Forthcoming Releases

 Our 2013 Titles

 You can now pre-order any of our summer titles in the Homebound Publications bookstore.

Gray Areas

A Short Story Collection

by Carmen Burcea-Haber

ISBN: 978-1-938846-08-3  | 5.5 x 8.5 | 156 pgs Paperback

Release Date: June 8, 2013 | Pre-order now>>

About the Book: Gray Areas is a collection of entertaining and twisted tales written by Romanian-born Carmen Burcea-Haber. Following in the tradition of the droll and biting humor of Roald Dahl, the essential story-telling of Graham Greene and the psychological explorations of Patricia Highsmith, Ms. Burcea-Haber offers with these twenty-one short stories a playful excursion into revenge, obsession and other human frailties, delivering surprises and horrors where we least expect them.

About the Author: Carmen Burcea-Haber earned a degree in Engineering from the University of Bucharest, and has worked as a model for Romanian and Italian fashion, an actress starring in a movie with Timothy Leary, as a costume designer for numerous films and TV shows in Rome, L.A. and Prague; she wrote and hosted the documentary feature “Last Bus to Baghdad”, has written dozens of short stories, four children’s books, is currently writing a novel and blogs for the Huffington Post.

The Nameless Man

A Novel by L.M. Browning and Marianne Browning

Second Expanded and Revised Edition

ISBN: 978-1-938846-14-4 | 6×9 | 260pgs Paperback

Release Date: July 25, 2013 | Pre-Order Now >>

About the Book: Traveling through the Holy Land, eighteen strangers are forced to take refuge in Jerusalem during a militant attack. Kept in close quarters in an abandoned building, over the course of four days this group of strangers begin a dialogue, discussing love and evil, religion and god; finding amongst their number a mysterious nameless man who poses a revolutionary perspective on these age-old questions.

Journeying on his own pilgrimage as he attempts to come to terms with the violence, betrayal and condemnation of his past, this nameless man reluctantly steps forward to share the realizations he has gathered over the course of his borderless life, leaving those who listened forever changed by the radical transition of perspective his revelations bring about.

Journey to the Heart

A Novel by Nora Caron

ISBN: 978-1-938846-09-0 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 246pgs Paperback

Release Date: July 19, 2013 | Pre-Order Now >>

About the Book: Journey to the Heart is the tale of how one woman overcomes her bitterness and anger regarding life and love. Lucina, a twenty five year-old Canadian computer programmer, travels to Mexico in order to heal herself after a terrible burn-out and yet another bad relationship. By chance, she encounters a deeply insightful Mexican woman named Señora Labotta, who slowly helps her come into contact with her inner Self. But Lucina is stubborn and jaded, and has difficulty stepping out of her past into a universe of fluidity and acceptance. When she meets Teleo, a charming green-eyed healer, Lucina must make a decision: Either return to her fears and anxieties, or enter her heart, a place she knows very little of.

About the Author: After struggling through the academic world, Nora realized that she was not destined to chalk up the past but rather pave a new path for souls that were feeling disoriented in the modern-day materialistic world. In her writings, she speaks of the necessity to return to nature, to our original selves, and to govern our emotions in order to achieve true peace. Nora speaks four languages, has a Masters degree in English literature, and enjoys dabbling in acting and music. In her free time, Nora loves doing sports, meeting open-minded people, and traveling the world.

Tinker’s Damn

Poems by David K. Leff

5.5 x 8.5 | Paperback

Release Date: October 18, 2013 | Pre- Order Coming August 2013!

About the Book: Deeply rooted in place and time, these poems explore nature, the built environment, and human relationships with an acute sense of reverence and wonder that renews the spirit.

About the Author: David K. Leff is a freelance writer from Collinsville, Connecticut. His essays, poems and fiction have appeared in newspapers and magazines. He is the author of the nonfiction works, The Last Undiscovered Place, which was a Connecticut Book Award finalist, Deep Travel and Hidden in Plain Sight. He has also penned two volumes of poetry, The Price of Water and Depth of Field, which pairs poems with his own photographs.

Leff is a member of the Hartford Courant Place Board of Contributors and has been a columnist for local weekly newspapers. He is on the board of the Riverwood Poetry Series. He has been a contest judge for the Connecticut Poetry Society and given poetry workshops for the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival and elsewhere. He has lectured about environmental and community planning topics, nature writing and other subjects on college campuses, at conferences, for annual meetings and other events throughout Connecticut and beyond.

Leff has received a number of awards. In 2012 the Connecticut Association of Conservation and Inland Wetland Commissions gave him “a special recognition award” for his environmental advocacy and writing.

Continental Quotient: Stories from Both Sides of the Divide

by Kristen Lodge

ISBN: 978-1-938846-12-0 | 5.5 x 8.5 | Paperback

Release Date: October 18, 2013 | Pre-Order Coming August 2013!

About the Book: Have you ever dreamed of living at a ski resort, surrounded by mountains, and walking out your door to hike, ski, or mountain bike? This is exactly what happened when Kristen decided to take her first job working at a ski resort at 29. After a couple years living in the best ski resorts in the east, she becomes the westerner she always wanted to be and moves to western Colorado. This collection of stories take place in a mountain towns across the east and the west – both sides of the divide. Some are funny lift line stories about meeting interesting people, and some serious about living in a tough, arid landscape. The stories are filled with poetry, lyrics, words from the masters. Kristen finds forever friends in these places, learns how to ski the bumps in western powder, and becomes a triathlete.

