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Oak Wise | POETRYPoetry Exploring an Ecological Faithby L.M. Browning with a foreword by Emmy-winning writer Alan Cooke

Second Expanded Paperback EditionISBN 978-1-938846-05-2 List Price $14.95 | 230 pp 6 x 9

Oak Wise is a collection of Celtic-themed narrative poetry exploring the old wisdom of the Druidic and shamanic traditions. This collection brilliantly reintroduces the ecological sensitivities of the earth-based faiths, highlighting the relevance of the old wisdom in this current age of environmental crisis.

Winner of the 2013 Nautilus Gold Medal for Poetry

Fleeting Moments of Fierce Clarity | POETRY

Journal of a New England Poet by L.M. Browning with a foreword by Ian Marshall

First Trade Paperback EditionISBN 978-1-938846-01-4 List Price: $14.95 | 120 pp 6 x 9

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Homebound Publications is an award-winning independent publisher of contemplative literature founded in 2011.

What do we mean by “contemplative literature?” In this throwaway-culture where we buy a book in the supermarket, read it over the weekend, and then toss it, we publish books that you will have on your nightstand for a few years and return to again and again—books that nourish your mind and soul.

What’s in a Name? Homebound Publications’ name is derived from the idea of homecoming and the individual’s journey to fi nd a place of belonging. Our name Homebound is meant as “bound for home” echoing the Herman Melville quote, “Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.”

Our Mission: At Homebound Publications, we publish books written by independent voices for independent minds. Our titles focus on a return to simplicity and balance, connection to the earth and each other, and the search for meaning and authenticity. As an independent publisher we strive to ensure, “Th at the mainstream is not the only stream.”

It is our intention at Homebound Publications to preserve contemplative storytelling. We publish full-length introspective works of creative non-fi ction, essay collections, travel writing, and novels. In all our titles, our intention is to introduce new perspectives that will directly aid humankind in the trials we face at present as a global village.

Our View on the Business of Publishing: So often in this age of commerce, entertainment supersedes growth; books of lesser integrity but higher marketability are chosen over those with much-needed truth but smaller audience. Here at Homebound Publications, we focus on the quality of the truth and insight present within a project before any other considerations.

Our Environmental Responsibility: Homebound Publica-tions greatly values the natural environment and invests in environmental conservation. Our books are printed on paper with chain of custody certifi cation from the Forest Stewardship Council, Sustainable Forestry Initiative, and the Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certifi cation. In addition, each year Homebound Publications donates 1% of our net profi t to a humanitarian or ecological charity.


Match | MIND/BODY/SPIRITBringing Will and Heart into Alignment by Gunilla Norris

First Edition Trade PaperbackISBN 978-1-938846-22-9 | List Price $16.95

“Looking for a spiritual practice simple enough to fit a busy life, yet deep enough to help you grow? ‘For ninety consecutive days’, writes Gunilla Norris, ‘light a match with a purpose, a feeling or a desire in mind’, and if you miss a day, start the count again. That daily moment of persistent attentiveness to whatever is calling you from within will kindle new warmth, new light, new life. It’s simple—but it’s the simplicity on the other side of complexity. Illumined by the lifetime of wisdom Norris shares in yet another beautifully written book, Match describes a life-giving practice toward transformation.”

—Parker J. Palmer, author of Healing the Heart of Democracy

Sheltered in the Heart | MIND/BODY/SPIRIT

Spirituality in Deep Friendshipby Gunilla Norris

First Hardcover Edition ISBN 978-1-938846-10-6 | List Price $24.95Trade Paperback ISBN 978-1-938846-49-6 | List Price $16.952014 Nautilus Book Award Silver MedalWinner 2013 Foreword Review Book of the Year Award

“Gunilla Norris’s remarkable reflections on friendship inspire and guide us to the deep place where we can ‘see the stars in one another.’ A marvelous book to gift the friends who sustain and enrich our lives.”

