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Hello There, I'm Coming Home
Book Three of the Hello There trilogy
Laurie B. Arnold
Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5, 215 pages
ISBN 978-1-63226-102-1 $9.95 US
eBook ISBN 978-1-63226-103-8 $5.99 US
Readers of the highly acclaimed "Hello There" series will already be familiar with plucky Madison McGee, her magic fanny pack, and the MegaPix6000 – a TV she uses to teleport into whatever is playing on the screen. In this third and final book in the series, Madison is on a fateful trip back to Bainbridge Island, where she grew up, to spend the summer with her best friends, Noah and Violet.
It's an emotional journey, shadowed with memories of her mother, and questions about her father's disappearance. As she and her dog Leroy travel from New Mexico to the west coast, she opens her fanny pack and discovers a photo of a black-haired boy. Even though she's sure he's a stranger, she intuitively knows that he needs her help. Again, it's the MegaPix6000 to the rescue, and the "Mighty Trio" enters a weird and frightening world of magicians, shapeshifters, and evil doers.
The biggest mystery for Madison to solve is a personal one. Her search for answers leads her to discover that sometimes life changes in unimaginable ways, and that the unexpected can finally lead her home.
Previous books in the series are:
Hello There, We've Been Waiting for You (2013)
Hello There, Do You Still Know Me (2017)
All three books in the series are distributed by Two Rivers, an Ingram Brand, and are available from booksellers everywhere. For middle grade readers.
Richard Webb, Jr., foreword by Robert Steve Williams.
Hardcover, large format coffee table, 192 pages, 12 x 9
ISBN 978-1-63226-097-0 – $40.00 US / $51.99 CN
Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald honeymooned for five months in the summer of 1920 in a modest gray house in Westport, Connecticut. It was an experience that had a more profound impact on both of their collective works than any other place they lived.
It was, for Scott and Zelda, their honeymoon. Having just gotten married and after being kicked out of some of New York city's finest hotels, they were, for the first time, in their very own place, albeit for only five months. It was a time that Scott Fitzgerald called "the happiest year since I was eighteen."He had, after all, just achieved success with his first novel, This Side of Paradise,and was suddenly basking in money.
The Fitzgeralds lived a wild life of drinking, driving and endless partying while living in suburban Connecticut. As it happens, living near the beach, they were neighbors to a larger-than-life reclusive multi-millionaire, F.E. Lewis.
Historian Richard Webb grew up in Westport a few doors down the street from where the Fitzgeralds had lived some forty years earlier. Fascinated with the Fitzgeralds, when Webb learned that author Barbara Probst Solomon, who grew up across the river from the F.E. Lewis estate, proposed in the New Yorker that Westport was the real setting for Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby, he was stirred to devote much of his time to actively researching her claim.
Boats Against the Current tells the real story behind the famous novel and its tragic hero, debunking the long-held belief that the book was solely inspired by the Fitzgerald's time in Great Neck, across the Sound in Long Island.
The book is beautifully illustrated with a fantastic array of never-before-seen photos from the Lewis family, as well as the scrapbooks of the Fitzgeralds, period newspaper clippings, and a myriad of compelling stories about Scott, Zelda and their fantastically wealthy neighbor.
A companion book to the documentary Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story, Boats Against the Current also recounts Webb's own journey of making the film with fellow Westporter and filmmaker, Robert Steven Williams.
The Great Gatsby may be one of America's essential novels. Boats Against the Current is an essential document for anyone who has read the book and wondered at the fantastical world whose story it tells.
There was a great article about the book, the film, and the authors in the New York Times, May 18, 2018.
Visit the film and book website, Gatsby in Connecticut, for more news and information about this project.
Order the book from your favorite bookseller or from Two Rivers Distribution 800-343-4499.
Waiting for Uncle John "Cuba Must be Ours" – A Novel by James Goldsborough
eBook ISBN 978-1-63226-090-1 – $12.99
How long has the United States been trying to get its hands on Cuba?
Waiting for Uncle John, an exciting and fast paced historical novel, tells the story of how a few regiments of soldiers, armed and supported by leading American politicians, set out to capture Cuba from Spain in 1851, the first of various attempts over two centuries to seize control of the island that has bedeviled American life back to Thomas Jefferson. A story of love, adventure and politics, Uncle John reflects the turbulence of the 1850s in America, the crucial years leading up to the Civil War.
Colonel Will Crittenden, nephew of Attorney General John J. Crittenden, a Kentucky Unionist, wants nothing to do with the plan to annex Cuba and its quarter million slaves. A West Point graduate, decorated veteran of the Mexican War and bearer of a famous political name, Will Crittenden resists the various entreaties politicians make to convince him to lead their illegal expedition. But the beautiful and exotic Lucy Holcombe is a tougher adversary. "Tall and good-looking," Lucy writes of her love affair with Will, "with cold, quiet manner and large commanding eyes – a perfect prince of knowledge, at whose feet I would sit with timid wonder and love." Her novel, Free Flag of Cuba, becomes the antidote to Uncle Tom's Cabin, regarded in the South as slander. Lucy goes on to become the "queen of the South," her picture on Confederate banknotes.
