Posts by Coffeetown Press
The Fun of Speaking English, Dorothea Grossman
The Fun of Speaking English: Selected Poems (120 pages) is the definitive collection of American poet Dorothea Grossman. She died on May 6, 2012 at the age of 74. While we were deeply saddened by Dorothea’s death, we feel fortunate that she had already approved nearly every aspect of the design and content. We completed…
Read MoreThe Gathering Place, by E.G. Sergoyan
The Gathering Place: Stories from the Armenian Social Club in Old Shanghai (216 pages), is a collection of stories compiled from interviews with Armenians who immigrated to Asia during the first half of the twentieth century. A hundred years ago, the small country of Armenia within the Ottoman Empire became the site of continuous border…
Read MoreDeath of a Dean, by Hazel Holt
Death of a Dean, by Hazel Holt While in Stratford, widow Sheila Malory always stays with her old friend, actor David Beaumont. On this visit she finds him in dire straits: his career is on the skids and his finances are in ruins. Unless he can convince his penny-pinching brother Francis to sell their jointly…
Read MoreSuperfluous Death, by Hazel Holt
Superfluous Death, by Hazel Holt The sleepy seaside town of Taviscombe has more than its share of gossips and schemers. It also has Mrs. Sheila Malory, a widow whose gift for judging character and unmasking murderers is as impressive as her knowledge of nineteenth-century literature. Mrs. Malory’s sleuthing talents are tested once again when she…
Read MoreMurder on Campus, by Hazel Holt
Murder on Campus, by Hazel Holt A small university in Pennsylvania has engaged Mrs. Sheila Malory to teach a course on Nineteenth-Century Women writers, and so, with some reluctance, the widow leaves her home in the charming seaside village of Taviscombe to experience academic life in America. The semester will prove even more challenging than…
Read MoreThe Boulevard of Broken Discourse, by Matthew Freeman
The Boulevard of Broken Discourse (140 pages), is a book of poems by St. Louis poet Matthew Freeman. Coffeetown published Freeman’s collection, Darkness Never Far, in 2010. In May of 2014, Matthew won The Graduate Poetry Prize from the University of Missouri, St Louis. Critics have high praise for Freeman’s poetry: “Gritty and real, full…
Read MoreBetween the Two Rivers (Second Edition), Aida Kouyoumjian
Between the Two Rivers (302 pages) is the account of the real-life saga of Aida Kouyoumjian’s mother Mannig, who as a young girl was one of a small minority of Armenians who survived the massacre and deportation from the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I. Historians estimate that 1.5 to 2 million Armenians…
Read MoreBetween the Two Rivers, by Aida Kouyoumjian
This first edition of Between the Two Rivers has been replaced with a second edition. Learn more by clicking here. Between the Two Rivers (342 pages) is the real-life saga of Aida Kouyoumjian’s mother Mannig, who as a young girl was one of a small minority of Armenians who survived the massacre and deportation from…
Read MoreHazel Holt’s first four Mrs. Mallory Mysteries are Back in Print
Coffeetown Press is proud to reissue the first four novels of Hazel Holt’s Mrs. Malory mysteries, a classic “cozy” series based in the fictional English town of Taviscomb featuring a forthright, middle-aged female detective who has a lot in common with the delightful Hazel Holt herself. Read an interview with the author. [To order, please…
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