—Joyce Rupp, award-winning author

Having Listened | POETRYPoems by Gary WhitedWinner of the 2013 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize

First Trade Paperback EditionISBN 978-1-938846-15-1 | List Price $16.95Winner of the 2013 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize!2014 Silver Medal Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards

“Gary Whited is that rare philosopher who digs deep enough to strike the wellsprings of poetry. Here we enter a stillness so profound it changes the way we see the world.”

—Dan Veach, editor Atlanta Review, author of Elephant Water

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Call of the Sun Child | YA Fiction/Cli-Fiby Francesca G. Varela

First Trade Paperback EditionISBN 978-1-938846-18-2 | List Price $17.95Winner 2014 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards Bronze Medal, Best First Book

To Live in Paradise | MEMOIR & TRAVELA Memiors of Dreams Found and Dreams Lost in the Heart of Africaby Cindi McVey

First Trade Paperback EditionISBN 978-1-938846-25-0 | List Price $18.95Winner 2014 Green Festival Book AwardsWinner 2015 Reader Views Choice AwardsWinner Gold Medal 2015 IPPY Awards

“Call of the Sun Child is written in a haunting and beautiful prose. Varela trusts her readers with figurative and poetic language that paints an almost dream-like setting in post apocalyptic America. Varela does more than write a story, she captures the vague and elusive emotions of Sempra, a girl who must learn to dream of freedom before she can pursue it.”

—Regina Sirois, author of On Little Wings

“While reading Cindi McVey’s incredible narration, I felt as though I, too, was living in paradise. I could hear it, smell it, see it, and also felt a part of its loss. This book is a living adventure and cannot be put down!” —Dave Barr author of Riding The Edge and Riding The Ice

The Uncallused Hand | POETRYby Walker Abel

First Edition Trade PaperbackISBN 978-1-938846-40-3 | List Price $16.95Winner of the 2014 Homebound Publications Poetry PrizeFinalist in the Foreword Review Book of the Year Awards

“The world behind the word, that is Walker Abel’s devotion. His sacrifice is to the visible creatrix. His benediction, and ours, is that mute gods are given voice in these generous poems.”

—Michael Hannon, author of Imaginary Burden and Who on Earth


Logos

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“Through rebellious uprising, wilderness wandering and a final sea journey, Jacob is eventually involved with every single Jewish or Roman person of historical importance....sexual interludes describe prurient details and bloody battles spare little when it comes to gore. Yet this novel’s core is a set of ideas more than a chain of events.... Those interested in how facts and myth synthesize to

form a religion will be pleased by plausible extrapolation from reasonable assumptions.” —Publishers Weekly

“First-time author Neeleman has pulled off a staggeringly impressive feat: a rigorously researched historical novel that carries its scholarliness lightly and grips the reader with personal drama. . . . Neeleman depicts the ensuing drama with a powerful prose that evokes the spirit of the time without devolving into historically archaic vernacular. . . [A] stirring account of a historically significant

time and a deep comment on the nature of scripture itself.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Logos | RELIGIOUS/HISTORICAL FICTIONA Novel of Christianity’s Origin by John Neelemen

First Trade Paperback EditionISBN: 978-1-938846-25-0 | List Price $19.95

The Crucifixion | RELIGIOUS FICTIONA Novel by Theodore Richards

First Trade Paperback EditionISBN 978-0-9835852-6-8 | List Price $15.95Winner of the 2013 IPPY Bronze Medal for Religious Fiction Winner of the 2013 USA Book Award for Religious Fiction

“I was moved emotionally by The Crucifixion. …In today’s rapidly changing world, the ability of individuals, families, and communities to live with hope and purpose is essential, but according to my observations, too rare. The characters demonstrate how ordinary people can live extraordinary lives that exude the power to transform those around them.” —Wayne Gustafson, author of Community of Promise

The Conversions | RELIGIOUS/DYSTOPIAN FICTIONA Novel by Theodore Richards

First Trade Paperback Edition ISBN 978-1-938846-20-5 | List Price $17.95

The Conversions deals with some of the most pressing questions at this moment in history: What kind of world can be created with the end of industrial civilization? What is truly at the root of the so-called clash of civilizations? What is the place for religion in the post-modern world? Is American identity only about defining and excluding the other? What does a government look like when everything, even education, is privatized?

