Henry Says reminds children (and a few adults, too) that each of them is lovable and capable. This inspirational book for children helps them realize that becoming important and being successful is about what they do, not what someone else says. With uncommon comments attached to fun pictures, this book is designed to help children and others think about how to face and overcome challenges. Its unstated emphasis is on the problems created by someone being mean to other people-by focusing on prevention and learning alternative solutions. The ideas presented help youngsters realize that they have better and more fun things to do than to believe mean comments directed at or about them. Just as important, it helps children understand that there are better (and safer) things to do than to help someone be mean to other people. Most of all, though, it helps them recognize that sometimes the answer is as simple as finding something better to do. Because, an ounce of prevention knocks the socks off a pound of cure.
Sandy Sandhill Has a Close Call
Kathy Stoughton
In simple words and pictures, author K. Stoughton takes young readers and their parents along when Sandy the Sandhill Crane learns a valuable lesson about reading. Readers will delight as this young bird finds himself in a rough spot, all because he's having too much fun to practice his reading. This volume is perfect for educators of every persuasion who are looking for an empathetic character who will encourage children to read. Recommended for children ages two to forty.
Retrieving Times
Granville Austin
Vermont history/memoir
978-1-935052-04-3
8 ½ x 5 ½
212 pages
softcover
$15.00
When penned by authors of passion and grace, memoirs lift their readers from the confines of their own lives into pasts made vivid through significant detail and memorable characters. Retrieving Times is such a memoir.
Author Granville Austin was only five years old when his family moved to a small town called Norwich on the Vermont side of the Connecticut River in 1927. Back then, this vibrant community boasted more dirt roads than asphalt, and more farmers than professors from nearby Dartmouth College. In summer, there was haying and fishing, band concerts on the common and cool lemon Cokes at the local drugstore. Fall meant hunting while winter meant downhill skiing at a time when getting to the top of a hill meant hiking, not ski lifts.
But Austin’s time travels to the Norwich, Vermont of his youth are far more than pleasant excursions. They’re emotional evocations of the men, women, and boyhood friends who populated the author’s world, the people who “larned” him—to use the author’s phrase—the meaning of honor, of fairness, and of the devotion necessary to turn a small collection of houses and stores into a community with a powerful pulse of its own.
At a time when Americans exhibit a distinct yearning for more straightforward and honest relationships with one another, Austin’s portrait of Norwich, Vermont—told in distinctive, well-seasoned prose—reminds us of the lasting impacts our lives have on one another’s.
So follow Granville Austin’s beckoning hand back in time to meet Will Bond, the author’s neighbor and the subject of a painting by artist Paul Sample. Learn how to ski downhill when “grooming the slope” meant tamping down the snow yourself. And decide how you would answer the challenge “let’s see you shoot.” Visiting Vermont is always a treat but with a writer like Granville Austin as your guide, you’ll find it as satisfying as biting into a new-picked apple on a clear October day.
Granville Austin came to live in Norwich, Vermont in 1932 at the age of five. After attending the village’s primary school and then its high school, Austin graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire then earned a degree from Oxford University. He is the author of two political histories of the constitution of India, and spent some years in government service in Washington and abroad. He has held fellowships from St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and the Institute of Current World Affairs.
Granville Austin currenty lives with his wife in Washington, D.C.
Before she took the 'health journey around the world' that became Feeding the Body, Nourishing the Soul, author Deborah Kesten targeted her research into the connections between the food we eat and heart disease. But then a timely conversation changed the direction of her work forever. Now Deborah is a renowned authority on the ancient bonds between food, spirit, and our health. Her journey began this way:
"The sojourn that led to Feeding the Body, Nourishing the Soul began in New Delhi, India, when I interviewed clinical cardiologist Dr. K. L. Chopra. He told me that 'Prana is the vital life force of the universe, the cosmic force...and it goes into you, into me, with food. When you cook with love, you transfer the love into the food and it is metabolized...'
"After that conversation, I began what I call my health journey around the world. My search included a study of the connections between spirituality and food in Judaism and Christianity, Eastern healing systems such as India's Ayurveda, traditional Chinese Medicine, and Tibetan Medicine, cultural traditions such as yogic nutrition, Native American vision quests, and state-of-the-art Western nutrition science."
Deborah's award-winning book, which White River Press is delighted to welcome back into print, is a compassionate examination of these traditions and their implications for contemporary eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia as well as the relationship between our emotions and what we put in our mouths. We promise you'll never think about food in quite the same way again.
Visit Deborah's website to learn more about her research into the nutrition and the health strategies she's developed with her husband, Dr. Larry Scherwitz.
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We're pleased to announce that Feeding the Body, Nourishing the Soul by Deborah Kesten is at the printer and will be available very soon. Until it's at online bookstores, you may contact the author, Deborah Kesten, directly.
This book of essentials of eating for physical, emotional and spriritual well-being was first published by Conari Press and we're delighted to bring it back into print.
Do visit Deborah here - she has a lot going on!
If you're tired of election blather, here's your book, Deadly Election. Author Betsy Hartmann has written a thriller that will make the election news never seem the same again.
It will be available very soon - a great read for primary season.
We at White River Press are so pleased that Ed Bear's second book in the series of "Tyler tapes" - conversations between Ed Bear and Tyler - will be available again soon. For anyone who missed seeing Mr. Bear (aka Marty Slattery) in person, reading The Seven Deadly Needs is a wonderful way to connect with him.
First published in 2000 by Health Communications, it's been unavailable for many months. It should be available in January from amazon.com and at booksellers, but if you want a copy before then, this is your best bet. Just email your request to buy a book as soon as it is available.
