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  • Family Trouble

    Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family

    Edited by Joy Castro ...
    Whenever a memoirist gives a reading, someone in the audience is sure to ask: How did your family react? Revisiting our pasts and exploring our experiences, we often reveal more of our nearest and dearest than they might prefer. This volume navigates the emotional and literary minefields that any writer of family stories or secrets must travel when depicting private lives for public consumption ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Ploughshares Spring 2019 Guest-Edited by Rigoberto González

    by Rigoberto González, Zeina Hashem Beck, Sherwin Bitsui, Joy Castro, Emily Raboteau, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Serkan Gorkemli, Brock Clarke, Daniel Chacón, Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Paul Tran, Alice Elliott Dark, Serkan GÖrkemli, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Edgar Gomez, Marcos Gonsalez, Jonathan Winston Jones, Marie Mutsuki Mockett, Sara Borjas, Sarah Burke, Andrés Cerpa, Victoria Chang, Tiana Clark, Geffrey Davis, Paul Guest, Kimiko Hahn, James Allen Hall, Safia Jama, Ilya Kaminsky, Jennifer L. Knox, Rachel McKibbens, Rajiv Mohabir, Nkosi Nkululeko, Julian Randall, Jayme Ringleb, Viplav Saini, Callie Siskel, Jake Skeets, Devon Walker-Figueroa, Marcus Wicker, Lisa Mullenneaux ...
    Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”As guest-editor ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Tears and Flowers

    A Poet of Migration in Old Key West

    by Feliciano Castro ...
    A bilingual edition of poetry that provides a unique window into Cuban émigré lifeA rare glimpse into the history of the Cuban community in Key West in the early twentieth century, this book makes the poetry of Feliciano Castro available in English for the first time. A Galician Cuban who lived for decades in the southernmost city of the United States, Castro worked as a lector reading to cigar ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • How Winter Began

    Stories

    by Joy Castro ...
    Series series Flyover Fiction
    Iréne gives the wealthy businessmen what they want, diving headfirst into the filthy river, thinking only of providing for her baby daughter, Marisa, as the men salivate over her soaked body emerging onto the bank. A young boy tries to befriend the reticent younger sister of the town’s cruelest bully, only to discover the family betrayal behind her quiet countenance. Josefa, a young bride, is ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Waveform

    Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women

    by Marcia Aldrich, Eula Biss, Barrie Jean Borich, Joy Castro, Patricia Foster, Sonja Livingston, Kyoko Mori, Bich Minh Nguyen, Jericho Parms, Kristen Radtke0, Cheryl Strayed1, Nicole Walker2, Amy Wright3, Jocelyn Bartkevicius4, Chelsea Biondolillo5, Laurie Lynn Drummond6, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich7, Michele Morano8, Adriana Paramo9, Meghan Daum0, Neela Vaswani1, Sarah Valentine2, Dana Tommasino3, Wendy Rawlings4, Torrey Peters5, Brenda Miller6, Margo Jefferson7, Leslie Jamison8, Roxane Gay9, Jaquira Díaz0 ...
    Waveform celebrates the role of women essayists in contemporary literature. Historically, women have been instrumental in moving the essay to center stage, and Waveform continues this rich tradition, further expanding the dynamic genre’s boundaries and testing its edges. With thirty essays by thirty distinguished and diverse women writers, this carefully constructed anthology incorporates works ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Art of Touch

