreyev ISBN # 9780981018683
QUATTRO POETRY Rough Wilderness by Rosemary Aubert ISBN # 9781926802411 Saugeen by Rob Rolfe ISBN # 9781926802398 Book of Disorders by Luciano Iacobelli ISBN # 978-1-926802-28-2 Strong Bread by Giovanna Riccio ISBN # 978-1-926802-34-3 Interstellar by Allan Briesmaster ISBN # 9780978280604 hold the note by Domenico Capilongo ISBN # 9781926802084 syrinx and systole by Matthew Remski ISBN # 9781926802077
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FOURFRONT EDITIONS Behind the Whip: Dominatrix by Maria Coletsis ISBN 9781926802381 Hard Cover Art Photography $40
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