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CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING TITLES FROM BACK PAGES BOOKS
MARCH/APRIL/MAY
A Long Journey to Russia
Richard Fenigsen
"An important contribution to our understanding of the Second World War in Eastern Europe" -Antony Polonsky, author of The Jews in Poland and Russia
As the Nazi Army swept into Eastern Europe in 1939, Richard Fenigsen, a sixteen year-old Polish Jew, fled his hometown and arrived with his family in the Soviet-controlled southeast of Poland. Within months they were deported thousands of miles into the heart of Russia. A singular, poignant portrait of daily life in Russia during World War II, A Long Journey to Russia is an epic adventure at the periphery of a great tragedy, and a testament that the wecoming of strangers is possible even in the darkest of times. [PRE-ORDER HERE]
Foreclosure
Gregory Lawless
"Beautifully tuned elegies" - David Rivard
Haunting and spare, Gregory Lawless' Foreclosure poems create a nearly cacophonous vision of a world at once broken and beautiful. [PRE-ORDER HERE]
13 Small Apostrophes
Jonathan Weinert
"Innovative, moving, and memorable poems." - Mark Irwin
A powerful, dark, and surreal chapbook collection of thirteen poems whose broken landscapes yield a haunted vision of the world reminiscent of Stephen Crane's epic works, War is Kind and The Dark Riders. [PRE-ORDER HERE]
Leviathan
Daniel Wuenschel with Illustrations by Michael Shapiro
An urgent and eloquent declaration, "Leviathan" is a powerful poetic excoriation of the forces that have torn apart the fabric of modern America. [PRE-ORDER HERE]
FEATURED TITLES FROM BACK PAGES BOOKS
The State of The Union: Notes on an Obama Administration
Howard Zinn
Available nationally for the first time, celebrated historian Howard Zinn's stripped and powerful observation of the mindsets that permeate American government is a singular historical document just two years after it was initially published. Based on a talk delivered in the weeks following the historic election of Barack Obama,
The State of the Union is a sobering look at whether the new president could turn the euphoria of a nation toward enacting the change his supporters had hoped for. Ever more urgent in its prescience, this powerful and radical analysis of the opportunities for change now stands out as a deeply important book from an equally important moment in American history.
THE HISTORY OF WALTHAM (YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION)
A book every 3 months!
Sign on to get four fascinating small volumes on the singular, rich history of Waltham. Each quarter, a new book on Watch City will arrive from Back Pages Books, your community bookstore and your community publisher all rolled into one!
A Model Factory in a Model City (History of Waltham #2)
A Social Study
John Swinton
The Sound of One Body
Stories
Anara Guard
A haunting collection of vignettes that capture
the powerful reverberations of even the briefest encounters.
The Shaking Tent (History of Waltham #1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson's first sermons from the first industrial town in America
Laurence A. Green
A groundbreaking re-evaluation of Emerson's deep personal
and philosophical ties to America's first industrial city, including
the full reproduction of his first two sermons, delivered on October 15, 1826.