About the Author: Kristen grew up in Plattsburgh, New York and Rye, New Hampshire. She earned a BA in English from the University of New Hampshire. From 1999 to 2012 she lived in ski towns in northern New England and Colorado including Killington, Vermont, Bethel, Maine, Steamboat Springs, Colo., and Granby near Winter Park, Colo,. She now lives in Tucson, Ariz,. Kristen is an outdoor adventurer; hiking, competing in road and mountain biking races, triathlon, and trail running. Exploring the outdoor world is part of her everyday life and is reflected in much of her work. She has published several poems and stories in anthologies, literary magazines and online publications including Wilderness House Literary Review, Press Pause Moments: Essays About Life Transitions by Women Writers, NPR’s: This I Believe, Diverse Voices Quarterly, and River Poets Journal. For 4 years she wrote a weekly outdoor column for a community newspaper in Grand County, Colorado writing about skiing, hiking, poetry, environmental issues, sports, historical preservation, and interviewed several adventures from Colorado.

New Dimensions of Being

A Novel by Nora Caron

ISBN: 978-1-938846-11-3 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 200pgs Paperback

Release Date: November 15, 2013 | Pre-Order Coming September 2013!

About the Book: In this sequel to Journey to the Heart, Lucina is haunted by terrible recurring nightmares. Unsure of what they represent, Teleo and her seek answers but the quest opens up many new areas of life Lucina is not certain she can cope with. Discovering that she is pregnant, Lucina faces a huge decision: Is she ready to become a mother or not? As Lucina stumbles around to find the right path for her, she realizes that keeping love alive is much more complicated than she originally thought.

About the Author: After struggling through the academic world, Nora realized that she was not destined to chalk up the past but rather pave a new path for souls that were feeling disoriented in the modern-day materialistic world. In her writings, she speaks of the necessity to return to nature, to our original selves, and to govern our emotions in order to achieve true peace. Nora speaks four languages, has a Masters degree in English literature, and enjoys dabbling in acting and music. In her free time, Nora loves doing sports, meeting open-minded people, and traveling the world.

Sheltered in the Heart: Spirituality in Deep Friendship

by Gunilla Norris

ISBN: 978-1-938846-10-6 | 5.5 x 8.5 | 130pgs Hardcover

Release Date: November 15, 2013 | Pre-order Coming September 2013!

About the Book: To have the deep love of a friend is to have the shelter in which to embody more and more of the essence that we each are. In her book Gunilla Norris shows how in holding each other with trust and compassion our shells fall away and we emerge into the world as freer beings. Participating in a true friendship is profound and holy work. This book is a gift for the journey.

About the Author: Gunilla Norris’ parents were world travelers in the Swedish diplomatic corps and so she grew up essentially in three places — Argentina, Sweden and the United States. As a child she was given a rich exposure to different languages and cultures. She received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.S. from Bridgeport University in the field of human development. She is a mother and a grandmother. She has been a psychotherapist in private practice for more than thirty years and has felt privileged to accompany many people on their journeys to growth and healing. Her special love has been teaching meditation and leading contemplative workshops of many kinds. As a writer Gunilla has published eleven children’s books, one book of poetry and six books on spirituality including: Being Home, Becoming Bread, Inviting Silence, A Mystic Garden and Simple Ways.

Yeshiva Girl Stories

by Perle Besserman

Release Date: November 15, 2013 | Pre-order Coming September 2013!

About the Book: A collection of linked stories, Yeshiva Girl explores the little-known world of American Orthodox Judaism from a young girl’s perspective. A feminist coming-of-age story paralleling the experiences of Chaim Potok’s yeshiva boys, Besserman’s collection depicts the limited intellectual and social expectations, and stunted future promise, of precocious girl-children like Pnina, who, from her earliest days in a strictly orthodox, all-girl yeshiva (Jewish parochial school) finds herself first questioning, and gradually rebelling against, family constraints as she seeks to forge a new identity in the secular (gentile) world outside her community before ultimately coming to terms with her own.

About the Author: Recipient of the Theodore Hoepfner Fiction Award and past writer-in-residence at the Mishkenot Sha’ananim Artists’ Colony in Jerusalem, Pushcart Prize-nominee Perle Besserman was praised by Isaac Bashevis Singer for the “clarity and feeling for mystic lore” of her writing and by Publisher’s Weekly for its “wisdom [that] points to a universal practice of the heart.” Houghton Mifflin published her autobiographical novel Pilgrimage, and her short fiction has appeared in The Southern Humanities Review, AGNI, Transatlantic Review, Nebraska Review, Southerly, North American Review, and Bamboo Ridge, among others. Her books have been recorded and released in both audio and e-book versions and translated into over ten languages. Her most recent books of creative non-fiction are A New Zen for Women (Palgrave Macmillan) and Zen Radicals, Rebels, and Reformers, coauthored with Manfred Steger (Wisdom Books).

Perle holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Columbia University and has lectured, toured, taught, and appeared on television, radio, and in two documentary films about her work in the US, Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, and the Middle East. She currently divides her time between Honolulu, Hawaii and Melbourne, Australia.

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