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White River Press is proud to present the
following authors and their works. To buy books, we encourage you to
visit our authors’ websites or your favorite bookstore.
Books are listing alphabetically by
author.
 Heather Powers Albanesi
Carole Ann Camp
Race
Relations/essays
ISBN: 978-1-935052-11-1
136
pages
5
1/2 x 8 1/2
paperback
$12.00
October, 2008
During
the spring of 2008, one of the media’s feeding frenzies involved a
United Church of Christ congregation in Chicago, pastored by the
Reverend Dr. Jeremiah Wright. For days and weeks, all one could see
on every news channel were a few very short clips, absent of
context, of Reverend Wright’s sermons preached some time ago. What
followed outraged many on both sides of the political fence. The
sound bites lent themselves to commentators’ easy, negative analysis
of the sermons. In the traditional media, commentators offered an
interpretation, couched in the language of patriotism, that Wright
was too angry, that he overstated the problem of racism in America
today.
While some were extremely frustrated at this nearly universal take
on Wright’s sermons and felt it served to mask the continuing
reality of racial oppression, others saw a positive side, in that
racism had resurfaced as a topic of conversation in homes across
America. Nearly forty years after the Civil Rights Movement had
“fixed everything,” people started talking, discussing, and even
arguing about racism in the United States. Was racism still with us?
If so, how could that be after such a long period of time? Or had
racism just changed from blatant, in-your-face discrimination to a
new, post-affirmative action, “color-blind” racism.
—from the introduction to Moving Beyond Racism
Meet
the twenty-one authors of Moving Beyond Racism who were moved to
share their compelling personal memories and the events that
inspired their reassessment of the complexities of race relations in
21st century America. You’ll nod in recognition, shake your head in
disbelief, and bear witness to the courage and self-knowledge that
comes from bravely facing the place that racial attitudes play in
our everyday lives.
Make no mistake, the
people you are about to meet are your neighbors, your co-workers,
and your friends. Moving Beyond Racism is about all of us.
about the editors
Heather Powers Albanesi
is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado at Colorado
Springs, Colorado. Carole Ann Camp is a retired United Church of
Christ pastor and has written and published on a variety of topics,
including Praying at Every Turn: Meditations for Walking
the Labyrinth.
To learn more or purchase the book,
please visit the
www.caroleanncampsite.com.
 Granville Austin
Vermont history/memoir
978-1-935052-04-3
212
pages
8
½ x 5 ½
paperback
$15.00
October, 2008
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.
To learn more or purchase the book, please visit
www.granvilleaustin.com.
 Edward Bear
Fiction/Recovery
ISBN:978-0-9792451-7-6
108 pages
5 1/2 x 8 1/2
paperback
$11.95
January, 2008
Whether
you are in recovery or simply looking to improve your life, Edward
Bear’s latest “Tyler tape” will show you how to overcome your
outwardly centered needs and concentrate on the inner work of
healing and growth. The Seven Deadly Needs is the sequel to
Edward Bear’s previous work, The Dark Night of Recovery. Set
in a conversational format, the book is written as a series of
tape-recorded sessions between a mentor, Tyler, and his somewhat
resistant pupil, Edward Bear. Each session deals with one of what
Tyler calls the Seven Deadly Needs: the Need to Know, to Be Right,
to Get Even, to Look Good, to Judge, to Keep Score, and to Control.
Because these needs are outwardly focused, they force us to act in
ways that are not true to ourselves, and often lead to addiction,
isolation and unhappiness. This book will help guide you around some
of the larger potholes in life’s often-hectic road.
In form not unlike
Platonic dialogues, the seven chapters deal with many everyday
issues that confine rather than expand our experiences of reality.
These obstacles often keep us from an awareness of how rich our
lives can be. Through the course of the book, you will learn how to
overcome these deadly needs, how to see the possibilities open to
each of us, and how to view each day as a wonderful opportunity for
living. Although The Seven Deadly Needs is Twelve-Step oriented, the
principles and practices are universal, and the tone is both
irreverent and charming.
