Every child carries a light.This story helps them find it — and remember it.The Light Inside Me is a gentle, rhyming journey that guides children inward to discover their own glow — the quiet, steady light that lives beneath their feet, flows through their body, and shines from their heart.Whether a child is feeling joyful, unsure, overwhelmed, or simply ready to settle into sleep, this story offers a soft path back to safety and self. It reminds young read...

A Journey Into Your Voice, Calming Story That Help Builds ConfidenceYour voice matters.Let it rise — softly, slowly, from deep inside.The Song Within is a calming and empowering story that guides children to discover the quiet sound that lives in their body — the gentle “O” that rises from the belly, moves through the heart, and finds its way to the lips.Through poetic rhythm and mindful breath, this book invites little ones to expl...

Martha Fenn King is a steadfast gardener whose stunning photos and sage advice once informed readers through her regular gardening column, “Martha's Garden.” Gathering a lifetime of gardening knowledge and lore, Martha’s A Maine Garden Almanac presents a collection of seasonal information, heartwarming insight, poetry, and beautiful imagery. Whether you have a small or large garden, this book will support you through the tougher growing seasons in your garden and life. A Maine Garden Alman...

Daria Frezza covers six tumultuous decades of transatlantic history to examine how European theories of mass politics and crowd psychology influenced American social scientists' perception of crowds, mobs, democratic "people," and its leadership. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, the development of an urban-industrial mass society and the disordered influx of millions of immigrants required a redefinition of these important categories in American public discourse. Frezza shows...

From debut novelist Martha Woodroof comes an inspiring tale of a small-town college professor, a remarkable new woman at the bookshop, and the ten-year-old son he never knew he had.Tom Putnam has resigned himself to a quiet and half-fulfilled life. An English professor in a sleepy college town, he spends his days browsing the Shakespeare shelves at the campus bookstore, managing the oddball faculty in his department and caring, alongside his formidable mother-in-law, for his wife M...

When Thelma and Louise outfought the men who had tormented them, women across America discovered what male fans of action movies have long known—the empowering rush of movie violence. Yet the duo's escapades also provoked censure across a wide range of viewers, from conservatives who felt threatened by the up-ending of women's traditional roles to feminists who saw the pair's use of male-style violence as yet another instance of women's co-option by the patriarchy.In the first book...

America’s War for Independence dramatically affected the speed and nature of broader social, cultural, and political changes including those shaping the place and roles of women in society. Women fought the American Revolution in many ways, in a literal no less than a figurative sense. Whether Loyalist or Patriot, Indigenous or immigrant enslaved or slave-owning, going willingly into battle or responding when war came to their doorsteps, women participated in the conflict in complex and va...

Hosea Ballou Morse (1855-1934) sailed to China in 1874, and for the next thirty-five years he labored loyally in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service, becoming one of its most able commissioners and acquiring a deep knowledge of China's economy and foreign relations. After his retirement in 1909, Morse devoted himself to scholarship. He pioneered in the Western study of China's foreign relations, weaving from the tangled threads of the Ch'ing dynasty's foreign affairs several semi...

An engaging look at the rise and fall of cultural diversity in the colonial South and its role in shaping a distinct southern identityThe 18th-century South was a true melting pot, bringing together colonists from England, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, and other locations, in addition to African slaves—all of whom shared in the experiences of adapting to a new environment and interacting with American Indians. The shared process of immigration, adaptation,...

A Gentle Guide for Inner Calm, Clarity, and StrengthWhen the world feels loud and thoughts feel tangled, your breath can lead you home.This soothing, poetic story invites children — and the child within us all — to slow down, tune in, and rediscover the quiet power of the breath. Through gentle rhymes and soft imagery, The Path of Breath teaches how to follow the breath through the body, like a flowing river or a calm wave, bringing peace to the he...

Bravery doesn’t always roar.Sometimes, it whispers — “You can do this.”The Very Brave Me is a heartfelt story for children navigating change, big feelings, or moments of uncertainty. Through gentle rhymes and soft imagery, this book reminds young readers that true courage isn’t about being fearless — it’s about feeling the fear, and choosing to keep going anyway.Whether it’s speaking up, asking for help, walking into a new classroom, or trying some...

The Renaissance movement known as humanism eventually spread from Italy through all of western Europe, transforming early modern culture in ways that are still being felt and debated. Central to these debates—and to this book—is the question of whether (and how) the humanist movement contributed to the secularization of Western cultural traditions at the end of the Middle Ages. A preeminent scholar of Italian humanism, Riccardo Fubini approaches this question in a new way—by redefining the...