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Starting with the first essay, this collection makes the case for liberal arts learning and demonstrates the wisdom of Samuel Johnson's claim that "we have art in order to better enjoy our lives or better to endure them." Robert Pack is emeritus professor from Middlebury College and the University of Montana Davidson honors college. He was the Director of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference for many years. These essays are the augmentation of Pa...

This debut collection of poems is a revelation. Written by the poet with no thought to their commercial publication and discovered by happenstance by the publisher, these poems explore the highs and lows of everyday living with metaphors -- " rosebuds stillborn in the falling snow" -- that astonish the reader with their force and simplicity. Often disarming in their brevity, the poems in this collection -- written to be read out loud -- are a ...

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Only those of us who have walked on sharp stones can tell others what it is like. Shelly Knox, the author of this book, has been thrown down on such stones. She has known such a path all her fifty-four years.In this life, no one gets a prize for those who suffered the most. There is no thick skin to cover the innocence of a child. The inward retreat of a constantly abused child knows almost no relief.As I read this book, my caring heart feels ...

THIS JUST IN FROM THE NORTH POLE Santa read this book, and here is what he said: "This book tells the story exactly the way I remember it! I had the sleigh and my boots polished, and I was loading all the gifts, when Mrs. Claus told me the awful news. Reindeer flu had hit all the reindeer from Dasher and Dancer to Donner and Blitzen. Even Rudolf was sneezing and coughing! Our doctor ordered all the reindeer to bed. He said they couldn't fly at...

Educator David Campbell experienced a unique time of life in American history-- growing up in industrial small town Galion, Ohio in the mid-twentieth century. He recorded some of his childhood recollections as part of a memoir for his children that he never finished.Now, with the family's permission, scholar Julian Costa brings Campbell's stories to light in their unabridged form.Explore 1950s Galion with David. Join him as he socializes with ...

It's 1877 and the only thing that Oliver Canyon Golden has ever wanted to do is play poker. But gambling tables and guns can be a deadly combination when the cards don't always fall the way everyone likes. In order to avoid the violence and corruption that runs rampant in the circles he travels in, Canyon is in constant motion, moving from town to town. But then a young saloon girl in Albany, Texas catches his attention, and he's drawn to prot...

Card, Kill Them All BOOK ONE IN THE CARD JORDAN SERIESAN EPIC WESTERN TALE OF REVENGE A young boy on the cusp of manhood... but will his life ever be the same after one fateful hunting trip? The year is 1875 and sixteen-year-old Card Jordan returns from his first solo hunting expedition to find a gang of lawless thieves has murdered his entire family. Etched in the dirt next to his mother's corpse he finds the words CARD, KILL THEM ALL. He vow...

This is a novel based on an incident in the life of Charles Willson Peale, Early American painter, Revolutionary War veteran, inventor, museum founder, farmer. Although he opposed slavery publicly, Peale accepted an enslaved family into his household as payment for a debt. He freed the husband and wife after a few years, but held their son, Moses Williams, until he was 26, and taught him to be a profile cutter, working in his Philadelphia natu...

When city girl Nancy moves to a small coastal Maine town she meets Mariner, the Great Blue heron with a GPS tracking device on its back. We follow the actual tracking data of this real-life heron through the story as a lobster fisherman's son and a mysterious naturalist with an uncanny way with animals take Nancy in hand with engaging results.

Becoming a Good Relative weaves the author's personal story of transformation with historical research, spiritual teachings, and an appendix of practical skills, resources, and rituals. Giovale offers warm, compassionate, and vulnerable personal stories to reveal how unlearning fragility, becoming antiracist, and repairing ancestral harm can feel. She invites readers beyond intellectual analysis into intuition, dreams, and practical rituals. T...

In Madeleine Kunin's second poetry collection, Walk With Me, the well-versed poet and three-term Vermont governor invites the audience to step into her world, to slow down and find new serenity in older age and unexpected love. Kunin explores the nuances of everyday moments that cultivate a bittersweet appreciation for simple joys. Walk With Me is a beautifully crafted illustration of not only what it means to be a woman on the eve of ninety y...

Jean-Yves uses religious artifacts and references to build contrasts with the amoral present. His poetry continues his wanderings between the fragile, ephemeral weight of human thought and the enormity of the universe.

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Jean-Yves uses religious artifacts and references to build contrasts with the amoral present. His poetry continues his wanderings between the fragile, ephemeral weight of human thought and the enormity of the universe.

In What It Means To Be Happy, his ninth book of poetry, award-winning poet and psychologist, Gary Margolis, invites us to consider how it is we come to a meaningful happiness, with all the shades of experience in our joyful and grieving lives. If not happiness exactly, then some kind of meaningful awareness to the nature, the emotional reality of living in vivid, day-to-day life. With its hopes and memories. With its pleasure and pain. In our ...