Edward Bear was the
author of several books including The Seven Deadly Fears, The
Cocktail Cart, and The Dark Night of Recovery.
For more information
about The Seven Deadly Needs and Edward Bear or to order a copy of
this book, click
here.
The Seven Deadly Needs previously published by Health
Communications, Inc.
 Edward Bear
Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-9792451-2-1
244 pages
5 x 8
paperback
$13.95
July, 2007
The
Cocktail Cart is a gem of a novel about the capacity of people to
heal, and the ability we have to assist one another in the healing.
[Edward Bear] brings his unique combination of gentle humor and
spiritual wisdom to the creation of a touching and eccentric group
of characters in a hospice. The main character is thrust into a
dimension he never knew existed when he is unwillingly assigned to
community service work at the Hospice of St. Michael. As he is led
through his own life-changing lessons by a mischievous angel, he
helps the residents as they conclude the work of a lifetime. I love
this book…it’s about believing.”
—Judith G. Dowling,
Psy.D., clinical psychologist
Edward Bear was the
author of several books including The Seven Deadly Fears, The
Seven Deadly Needs, and The Dark Night of Recovery.
For more information
about The Cocktail Cart and Edward Bear or to order a copy of this
book, click here.
The Cocktail Cart
previously published by M&J Publishing.
Winner: Colorado
Independent Publishers Award
Rosalyn Cherry, M.S., C.H.T
Reference/ Personal & Practical Guides
ISBN: 978-1-935052-17-3
60 pages, full color
8.5 x8.5 
paperback
$20.00
September, 2009
Professional organizer Rosalyn Cherry will help you become and stay clutter free with this fun and interactive book. Sorting and clearing clutter can be overwhleming, but with be clutter FREE's realistic and fun approach, clutter will start to disappear in as little as 15 minutes. The be clutter FREE method helps you to get started, keep on track, and overcome stumbling blocks. With a proven record of success, this will be the last de-clutter resource you'll ever need.
Author Rosalyn Cherry has been a professional organizer for over 15 years. She was inspired to design be clutter FREE to help an even larger audience across the globe. With her 'out of the box' thinking method, complex concepts become easy, learning is fun and behaviors change. By writing be clutter FREE, Rosalyn hopes to reach all those who believed that becoming clutter free was only a faraway dream.
For her workshop schedule and other events, please visit her online at beclutterFREEbook.com .
Memoir of a
Pioneering Deaf Therapist
 Holly Elliott
Memoir/Deaf
Culture/Women's Studies
ISBN: 978-1-935052-08-1
128
pages
5
½ x 8 ½
paperback
$12.00
October, 2008
Holly Elliott was
familiar with forging new paths. As she describes in her memoir,
Teach Me to Love Myself, she was probably the first professionally
trained deaf counselor-therapist in the United States. In her
initial position as intern and then staff member at the University
of California Center on Deafness, she became an advocate of total
communication—a combination of sign language, lip-reading and oral
competency that was a new horizon for rehabilitation therapy for the
deaf. She was one of the first individuals with inner-ear nerve
degeneration to receive a prototype cochlear implant and, several
years later, one of the first to have an implant upgraded. Finally,
in a more general sense of pathbreaking, she made a courageous
career shift at mid-life. After twenty-five years of marriage and
child-rearing, she accepted her deafness and embarked on a
retraining that eventually led to a distinguished professional
career.
Holly Elliott was an
unusual role model for women of her time, and still speaks to our
twenty-first-century experience.
dley in the Civil War
Eric N. Freeman
U.S. History/Civil War
ISBN: 978-1-935052-23-4
88 pages
5.5 x 8.5
paperback
$12.00
April, 2010
Like towns throughout New England, Hadley, Massachusetts, sent its young men to fight in the Civil War. In this volume, author Eric Freeman contemplates the forces that drove men to enlist, and, in time, to stay home. The volume, illustrated with period engravings, publishes for the first time a complete list of the more than two hundred men who served on Hadley's behalf, together with census data and service histories, and sets their sacrifice in the context of the mid-nineteenth century village.
