A 2026 Editor's Choice by NewPagesDrawing from more than thirty years of creative writing teaching experience, Suzanne Roberts offers down-to-earth, witty, and wise straight talk about writing and the writing life, accessible craft discussions, and thought-provoking twenty-minute genre-crossing writing prompts. This multi-genre approach is arranged by theme, including memory, family and friends, writing the body, love and lust, death and g...

This book covers a lot of ground - some of it familiar to you; some it maybe not to your lifestyle experience, but the purpose and hope of this book is TO GLORIFY GOD; and show how HE blessed in very difficult - sometimes even painful - situations.With GOD'S HELP you can have THE ABUNDANT LIFE in all circumstances of life.Vicki was diagnosed with cancer on July 20, 2018, and by August 10, 2018, had "THE ABUNDANT LIFE" even not knowing where her cancer experience would lead....

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor LiteratureIt was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished college, and when her friend suggested they hike California’s John Muir Trail, the adventure sounded like the perfect distraction from a difficult home life and thoughts about the future. But she never imagined that the twenty-eight-day hike would change her life. Part memoir, part nature writing, part travelogue, Almost Somewhere is Roberts’s acco...

"One of the penalties of an ecological education," wrote Aldo Leopold, "is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." As climate change and other environmental degradations become more evident, experts predict that an increasing number of people will suffer emotional and psychological distress as a result. Many are feeling these effects already. In the pages of Solastalgia, they will find a source of companionship, inspiration, and advice.The concept of solastalgia comes ...

Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayForeword INDIES Bronze Winner in EssaysHow do we reckon with our losses? In Animal Bodies Suzanne Roberts explores the link between death and desire and what it means to accept our own animal natures, the parts we most often hide, deny, or consider only with shame—our taboo desires and our grief. In landscapes as diverse as Salamanca’s cobbled streets, the Mekong River’s floating market...

As an issue, the environment is complicated. First, it is layered. Secondly, it is multifaceted. As a result, political scientist John A. Duerk has assembled an interdisciplinary anthology composed of accessible studies to generate conversations that will yield greater understanding of the many environmental challenges that we face. The layers explored herein are philosophy, politics, and policy. Philosophy concerns the ideas that inform our values. Politics involves the conflicts that eme...

This is a story about a woman named Lilly, whose very name represents a delicate flower. Her voice is sheer magic, and her heart is of pure gold. Everyone who knows Lilly loves her. Lilly is in her second phase in life. Throughout the first phase of her life, all she ever wanted to do was achieve a lifelong dream of becoming a famous folk singer in a band. She has always had a special message to share with others through her voice and those sparkling twinkling big brown eyesa lot like Bamb...

2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gold Medal Winner2021 National Indie Excellent Awards Finalist2020 Bronze Award for Travel Book or Guide from the North American Travel Journalists Association2020 Bronze Winner for Travel in the Foreword INDIESBoth a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook, Bad Tourist takes us across four continents to fifteen countries, showing us what not to do when traveling. A woman learning to claim her own ...

How do we reckon with our losses? In Animal Bodies Suzanne Roberts explores the link between death and desire and what it means to accept our own animal natures, the parts we most often hide, deny, or consider only with shame-our taboo desires and our grief. In landscapes as diverse as the Salamanca's cobbled streets, the Mekong River's floating markets, Fire Island's windswept beaches, Nashville's honky-tonks, and the Sierra Nevada's snowy slopes, Roberts interrogates her memory and tries...

In It's Deeper Than That, Suzanne Roberts shares a powerful invitation to remember who we are beneath the noise, survival patterns, and systems that fragment us. Weaving together over fifty years of personal experience, science, and metaphysics, this work offers a profound exploration of personal awakening and collective transformation. Rooted in The Great Reconnection™, It's Deeper Than That guides readers through a three-part journey of personal healing, practical integration, and collec...

It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished college, and when her friend suggested they hike California's John Muir Trail, the adventure sounded like the perfect distraction from a difficult home life and thoughts about the future. But she never imagined that the twenty-eight-day hike would change her life. Part memoir, part nature writing, part travelogue, Almost Somewhere is Roberts's account of that hike.John Muir wrote of the Sierra Nevada as a "vast range of light,...

From bestselling author Scott Turow comes Personal Injuries, a gripping, suspenseful, deeply satisfying novel about corruption, deceit, and love.Robbie Feaver (pronounced "favor") is a charismatic personal injury lawyer with a high profile practice, a way with the ladies, and a beautiful wife (whom he loves), who is dying of an irreversible illness. He also has a secret bank account where he occasionally deposits funds that make their way into the pockets ...