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2011 Best of Indie: The Complete List (page 8)


Cover art for INFECTED WITH DIFFERENCE
INDIE
Released: Feb. 14, 2011

"An erudite look at disease from within and without, digressive but ultimately a convincing argument for a paradigm shift in the way we treat what ails us and position ourselves in our eco-political communities."
A detailed brazening out of big questions via a discourse on sickness and heath, mind and body, and human society and the environment. Read full book review >
Cover art for NEWSLADY
INDIE
Released: Nov. 5, 2010

"An honest, engaging self-portrait of a woman who forever changed racial and gender dynamics in media."
A journalist's trailblazing rise and swift fall in TV broadcasting. Read full book review >
Cover art for SIRENS' SONGS
INDIE
Released: Jan. 14, 2011

"A triumphant and eloquent collection that never shies away from the emotional and intellectual entanglements of love and lust, connection and manipulation, the momentary and the eternal.
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A compact yet thematically and stylistically wide-ranging verse collection that contains lyrical and nuanced explorations of love, power, impermanence and aging. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE DARK BEFORE DAWN
INDIE
Released: June 24, 2011

"Memorable characters, macabre scenes and a dazzling portrayal of reality will leave readers anxious for book two in the Gabriel McCray series."
Detective Gabriel McCray, the prime suspect in the Malibu Canyon serial killings, grapples with the ghosts of his tormented past in Stevens' (Follow Your Dreams, 2009, etc.) dark murder mystery. Read full book review >
Cover art for JAWS: MEMORIES FROM MARTHA'S VINEYARD
INDIE
Released: Sept. 29, 2011

"Taylor has taken his love for a specific film and turned it into something greater--a beautiful compendium of not just memorabilia, but commentary on the importance of community in the art of filmmaking."
Loaded with archival material, Taylor's coffee table book captures the impact a major Hollywood production can have on the area in which it was filmed, as well as the people who live there. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE ABOMINABLE GAYMAN
INDIE
Released: Feb. 15, 2010

"An extremely important contribution to the field of Mormon fiction, whose current growth just might make all that explication unnecessary in the future."
In this novelistic collection of short stories, a gay Mormon missionary struggles to make sense of sexuality and spirituality in 1970s Italy. Read full book review >