VITTLES & CHAMPAGNE
Recipes by Friends of Abandoned Animal Rescue
Edited by Jackie Pelham

264 pages of over 250 recipes by 99 contributors. Many recipes include nostalgic, funny and downhome essays about the recipe. Fun to read, delicious to prepare.

HERE'S TO NOAH, BLESS HIS ARK AND OTHER MUSINGS
Essays and Non-fiction by Paul Ruffin

This first collection of Ruffin's non-fiction gives us a broad sampling from his treasure chest of hundreds of column pieces and essays published over a fifteen-year period. Paraded before you are family, food, folks, foolishness and a whole lot of fun.

SONGS FROM THE BONE CLOSET
Poetry & Prose by Martha Everhart Braniff

Nominated for the 2004 Violet Crown Award, this is a collection of magical realism poems and stories. Braniff's empathy for "saints and sinners" is reflected in the mystical world of shamans, holy poets and miracle workers.

BLUE ALLEYS
Prose Poetry by Paul Christensen
Winner of the 2002 Violet Crown Award in Literature

These 39 prose poems are an insightful journey into adolescence and beyond. With powerful and thought-provoking images, Christensen exposes to the nerve his encounters with puberty, love, loss and spiritual awakening. An amazing gift from one of the most talented poets of our time.

HEART SPEAK, Monologues for Men and Women
by Christopher Woods.
A collection of two monologue shows, "Women Alone" and "Lover, Killer, Angel, Thief."

Dramatist, poet, short story writer Christopher Woods has a knack for getting to the heart of a character that is hard to match. He is as adept at exploring a woman's sexuality as he is at peeling to the core a man's fears and foibles. Taken from his hundred or so brief fiction stories, this cast of lovable quirky characters are a delight to perform as well as to read.

UNDER THE ROSE
by Jacqueline Pelham
A World War II Intrigue
Publisher is Eakin Press in Austin, Texas

In this, her first novel, Jackie Pelham delves into the depths of human frailties. From the drawing rooms of the upper echelons of French aristocracy, to a repository for looted treasures, through the sewers of Paris, and along the ramparts of a chateau in the Loire Valley, the unlikeliest of spies is pursued by an SS Colonel with only one desire: to possess her body and soul and to gain control of her family fortune.