Garnett Kilberg Cohen (Illinois)
How We Move the Air

Short fiction. Paper, perfect bound, 110 pp
$16.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-935

How We Move the Air tells the story of musician Jake Doyle’s suicide and how, over time, it affected those who knew him. In seven linked stories, Garnett Kilberg Cohen explores the complex ways in which people choose to remember—or not remember—the past.

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George Dila (Ludington, MI)
Nothing More to Tell

Trade Paperback, 110 pp
$15.95 plus s&h
2011, ISBN 978-1-936419-05-0

Nothing More to Tell brings together short stories that reflect the combined effects of history, family, and society on the men and women of Michigan's small towns and big cities. Dila's prose presents us with a view of middle-aged, middle-class men that is at once ruthlessly honest and understanding. Their lives are tightly woven chains of successes and failures, which culminate in episodes that are sometimes comic, often catastrophic. The pieces in this collection will sometimes cause laughter, sometimes outrage; but they are unflinching in their demand for compassion.

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Andrei Guruianu (Illinois)
Metal and Plum: A Memoir

Prose. Paper, perfect bound, 124 pp.
$16.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-966

This extraordinary memoir captures cultural dislocation and hope. Guruianu eloquently conveys the impact of immigration on his family, contrasting the hardships of Ceausescu's Romania with the challenges of adaptation to the United States.

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Rabbi Manes Kogan (New York)
Fables from the Jewish Tradition

Jewish Fables. Paper, illustrated, perfect bound, 104 pp.
$19.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-669

Fables from the Jewish Tradition, compiled by Rabbi Manes Kogan, is a graceful English presentation of Jewish fables and their cultural and religious context. Luminous color illustrations by Marcelo Ferder, Kogan’s extensive notes, and his enlightening short essay about fables and the Jewish textual tradition are highlights of the collection.

Eleanor Lerman
Janet Planet

Fiction. Paper, perfect bound, 208 pp
$17.95 plus s&h
2011, ISBN 978-1-936419-067

Janet Planet is a unique work that attempts to showcase the young and rebellious spirit of a Woodstock generation that eventually grew up-and away-from those glorious hippie days. In the novel, Janet Harris-known as Janet Planet-is the reader's guide into and out of the psychedelic years as she joins Jorge Castelan (a fictionalized Castaneda) and his circle of women and then falls into the new age movement of alternative spirituality. Set in the hippie haven of Woodstock, Janet embarks on her own spiritual journey into the mystery that lies beyond life.

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Eleanor Lerman (Long Beach, NY)
The Blonde on the Train

Short Fiction. Paper, perfect bound, 164 pp.
$16.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-737

From Greenwich Village in the ‘60s to Woodstock, NY, to an airport in the Midwest, Eleanor Lerman's stunning short stories explore the disenchantment of this world, with love and hope and humor.

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John Palen
Small Economies

Short Fiction. Paper, perfect bound, 58 pp
$13.95 plus s&h
2012, ISBN 978-1-936419-09-8

Small Economies's short stories and flash fictions are economical in narration but comprehensive in their suggestion of the past, present, and future lives of their characters. The moments they contain are set against the background of diverse public spaces: the institutions, stores, factories, restaurants, even the street corners where people must come together and choose to serve, reject, or compete against one another. Palen writes with a poet's sensitivity to language and the physical, as well as empathy for all of his characters. The stories convey his clear conception of the sometimes devastating outcomes produced by the exchanges, material and intangible, people make and fail to make.

Lydia S. Rosner
The Russian Writer's Daughter

Memoir. Paper, Perfect Bound. 104pp.
$15.95 plus S&H
2012, ISBN 978-1-936419-10-4

The Russian Writer's Daughter by Lydia S. Rosner is a collection of lively autobiographical stories about growing up in a Russian-American Jewish household in the stifling political atmosphere of the Red Scare. At the center of these memories is Lyduce's father, whose complex personality mixes a passion for social justice, the desire to protect his family, and intellectual snobbery. In this revelatory memoir, international politics shadow a child's gradual awakening to her father's humanity. As she tells her family's story, Rosner shows how complicated autobiography can be, more a matter of pursuing the truth than asserting it.

Rhoda Stamell (Detroit)
Detroit Stories

Short Fiction. Paper, perfect bound, 102 pp.
$18.50 plus s&h
2006, ISBN 0-932412-38-6

Mayapple Press's first fiction publication. As Charles Baxter says, "All the grit, humor, intelligence and darkness of Detroit" can be found in this collection of stories about people struggling to love and be loved.

2006 Pushcart Prize nominee

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Rhoda Stamell (Detroit)
The Art of Ruin

Novel. Paper, perfect bound, 126 pp
$18.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 978-0932412-782

Suliman grew up as a street kid in Detroit. In jail, he began to understand himself as a man who can change things with his hands and his sense of beauty.  When he meets Kate, an older woman who has always found her sense of worth in sexual relationships, she becomes his patron.  Although she is unable to free herself from her own rigid sense of how things are supposed to be, Kate helps Suliman to reinvent himself as a successful artist, finding beauty and vitality in the urban landscape of Detroit.

Rhoda Stamell’s  fiction contains conflicts of novel proportion. She is a conduit for disparate urban voices, jamming characters who probably should be kept away from each other into situations where interaction is a demand as important as breath. The voices of her people are true to the ear and to themselves. These are quirky, sometimes dangerous citizens familiar with just missed opportunities.

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Angela Williams (Beulah, MI)
With a Cherry on Top: Stories, Poems, Recipes & Fun Facts from Michigan Cherry Country

Nonfiction with poetry, fiction, photographs.
Paper, perfect bound, 130 pp
$17.95 plus s&h
2006, ISBN 0-932412-41-6

Cherries are to Northern Michigan what oranges are to Florida! In this highly personal view of Michigan's cherry industry, Angela Williams cooks up a delightful confection of reminiscences, poems, recipes, facts and photos. The book features poetry, memoirs and fiction by Michigan writers Anne-Marie Oomen, Norm Wheeler, Conrad Hilberry, Jackie Bartley, Linda Nemec Foster, Gerry LaFemina, David Sosnowski, Mary Ann Samyn and others.

2006 Pushcart Prize nominee