Forthcoming from Hansen Publishing Group

Released October 2009

Last Rites
by Joseph M. Paprzycki
ISBN 978-1-60182-332-8

LAST RITES is a play about misplaced faith. It unfolds in Camden, New Jersey in 1967 as this blue-collar city experiences the closing of a major shipyard. If the shipyard is the heart of south Camden, then the soul of this working-class neighborhood is Walt’s Café, a mom and pop corner bar. There you meet the owners, Walt and Sue Evanuk, whose lives revolve around the rhythms of lunch whistles and shipyard work shifts as they serve up beers and sandwiches to steamfitters, welders and shipbuilders.

Released October 2009

Stones
by Michael Aaron Rockland
ISBN 978-1-60182-300-7

STONES is a novel simultaneously serious and comic. It takes place in one day as its protagonist, Jack Berke, accompanies his aged mother Rachel to visit the family graves in Brooklyn, Queens, and further out on Long Island. As Jack negotiates the congested expressways from cemetery to cemetery, he contemplates the tombstones, the lives of family members who lie under them, the stones that, according to Jewish custom, he places on those tombstones, and the stone that has for a lifetime resided in his own heart.

Releasing in November 2009

Applied Financial Accounting: Implications for Analysts
by Alexander J. Sannella
ISBN 978-1-60182-080-0

Applied Financial Accounting: Implications for Analysts presents an analytical explanation as well as practical examples of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), written in a clear, lucid style for readers of all levels. Comprehensive coverage is provided for all accounting and reporting issues that are critical to the financial and credit analyst, with the exposition of GAAP made without the use of mechanical bookkeeping procedures. This is accomplished through an analysis of the financial accounting issue; the effects of GAAP on the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows; numerical illustrations; alternative treatments; and the impact of GAAP on financial ratios and analytical statistics.

Released June 2009

Rancho Pancho
by Gregg Barrios
ISBN 978-1-60182-331-1

RANCHO PANCHO, a two-act play, explores the turbulent and passionate relationship between playwright Tennessee Williams and lover Pancho Rodriguez, who inspired the character of Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire.

RANCHO PANCHO follows their relationship from the summer of 1946 on Nantucket Island with their house guest, the novelist Carson McCullers, to the summer of 1947 in Provincetown and the arrivals of director Margo Jones, aspiring actor Marlon Brando and the tumultuous and final break up of Tennessee Williams and Pancho Rodriguez.

Releasing in Spring 2010

Tennessee Williams: His Life, His Art, His World
by Richard Freeman Leavitt and Kenneth Holditch
ISBN 978-1-60182-000-6

Tennessee Williams: His Life, His Art, His World covers the life, the art, and the world of America’s greatest playwright, Tennessee Williams. The book is based on the photographic collection of Richard Freeman Leavitt, a devoted friend of Williams in the later part of his life. The photographs are preceded by essays written by Leavitt and Kenneth Holditch, a friend and Tennessee Williams scholar.