The Angel of Hadley: A Thrilling Story of Rescue in Colonial Massachusetts
James A. Freeman
U. S. Colonial History
ISBN: 978-1-935052-25-8
158 pages
5.5 x 8.5
paperback
$14.00
June, 2010
For citizens of Hadley, Massachusetts, the story of the Angel of Hadley has been one of the most compelling in local history, appealing to generations. But while most historians have long accepted that regicides were harbored in the seventeenth-century village, the dramatic tale that describes the aged General Goffe appearing before a gathering of mystified colonists just in time to save the town from native attack has been controversial almost from the outset. In this volume, James Freeman considers the historical context that shaped the decades of religious reform, colonial settlement and international warfare in which the regicides lived. He considers, too, the nineteenth-century flowering of the legend of the Angel of Hadley, suggesting how the story that is so well known today was in part crafted by literature of the romantic era. Taken together, these chapters provide the most expansive look to date at this unique aspect of town history.
James A. Freeman
Biography/U.S. History
ISBN: 978-1-935052-21-0
136 pages
5.5 x 8.5
paperback
$13.00
October, 2009
Once-prominent author of nearly 60 books of poetry and prose, naturalist Clarence Hawkes (1869-1954) survived rural poverty, lost half a leg at age nine and was blinded at thirteen. With unfailing enthusiasm and optimism he transmuted pain into art and became an immensely prolific and popular writer. In this book James A. Freeman explores Hawkes' life and works in fascinating detail, giving us a close look at both his personal trials and accomplishments as well as a thorough study of the context in which his works were written and published. Writing with uncanny accuracy and empathy about people and a natural world he could not see, Clarence Hawkes lived most of his life in western Massachusetts, where he was known as the "Blind Poet of Hadley." Appropriately enough for the celebration of the 350th anniversary of the town, we hear current Hadley residents reminisce about the hard-working, gentlemanly, friendly neighbor with clouded glasses who seemed always to be at his typewriter.
About the author:
James Freeman graduated from Amherst College and the University of
Minnesota. Currently Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts / Amherst, he has written or edited books on John Milton. He also published translations from Greek and Latin,
plus printed essays on varied topics such as Hesiod, a medieval Latin hymn, a Renaissance Italian poet, Joan of Arc, Shakespeare, Swift, Tennyson, and the history of exercise nutrition. He currently edits the Association for Gravestone Studies Quarterly and reviews for The Journal of Radio and Electronic Media.
 Clinton C. Gardner
Non-fiction/Religion
978-935052-02-9
264
pages
5 ½
x 8 ½
paperback
$18.00
July, 2008
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy was one of the 20th century’s most
innovative Christian thinkers. When Beyond Belief author
Clint Gardner first attended Rosenstock-Huessy’s classes at
Dartmouth College in the 1940s, the younger man was astounded by
what he heard. His professor spoke passionately about God in a
secular way, Gardner explains, translating Christianity into
contemporary terms so that it could speak to people who had outgrown
the childish language that was still prevalent at the turn of the
20th century. In fact, Rosenstock Huessy was part of a group of
early-20th century Christian thinkers who birthed a new paradigm
that propelled a profound change in thinking among the clergy and
laity in contemporary Protestantism, a change that continues to
reverberate today.
Part memoir, part
philosophy, Beyond Belief introduces readers to
Rosenstock-Huessy’s down-to-earth spirituality and one man’s
discovery of its power in his life.
“Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy was an immensely
innovative thinker and the current conversations in religion and
philosophy are just catching up to him…Gardner has organized and
focused Rosenstock-Huessy’s brilliant but sometimes fragmented work
into a readable narrative that can be enjoyed by both scholars and
non-specialists.”
