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Marion Cohen is equally mathematician and poet. Using mathematical metaphor, she touches deeply into issues of life and heart. In each poem she crosses the equal sign on many levels, beginning with visible points, lines, numbers. crossing over to life's invisible-yet-tangible delights and frustrations. and crossing back again with insights gleaned from these reflections. (Barbara E. Reynolds, SDS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Cardinal Str...

Pictures in the Firestorm is wide in scope, luminous in detail, and elegant in craft. Lauren Rusk's mastery of nuance and tone allows her to write with equal grace about 1960s San Francisco and about the enduring challenge and grief of a Holocaust museum. Her poems range from evocative glimpses of the momentary to complex meditations on art and its relationship to the world. Rusk's passion for visual art includes the sometimes difficult histor...

Doug Canfield's poems are the careful expressions of a man who has seen deeply into the world and who has understood what he has seen. I suppose this is the essential definition of the poet, and Doug Canfield was definitively a poet. He has given us the great gift of his vision and his humanity. His poems are a pleasure, a revelation, and an honor to read. Scott Momaday, novelist and poet, Pulitzer Prize winner for House Made Of Dawn. In Viole...

A peace book offered by a poet, a photographer and a journalist to unmask and offer alternatives to war. The dead ask us to wake from our living death and look through the hole in our former reality. The path away from madness starts there. The path that led us here will not lead us away. (Alan Pogue)

For anyone who thinks that strikes are only about money, this book will be a real eye-opener. Set in a rural Maine town in the 1980s, Getman draws a memorable portrait of worker solidarity as a union of papermakers struggles to protect a way of life that previous generations had sacrificed to give them. Jack Getman tells the story of a strike from the inside, putting in human terms events that often are considered only from an economic or lega...

Desde el Deuteronomio hasta Salomón. Este volumen es el segundo de tres sobre el Antiguo Testamento. Cubre la Biblia desde el libro del Deuteronomio hasta el reinado del Rey Salomón. Leemos los consejos de Moisés a su pueblo en los últimos días antes de su traslado. Seguimos a los hijos de Israel a la Tierra Prometida, bajo la dirección de Josué, a partir de Jericó y que termina con la conquista total de todas las tierras prometidas a Abraham....

A sweeping tale of 19th-century Texas... Texas history on a broad, complex scale -Kirkus ReviewsWhen young Shelby Whitmire spies a flatboat coming down the Mississippi to Natchez, he doesn't know that two aboard are on the run to Mexico's Texas territory. How could the motherless boy foresee his adult years unfolding in that wilderness? After fiery speeches in 1835 to convince others to help Texas win independence, it is friendship and heartbr...

Theaters of War should be read aloud in juxtaposition to the blare of world news broadcasts, to appreciate Dr. Ngwainmbi's grasp and illustration of the ironies of our daily acceptance and condoning of hostile tribalization of modern mankind. The book is a treasure and must be appreciated as a mirror of our times. - Hank Daidone, Lt. Colonel of US Army (Retired) Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi's verse is crisp yet full of imagistic details. His rhythmic...

The keen eye of compassion in each detail, the steady touch of its cadence in each unfolding line. Olga Broumas Author of Rave: Poems Here is a perfect, clean and delicate (powerful and often terrifying) work of art. In its simplicity lies profound emotion, both beautiful and laden with sadness. These masterful slim poems speak with discipline and exquisite fervor. Catherine Strisik is a new voice already in full bloom. This is a very moving p...

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Spanning three generations of women in a family with distressful father-daughter relationships, this story reflects on how one's father affects later choices in life and on the struggle to resolve childhood issues. When Linda Richardson returns to her girlhood home in the Desert Southwest after her father's death, she begins to uncover the reasons for her nonchalance about his passing. As she struggles to make sense of what should be a sad tim...

A well crafted fictional account of a real life situation too common in the USA, the prospect of losing a small town's ambiance along with its farm lands. Tied to the land and each other in complex ways, the characters are Ohio angels with halos slightly askew. The truth of this story made my heart sing." Phyllis Wilson Moore, Independent Researcher, West Virginia Literature, Clarksburg, WV "A story of two men and a village who find their hear...

The story of the early life of Melissa G. Moore, daughter of convicted serial killer Keith Jesperson.

Los profetas del Antiguo Testamento. Este volumen es el tercero de tres sobre el Antiguo Testamento. Es un volumen inusualmente grandR que incluye casi todos los profetas del Antiguo Testamento, sus enseñanzas y advertencias a su gente, y sus profecías de la venida del Mesías y los últimos días. Abarca el período de la Biblia desde el final del reinado de Salomón hasta el final del Antiguo Testamento, incluyendo los ministerios de Jonás, Mique...

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Summer, 1956. With her parents away and her boyfriend abroad, Rennie is on her own. To make money for college, she takes a job as a recreational therapist in a large mental hospital in New York City, despite her reluctance to sign a loyalty oath in the charged times of McCarthyism. She has no relevant experience, but she's good at sports. How hard can it be? Very hard, she discovers. As Rennie struggles to relate to the confused, emotional...

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In this folktale novel, Ninan inherits an unwelcome legacy. She must follow the tradition of her grandfather and become a traveling storyteller, telling the stories of her people. On each step of her journey Ninan tells a unique and universal story that speaks to the people gathered to listen. At first, stories erupt from her unbidden and uncontrolled, and the nomadic life is an obligation not a joy. Although she yearns for love and comfort, N...

The Stones Speak is the story of three people who come to recognize that choosing to remain emotionally closed is ultimately more painful than taking the risk to open their hearts. Their choices show how pushing through past events and healing old wounds can catalyze authentic and intimate relationships. A TERRIFIC READ FOR BOTH MEN AND WOMEN Nancy King's swift and spicy storytelling reveals a woman of today-Naomi Rosen-claiming courage from...