Fall & Winter Releases from Pisgah
Books by Peter Loewer, Ferster & Bevan, and Al & Sunny Lockwood
Letters of the Lost Children: Japan — WWII, by Reinhold C. Ferster and Jan Atchley Bevan is now available through local bookstores and online booksellers. The coffee table-sized volume ($34.95, 35 illustrations) is built around original pictures of Japan’s student-soldiers (some as young as 13) sacrificed as military fodder in the final years of the Second World War. The cache of photographs, apparently collected by an unidentified American soldier, forms the background for an in-depth, dramatic recreation of the lost lives of these unknown boys through a series of well researched, re-imagined letters to family and loved ones. The book includes historical research into the culture of Imperial Japan and its approach to war.
In May 2021 Pisgah Press will release Peter Loewer’s mystery novel, The Last of the Swindlers, set in the mythical (but based-on-reality) town of Fernglade in Madison County, NC during the long-ago 1970s. A despicable religious cult, smugglers, and corruption plague the town in this delightful cozy mystery. Peter Loewer is best known as “The Wild Gardener,” author (and illustrator) of more than two dozen books on gardening, horticulture, and living with the natural environment. This wonderful murder mystery brings his familiar in-depth knowledge of his subject matter and his well-known dry wit to the fore.
In a first collaboration with Sunny and Al Lockwood’s Front Porch Publishing, Pisgah Press will release the print version of one of the couple’s delightful travel books: Cruising Eastern Canada, about their voyage from Boston to Montreal—via Bar Harbor, Maine; Halifax, Nova Scotia; Prince Edward Island; Quebec City, and other 0aritime stops and the St. Lawrence River.
The Lockwood’s have written numerous best-selling travel memoirs, in both eBook and print formats, including: Cruising Panama’s Canal: Savoring 5,000 Nautical Miles and 500,000 Decadent Calories; Cruising the Mediterranean; Finding Ourselves in Venice, Florence, Rome & Barcelona; Cruising the Atlantic: Our Epic Journey from Miami to Barcelona; and Cruising the Mississippi: From New Orleans to Memphis on a Genuine Paddlewheeler.
Reed’s Homophones Fourth Edition with expanded listings is available now at Amazon
Editor-in-chief A.D. Reed has updated and expanded the fourth edition of Reed’s Homophones: A Comprehensive Book of Sound-alike Words. It’s available here or through Amazon.com for just $14.95.