—Harvey Cox, Hollis Professor of Divinity,
Harvard University and
author of The Secular City, Feast of Fools, Fire from Heaven
and other books
About Clint
Gardner: Clinton C. Gardner left the business world in 1979 to
become president of a landmark Russian-American citizen exchange
program, US-USSR Bridges for Peace. His interest in Soviet and
Russian history and culture began in 1945, when he was put in charge
of the just-liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. He is a
graduate of Dartmouth College. You can visit Clint’s website at:
www.ClintGardner.net.
 Betsy
Hartmann
Fiction/Politics
ISBN: 978-0-9792451-4-5
252 pages
6 x 9
paperback
$16.00
February,
2008
A
mysterious suicide in a military prison…a president whose thirst for
alcohol may overwhelm his thirst for power…a White House advisor who
takes matters into his own hands. With the country’s future in the
balance, a Supreme Court justice, a young congressional aide and a
grieving mother are swept into a fight for their ideals—and their
lives. As timely as tomorrow’s headlines, Deadly Election is a
searing tale of intrigue, courage, and the lust for power.
Betsy
Hartmann has taken our darkest fears and carried them one terrifying
step further.
—Michael Klare, author of Blood and Oil
Betsy
Hartmann is the author of The Truth About Fire, a thriller
about neo-Nazis in the American heartland. She teaches at Hampshire
College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Please visit her website
for more information.
t Swamp Blues
 Laraine Herring
Fiction
ISBN: 978-1-935052-27-2
234 pages
5 x 8
paperback
$16.00
June, 2010
How far would you go to protect someone you love?
Nothing is black or white in the murky town of Alderman, North Carolina, no matter how much the human and ghostly residents of Idyllic Grove Rice Plantation would like it to be. Weaving together the threads of three women rooted by life or death to this haunted Southern landscape, Ghost Swamp Blues pulls the reader into the layers of racism, family loyalties, and hidden relationships that intertwine as naturally as the kudzu that covers the trees where the Swamp Sirens sing.
Fourteen-year-old Lillian Green witnesses the unthinkable in 1949. Her choice to remain silent about what she saw ripples into the swamp water surrounding her family’s home, awakening the ghost of Roberta du Bois, former rice plantation mistress, who drowned herself in the swamp in 1859. Roberta and Lillian forge a bond based on shame, silence, and an impenetrable loneliness. When Lillian’s daughter Hannah is born into the maze of haunted hallways, Lillian has no interest in raising her. Hannah is left alone, with only Roberta and her own exceptional singing voice for company. When the truth about what Lillian saw surfaces, no one, living or dead, can prevent what must come next.
Learn more about author Laraine Herring at laraineherring.com
Peter M. Kash with Tom Monte 
ISBN: 978-1-935052-09-8
228 pages
5.5 x 8.5
paperback
$15.00
March, 2009
In this original view on what makes for business success, Peter Kash sees opportunity even in today's challenging economy. Kash, one of Wall Street's most successful venture capitalists, shows how to recognize and seize the moment that turns dreams of great fortune into reality. Originally published in 2002, this revised and expanded edition has insight most relevant to today's difficult business climate, including examples of how outstanding opportunities often lie in innocuous, thoughtless, or even traumatic events. Inspiring and practical, RESTART: Life-Tactics for Today's Economy illustrates how anyone can make their own luck by learning how to recognize the signs of opportunity knocking.
 Deborah
Kesten
Spirituality/health
ISBN: 978-0-9792451-3-8
272 pages
6 x 9
paperback
$17.00
January, 2008
With the hectic pace
of everyday life—ripping open a packaged breakfast bar as we dash
out the door, coffee in hand—most of us have lost our spiritual
connection to food, say nutritionist Deborah Kesten. Food has been
reduced to “fuel”—a listing of nutritional “value.” But the human
body is not a machine, and many of the food-related issues that
plague us, from overeating and fear of fat to anorexia and other
eating disorders, can be traced to our lack of awareness of the
relationship between body and soul.
