Marcea of the Dust finds our heroine, Marcea, walking a fine moral line between the emotional trauma of her childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her father and her response to other young women, whom she stumbles across accidentally in the sex trade of Mexico. Marcea's actions challenge the lives of those around her, especially those of Collo and Drayson, her loving, fearless stepparents. Seeking refuge with nine young female victims of the sex trade, she turns to her stepparent...

Sometimes we have an idea that there is a home, a place that will be perfect for us. We have a longing for this place where family is so deep we live it in our dreams. It defies clock time and hovers in a mysterious realm where all of time exists. It is vast and spiritual, and our every fiber knows that we are home. We imagine this place exists somewhere in our concrete world. But it doesn't. It's always tucked away, hidden between our hearts and our brains, our experiences and our hop...

Sharina Mathews, a young Abenaki woman, finds herself pregnant with a child whose DNA reveals there is no biological father. At a farmers' market in Oregon, she meets Chana, a young Asian woman who is also pregnant although still a virgin, and their lives are instantly intertwined. On the run from those who would dissect them to understand their parthenogenic abilities, Sharina and Chana and their partners seek shelter on Sharina's mother's farm in Vermont. As the babies grow in utero and ...

Jordy is the final installment in The Yoga Teacher trilogy. Following our maternal line of Abenaki women through GG'ma Niben, Teylen, Sharina, and Telaya, we find ourselves with Telaya's son, Jordy. He is the first male descendant in a parthenogenic line spanning five generations. Jordy just wants to make his mother, Telaya, happy...and to be "normal." But Jordy is anything but normal, and it isn't long before his teacher realizes he's something special. A horrific shooti...

Birthright Knowing was written by Jules Cooper over a 20-year span while she raised a family, worked on a master's degree in women studies, was a devoted yoga student, taught yoga at the local university, worked on a local organic farm, and spent a brief time at the bottom of her life in a mental hospital. It is written from the heart of intuition and includes essays, children's stories, poems, and original artwork.

Sharina Mathews, a young Abenaki woman, finds herself pregnant with a child whose DNA reveals there is no biological father. At a farmers' market in Oregon, she meets Chana, a young Asian woman who is also pregnant although still a virgin, and their lives are instantly intertwined. On the run from those who would dissect them to understand their parthenogenic abilities, Sharina and Chana and their partners seek shelter on Sharina's mother's farm in Vermont. As the babies grow in utero and ...

Marcea of the Dust finds our heroine, Marcea, walking a fine moral line between the emotional trauma of her childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her father and her response to other young women, whom she stumbles across accidentally in the sex trade of Mexico. Marcea's actions challenge the lives of those around her, especially those of Collo and Drayson, her loving, fearless stepparents. Seeking refuge with nine young female victims of the sex trade, she turns to her stepparent...

S*ometimes we have an idea that there is a home, a place that will be perfect for us. We have a longing for this place where family is so deep we live it in our dreams. It defies clock time and hovers in a mysterious realm where all of time exists. It is vast and spiritual, and our every fiber knows that we are home. We imagine this place exists somewhere in our concrete world. But it doesn't. It's always tucked away, hidden between our hearts and our brains, our experiences and our hopes....