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When William Byrnes takes a teaching job at a private school in the Marais, he thinks he's escaping his sins. He sentences himself to winter afternoons under the vaulted ceilings of Notre Dame and to rice for dinner, while the City of Light goes unnoticed. Then the pretentious Monsieur Cygne gives him a list of French literature and the address of a bookstore, where he finds fellow expat Lucy Navarre, with the gray eyes of a goddess, a cheatin...

Meet Henry David Thoreau, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and other intrepid explorers as you travel northern Maine's rugged woods and waters. In a wild country of ledge and trees that stubbornly resists encroaching civilization, find a young couple padding through the trials, triumphs, and sheer mental and physical exhaustion of wilderness travel severely testing their ability to get along and even complete the trip. Fill your ...

In Listen Francesca tells us the story of May. May is a piano-genius college freshman who dreams of becoming a brilliant composer. In her school's practice rooms she meets Conner, an undeniably unattractive junior, and she is immediately captivated by his raw musicality on the piano. As May tries to navigate college life and fulfill her music dreams, Conner pulls her toward the natural world, toward her own wildness, and, ultimately, toward th...

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Education is the subject of much public debate. Politicians and bureaucrats, educators and parents, students and concerned citizens all have an interest-and a stake-in the way we educate our children. But while much is said about the subject, seldom are the more profound, difficult questions ever asked, questions that require not only changing the w...

McDowell often ends his poems with a challenge to "Jim, " a question usually asking him to make sense of his life. Yet as we feel our way through the earlier stanzas, living within their diaphanous walls, we overhear this final question as if it were directed at us. One of the joys of reading McDowell's poetry is precisely this-that his questions urge us to make deeper sense of our own lives. You will discover, along with him, the almost seaml...

In his novel, The Conversions, Richards deals with some of the most pressing questions at this moment in history: What kind of world can be created with the end of industrial civilization? What is truly at the root of the so-called clash of civilizations? What is the place for religion in the post-modern world? Is American identity only about defining and excluding the other? What does a government look like when everything, even education, is...

Located on ten acres of woods and meadows at the intersection of two busy state roads, the Dudley Farm at first glance looks like many other surviving New England farms from the 19th century. But, with a second look, it becomes obvious there is a difference. Sitting on a slight hill above the road, with its picket fence and stone walls, the farm calls the passerby. The regal house and weathered barn have a bearing of permanence and strength as...

Gwendolyn Morgan's first collection, Crow Feathers, Red Ochre, Green Tea, offers richly textured poetic renderings of and emotional responses to natural landscapes. The poems in this collection hold a deep sense of care for and rootedness in the natural world. She weaves concerns for global warming, social inequities, and health care together with images of birds, plants, animals, and breath, evoking our interconnectedness with all sentient be...

Four Blue Eggs is sense music, an exploration of beginnings and of endings. In this collection of poems, Amy Nawrocki intuits fireflies and sapphires, observes gardens rooted in glasses of water, and tests the bindings of old books. Solace abounds-in winter's white, in the hefty doors of an Oldsmobile, in half melted candles. Stick figures walk in this terrestrial moonscape, birds nest in improbable trees, daughters survive without mothers and...

What happens when an Easterner who needs trees, hates heat, and doesn't gamble spends a year living in Las Vegas? Follow the author's reflections as she comes to appreciate the surrounding desert so deeply that she returns seven years later to hear more of the Mojave's message. Share in the process as this desert reveals itself as both a macrocosm and a microcosm of the major issues facing us today. For as a sacred text set in the perspective ...

My Mother's Kitchen is an enchanting place filled with promise, change and good food. If the weathered walls of this magical room could talk they would tell the story of Meena and her childhood life. Each chapter is a slice in her young life and depicts her spunk and youthful spirit. A visit to the local Fruit and Flower Show becomes an adventure as told by Meena. Her distress at finding out about her aunt's dark secret or her joy of making a ...

Afoot in Connecticut, is a love letter to this often overlooked region of America, an inspirational story that will have you taking to the trails and the greenways, along the beaches and mountaintops, and into a land full of transformation, of beauty, and of strength.

In Seasons of Contemplation, Browning offers the reader humble yet impacting meditations on a mosaic of topics, including: religion, connection, mindfulness, ecology, the spiritual journey, the sources of prejudice, and the perils of modern culture. The ruminations gathered within these pages provide simple insights that help to bring sense to the chaos and hustle of our daily life. Direct and unpretentious, Browning reminds us that "Becoming ...

The narrative of this collection follows a child of the modern world who awakens one night to the grievous errors made by the generations past and present. Leaving behind the destructive aspects of our way of life, the child returns home to care for the father [greater spirit] and biological mother [the earth] who were wounded by their rebellious children-humanity. Asserting that the sacred lives in what is ordinary and the di­vine is found am...

The poems in Rolling up the Sky tell stories about mothers and daughters, about struggle, about grief ? but no matter how painful their occasions, these poems are full of warmth and humour. Haltmaier is so honest in her probing of experience and so attentive to the many minute phenomena of the world around her that to me, Rolling up the Sky seems like one long love poem to life itself. Brava!" -- James Arthur, author of Charms Against Lightning

Snowy Owls, Egrets, and Unexpected Graces is a portal to an interior landscape that mirrors the natural world - the majesty of western red cedar and snowy owls, the murmurations of songbirds and the incantations of astral showers. The poet simultaneously reflects on the suffering of those living with cancer and chronic illness as well as the ongoing habitat destruction amidst climate change, and the violence of war and poverty. This book invok...

Intimate and elemental, rooted in earth, sky and a mystic wisdom, the poems in James Scott Smith's Water, Rocks and Trees are "hymns of / becoming." Each is the "old soul" of the book's first poem, the work of a gracious and trusty guide, observant, nimble, never didactic, ever an acolyte of the infinite. -Catherine Abbey Hodges, author of Instead of Sadness