Deborah Kesten is a
nutritionist and writer specializing in prevention. A contributing
writer to Veggie Life, Ms. Kesten has been published
internationally in scientific journals, including the Journal of
the American Medical Association. You can find out more about
Deborah Kesten and her work on her website,
www.enlightenedDiet.com.
Feeding the Body,
Nourishing the Soul previously published by Conari Press.
o the Wilderness: a novel
Deborah Lee Luskin
Fiction
ISBN: 978-1-935052-20-3
308 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½
paperback
$18.00
February, 2010
“Will I ever adjust to this place?” Williamsville, VT resident and VPR commentator Deborah Lee Luskin offers engaging answers to that question in her new novel,
Into the Wilderness.
In 1964, Rose Mayer buries her second husband and wonders what she's going to do with the rest of her life. Reluctantly, she visits her son at his summer place in Vermont, where there are neither sidewalks, Democrats nor other Jews. There is, however, the Marlboro Music Festival. It’s there that she meets Percy Mendell, a born and bred Vermonter who has never married, never voted for a Democrat, and never left the state.
Author Deborah Lee Luskin tells this tender romance between these appealing 64-year olds with humor, wit, and compassion. Set against the backdrop of Vermont’s changing seasons, Into The Wilderness is both a love story and a testament to the endurance of the human heart.
“Luskin's heroine Rose Mayer is an honest to God miracle.”
— Philip Baruth, author of The Brothers Boswell
“An absorbing, affectionate, and often funny slice of early 1960’s Vermont life.”
—Jay Craven, Filmmaker, Kingdom County Productions
“Into the Wilderness is a poignant description of a specific place—but it is also a timeless story of human fulfillment.”
—Frank Bryan, John G. McCullough Professor of Political Science, UVM
“Into the Wilderness is a fine novel that offers a highly engaging story of Vermont in the early 60s - a time when political expectations, social norms, and personal relationships were both challenged and enriched by an influx of new residents."
— John Elder, author of Reading the Mountains of Home
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Deborah Lee Luskin has been writing about Vermont life, past and present, since relocating from New York City in 1984. She is a regular commentator for Vermont Public Radio. Visit her at www.deborahleeluskin.com.
 Carl
McColman
Spirituality
ISBN: 978-0-9792451-9-0
260 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½
paperback
$18.00
July, 2008
Spirituality is
a book about the spiritual life that doesn’t tell you what to
believe.
Have you ever heard someone say: “I’m spiritual,
but not religious.”
Or “It’s easier for me to find God in nature
than in a church.”
Or “I can’t limit myself to just one faith
tradition: I see God in all of them.”
If statements like these make sense to you, you
aren’t alone. Today, more people are searching for spiritual
experience outside traditional channels of religious faith. But even
alternative or New Age spiritualities are often filled with dogma
and prescribed notions of how to behave and what to believe. By
contrast, Carl McColman’s book answers the question “What is
spirituality, and why does it matter?” with insights drawn not only
from religious traditions, but also popular culture. Here the
emphasis is on celebrating the many ways spirituality makes a
powerful and positive difference in our lives.
Visit author Carl McColman’s website at:
www.Anamchara.com
 Dr. Will Miller
Non-fiction/humor
ISBN: 978-1-935052-01-2
160 pages
7
½ x 9 ¼
paperback
$15.00
July, 2008
Who Knew?
Television Is the Next Great Healer!
What
if classic TV could heal your inner child? No, really, we're
serious. It’s possible if you understand what your programming
choices say about you!
Did
you love Lassie, the cross-dressing canine hero who saved little
Timmy from raging rivers and mine shafts? It could be a sign of
co-dependency and an impulse for self-sacrifice.
What
does your devotion to Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie say about
your marriage and your view of gender?
Why
do men love the Three Stooges? Why do women loathe them? Do you have
an inner Moe, Larry or Curly?
And
do you know why you must kill your inner Gilligan?
Is
it really possible for the nation to be emotionally healed by
viewing The Brady Bunch?
