In these three homespun tales of an imagined Maine village, Kate Douglas Wiggin turns riverbanks, meetinghouses, and a Shaker community into living sources of story. Her affectionate introduction links each tale to a place she knew and loved, promising vivid New England scenes shaped by memory, local color, and the quiet power of landscape. From the Saco River's working waters to the old church pews of village life and the disciplined serenity of the Shakers, the collection captures the be...

In this spirited collection, Kate Douglas Wiggin argues that children are not possessions to be managed or indulged, but human beings with rights to fairness, dignity, and a true childhood. With wit and vivid anecdote, she challenges the power adults wield over a child's body, mind, and soul, condemning fear, dishonesty, crushed will, and premature sophistication while praising play, simplicity, sunshine, animals, and the open air. She traces the rise of child-centered thought through refo...

Bluebeard is a wickedly funny musical fantasy that turns opera itself into a target, parodying Wagnerian seriousness, lecture-recital pretension, and the grand claims of musical criticism. Framed as a "discovered" Wagner work, it mock-scholarly examines marriage, desire, violence, and the absurdity of overanalyzing art while introducing a vivid cast: Bluebeard, the innocent Fatima, the ambitious Sister Anne, a mercenary Mother, and a comic parade of tigers, elephants, dragons, and choruses...

From the moonlit canals of Venice to the reforming classrooms of Yverdon, this witty travel narrative turns sightseeing into a sparkling test of taste, language, and character. The narrator, a painter shaped by years of teaching and child care, travels with the dignified Salemina, the wealthy Francesca, and the pedantic Miss Celia Van Tyck, finding delight in beauty while never losing her comic eye for human absurdity. In Venice, she revels in the city's rare wonder, its festivals, gondola...

“I’m coming for you. You will never escape me...”Book #1 in series: She’s the most dangerous person in the prison hospital for the criminally insane...and she’s broken free. When Trey Campbell takes his family to Catalina Island, his patient – sociopathic killer Agnes Hatcher – breaks out, leaving a trail of bodies behind as she hunts for her one true love...from a previous life. A gripping psychological thriller full of page-turning suspense and mind-bendi...

Most writing craft books, courses, and workshops focus on the tools for being a writer and how to use them: dialog, setting, pacing, plot, openings, exposition, point-of-view. And so on.And on and on and on.Their aim is to add another tool, or maybe even a set of tools, to your writer's toolbox.The problem with that approach is the vast gulf in knowledge between having your toolbox filled with tools and applying those tools to create a story.Those c...

This compassionate guide helps parents examine and transform their approach to raising LGBTQ+ youth through thoughtful explorations of personal values, societal expectations, and the power of loving support.Using the authors’ LOVE framework (Looking at Our Values and Expectations), this engaging workbook helps parents understand their vital role in their LGBTQ+ child’s identity development and well-being. Drawing on extensive clinical work, research, and personal experience, it off...

Called Fallen Ones, winged jackals, and night devils, they are a tribe of vampires long-believed extinct. Until now..Book #1 in Series: In this medieval dark fantasy epic, Aleric the Falconer, torn by war from his beloved, falls prey to Pythia, the savage mistress whose embrace means death.“If you like Game of Thrones and vampires, you’ll love The Vampyricon."* Get the trilogy: The Lady of Serpents (#2), and T...

The book was fiction. The pain was real. The consequences are deadly.Professor Karla Dobbs has everything: literary acclaim, a bestselling novel, and a film adaptation on the horizon. Until a former student accuses her of plagiarism.Natalie Silva claims that the novel in question is based on a real tragedy and insists that the film be stopped, or there will be consequences. Certain that she has done nothing wrong, Karla dismisses her. At first.But a...

A behind-the-scenes perspective on Philadelphia Eagles history from sports radio personality and former player Hugh Douglas As a former All-Pro defenseman, Hugh Douglas knows what it means to live and breathe Eagles football. In If These Walls Could Talk: Philadelphia Eagles, Douglas opens up about his life and career in Philadelphia and provides insight into the team's inner sanctum as only he can. Featuring conversations with players and coaches past and present as well as off-the-wall a...

What are the neural circuits that underpin behavior, both in psychiatric illness and in health? Can we understand what is going on in the brain of a person suffering depression, or who has an anxiety disorder, or is addicted to drugs? And what of our fundamental functions and survival drives: what are the connections between neurons that enable us to form, store, and retrieve memories, to feel empathy, to act as parents to our children? In the early years of the twenty-first century, a new...

A young squirrel who has big dreams of helping his family find a new home finds a big acorn instead, in this humorous and clever picture book by Caldecott Honoree Jason Griffin. Perfect for fans of THE LEAF THIEF and MEL FELL.There’s a hole in the ground where the squirrel family tree used to be, and so they set out on a hunt to find a new home.Choko Choko, the smallest squirrel, is determined to help… but he’s told he’s too little to join. “Too LIT...