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  Leaving Brooklyn Introduction by Ursula Hegi

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Fiction 156pp $14.95 / 0-9766311-4-8

  An injury at birth left fifteen-year -old Audrey with a wandering eye and her own way of seeing; her relationship with a Manhattan eye doctor exposes her to the sexual rites of adulthood in this startling and wonderfully rich novel, which raises the themes of innocence and escape to transcendent heights.

  “ Stunning. Coming of age is seldom registered as disarmingly as it is in Leaving Brooklyn.”

  New York Times Book Review

  Faraway Places Introduction by A.M. Homes

  Tom Spanbauer

  Fiction $15.95 0-9766311-8-0

  This novel marks the end of childhood for Jake Weber and the beginning of trouble for his family. An innocent swim ends with something far beyond anyone’s expectations: Jake witnesses a brutal murder and is forced to keep quiet, even as the woman’s lover is falsely accused.

  “ Forceful and moving … Spanbauer tells his short, brutal story with delicacy and deep respect for place and character.”

  Publishers Weekly

  FINALIST, 2005 OREGON BOOK AWARD

  The Greening of Ben Brown

  Michael Strelow

  Fiction / 268pp $15.95 0-9716915-8-4

  Ben Brown becomes a citizen of East Leven, Oregon after he recovers from an electrocution that has turned him green. He befriends eighteen-year-old Andrew James and together they unearth a chemical-spill cover-up that forces the town to confront its demons and its citizens to choose sides.

  “ Strelow resonates as both poet and storyteller. [ He] lovingly invokes … a blend of fable, social realism, wry wisdom, and irrever - ence that brings to mind Ken Kesey, Tom Robbins, and the best elements of a low-key mystery.”

  The Oregonian

  WINNER, 1987 PEN/ FAULKNER AWARD

  Soldiers in Hiding Introduced by Wole Soyinka

  Richard Wiley

  Fiction 205pp $14.95 / 0-9766311-3-X

  Teddy Maki is a Japanese American jazz musician trapped in Tokyo with his friend, Jimmy Yakamoto, both of whom are drafted into the Japanese army after Pearl Harbor. Thirty years later, Maki is a big star on Japanese TV and wrestling with the guilt over Jimmy ’s death that he’s been carrying since the war.

  “ Wonderful … Original … Terrific … Haunting … Reading Soldiers in Hiding is like watching a man on a high wire!”

  The New York Times

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  Copyright ©2007 Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage-and-retrieval systems, without prior permission in writing from the Publisher, except for brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

  Library of Congress

  Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  eISBN : 978-0-983-85044-1

  1. Young women – Sexual behavior—New York (State)—New York – Fiction.

  2. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.—Fiction.

  I. Title.

  [PS3569.C567L4 2007]

  813’.54 – DC22

  2006100635

  Hawthorne Books

  & Literary Arts

  9 1221 Sw 10th Avenue

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  7 Portland, OR 97205

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  5 Form:

  4 Pinch, Portland, OR

  3

  2 Printed in China

  1 through Print Vision

  Set in Paperback.

  First Hawthorne

  Edition, 2007