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Kate Woodworth is the author of the novel Racing Into the Dark (EP Dutton, 1989), hailed as “A compelling exploration of mental illness” by Booklist and as an “auspicious debut” by Publishers Weekly. Her short stories have appeared in Cimarron Review, Western Humanities Review, Shenandoah and other literary journals. A retired medical writer in addition to fiction writer, she has received numerous awards and recognition for her writing, including a Pushcart Prize nomination, multiple Utah Arts Council and Dalton Pen Communication Awards, and an International Association of Business Communicators finalist recognition. She received her MFA from Boston University.

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FICTION | $21
Trade Paper | 5.315” x 8.465”

ISBN: 9781960573902
Pub Date: 5/6/2025

Little Great Island: A Novel

by Kate Woodworth

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ON LITTLE GREAT ISLAND, CLIMATE CHANGE IS DISRUPTING BOTH LIFE AND LOVE

After offending the powerful pastor of a cult, Mari McGavin has to flee with her six-year-old son. With no money and no place else to go, she returns to the tiny Maine island where she grew up—a place she swore she’d never see again. There Mari runs into her lifelong friend Harry Richardson, one of the island’s summer residents, now back himself to sell his family’s summer home. Mari and Harry’s lives intertwine once again, setting off a chain of events as unexpected and life altering as the shifts in climate affecting the whole ecosystem of the island…from generations of fishing families to the lobsters and the butterflies.

Little Great Island Illustrates in microcosm the greatest changes of our time and the unyielding power of love.

Praise for Little Great Island: A Novel

“Little Great Island is an extraordinary achievement and a pure pleasure to read.”

^{—Ha Jin, National Book Award winner and PEN/Faulkner Award winning author of Waiting, War Trash, The Woman Back from Moscow}

“Put Anthony Doerr’s The Shell Collector, John Banville’s The Sea, and Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge into a mixer and out comes Kate Woodworth’s deeply beautiful Little Great Island. With stunning prose and heart-achingly empathetic characters, Woodworth’s story of perseverance amidst change and loss is perfect for our turbulent, changing times.”

^{—Sophie Powell, author of The Mushroom Man}

HISTORICAL FICTION | $18
Trade Paper | 5.315” x 8.465”

ISBN: 978-1-7367954-2-2
Pub Date: 8/08/2023

The Bereaved

by Julia Park Tracey

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A Historical Novel about the Orphan Train and the Mothers Left Behind

Based on her research into her grandfather’s past as an adopted child, Julia Park Tracey has created a mesmerizing work of historical fiction illuminating the darkest side of the Orphan Train.

In 1859, women have few rights, even to their own children. When her husband dies and her children become wards of a predator, Martha—bereaved and scared—flees their beloved country home taking the children with her to the squalor of New York City. But as a naive woman alone, preyed on by male employers, she soon finds herself nearly destitute. The Home for the Friendless offers free food, clothing, and schooling to New York’s street kids and Martha secures a place temporarily for her children there.When she returns for them, she discovers that the Society has indentured her two eldest out to work via

the Orphan Train, and has placed her two youngest for adoption. The Society refusing to help and with the Civil War erupting around her, Martha sets out to reclaim each of them.

Here's what Lynn Cullen, author of Mrs. Poe and The Woman with the Cure had to say about The Bereaved:

“I worried about, admired, and grieved with the indominable Martha Lozier, the heroine of Julia Park Tracey’s exquisite novel. With a sharp eye for just the right details, Tracey brings Martha’s harrowing, astonishing, and ultimately heartrending journey to life. This “everyday” mid-19th century American woman is anything but. How right for her story to be told."

Christian Kiefer, author of Phantoms and the newly released ***The Heart of it All*, said:**

"In The Bereaved, Julia Park Tracey reopens America’s wounds in prose that is propulsive and resonant. Martha’s struggles are the stuff of classic literature. Theodore Dreiser comes to mind, but so, too, the fine contemporary novels of Jo Baker and Maggie O’Farrell."