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About a decade ago, we here at RiverRun began publishing books. Once we held that amazing, Promethean power in our little hands, we decided it would be great fun to put together Piscataqua Poems, a collection of local poets celebrating all the things we love about the Seacoast. Now, ten years later here is volume 2. A lot has changed about the Seacoast, and about the world, but one thing for certain, we still have an amazing number of talent...

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There are many who will derive benefit from the experiences Earle relates in this account. Certainly those dealing with cancer or other life-threatening illnesses (as well as their family and friends) will identify with Judy's Journey. For survivors, it affirms their personal struggle. It provides a therapeutic intervention for those who have survived the loss of a loved one. Earle's narrative serves as a resource to individuals involved in he...

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In this intimate look at life on the Autism spectrum a mother reveals the touching, exhausting, and, ultimately rewarding details of raising a child with Autism. From the earliest signs that John was somehow different, to his triumphant High School graduation and transition into adulthood, Ellen Walker details the pitfalls and tribulations of parenting in uncharted territory, while at the same time presenting the reader with an inspiring profi...

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There is a well of sorrow here-in existential probings by a host of alter egos through unexplored terrain, impossible crossings, breakdowns and absurdity. Each "figment" is a step along a trail hitherto shrouded in mist and each step brightens our way until illumination, action and place are one, transcending the limitations of reason. Praise for Figments -Richard Miles, poet and author of Boat of Two Shores Gerald George won the Donn Good...

The poems in this book are inspired by the region called the Piscataqua watershed: Portsmouth, Kittery, Rye, Eliot, Durham, and so on. Oh, and of course, we must include The Isles of Shoals, which seem to burn brightly in the minds of all our local poets. Here are poems memorializing the Memorial Bridge, celebrating our forests and rivers, our past and present, and our intense emotional connection to this region. We hope that you enjoy readi...

Russell Buker has had numerous poems accepted in many publications in the U.S. and in Canada: The Antigonish Review, The Windrow Anthology, The Cape Breton Collection, Pottersfield Press, Goose River Anthology, Germ Magazine, Portland Press Poetry Section, The Aurorean, Felt Sun, The Aputamkan Review, Germ Magazine River Muse, Page & Spine, Maine Writes Anthology, Crack the Spine, Axe Factory Press. Russell has also served on the board of edit...

No one else seems to have thought of telling the story of a boy's life with so great a desire to show what a boy's life is, and with so little purpose of teaching what it should be, certainly no one else has thought of doing this for the American Boy." -- William Dean Howells, 1870 This humorous, poignant yarn of one lad's adventures became the inspiration for Twain's Tom Sawyer and many others. This newly typeset, highly readable edition i...

A heartwarming story of a young girl and her dog, and the new friends they make when visiting a relatives farm.

Setting off from the ghost town of Cloverdale, New Mexico on March 17, 1996, the author picked his way north for seven months until arriving at the ghost town of Almota, Washington near his home on the Snake River. He travelled in the same simple manner as the mountain men of yore, and introduces the reader to the fiber of the differing backcountry cultures through the spirits of those he meets along the journey, as well as the life stories ...

Daniel and Dylan are the top swimmers in the world, Alex and Alí, the top tennis players. They play for God, country, family, and the need to escape their troubled pasts. In their quest to be the best, they also harbor a secret: Each is in love with his rival. The four hit it off at the Summer Olympics in New York and reconnect on an island vacation that gives new meaning to doubles, round-robin, and preliminary heats. By then, the shifting pr...

The ten van Stralen brothers built The Grounds Guys(R), their landscape management company, from the ground up. By establishing a "culture of C.A.R.E." as the centerpiece of the organization, the brothers have experienced tremendous success, working together in unity and growing their concept into a multinational franchise brand. C.A.R.E. Leadership shares the van Stralen brothers' extraordinary story and shows how eight simple but powerful le...

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Former Hell's Angel Jake "Bonecrusher" Sawyer takes us on a no-holds-barred-go-for-the-gusto-every-time joy ride through a life filled with wanton sex, shocking violence, and raucous good humor, all the while showing us how to live life to its fullest ... and be happy as hell all the way through our golden years! A prep school sports star, U.S. Army para- trooper, Kentucky rum-runner, a less than model prisoner at San Quentin and Lewisburg Fe...