This is the story of the crayon. Following the Civil War, three entrepreneurial families took their innovative ideas for school chalk from the kitchen stove and transformed them into the American C...
“I wake to the smell of burnt oatmeal.” So begins the story of Puck Beck, wise-cracking 16-year-old and narrator of North Hill.The Commitments meets The Catcher in the Rye – North Hill is a hilario...
A young American has given up on life and love. Leaving everything behind, he embarks on a new chapter in the charming cafés and rolling hills of Belgium. He falls in love with Julia, who is sponta...
“Befriending Ending” is a unique blend of personal memoir and philosophical essay. A beloved parent’s death is the springboard for observations on the denial of death and dying in our society, and ...
The Plastic Bag Will Not Inflate: Letters from a Bicoastal Father is an unflinching, multi-faceted reflection on the lessons and longings that accompanied one man's experience of bicoastal parent...
Compiled from Keith McWalter's long-running essay and opinion blog, Mortal Coil, these essays span the period from the summer of 2018 through the end of 2020. Trump, Covid, the first moon landing, ...
Alison Stine grew up in rural Ohio and now lives in Colorado. Her first novel Road Out of Winter won the 2021 Philip K. Dick Award. Recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and ...
Keith McWalter grew up in Mexico and Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Denison University and Columbia Law School. His writing has appeared in the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, an...
Ann Hagedorn has been a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal and has taught writing at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Jour...
In this book, you will read about the incredible accomplishments of US Marines serving in Afghanistan in 2009.
All the proceeds from this purchase will go to the Alumni and Memorial Scholarship F...
For readers of Dopesick and Dreamland, journalist Jack Shuler explores the current addiction crisis as a human rights problem fostered by poverty and inadequate health care in this "insightful look...
Worried your company won’t survive in the fast-changing, high-tech world? Discover innovative strategies to future-proof your profits.
Do you worry young, cutting-edge companies will push you out o...
Emperors of the Deep takes the reader on a pulse-pounding tour around the world and deep under thewater’s surface—from the frigid waters of the Arctic Circle to the coral reefs of the tropical Cent...
This concise overview provides a scientific yet highly accessible introduction to the science of animal cognition. Written for undergraduate college courses as well as any interested reader, it enc...
David Baker, acclaimed for his combination of “visionary scope” (Gettysburg Review) and “emotional intensity” (Georgia Review), is one of contemporary poetry’s most gifted lyric poets. In Swift, he...