“First-time author Neeleman has pulled off a staggeringly impressive feat: a rigorously researched historical novel that carries its scholarli-ness lightly and grips the reader with personal drama. . . . Neeleman depicts the ensuing drama with a powerful prose that evokes the spirit of the time without devolving into historically archaic vernacular. . . [A] stirring account of a historically significant time and a deep comment on the nature of Scripture itself.” —Kirkus Reviews


Slices of Life | MEMOIRA Storyteller’s Diary by Ann Nyberg

Release Date October 20, 2015 | First Edition Trade PaperbackISBN 978-1-938846-51-9 | List Price $16.95

Ann Nyberg is WTNH-TV’s longest-serving Anchor/Reporter in station history. Ann anchors the 6 and 10 o’clock nightly newscasts. Ann has been a storyteller her entire life, it all started with a diary her Mother gave her for Christmas when she was just 8 years old, and the rest is history. In her debut book, Slices of Life, Ann pulls pages from that diary to share with you; reflecting on her childhood, life lessons, and the importance of living each day to the fullest.

Postcards from the Highway of Life | MEMOIRby Garrison LeykamWith a Foreword by Pat Simmons, Founder of the Doobie Brothers

Release Date September 1, 2015 | First Edition Trade PaperbackISBN 978-1-938846-50-2 | List Price $ 15.95

“Garrison Leykam in his wonderful and erudite Postcards from the Highway of Life has done a beautiful capturing of America the Beautiful. His work demonstrates how this country at that time produced the Greatest Generation....”

—Ed Asner, Actor and winner of seven Emmy Awards

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Nominated for multiple Emmys, Nyberg has interviewed the most famous and every day folks, all have a story to tell. Other highlights in-clude assignments to the commu-nist country of Cuba and to the Vatican to cover Pope John Paul II. Ann has been voted “Best News Anchor” for a decade in Connecticut Magazine’s reader’s poll, and hosts her own show “NYBERG”.

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“A charming personal memoir of a time when life was simpler. Ann Nyberg’s love for her family, friends and life shine through in Slices of Life.”

—Jacques Pepin, French Chef and Bestselling Author


Afoot in Connecticut | MEMOIR & TRAVELJourneys in Natural Historyby Eric D. Lehman

First Trade Paperback EditionISBN 978-1-938846-07-6 | List Price $16.95

“Afoot in Connecticut is a gift of knowledge and love to those who have traveled or would travel Connecticut’s trails and waterways, mountains and shores.”

—Dick Allen, Connecticut State Poet Laureate

Saving the Farm | NON-FICTIONA Journey Through Time, Place and Redemptionby James T. Powers


“James Powers’ Saving the Farm is local history as it should be written. Powers’ book is charmingly written, interestingly constructed and most informative. There is no better way to gain a full and detailed picture of life on the 19th century Connecticut farm than reading this fascinating book and paying a visit to the Dudley farm.”

—Christopher Collier, State Historian Emeritus

“In My Father’s Gardens, Karen Levy writes with a seductive clarity and sensitivity, and recounts a compelling tale of conflict and homecoming that tears at the heart. A powerful memoir, beautifully wrought."

—John Lescroart, New York Times Bestselling Author

My Father’s Gardens | MEMOIR & TRAVELA Memoir by Karen Levy



Four Blue Eggs | POETRYPoems by Amy Nawrocki

First Trade Paperback EditionISBN 978-1-938846-17-5 | List Price $16.95Finalist for the 2013 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize

“Like Whitman, Amy Nawrocki gracefully extols the beauty of nature while subtly lamenting our detachment from it. Her elegant writing lends transcendence to our everyday world...”

—Lisa Schwartz, The Newtowner Magazine

The Foundation of Summer | FICTION/NEW ENGLANDNew England Storiesby Eric D. Lehman

Release Date June 8, 2015 | First Trade Paperback EditionISBN 978-1-938846-58-8 | List Price $17.95

“From high-stakes culinary competition in New Haven to a manhunt through autumn woods, every story in Eric Lehman’s The Foundation of Summer is a realistic but exceptional slice of life.”

