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In his new collection of stories and essays, acclaimed author and humorist Matt Geiger seeks to de-familiarize us from the world, from the smallest detail to the most cosmic mythology, in order to see it all as if for the first time. Turning his philosopher's vision to his own abundant Neanderthal DNA, parenting, competitive axe throwing, old age, and much more, he sets out in search of comic profundity. With a nod to the limits of human knowl...

Margaret's War uses 15-year-old narrator Billy to juggle the broken heart, the trampled soul, and the fragile sanity of a beautiful young woman when male egos grab and grope at her with the absurd hands of war.The isolated small town where Billy and Margaret live is suddenly thrust into the brutal reality of World War II when German POWs are brought in to help with crop harvesting. The face-to-face contact with the killers of their sons is not...

With the first edition out of print, readers-and libraries-have had to resort to searching for copies online to replace their old, much-used, dog-eared copies. No more. This second edition of Wisconsin Underground provides an up-to-date listing of the state's most publicly accessible caves, former mines, and other subterranean treasures. Whether you are a sport caver, researcher, or vacationer, this guide offers unique travel destinations, sug...

In his new collection of stories and essays, acclaimed author and humorist Matt Geiger seeks to de-familiarize us from the world, from the smallest detail to the most cosmic mythology, in order to see it all as if for the first time. Turning his philosopher's vision to his own abundant Neanderthal DNA, parenting, competitive axe throwing, old age, and much more, he sets out in search of comic profundity. With a nod to the limits of human knowl...

Yes, you can change your thinking and you can change your life! You have the choice, you have the power, and you can have the life you really want to live.Your Life Matters is about you-and your exciting future life. Sure, it's okay to look in the rearview mirror, to reflect, to learn, and grow. But it's not okay to camp out in the past and shut the door on the future. Each of us has a past and a present-it's up to us to create our exciting, f...

Change your thinking and change your life! You have the choice, you have the power, and you can have the life you really want to live.Your Life Matters is about you--and your exciting future life. Sure, it's okay to look in the rear view mirror, to reflect, to learn, and to grow. But it's not okay to camp out in the past and shut the door to the future. Each of us has a past and a present. It's up to us to create our exciting, fulfilling futur...

2018 Finalist in the Midwest Book Awards in CookbooksMore than 50 delicious recipes that turn fresh garden vegetables into tasty baked goods. Created by Cordon Bleu pastry chef and cooking instructor Rosemary Deneen.

2019 International Book Award Finalist in the New Age - Non-Fiction CategoryThis memoir is a whirlwind journey that takes you through the throes of fighting cancer to an awakening of the metaphysical world, messages, visions, self-healing, and synchronized events of people put on her path to understanding our oneness.The universal heart guided and embraced Kathy Collins through her "Doubting Thomas" phase and guided her to acquiescence through...

Book 2 of Rex Owens' Irish Troubles SeriesSearching for atonement, author Ian Murphy drafts the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 ending the 30-year Troubles in Ireland. Murphy's years in the Provisional Irish Republican Army and his battle with depression cast him into a hellish darkness. He finds atonement elusive and begins on a path for public redemption.In the fall of 1998 British authorities propose building additional peace walls in Belfast...

Advertising The Beatles is a colorful and historic journey through the Fab Four's earliest releases in Great Britain and the United States based on record advertisements. These ads usually ran in trade magazines for one week and then were gone forever. Compiled here for the first time in book format by Beatles enthusiast Ray Zirkle, these promotional materials show the group's musical evolution through the years until they ultimately disbanded...

Advertising The Beatles is a colorful and historic journey through the Fab Four's earliest releases in Great Britain andthe United States based on record advertisements. These ads usually ran in trade magazines for one week and then were gone forever. Compiled here for the first time in book format by Beatles enthusiast Ray Zirkle, these promotional materials show the group's musical evolution through the years until they ultimately disbanded ...

2018 Winner of the Midwest Book Awards in the category InspirationAt the age of 15, high school sophomore and basketball player David Cooks experienced a spinal aneurism, leaving him a T-6 paraplegic. Refusing to let the wheelchair determine the man, he made the decision to persevere from the very beginning-and he never let go of his passion for the game. In Getting Undressed, David describes his journey to independence and purpose, and how "g...

Ian Padraic Murphy harbors a scandalous secret. To avenge the death of his best friend in a Belfast raid, Ian joins the Provisional IRA, which he conceals for 30 years. He meets investigative reporter Eileen Donohue and friendship blossoms into a love affair. Eileen inadvertently discovers the man she thought was a reclusive novelist is actually the brain trust for the IRA. Eileen betrays her lover by disclosing his secret in Ireland's leading...

When Norah Stoddard tries out for the high school men's varsity baseball team in 1986, she rocks little Glorious, Wisconsin out of the malaise spawned by the farm crisis. When her alcoholic mother and the latest of Mom's abusive "boyfriends" drive Norah from her home, Bee Cooney and Reb Early, proprietors of Degan's Dinky Diner, take Norah in. "The voice of Glorious, " Kenny Kellogg, a cynical radio vagabond, has fallen from the heights, his s...

Karen Buhk has kept her traditional family recipes alive in Happiness is Homemade in Door County, a cookbook that contains the most delicious desserts and meals from the past to the present. Growing up in Seymore, a small farming community in northeast Wisconsin, Karen spent her childhood at the feet of her grandmother and mother, watching them in the kitchen, learning all the techniques and skills found in these recipes.Karen has been cooking...

Life Without Pockets-My Long Journey into Womanhood is a deeply personal story written to help all audiences better understand gender dysphoria, identity, and transformation. The book is an intimate true story chronicling Carla Ernst's journey from male to female. She offers her take on what it's like to "transition" in the context of societal expectations, while candidly revealing the mental, emotional, and physical impact that gender change ...

The thought of writing personal or event memoirs often finds people OVERWHELMED by their personal attic full of memories. This book offers 6 easy steps to help sort out situations, conversations, conflicts, and secrets. It provides an easy-to-use process to support you in creating your legacy. Recalling difficult, ordinary, and meaningful memories and putting pen to paper (or to computer) allows you to share your life with others. Somewhere in...

Written in Blood: Post-Modern Penitentiary Poetry" is essential reading to understand how and why so many people are physically incarcerated or in mental prisons of poverty and spiritual debt. The poems can each stand alone, yet together, they tell a story of the problems bestowed on poor people by the moneyed elite, terror created by the prison industrial complex, the ills of godless religion, and misplaced love. People are hurting and are in...

2018 Finalist in the Midwest Book Awards in Religion/Philosophy"Human Understanding" is an analysis of life from an engineering perspective. It looks to develop some simple basics from which other related life issues are more easily understood. Typically, fields of thought in philosophy, psychology, archeology, astronomy, and even religion rely on information and evidence that fits the conventionally accepted paradigm and ignore information an...

Finalist in American Book Fest's 2019 Best Book Awards in Children's Fiction category2019 Eric Hoffer Book Award Winner, middle reader category 2019 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist, da Vinci Eye, for book design (with designer Ian Wade)The 7th graders of Windsor Middle School are excited to start the new school year in their Advanced Science classroom. They'll work on CRISPR-Cas9, a new gene editing technology exciting scientists all over the ...