    A Collection of Prose and Poetry from the Pandemic and Beyond

    by Faye Rapoport DesPres, Magdalena Ball, Bonnie Boucher, Anne Casey, Joy Castro, Quintin Collins, Paula Coomer, Laura Crucianelli, María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado0, Linda DeFruscio-Robinson1, Erika Dreifus2, Raphael Frumkin3, Nicole Hardy4, Will Jennings5, Meg Kearney6, Becky Kennedy7, Sarah Kotchian8, Rocco Lo Bosco9, Sarah McElwain0, Damian McNicholl1, Lynda Miller2, Lynn C. Miller3, Sarah Moon4, Kate Niles5, Anne-Marie Oomen6, Alicia Ostriker7, Christine Page8, Judith Simon Prager9, Robert Root0, Paul Singer1, Phyllis M Skoy2, Donna Baier Stein3, Grace Anne Stevens4, Alison Stone5, Daniel B. Summerhill6, Deborah Swift7, Beatriz Terrazas8, Meg Tuite9, Susan J. Tweit0 ...
    In The Art of Touch: Prose and Poetry from the Pandemic and Beyond, the unique voices of thirty-nine of some of the most creative thinkers of our times have been brought together to consider the profound impact of one of our five main senses: touch.Psychologists, healers, massage therapists, academics, creative writers, and others reflect on or tell personal stories about what it means to be able ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Hell or High Water

    A Novel

    by Joy Castro ...
    Series Book 1 - Nola Céspedes Novels
    A psychological thriller in the vein of Kate Atkinson and Tana French that introduces Nola Céspedes, an intense and spellbinding protagonistNola Céspedes, an ambitious young reporter at the Times-Picayune, catches a break: An assignment to write her first full-length feature. While researching her story, she also becomes fixated on the search for a missing tourist in New Orleans. As Nola's work ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Nearer Home

    A Novel

    by Joy Castro ...
    Series Book 2 - Nola Céspedes Novels
    The irresistible, razor-sharp second book in the post-Katrina New Orleans-set crime series featuring unforgettable and gutsy reporter Nola CéspedesEarly one morning, Times-Picayune crime reporter Nola Céspedes goes for her regular run in Audubon Park. More than the heat of the dawning New Orleans day, she's trying to outrun her growing unease with the man she's seeing, who is pushing her to get ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Audiobook

    One Brilliant Flame

    A Novel

    by Joy Castro ...
    Narrated by Krysta Gonzales, Tania Possick, Frankie Corzo, Gary Tiedemann, Jonathan Villanueva, Andre Santana ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 44 min

    A nineteenth-century utopia becomes a powder keg of political intrigue and betrayal in an enthralling historical novel—inspired by actual events—by the author of Flight Risk.Key West, 1886. The booming cigar industry makes it the most prosperous city in Florida. As a rebel base for the anticolonial insurgency in Cuba, it’s also a tinderbox for six young friends with ambitious dreams.They all brim ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Flight Risk

    A Novel

    by Joy Castro ...
    Narrated by Rebecca Mozo ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 24 min

    A woman is forced to face her past in a heartbreaking and triumphant novel of old wounds and family secrets by award-winning author Joy Castro.Isabel Morales is a successful Chicago sculptor hiding a brutal family history—one not even her husband knows. After decades of turning her back on her past, she’s forced to return to Appalachia when she receives news of her estranged mother’s death.But ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Hell or High Water

    by Joy Castro ...
    Narrated by Roxanne Hernandez ...
    Series series Nola Cespedes Mysteries

    Unabridged

    12 hours 2 min

    Nola Cespedes, an ambitious young reporter at the Times-Picayune, finally catches a break: an assignment to write her first full-length feature. While investigating her story, she also becomes fixated on the search for a missing tourist in the French Quarter. As Nola's work leads her into a violent criminal underworld, she's forced to face disturbing truths from her own past. Vividly rendered in ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Nearer Home

    A Nola Cespedes Mystery

    by Joy Castro ...
    Narrated by Roxanne Hernandez ...
    Series series Nola Cespedes Mysteries

    Unabridged

    8 hours 4 min

    Early one morning, Times-Picayune crime reporter Nola Cespedes goes for her regular run in Audubon Park. Instead, Nola finds herself at the scene of a crime when she discovers a dead body. Worse, Nola recognizes the victim: Judith Taffner, her former journalism professor at Tulane. Not convinced Dr. Taffner's murder was the random work of a psychopath, Nola takes it upon herself to investigate. ... Read more

    $24.99 USD