—Bill Ectric, author of Tamper and Time Adjusters

Reconnaissance | POETRY

Poems by Amy Nawrocki


“…Byron. Shelley. Paris. Nawrocki. Evocative image-trackers, succinct capturers of atmosphere, and now, in Reconnaissance, poets enjoying a series of interconnected lives and purposes. Drink deeply: this free verse wellspring is vivid and thought-provoking and quenches the thirst for inspiration.” Read Entire Review

—Midwest Book Review


Yeshiva Girl Stores | RELIGIOUS FICTIONA Novel by Perle Besserman


“Whether we are young or old, the presence of God in our life can be restrictive or inspiring. In these stories Perle Besserman’s barely teen-age Jewish ‘girl’ challenges her Jewish God to define His presence in her life. Besserman’s stories are told with tears and with laughter but, above all, with an artistry that is heavenly.”

—Chester Aaron, author of over 25 books

Airstream | POETRYPoems by Audrey Henderson

First Trade Paperback Edition ISBN 978-1-938846-42-7 | List Price $16.95Finalist for the 2013 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize

Vagabonds, prophets and vanishing societies, hunters of rare species and rare truths, silent canyons and the New Jersey Turnpike—Audrey Henderson’s witty and profound poems lead us on a pilgrimage to the extreme edges of artistic and spiritual exploration.

Chewing Sand | ECOLOGY/SPIRITUAL/ESSAYS

An Eco-Spiritual Taste of the Mojave Desertby Gail Collins-Ranadive


“…Collins-Ranadive finds ‘graced moments’ everywhere as she listens lovingly to the landscape. Readers will finish her book with a deeper understanding of the dynamic vitality of the desert, our spiritual connection to the Earth, and the whimsical absurdity of living in Las Vegas.” —Stephen Trimble, author of The Sagebrush Ocean


Tinker’s Damn | POETRYPoems by David K. Leff


“The irony inherent in how David K. Leff titled his new collection of poems is that he actually does give so much more than “a tinker’s damn” about so many things. It’s a very welcome addition to Leff’s important previous environmental study volumes of prose and poetry. Tinker’s Damn is a satisfaction, a pleasure, a series of revealing river bends.”

—Dick Allen, Connecticut State Poet Laureate

Finding the Last Hungry Heart | FICTIONA Novel in Verse by David K. Leff


Enter a world where the past is present and stories matter. Teens climb a landfill fence, the 1960s come alive, and a disillusioned refugee from those turbulent years rediscovers himself.

Powers of Influence | FICTIONA Novel by Jordan Arey


“Arey’s tale has all the elements of a good storytelling: opposition, mystery, intrigue, war, and my favorite—a touch of romance.”

—Joan Sowards, author of The Star Prophecy


New Dimensions of Being | METAPHYSICAL/VISIONARY FICTIONA Novel by Nora CaronBook Two of The New Dimensions Trilogy


“In her latest spiritual novel, Caron explores Lucina’s adaptation to her new life in Mexico, her awakening to her feminine power, and her quest to discover her true self as she opens to the wisdom of the ancients.”

—Diana Burney, author of Spiritual Clearings

Journey to the Heart | METAPHYSICAL/VISIONARY FICTIONA novel by Nora CaronBook One of The New Dimensions Trilogy

Third Edition PaperbackISBN 978-1-938846-09-0 | List Price $17.952014 Living Now Book Awards’ Silver Medal

“While details vary, many readers have been where Lucina’s coming from. They will cheer for her, and if things go well for her, perhaps they will follow. Between now and then, Caron’s words are good company and her story is hypnotically heartfelt.”

—Malcolm R. Campbell, author of The Sun Singer and Sarabande

Jaguar Dreams | METAPHYSICAL/VISIONARY FICTIONA Novel by Nora CaronThe Final Book of The New Dimensions Trilogy


Jaguar Dreams finds Lucina in Guatemala searching for her lover who has run away from her. When she discovers the news that the man she loves is somewhere deep in the Petén jungle, Lucina hires an old mysterious guide named Alejandro who forces her to face more fears than she ever imagined. It is on the dangerous jungle trails that Lucina nearly dies and at last surrenders to the greater powers that are guiding her life. In a dramatic scene, she looks death in the face and turns into a fearless warrior.


