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The Curve of the World:

Into the Spiritual Heart of Yoga, Memoir

by Andy Douglas

"This book chronicles the journey of one American soul willing to risk everything in search of a more meaningful and satisfying experience. It will bump you out of the well-worn ruts of status quo religion, taking you to places you've never been before." --Tim Bascom, author of Chameleon Days: An American Childhood in Ethiopia 

The Curve of the World tells the story of the author's relationship with a remarkable spiritual teacher on a path grounded in meditation and service. It draws connections between spirituality and social justice, music and devotion. And, as the author eventually faces serious illness, the book explores the link between body, mind and spirit, in a journey toward self-knowledge. 

Hear Andy Douglas sing a Song of Prabhat Ranian Sarkar

with images from the book.

"Illness and disease force one to separate the gripping and material mind-body connection, summoning forth a previously unknown strength of spirit. This launches one on a sojourn through a higher and all-encompassing process of healing."

-New York Journal of Books

Also available on Amazon Kindle.

But we prefer the book and think you will too.

254 pages...$17.00

The Way-Back Room:

A Memoir of a Childhood in Detroit

by Mary Minock

There is no sentimentality here, and there are no real enemies, just the simple truth spoken through the lens of profound loneliness and shame, insatiable curiosity, wit, and immense vulnerability.

This is an honorable story that will leave you at once with a flood of warmth and that achy breaky heart, wanting more from Mary Minock, and soon.  ~Rebecca B. Rank, author of Pears in a Porcelain Bowl

                                             

    Mary Minock teaches at Madonna University

Early Reviews and Interviews

“Ms. Minock is a major talent, writing The Way-Back Room with more objectivity than subjectivity, its detachment lending it a certain matter-of-fact truthfulness unusual in a memoir. The Way-Back Room approaches some of the best of modern realism. It’s a worthwhile, engaging read.” -New York Journal of Books 

218 pgs. $17.00

Second Story Woman
A Memoir of Second Chances

by Carole Calladine

 “In Second Story Woman Carole Calladine takes the reader along on her journey of self-discovery. Her authentic voice comes through as she comes to terms with the balance between her professional responsibilities and her need for a creative life. This strong memoir will speak to anyone charting life past 50.” – Doris Larson, founder of “A Writing Retreat: In the Company of Women”

 “Likeable and candid, Calladine writes a lively account of her quest for second chances—while she becomes a 'second—story woman.'” —Akron Beacon Journal.

A remarkable book of dealing with life's turnings as the author confronts her mid-life passage and diagnosis for Type 2 diabetes at the same time.

978-1-933964-12-6    232 pages  $15.00

Hunger Artist:
A Suburban Childhood

by Joanne Jacobson

“Magically, brilliantly, movingly, the particularity of Joanne Jacobson’s language captures the universal truths of childhood. I devoured Hunger Artist. It is a fresh and riveting memoir of the highest order.”   -Patricia Volk, author of My Dearest Friends

“In her stunning debut memoir, Hunger Artist, Joanne Jacobson tells her story of growing up Jewish in a suburban world comprised not only of new houses and bright gardens and exuberant dreams for the future, but also of frustrated longings and unmet hungers. Her prose is at once gorgeous and meticulous…”  -Richard McCann, author of Mother of Sorrows



Milldust and Roses: Memoirs

Larry Smith

Milldust and Roses is a beautiful tapestry, the  substance of whice describes an Ohio Valley working-class family from the mid-century onward. These memoirs are not about his life as a poet, but about the metapmorphosis of self and family life in the urban Midwest as he has experienced it. -Holly Beye

Larry Smith is a writer who does not draw attention to himself even though he is writing about himself, nor des his writing draw attention to itself. Rather, here is a writer who dedicates all of himself and his use of languate to that simple directness." -David Budbill

9781564391148   150  pgs. $12

Milltown Natural

Essays and Stories from a Life

Richard Hague





Memory can't redeem a blighted place or recover a lost time, but Richard Hague's passionate recollecitons of the Upper Ohio Valley and his rowdy river town--with its mills and mines and choir lofts and pool halls--come mighty close. HIs vision is redemptive because he sees through the darkness in nature and the folly in people to an underlying beauty. --Scott Russell Sanders

Nominated for a National Book Award

0-933087-44-6 Hard cover  $16



120 Charles Street: The Village,
Journals 1949-1950
by Holly Beye

Holly Beye’s journals are a remarkable record of a period long gone—post-World War II in the “Village,” New York City’s downtown enclave of artists, sculptors, writers, musicians and playwrights....        It was a time when the entire Village was your neighbor, a cauldron of hopefuls pulsing with the life and determination that would produce a generation of creative artists. You could walk anywhere, and usually did because it was cheaper...and all New York was a neighborhood.  -Betty Ballentine   

Relive the Greenwich Village Days of the late 1940s

240 pages... $15