The answers to these
questions will surprise and thrill you. Dr. Will Miller, the founder
of the revolutionary science of teletherapy, reveals all these
truths and more in this groundbreaking book that explains Why We
Watch! In a matter of moments, you'll be watching your way to
wellness! Really.
About Dr. Will Miller: Dr. Will Miller is a
psychotherapist, lecturer and police chaplain who teaches at Purdue
University. He was a headline stand-up comedian who has appeared on
Nick-at-Night and hosted NBC’s The Other Side. Today he is in great
demand as a speaker by corporations and organizations on stress &
coping with change. With his colleague Dr. Glenn Sparks, Dr. Miller
conducts research and writes about the impact of popular culture and
emerging media technologies on society.
 Felix
Oppenheim
Photography
ISBN: 978-0-9792451-6-9
112
pages
8
1/2 x 11
paperback
$35.00
October, 2007
Over 100 color photographs from around the
world.
No matter how far he
traveled, political philosophy professor and photographer Felix
Oppenheim always carried his Leica camera. Now gathered together for
the first time, Oppenheim presents 107 of his favorite photographs
of architecture and landscapes, each accompanied by its reflection
in water. This collection includes photographs taken over five
decades. They range from cathedrals, mosques, castles, chateaux,
manor houses, and bridges mirrored in seas, lakes, rivers, canals,
moats, and other bodies of water. Located in eleven countries**,
Oppenheim's photographs form unexpected wholes both startling and
pleasing.
**France, Italy,
Croatia, Greece, Spain (Granada), Netherlands, Belgium, Morocco,
Iran (Isfahan), Egypt, United States.
The Good Side of Bad
Beverly Olevin
Fiction
ISBN: 978-1-935052-35-7
202 pages
paperback
$16.00
September, 2010
It's 2008 and there's more melting down than the economy. Peter is a successful Wall Street player until his world is turned upside down by the global financial crisis. The trick is to keep his life and career together while his sisters in Seattle struggle to hold on to jobs, homes and sanity. Younger sister Florence is losing her grip on reality…she jumped off a bridge, for starters. Mental holograms crack into the fissures of her mind as pieces fall away. Her brother and older sister, Sara, are forced to disrupt their lives in an attempt to save her. Ticking time bombs —real and imagined— challenge them to choose how they will show up for each other and for themselves. Moving between Seattle and New York, the story is told though the voices of the three siblings as they face their own crises and try to stay afloat.
With insight and empathy, Olevin illuminates the mysterious world of mental illness, the corruption and greed of financial markets, and the tangled ties of family. The Good Side of Bad is a finely wrought, humorous and moving journey towards compassion and the other side of loss.
For more information visit Beverly's site, beverlyolevin.com.
 Shulamith
Oppenheim
Fiction/fantasy
ISBN: 978-0-9792451-1-4
221 pages
5
x 8
paperback
$12.00
June, 2007
On a warm October day
only a few years past the middle of the 18th century, a
boy was born on Unst, the most northerly isle of Shetland. He was
named Michael Magnus, laird of Burrafirth. His father, Laurence
Bruce, gave the title to his son immediately. It was good, he said,
for the boy to grow up knowing who he was and what such a rank
entailed.
When Michael turned
five, his mother died, her lifeless body found among the seals who
sing on the shores of Burrafirth. Now that the boy is nine, he needs
a tutor. But the question must be asked, which one will be the
teacher and which one will be the tutor?
Shulamith Oppenheim is
the esteemed author of several books for children and young adults,
many of them influenced by her extensive travels and her interests
in folk tales, fairy tales and Middle Eastern culture. You can find
out more about Shulamith Oppenheim at her
website.
The World Invisible
previously published by Ace Fantasy Books/The Berkley Publishing
Group.
Uncle Benoit’s
Wake and Other Tales from Vermont
 Bill Schubart
Short stories/Vermont
ISBN:
978-1-935052-10-4
200
pages
6 x
9
paperback
$15.00
October, 2008
Every year on the
Fourth of July, Jeeter’s wife Lou struts in the town parade wearing
suspenders made of jumper cables with a tow chain around her waist.