Theodore RichardsAuthor of the award-winning titles:

Cosmosophia: Cosmology, Mysticism and the Birth of a New Myth, Creatively Maladjusted: The Wisdom Education Movement Manifesto,

The Crucifixion and The Conversions.

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Winner of the Nautilus gold Medal, the IPPY Bronze Medal, and the IPPY gold Medal!


Oak Wise | POETRY/MIND, BODY, SPIRITPoetry Exploring an Ecological Faithby L.M. Browning with a foreword by Emmy-winning writer Alan Cooke

Second Expanded Paperback EditionISBN 978-1-938846-05-2 | List Price $14.95Winner of the 2013 Nautilus Gold Medal for Poetry

Oak Wise is a collection of Celtic-themed narrative poetry exploring the old wisdom of the Druidic and shamanic traditions. This collection brilliantly reintroduces the ecological sensitivities of the earth-based faiths, highlighting the relevance of the old wisdom in this current age of environmental crisis.

Fleeting Moments of Fierce Clarity | POETRY/TRAVEL

Journal of a New England Poet by L.M. Browning with a foreword by Ian Marshall

First Trade Paperback EditionISBN 978-1-938846-01-4 | List Price $14.95Finalist Next Generation Indie Book Awards

“This generation’s New England Transcendentalist.”— Frank Owen, creator of Bodhiyatra Poetry

Vagabonds and Sundries | POETRYPoetic Remnants of Lives PastNew and Selected Poems by L.M. Browning

First Hardcover Edition ISBN 978-1-938846-28-1 | List Price $20.00Trade Paperback ISBN 978-1-938846-21-2 | List Price $14.95

“Readers familiar with Browning’s work will find Vagabonds and Sundries more personal and compact than previous works, but still replete with insight into Big Questions about the world and our place in it. Browning shows the courage both to ask difficult questions of her self and of the world, revealing both depth and breadth in her work....”

—Theodore Richards, award-winning author of Cosmosophia


The Strait | POETRYPoems by Andrew Jarvis

First Trade Paperback Edition ISBN 978-1-938846-41-0 | List Price $15.95Finalist for the 2014 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize

“Andrew Jarvis writes the past and gritty present of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. In this debut, The Strait guides readers through a spiritual, haunted, and honest landscape, alive with the wise raven in the sky, the hungry sea creatures below, and ancestral memory preserved in the rocks and pictographs. Each poem creates a concise and calculated snapshot of the daily beauty we overlook. Woven between past and present, Jarvis entices readers to rummage the seashore and to journey through the woodlands where they find hope and music within the land and in these powerful poems.”

—Juan Morales, Pilgrimage Magazine

In the Hands of the Immortal Weaver | POETRY

Poems of Sacredness and Belonging by L.M. Browning

First Edition Trade Paperback

ISBN 978-1-938846-34-2 | List Price $10.00

“Browning’s verse is embedded in ancient wisdom, which springs fromthe Source, touching us deep in our hearts and ultimately connecting us with ourselves.”

—Maryam Mafi, author of Rumi, Day by Day

Seasons of Contemplation | MIND, BODY, SPIRITA Book of Midnight Meditations by L.M. Browning


“L.M. Browning had me at the opening rumination to Seasons of Contemplation where she acknowledges the tiredness many of this generation feel, ‘not of the body but of the spirit.’ Like a Dark Night of the Soul for the digital age, Browning’s midnight meditations don’t sugarcoat life’s dilemmas. Instead, with refreshing honesty and vulnerability, Browning encourages us to ‘wade into the silence and listen.’ Sage advice, delivered gracefully yet boldly, characterizes this beautiful book, which will speak clearly to anyone who ever awakens in the night to wrestle with the unknowable.”

