Paul Dry Books

07/24/2019

A starred review from Kirkus Reviews for TAKE IT LYING DOWN by Jim Linnell:

"A powerful exploration of navigating physical disability . . . Every chapter is filled with memorable analogies and metaphors, making Linnell’s journey to partial recovery a pleasurable intellectual experience for readers despite the horrors, fears, and winding mental path through rehab . . . A stunning account."

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"A stunning account."―Kirkus, starred reviewTake It Lying Down is “a movingly intricate weave—a detailed and poetic chronicle of healing against all odds, an intense love story, a narrative of a young man’s journey from Maine to New Mexico and adulthood, and a book of literary inspiration an...

06/05/2019

NEW! Dottoressa: An American Doctor in Rome by Susan Levenstein, MD

"Wise and witty." — Publishers Weekly

"A charming story well told." — Kirkus Reviews

"A funny and endearing but also deadly serious memoir of the Italian health care system by an astute and caring outsider."
— Booklist

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10/01/2018

The New York Times Books Review calls Katharine Weber's STILL LIFE WITH MONKEY a "deeply but delicately penetrating novel" in their lovely review. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/books/review/still-life-with-monkey-katharine-weber.html

In her latest novel, Katharine Weber depicts the relationship between a quadriplegic architect and his monkey helper.

09/05/2018

Karen Joy Fowler reviewed STILL LIFE WITH MONKEY for the Washington Post: "In precise and often luminous prose, with intelligence and tenderness, Weber’s latest novel examines the question of what makes a life worth living."

“Still Life with Monkey,” by Katharine Weber, explores the meaning of real happiness.

07/11/2018

Nathan Dahlstrom (pen name SJ Dahlstrom, author of 'The Adventures of Wilder Good' series) takes us on a tour of his home town of Lubbock, TX in Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine https://bit.ly/2L577a6

06/29/2018

Animal viral diseases and spillover to humans results in some of the most important and devastating infections and outbreaks known to humans. My guest today looks at a number of these zoonotic diseases with superb storytelling interwoven with history, virology and public health. The name of the newl...

05/30/2018

Starred review for Katharine Weber's STILL LIFE WITH MONKEY from Kirkus Reviews!

"Stark and compelling . . . Rigorously unsentimental yet suffused with emotion: possibly the best work yet from an always stimulating writer."

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An architect and his wife grapple with the aftermath of a catastrophic accident in Weber's sixth novel (True Confections, 2009, etc.).

05/16/2018

New this month!

Animal Viruses and Humans: A Narrow Divide
by Warren A. Andiman

"Andiman gives you a front row seat in the ongoing battle between man and disease . . . Gripping stories, filled with details that are in equal part delicious and disgusting, but always fascinating."—Lisa Sanders, MD, author of Every Patient Tells a Story and the New York Times Magazine "Diagnosis" column

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04/25/2018

Here's Fancy, just checking out the latest in Fiction. S.J. Dahlstrom, author of the Wilder Good series, rides his buckskin mare into an elementary school library in Lubbock, TX.

04/04/2018

Author SJ Dahlstrom--"a real cowboy"--at the Texas Library Association conference . Hear what he has to say about why he writes his award-winning Wilder Good series. Thanks for the interview KidLit TV!

01/15/2018

S.J. Dahlstrom, author of the Wilder Good series, on writing for and about kids...

A Lubbock teacher continues to win awards for his children’s book series about Wilder Good, and plans for another book in the series to be released this spring.

01/15/2018

"David Mason finds poetry while exploring the world." Read an excerpt from Voices, Places on The American Scholar.

An excerpt from David Mason’s new collection of essays on literature and travel

12/04/2017

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12/04/2017

Kirkus and PW love Voices, Places: Essays by David Mason

"An illuminating literary cartography with many fascinating ports of call.”—Kirkus Reviews

"Mason expertly weaves the stories of great writers and places both ancient and new together into an imaginative literary odyssey. . .This special collection leaves readers with a sense of wanderlust and a refreshing new lens through which to view literature and travel."—Publishers Weekly

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12/04/2017

Not only is The Winged Girl of Knossos a riveting adventure story and a moving tale of love and friendship; it is also filled with detail about Greek history.

09/13/2017

Paul Dry Books will be at the Brooklyn Book Festival this Sunday (Sept. 17) in Booth #223.

Stop by, say hello, and SAVE 50% off all books.

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06/26/2017

The Wall Street Journal called The Winged Girl of Knossos by Erick Berry an "ingenious reimagining of the myths of Theseus and Icarus with a bold, clever girl in the starring role" and "brimming with adventure and historical detail." https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-best-new-childrens-books-1497635579

In ancient Crete, a bold and clever girl dives with sponge fishers, vaults over bulls and banters in a saucy way with her elders. Reviews of “Joplin, Wishing” by Diane Stanley and “The Winged Girl of Knossos” by Erick Berry.

06/05/2017

"In the wonderfully energetic Inas, [Berry has] created a heroine for the ages, one of the first and most memorable self-determining girls in the Newbery canon...a rediscovery that no fan of children’s historical fiction, myth-inspired adventure stories, or Newbery-award books should miss." —The Emerald City Book Review on THE WINGED GIRL OF KNOSSOS (now available!)

Erick Berry, The Winged Girl of Knossos (1934) Ever since Betsy Bird put this long-lost Newbery honor book from 1934 at the top of her list of underrated middle grade books I’ve been dying to…