Those in the know—which means everyone in town—chuckle at Lou’s
silent commentary on her husband’s skill as an automotive mechanic.
But Jeeter has a different perspective: “That’s my wife right
there,” he tells a stranger. “She knows cars.”
Author Bill Schubart
brings to life the friends and characters of his native Lamoille
County, where in the late 1950s and early 1960s, life was lived
close to the earth and often against the grain. Schubart’s
collection of twenty-two stories captures Vermont in its transition
from an enclave of hill farms and small towns where everyone knew
your grandfather to a place where vehicles bearing license plates
from “away” mix with hippie vans filled with born-again Vermonters
getting back to the land…until snowfall. It’s a time and place where
the Jeeters of The Lamoille Stories rub elbows with the ladies of
the Uplift Club, all to the fiddle accompaniment of Québécois music
played by people whose conversations often weave French and English
together in a single sentence.
Schubart’s full-hearted
and compassionate evocation of this Vermont is by turns poignant,
funny and savory. The stories give readers a good excuse to stay up
too late to discover how Wyvis will circumvent the new Vermont
prohibition on having more than three junk cars in your yard or how
Charlie is going to get Edgar to pay him for his new chimney.
Schubart’s thoroughly enjoyable short story collection is as finely
etched as the frost crystals on your winter window. Amusez-vous bien!
“Bill Schubart’s
Vermont stories of a mostly-forgotten time and place are fresh,
authentic, funny in places and sad in others. He knows his corner of
the Green Mountains inside out and writes with honesty and grace
about its people.”
—Howard Frank Mosher,
author of Disappearances, Mary Blythe, and On
Kingdom Mountain
About the author
Bill Schubart was born
in New York City. His father died in the Philippines before his
birth. Soon after, his widowed mother moved them both to
Morrisville, Vermont, where she later remarried and had two more
children. Schubart attended Exeter Academy, Kenyon College and
graduated from UVM with a degree in French. Over the years, he
co-founded Philo Records and Resolution, and has been active in
various cultural, civic and business organizations throughout his
lifetime in Vermont. He has four children and lives and writes in
Hinesburg with his wife Kate.
To read more or purchase the book, please visit
www.Schubart.com.
Correction:
at the end of p. 127 of The Lamoille
Stories, the last word is
missing. The end of the sentence should read: ...crayon-bearing
beard.
This error has been
corrected in all books printed after January 15, 2009. White River
Press apologizes for the error.
Diamonds Are Trumps: A Pitcher's First Novel
 Marty Slattery
With a new introduction
by Dr. James P. Elliott
Fiction/baseball
ISBN: 978-1-935052-00-5
268 pages
6
x 9
paperback
$17.00
April, 2008
Lovers of America's
greatest game once again have the chance to spend time in the
compassionate, funny, and oh-so-humane presence of author Marty
Slattery with this new publication of his novel Diamonds Are Trumps.
Through his character Bill Mahoney, Slattery shares his personal
knowledge of the game (he pitched in the minor leagues) and his
consuming passion for its players.
With bone chips in his elbow that make his arm
hurt all the way up to his ear, and scars on his middle-aged soul,
Mahoney is something of a wounded knight errant. But when the umpire
yells “Play ball!” Bill rises to dance to baseball’s perpetual
melody.
Emotionally hollow and growing more passive with
each birthday, Bill is skidding through his life, aching from lost
loves and unfulfilled hopes. But the Dream is not done with him yet,
and gradually, Bill understands the gifts the game can give him.
In this 2008 publication of Diamonds Are
Trumps—with a new introduction by Dr. James P. Elliott—author Marty
Slattery gives his readers the gift of a funny, poignant, and
lyrical novel about baseball as it’s played in the minor leagues and
life as it’s played beyond the dugout.
Learn more at
www.diamondsaretrumps.com.