—Kate Sheehan Roach, Editor, Contemplative Journal

Our Mission: Hiraeth Press has been publishing since 2006 with a focus on environmental literature. We primarily publish nonfiction books exploring themes of conservation, rewilding, place-based narratives, natural history, and contemplative ecology. We accept submissions that range from meditations on nature to well-researched yet accessible nonfiction titles. Broadly, we are interested in books that bring together science and poetry, bridging the gap between knowing the earth and knowing the self.

What’s in a name? The Welsh word hiraeth (pronounced here-eyeth) encapsulates the spirit by which we strive and that the books we publish hope to inspire. A direct translation of the word might be something like an intense longing for one’s homeland. Here at Hiraeth Press we believe that our collective human homeland is the still-wild places of the earth. We are passionate about poetry as a means of returning the human voice to the chorus of the wild.

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Lungs of my Earth | NONFICTION/ECOLOGY/TRAVELA Personal Ecology William Henry Searle


“Lungs of my Earth evokes particular places dear to the author, sweeping them into our imaginations with a rush of delighted language to create ‘a luminous map of the sacred’. Part field-work and part sky-dreaming, it is at once exact and exultant—a vibrant song to the earth and echo chamber of the earth’s own singing.”

—Sir Andrew Motion, UK Poet Laureate, 1999-2009, President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England

Midlife with Thoreau | NONFICTION/MEMOIRPoems, Essays, Journalsby Diane P. Freedman


“Though it’s Thoreau who provides Diane Freedman with her orienteer’s compass in this marvelous rattlebag of a book, I thought often of Basho while reading it. The mix of prose and poetry here is more local and intimate than in Basho’s haibun, but it has the same steady attentiveness to the moments of a day—a sureness at home in curiosity, no matter how far out on the edges Freedman gets. The solitude at the center of this book is peculiar and consoling—it makes a reader feel accompanied.”

—David Rivard, author of Otherwise Elsewhere, Wise Poison, and Torque

Border Crossings | NONFICTION/TRAVEL/MEMOIRWalking the Haiku Path on the International Appalachian Trail

by Ian Marshall with a Foreword by Michael Welch

First Trade PaperbackISBN 978-0983585251 | List Price $17.95

“ . . . Forging across the boundaries between Maine, Quebec, and New Brunswick with his beloved companion M., Ian Marshall both reports on their mishaps, silliness, and sore feet and meditates on Basho’s encounter with the Shirakawa Barrier. In his own fresh and authentic haiku from the trail, he deftly registers affinities between the Japanese master and writers like Thoreau and Whitman while also recognizing the gaps and meetings that shape his own life. I feel personally grateful for this vital, illuminating book.” —John Elder, author of Reading the Mountains of Home

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The Salmon in the Spring | NONFICTION/ECOLOGYThe Ecology of Celtic Spiritualityby Jason KirkeyFeaturing a Foreword by Frank MacEowen

First Trade PaperbackISBN 978-0979924668 | List Price $17.952010 IPPY Silver Medal in the Mind-Body-Spirit Category

Estuaries | POETRY/PHOTOGRAPHY

by Jason Kirkey

First Trade Paperback | Full Color ISBN 978-0983585206 | List Price $17.95

“The Salmon in the Spring is a bold book. It is bold because it—no less so than its author—isn’t content to rest back on its philosophical laurels and ponder by-gone eras. To the contrary, Kirkey and The Salmon in the Spring invite and initiate the reader into a deep dive within the interior space of the Celtic mystic, but in archetypal and pragmatic ways that make an important contribution to the domain of ecopsychology today.”

—Frank MacEowen, author of The Mist-Filled Path

The poems in this book are an attempt to speak in a common tongue with mountains, rivers, and forests. Too often poetry is thought of as the domain of human creativity with its source in the depths of the imagination. We use it to speak of the world, but not to the non-human world—let alone with it.

Songs from a Wild Place | POETRYby Jason Kirkey

First Trade PaperbackISBN 978-0979924644 | List Price $ 14.95

“Jason Kirkey ventures into the interior places of the heart and shapes both their wildness and tenderness into a lyrical radiance that illuminates the outer world and what he calls ‘the places that are.’ As we read these poems, we wake up to a beauty that surrounds us even in moments of fear and sur-render.”