Well-armed, sailing on a steamer purchased with money raised across the country from Americans believing in "Manifest Destiny," five hundred soldiers set out from New Orleans in the summer of 1851 under Narciso Lopez, a rebel Spanish general. Nothing is secret. For months, U.S. newspapers, more jingoistic even than Congress after the U.S. victory in the Mexican War, have been beating the drums.
By what right dare Cuba defy the United States?
Next stop in Manifest Destiny: Havana. Nothing has changed.
James O. Goldsborough is an award-winning writer with a 40-year career in journalism, specializing in foreign affairs. The Misfortunes of Wealth: A Family Memoir, dealing with the disadvantages of inherited money, was published in September, 2008. Goldsborough spent 15 years in Europe as a foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, International Herald Tribune, Toronto Star and Newsweek Magazine before returning to America to resume his newspaper career as an editor and columnist. Currently, he writes a column for the Voice of San Diego, an on-line daily newspaper in San Diego that has attracted national attention for news innovations
The Paris Herald, his first novel, was published in 2014 by Prospecta Press.
Jonathan Williams: The Lord of Orchards
Edited by Jeffery Beam and Richard Owens
Paperback ISBN 978-1-63226-087-1
$30.00 US / $40.00 CN
The Lord of Orchards
selects his fruit
in the Firmament's
"Of all the Black Mountain poets (teachers and disciples alike), Jonathan Williams is the wittiest, the least constrained, the most joyous." – The New York Times
"This master of anathema has also a sense of wonder and awe at human quality, at the surviving marvels of landscape on both sides of the Atlantic and at the metaphoric power of both words and music." – John Russell, The New York Times
The Jargon Society publisher, Jonathan Williams, was a whirlwind of creativity—a poet of considerable stature, book designer, editor, photographer, letter writer, critic, proselytizer of visionary folk art, curmudgeon, gardener, resolute walker, and always an adroit raconteur and gourmand.
At the forefront of the Modernist avant-garde, yet possessing a deep appreciation of the traditional, Williams and his seminal press nurtured the work of hundreds of emerging or neglected poets, writers, artists, and photographers. A recordist of the peculiarities of American and British vernacular speech, he tirelessly advocated the beauty of the mundane and the strange.
Buckminster Fuller once called Williams "our Johnny Appleseed." Critic Guy Davenport described him as a "kind of polytechnic institute," while Hugh Kenner hailed Jargon as "the Custodian of Snowflakes" and Williams as "the truffle-hound of American poetry."
This book of essays, images, and shouts aims to bring new eyes and contexts to Williams' influence and talent as poet and publisher. One might call his life a poetics of gathering, and this book a first harvest.
Thriving on Pressure
licensed to McGraw-Hill
Thriving on Pressure, written by leadership consultant Graham Jones, US Director of Lane 4 Management, published by Prospecta Press predecessor imprint Easton Studio Press, has been licensed to McGraw-Hill Trade Publishing for publication as Thrive on Pressure: Lead and Succeed When Times Get Tough in August 2010.
Healing America: Hope, Mercy, Justice and Autonomy in the American Health Care System
by Roger J. Bulger, MD
"One of America's most outstanding physicians and medical educators writes about his experience as patient and how the lessons he has learned can help to guide health system reform. From one who has taught so many lessons in his brilliant career, Roger conveys lessons out of his experience as a patient – lessons which should help to shape our future and the future of our health system. This is a great book for all members of the healthcare team! It can change the way we think and act." — David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., Director, The Satcher Health Leadership Institute and Center of Excellence on Health Disparities, Poussaint-Satcher-Cosby Chair in Mental Health, Morehouse School of Medicine, 16th Surgeon General of the United States
Roger is still able to `see around corners' and now we know how and why. He captures the power of the health care system, then and now, from the sum total of the individual formed by family, education, experiences, social values, professional values, and economic status. He writes from the perspective of the often forgotten person in the healthcare system, the patient. His descriptions are touching and poignant. His views insightful and prophetic – a great read for all. " – Barbara Ross-Lee, M.D., CEO, Academic Health Centers and President of Faculty Practice Plan, New York Institute of Technology
"Following Hippocrates, `when the physician comes to the patient,' Roger Bulger once again provides us with a deeply felt and extremely informed treatise on the Healing of America. Notably, to say the least, his watchwords include compassion and mercy. Were we to listen to the admonitions and suggestions of Roger Bulger, health care in America would leave the arena of the nastily conflictual and enter that of a helping profession, for everyone." — John J. McDermott, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Humanities in Medicine, Texas A&M University
978-1935212-21-8
Paperback Original – $16.95
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