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Jimmy, Robin and Marie are best friends on the way to school in Maine. Somehow it seems to them it will never stop snowing. But while it snows, there is a count-down to Marie's birthday. But it's also the sensitive and compassionate bus driver, Jack, and the harmonic magic of his bus that make this story unique. Will Marie's birthday prayer come true? Will it ever stop snowing? Along with what they learn about friendship, loyalty and love,...

Marcos Caliente is a jalapeno pepper who is called Marcos the Wise because he stands up to his enemy, Phatkat, and the greedy growers of Phlamco who want the whole world to eat test tube food. How does Marcos defeat those who want to put him under the ground? Well, you must remember that once upon a dream Marcos was a tiny little sprout in the earth. No stranger to the natural soil of life, he likes it there better than anywhere else. But it's...

Crimson Hill comes from the fine old literary tradition of Great Expectations. There's the outrageous fortune bestowed upon the poorest family in town ... there's the envy of friends ... there's three generations overcome by poverty in the beginning and wealth in the end. This is the story of a long gone America, of love gained and lost, of treasures hidden and identities unknown. In the town of Crimson Hill luck is never what it seems and...

Sand in My Shoes is a mystery novel that teases and surprises. The set-up is an old summer resort hotel on the Jersey Shore in 1965. The owners stretch back to the Gilded Age, a time when manners ruled and murders were swept under the carpet. Enter Stanley Blackmon V who wants to carry on the upper-class family tradition at almost any expense---except being murdered which he very nearly is while trying to solve the murders of his aunt and gran...

Alice Long Kolb is a writer, quilter, lecturer and home-based, traditional cook. She has also cooked professionally during her years as a recipe tester for the Pioneer Natural Gas Company of Texas. She holds a Master's degree in Home Economics and has taught and lectured for much of her life. Hard Times, Good Times & Great Home Cooking is a treasury of family recipes, but also a humorous memoir following the lifelines of four generations. As A...

Seminal translations from the large body of Miyazawa Kenji's poetry. Considered to be one of the greatest modern Japanese poets, Miyazawa is also, "the poet of the Tsunami recovery." The editor selected brief lines from Miyazawa's best known works and they are juxtaposed with lovely photographs by Japanese photojournalist, Kenji Okuhira. Readers can see not only Miyazawa's homeland, but also images of the Tsunami disaster of 2011. There is a b...

Wondrous stories of Changing Woman, First Man and First Woman, Coyote, Great Snake, Gila Monster and others who infuse the rich and complex canvas of the Navajo world view. This book illuminates the traditional oral narratives of the tribe and shows how they work ceremonially as healing ways. Collectively, they also convey the origin story of The People and in addition they provide a moral code for harmonious existence with the natural world. ...

The Song I Hear, Alana Woods shares her fascinating lifelong study of the effects of sound and music on consciousness, physiology and neurology. A dynamic pioneer in the cutting edge field of music medicine and prescriptive sound, Alana's charming memoir recounts her passion for, and practice of, therapeutic methods of self-healing that have their roots in ancient Greek mind-body healing practices. Working with innovators of sound healing,...

When Nathan and Anna Marshall, a wealthy Floridian couple, drive off an open drawbridge in their new luxury sedan, it is at first considered an accident. Further investigation reveals that the car's brakes were intentionally tampered with. Since Rebecca Wilson, the Marshalls' foster daughter, was apparently the only person in residence, she is immediately charged with murder. Enter court-appointed police detective turned attorney, Lloyd Rose...