—Tom Cowan, author of Yearning for the Wind


Creatively Maladjusted | NONFICTIONThe Wisdom Education Movement Manifestoby Theodore Richards with a Foreword by Bill Ayers


“Richards wants to shape edu ca tion by story rather than by infor ma tion, by resisting con sumerism rather than edu cating for it. The goal of edu ca tion, he reminds us, ‘is not to make better schools, but to make a better world.’ And ‘the ulti mate rel e vance of a school is what kind of civ i liza tion it inspires our chil dren to create.’ Modern indus trial cul ture has pretty much defined edu-ca tion in its terms; we can do much better today and must. The metaphors, nar ra tives and values of our edu ca tional system are out moded. A Wisdom Education Movement can bring alive new values that assure a ‘nur turing, cre ative, joyous, inspiring place.’ This book is well worth reading; and dis-cussing; and arguing; and enacting.”

—Matthew Fox, author of Creativity: Where the Divine and the Human Meet

Cosmosophia | NONFICTION/MIND, BODY, SPIRITCosmology, Mysticism and the Birth of a New Mythby Theodore Richards

First Trade PaperbackISBN 978-0979924682 | List Price $17.952011 IPPY Gold Medal in the Mind-Body-Spirit Category 2013 Nautilus Gold Medal

“...Richards takes us on a journey into the edge of the universe which is the edge of the human being which is the edge of God.

—Brian Swimme, author of The Universe Story

Night, Mystery & Light | POETRYby J.K. McDowell with a Foreword by Tom Cowan

First Trade Paperback ISBN 978-0983585237 | List Price $ 12.95

“McDowell often ends his poems with a challenge to “Jim,” a question usually asking him to make sense of his life. . . . we overhear this final question as if it were directed at us. One of the joys of reading McDowell’s poetry is precisely this that his questions urge us to make deeper sense of our own lives. You will discover, along with him, the almost seamless way the ordinary and non-ordinary realities of our soul’s deep dreaming support and create a multi-layered world to live in. It is a world that intrigues us while reading the poem and that lingers long after we lay the poem aside.”

—Tom Cowan, from the foreword of Night, Mystery & Light


Living in the Nature Poem | POETRYby Mary Harwell Sayler

First Trade Paperback ISBN 978-0983585275 | List Price $14.95

“In Living in the Nature Poem, Mary Sayler gives us more than just a journal of the nat ural world: she gives us an inter ac tion with a world pop u lated by char ac ters as diverse as cells and stars.”

— Annmarie Lockhart, editor, Vox Poetica

Western Solstice | POETRYby Leonore Wilson, Poet Laureate of Napa Valley


“Leonore Wilson’s Western Solstice contains poems that spring whole and marvelous, shimmering from the earth. Born from a profound, wide-ranging, original and feminine mind, they bewitch the reader with a lush, passionate voice that is ‘all impulse of towards’ and a tensile form that is as breathtaking as its content. This book is a true treasure.”

—Cathy Colman, author of Borrowed Dress and Beauty’s Tattoo

Fireflies at Absolute Zero | POETRYby Erynn Rowan Laurie


“. . . Fireflies at Absolute Zero is a collection for all who seek to invite in the raw, poetic nature of being and witness to the singing of spirits and powers; bluejay, human struggle, mandrake, divine story, seashore…all brought into focus by the magic of the sacred word.”

—Ruby Sara, editor of Datura and Mandragora


Searching for What is Not There | POETRYby Martin Willitts Jr.

First Trade Paperback ISBN 978-0988943025 | Price $15.95

“Martin Willitts Jr. is a master poet, an archeologist of memories, an observer of people and nature, a tugger of heartstrings. He is a person who believes in peace and is confident enough to reveal inner thoughts and feelings. In this moving collection he shows us he knows that life like nature is an unending quest. These are not the poems of a beginner; they are carefully crafted from experience and observation to give us a work of art masterfully presented.”

