We are proud to announce our first book of poetry, by local poet Brett Bartow.

Brett describes his collection:

 The poems in this book were written over the course of about 20 years, starting in the early 1990s and going right up through 2011. When I sat down recently to dust off many of the older ones, I realized how well they chronicle my travels and relationships, struggles and revelries, the yearning to find and capture the thunder of life, the moments that insist you take notice and make you aware of the power we all have inside us to embrace something larger than ourselves.

I had not thought much about publishing these poems, because they were written mostly just to help me define myself. In the book Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer MariaRilke counsels his student, “If out of this turning within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of asking anyone whether they are good or not…for you will see them as your dear natural possession, a piece of your life, a voice from it. A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.”

These are my songs of necessity.

  Title: Chasing Thunder
Author: Brett Bartow
Genre: Poetry
Publication: September 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9839328-0-2
Price: $3.99

Deep in the woods surrounding the little town of Granelle, a darkness waits and watches.

Content in his life as the senior pastor of his church, Jake Peterson has no regrets about leaving law enforcement. That is until a mysterious letter arrives and darkness returns to Saratoga County. Faces from the past reappear, a woman close to Jake disappears, a boy goes missing, and the past begins to repeat itself. His faith shaken, Jake turns to his old friend, Meg Riley, to help find the missing woman – and the one who is at the center of the darkness – before it is too late. Haunted by the past, Jake and Meg must face it together or be destroyed by it forever.

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Title: Beyond the Keeper’s Gate
Author: Ladean Warner
Genre: Thriller
Publication: June 2010
ISBN: 978-0-9824337-7-5
Price: $12.95

For more information, visit www.ladeanwarner.com.

This webinar is being hosted by the Consulting Alliance – for more information and to register, please click here.

We’re so excited! Just to be a finalist for such a thoughtful award is a great thrill. We’ve only been publishing books for a year, and yet we’re running with some heady company. We asked author Carl Eeman for his reaction, and after we peeled him off the ceiling, he regained his composure and said he was “just floored that my little story would even be considered by the Hoffer Project.”

The Eric Hoffer Award for short prose and books was established at the start of the 21st century as a means of opening a door to writing of significant merit. It honors the memory of the great American philosopher Eric Hoffer by highlighting salient writing, as well as the independent spirit of small publishers.

Oh, Behave! goes beyond business etiquette to give you tips on how to choose the presence and performance that make the lasting impression you want in your business and your career.

Alan Stern brings more than 30 years’ experience in training and theater to help individuals and organizations be creative, spontaneous and authentic in their organizational and interpersonal communications.   

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Title: Oh, Behave! Choose Your Best Business Performance
Author: Alan Stern
Genre: Business, Management
Publication: July 2010
ISBN: 978-0-9824337-6-8
Price: $12.95

In 1863, Lincoln’s Proclamation frees the slaves, but the reality of equality is long delayed.

In 1963, the dream of “Free at Last” is proclaimed at Lincoln’s Memorial, but the reality is still incomplete.

Halfway between, in 1913, America has a chance to speed up the day of brotherhood, to put aside racial hatred and bind up the pain of slavery.

It was a road not taken.

Encampment: A Novel of Race and Reconciliation explores that road not taken. In July 1913, after two years’ preparation by the US Army, over 54,000 Civil War veterans came to the National Encampment in Gettysburg – a now-forgotten, week-long reunion that ended in a gesture of reconciliation between North and South. Hundreds of domestic and foreign reporters scribbled stories about reunions, forgiveness, speeches by dignitaries. All watched to see if North and South could meet and make peace on the bloody ground Lincoln called “hallowed.” All who gathered wondered: could Blue and Gray bind up the nation’s wounds and make peace? They could, and they did… for those who were white.

But what if there had been a deeper healing? What might have happened if 5,000 black veterans had dared to attend? What if not just blue and gray but also black and white had battled through their hatred and regrets to heal history?

Encampment follows three Civil War veterans in the autumn of their lives:

Zachariah Hampton, once sergeant in the 8th Georgia, lives in Savannah with his daughter Emily. He shares memories, parades, bigotry and bourbon with his old fellow Confederates.

Lucius Robinson ran away from slavery during the War. In the decades after he was a harness maker and carpenter around town. He lives on Savannah’s west side with his son Rufus, daughter-in-law Beulah, and grandchildren Alma, Hannah, and Sherman. Fifty years of race prejudice have worn out his dignity and used up his hope.

Calvin Salisbury of Rutland has been married 50 years to Eleanor. Having served as a major in the 14th Vermont, he spent decades as a judge. In his later years he sees the triumph of his youth crumbling under a national bigotry.

 These three men join tens of thousands of their fellow veterans, hoping to heal ancient wounds, soften memories, and reconcile the past and their present. In this fictionalized account, Marian Anderson and WEB DuBois join Woodrow Wilson on stages to entertain, inform, and inspire, but it is the white-haired veterans who heal the burdens and fury of their past. In this inspiring and thought-provoking novel, Zachariah, Lucius, and Calvin are among the thousands at Gettysburg who share food, drink and memories while burying the ghosts of slavery and hatred. They lead America beyond the divisions of section and race and lay the foundation for a post-racial society decades before our time.

Title: Encampment: A Novel of Race and Reconciliation
Author: Carl Eeman
Genre: Historical Fiction
Publication: November 2009
ISBN: 978-0-9824337-3-7
Price: $14.95

For  more information, visit www.gettysburgencampment.com

Hello there!  I’m Reagan. 
I want you to know
About something I learned today. 
Ready?  Let’s go!

Join Reagan as she discovers something special about rainbows and about herself, with light verse and illustrations by Gigi Grace.

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Title: Reagan’s Rainbow Secret
Author: Donna Gizzi
Illustrator: Gigi Grace
Genre: Juvenille Fiction
Publication: August 2009
ISBN: 978-0-9824337-2-0
Price: $16.95

To purchase your copy, visit www.reagansrainbowsecret.com.

November 2008: With the US Senate race in Minnesota too close to call, incumbent Norm Coleman says, “If you ask me what I would do, I would step back.” Challenger Al Franken tells the press he supports a recount. A quiet blogger named WineRev writes a diary at DailyKos.

Six months later: Coleman has not yet stepped back. Franken has not been seated. WineRev is still writing.

Eight months later: Finally, Senator Al Franken is sworn in, and WineRev has finally stopped writing.

Recounting Minnesota is a thoroughly entertaining, often irreverent, and always informative view of the 2008 Minnesota Senate recount, from a blogger’s point of view. Includes reader comments and a timeline of this unexpected saga, as well as a foreword by Markos Moulitsas.

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Title: Recounting Minnesota: Blogging the Al Franken Election Saga
Author: Carl Eeman
Genre: Current Events, American Politics
Publication: August 2009
ISBN: 978-0-9824337-1-3
Price: $16.95

Click here to learn more about having Carl Eeman address your class, school, or organization.

The seemingly unrelated threads of people’s lives become woven together through one doctor, Alex Baker, who is dealing with his own struggles. After losing first his mentor and then his wife to the ugly world of drugs and addiction, his solutions to his own difficulties set in motion profound changes in other people’s lives that no one could ever have predicted. These interconnected vignettes form a unified tapestry that reveals how miracles happen all the time, even in the midst of unspeakable tragedies.

God is alive.

God is watching.

God is channel surfing.
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Title: Channel Surfing with God
Author: Gary Fisher
Genre: Urban Fiction
Publication: July 2009
ISBN: 978-0-9824337-0-6
Price: $13.95