Town of Hadley 350th Anniversary Commemorative Book
A Publication of Hadley's 350th Committee
Mary Thayer and Marla Miller, Editors
Local history/anniversary celebrations
ISBN: 978-1-935052-28-9 hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-935052-29-6 paperback
168 pages
$20.00 limited edition hardcover
$45.00 paperback, available July, 2010
May, 2010
This beautifully illustrated commemorative volume records the year-long series of events in 2009 through which Hadley, Massachusetts, celebrated the 350th anniversary of its founding. In more than 240 color images, the book captures and preserves for future generations the community spirit and enthusiasm that marked this exciting year.
Hardcover book is available only in stores and banks in Hadley, or email Mary Thayer.
Paperback will be widely available.
Surprisingly Happy: An Atypical Religious Memoir
Sheila Peltz Weinberg
Memoir
ISBN: 978-1-935052-18-0
158 pages, paperback
$14.00
January, 2010
Rabbi Reveals Surprising Details of a Faith-filled Life
“Are you happy because you are getting older or because you’ve found spiritual peace?”
Amherst, Mass. resident and co-founder of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, Rabbi Sheila Weinberg offers intriguing answers to that question in her new memoir.
Snapshots of Rabbi Weinberg’s life, as told through poetry, prayers, and accounts of this Jewish Baby Boomer’s experiences, offer clues about her search to find God, and carves a path for others to learn from her journey. It addresses her spiritual quests through yoga and meditation, and provides a candid look at her struggles with addiction, her philosophy of feminism, and her life as a wife, mother and grandmother.
The book incorporates the author’s eye witness accounts of many iconic events of the past 40 years: the 1968 student riots at Columbia University; the challenges of the Peace Corps in Chile in 1968; the outbreak of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Rabbi Weinberg also relates equally engaging anecdotes of less
dramatic, yet impactful, rituals of everyday life: Senior prom, family, holidays, and a complex relationship with her mother.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
A life-long advocate for peace and justice, Rabbi Weinberg is active in Rabbis for Human Rights, an international organization that gives voice to the Jewish tradition of human rights. She is a co-founder of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, ijs-online.org, in New York City, and leads workshops and retreats in various locations throughout the year.
 Molly Wolf
Spirituality
ISBN: 978-1-935052-07-4
212
pages
5
1/2 x 8 1/2
paperback
$16.00
August, 2008
Wrestling with Angels and Dragons
In the tradition of bestsellers such as Kathleen
Norris’s The Cloister Walk and Anne Lamott’s Traveling
Mercies, Molly Wolf presents a powerful, inspiring work of
survival, healing, and spiritual insight.
It is often said that the
deepest spiritual insight comes in the face of life’s most difficult
challenges. Writers like Thomas Merton and Henri
Nouwen, who have shared their journeys from the extreme of utter
despair to liberating redemption with millions of readers, are now
joined by a woman whose voice at once echoes theirs, yet is wholly
original.
In a brave and moving
book, Molly Wolf writes about the dragons that tormented her and the
angels that offered her redemption. Without drifting into
self-indulgent confession or pious victimhood, Wolf describes her
emergence from an abusive marriage and her decision to move on with
her life with revitalized hope and spirit. She explains how she
found strength in the acceptance of her former self, writing: “If
you know that you can never fully be put back to rights, because the
past is past and can’t be undone, you can accept the brokenness of
others more gracefully and lovingly.”
Like Wolf’s previous book, A Place Like Any Other, Angels
and Dragons reaches out to the entire spectrum of
spiritual seekers, speaking to a mainstream audience as well as
followers of traditional religions. A memoir that acknowledges the
“sloppiness of memory, the wild imprecision of the human heart,”
Angels and Dragons shows readers how to face
the past honestly in order to begin on the path to a spiritually
rich and rewarding future.
About the author: Molly
Wolf is the author of Hiding in Plain Sight,
A Place Like Any Other, and White
China: Finding the Divine in the Everyday. She lives
in Ontario, Canada.
To
learn more about Molly's writings or to subscribe to her Sabbath
Blessings, visit
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