—Zvi A. Sesling, editor of Muddy River Poetry Review

Crow Feathers, Red Ochre, Green Tea | POETRYby Gwendolyn Morgan


“In her first collection of poems, Gwendolyn Morgan begins with nature and spirit—an homage to beauty and a gratitude for grace. Then enters illness, war, suicide, a child’s accidental death reminding us that even buoyed by spirit we swim in a sea of loss. But it’s not all loss. There’s a crow flying through the sky of these poems, pestering the mourning doves and most of the other birds, all with wings.”

—David W. Romtvedt, author of Certainty

Winter | POETRYReflections by Snowlight by Jamie K. Reaser


“Winter is a time for reflection, rest, and regeneration. Jamie K. Reaser shares the magic of this season of life, as well as the harshness that this time can bring. Settle back into the beautiful and potent poetry in Winter: Reflections by Snowlight and absorb the deep wisdom shared.”

—Sandra Ingerman, award-winning author of Soul Retrieval


Courting the Wild | NONFICTION/ECOLOGYLove Affairs with the LandEdited by Jamie K. Reaser and Susan Chernak McElroy


“A stirring book . . . filled with transcendent and highly personal moments of revelation, of awe, reverence and love for nature . . . the profound truth and magic of becoming one with life on Earth. This is a book for anyone anywhere . . . from the camper’s backpack to bedside tables.”

—Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy, Director, The Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, Washington, DC.

Courting the Wild | NONFICTION/ECOLOGYLove Affairs with Reptiles and AmphibiansEdited by Jamie K. Reaser with a foreword by Thomas E. Lovejoy


“This wonderful collection of essays offers a glimpse into the special world of reptiles, and the spell they cast on those who have devoted their lives to their study. If you love nature, whether or not you’re “into” reptiles, you’ll find much to enjoy, and you just may come away with a newfound appreciation and respect for these fascinating, often beautiful and frequently misunderstood creatures.”

—Russ Case, editor, REPTILES magazine, ReptileChannel.com

Wild Life | POETRYNew and Select PoemsEdited by Jamie K. ReaserForeword by Edward E. Clark Jr., President of the Wildlife Center of Virginia

First Trade Paperback978-0988943001 | List Price $ 15.95

“Each morning, I treat myself to a poem by Jamie K. Reaser. Thoughtful, evocative, and welling up from a deeply sacred place, her words are my morning meditation, my morning prayer. Although Wild Life is bundled as a book of poetry, I know it to be what it truly is: Spiritual practice. Thank you, Jamie, for such a gift.”

—Susan Chernak McElroy, author Animals as Teachers and Healers, Why Buffalo Dance


Huntley Meadows | POETRYA Naturalist’s Journal in Verseby Jamie K. Reaser


“Jamie K. Reaser’s poetic account of a year in Huntley Meadows in the heart of Washington is a treasure. A top-rank scientist committed to conservation biology, Reaser turns out to be a poet able to project images of the natural world that echo reality—and at the same time move the reader’s spirit. Read it and then go there!”

—Donald Kennedy, PhD, President Emeritus of Stanford University

Note to Self | POETRYPoetry for Changing the World from the Inside Outby Jamie K. Reaser


“Jamie K. Reaser is a rare bird, indeed: a mystic naturalist, a gifted poet, and a virtuoso guide to soul. With the Siren song of her seductive verse, this chthonic critter will grab you by the ankles and draw you down toward the ecstatic and terrifying mysteries of the one life you can call your own, your one true gift for this breaking world. ”

—Bill Plotkin, Ph.D., Author of Soulcraft and Wild Mind

Sacred Reciprocity | POETRYCourting the Beloved in Everyday Lifeby Jamie K. Reaser

First Trade Paperback EditionISBN 978-0983585282 | List Price $14.95

“Jamie K. Reaser brings to her poems both the patient, curious attentiveness of a naturalist and the wild ecstasy of a mystic. She is transformed by all she sees, and through her poems guides all of us to see more deeply, more joyfully, more passionately.”

—Trebbe Johnson, author of The World Is a Waiting Lover: Desire and the Quest for the Beloved

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