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In the Shadow of the Dragon’s Back author interview from MiLo Studios on Vimeo. About In the Shadow of the Dragon’s Back: A Young American Girl in South Africa During the Early Years of Apartheid The book is the story of a young American girl living in South Africa during […]
Available Now… Editor’s Note This is not a book we wanted to publish but a book we had to publish. Sexual abuse is a terrible crime, no matter who perpetrates it against whom (more information at www.rainn.org/about-sexual-assault). In I Remembered Kristene Friday takes a unique approach to telling her story of recalling the […]
About the Book (from the Preface) In music-instrument language a bridge usually refers to the part of the violin that supports the strings and transfers its vibrations to the instrument’s body. It conducts the sound as well as the music produced by the player. In a wider sense, however, a […]
About the Book For this second edition (2015) Dr. Zach updated her For the Birds book, which was originally published in 2005. The book is an intuitive and interactive way to learn how to read music by combining music notation with biographies of twenty-five internationally known women composers from four thousand years ago […]
About the Book Growing up as a missionary child in West Africa, Carol Polsgrove was raised to be American, but Yoruba voices filled her days and talking drums her nights. Lifting the veil of stereotypes about missionary life, When We Were Young in Africa offers an intimate account of coming […]
Sixty-Something and Flying Solo: A Retiree Sorts it Out in Iowa is a humorous, edgy memoir filled with serious ponderings. An Oregon transplant with no kids and no significant other, the author is someone about whom readers could say “I wouldn’t want to be in her shoes, but if she can […]
Fly and Fall is a book of poems about milk, honey, Kartoffelfeuer, kisses, flying, falling, heaven, cheap motels, hope, a kingdom, breaking, being, the first day of the new year, a mother’s body on earth, today, winter, being alive, a happy man, old nuns, an evening gown, an epitaph for […]
Leaving Long Island is the story of a woman whose life experience includes the loss of a child, the end of a long marriage, and the discovery of a genetic inheritance endemic to the Ashkenazi Jewish population. This is a second-half-of-life memoir without a sensational theme of surviving molestation, substance abusive […]
Susanna Piontek is an internationally known German author who has published numerous stories in a wide range of books and magazines in Europe. This is her first book for an English-speaking audience. Originally published in German as Rühlings Erwachen by the Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg • Potsdam in 2005, the book Have We Possibly Met […]
About the Book Clever Digs: How Workspaces Can Enable Thought is a comprehensive investigation into the psycho-physics of office spaces. With a formidable scope Quillien lays out her argument that how we design our spaces will shape our habits and behavior in those spaces. Excerpt from the First Chapter Imagine. What if our […]
The Living Thing is the tragicomic story of a woman in her late forties, approaching menopause, who is sent by her doctor to a spa town where she falls into a crisis and has to re-evaluate her life while dealing with a number of strange characters, among them the restrictive […]
Delight’s Muse is a blessedly short, accessible, and thoughtfully illustrated summary of Christopher Alexander’s four volume work The Nature of Order. It rescues readers from the massive effort required to navigate Alexander’s 2000-page labyrinth without map or compass. Famous (and infamous) architect and author Christopher Alexander is an iconoclast both revered […]
About the Book A book of children’s stories, poems, tongue-twisters, proverbs, and brain-teasers from Africa by Sr. Stella Sabina, an author from Uganda who studied in Kenya and now lives and works in Indiana, USA. From the Storyteller’s Desk Happy Ending Children’s Stories, and More (Poems, Tongue-twisters and Brain-teasers) will […]