What do you do when the man who courted you turns out to be different after marriage?\nWhen Jim began to behave strangely, Mary thought she had made a huge mistake. She had fallen in love and left all that was familiar in New Mexico, to marry and move to Oregon with this man she met online. One day, she had a surprising epiphany while doing laundry. How had she missed the obvious cause of his quirky behavior?\nIn Love and Asperger’s: Jim and Mary’s Excellent Adventure, a memoir by Dr. Mary A. Johnson, we experience the possible unraveling of the marriage ties. The future rests on Jim’s willingness to accept his diagnosis of Asperger’s. Come along on Jim and Mary’s adventures – some fun, some difficult, some comical, but all loving -- as they eventually work together to engineer an excellent solution!\n“When Jim and Mary got married during their golden years, neither one of them knew that Jim had Asperger’s syndrome. In this intimate memoir, Mary describes how they learned about and successfully embraced her late husband’s autism. In addition to providing a rare portrait of an elderly Aspie, this book is a love story that will inspire anyone who is interested in building close and nurturing relationships. Because the book is so well-crafted and engaging, even readers who are not involved in the autism community will find it rewarding to join Jim and Mary on their excellent adventure.” 
Dean Falk, Ph.D. – Co-author of Geeks, Genes, and the Evolution of Asperger’s Syndrome, Hale G. Smith Professor of Anthropology, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, Florida State University\n“Doing the laundry is not an activity most of us would consider a setting for an epiphany that would change two lives from trudging onward together into an Excellent Adventure. But there it is! 
Mary had an insight that spotlighted the struggle she was having living with Jim. Sharing her perceptions with him, gifted Jim with understanding that freed him from years of hurt and confusion. 
Dr. Johnson’s memoir was written with the wish that her recognition will help others move from an arduous trek into their own Excellent Adventure.” 
Marythelma Brainard Ransom, Ph.D., Psychologist, Recipient of a 2020 Gradiva 
Award from the National Association for Advancement of Psychoanalysis.\n“In this memoir, Mary has written an honest, beautiful, and often painful account of love in the “third third” of life. Her story blends the discovery of her new husband’s struggle with Asperger’s Syndrome and how her therapist background helped him. Ultimately, she has created a guidebook for understanding Asperger’s, with ingeniously interwoven resources regarding its effect on relationships. Combining humor, great tenderness, unexpected events, and scientific facts, this gripping tale will leave the reader informed and inspired.” 
Joan Moss, author of Blessings for a Grieving Mother\n“When I started to read Mary’s book, I couldn’t put it down. I wanted to find out more about these two older people in love, and how their story continued . . . 
Love and Asperger’s: Jim and Mary’s Excellent Adventure will long serve as a fun and deeply personal explanation of the challenges and delights of loving and living with an Aspie. Mary uses personal examples paired with specific researched details about Asperger’s to explain her husband’s differences. As a clinician, I would recommend this book to anyone living with an adult person with Asperger’s. It is also a love story of an older adult couple who met on the Internet and is of timely interest to many!” 
Jackie Downie, M.S.W., Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Therapist in Private Practice, Wyoming

Love and Asperger's: Jim and Mary's Excellent Adventure

Parenting & Relationships

Johnson PH.D., Mary A.

Disabilities & Hyperactivity

Atmosphere Press

The Truth About Elves

Literature & Fiction

Garg, Ekta R.

Genre Fiction

The Lower Canyons

Manuel, John

Action & Adventure

In N. Y. Haynes' The Space Between Seconds you'll see there is an extremely intimate wireless communication that affects both your mental and emotional state and your physical health. You'll discover how unresolved patterns when observed and embodied allow you to claim a more vigorous and graceful life. With creative, heartfelt insights and experience The Space Between Seconds engages you to open, nurture communication, and respond to this priceless energy. N.Y. Haynes draws a map providing challenging opportunities for fulfillment and pleasure in constructing a fear-free body that's lovely to look at...fun to own...and great to live in! So come on, dive in, laugh, and learn to live like the power of the ocean and the melody of the sky, because "It's what you learn after you think you know it all that counts."

The Space Between Seconds

Self-Help

Haynes, N Y

Motivational

"I am here. I once was here. I will return here. The here always remains," states author Rebecca Beardsall in her part memoir/part photo album My Place in the Spiral. In the author's insightful and intriguing journey to research and spiral back to two women ahead of their times-her grandmother Ruth and great-grandmother Mary-Beardsall forges for us a path of understanding. Comparing faces, mannerisms, conversations, houses, educations, beliefs, superstitions, and dreams, she leads us from her New Zealand and Western Washington homes back to her Pennsylvania German heritage.\nWe, too, are in these pages, detectives uncovering clues to better understand, perhaps, our own identities. Mennonite upbringing re-stitched with feminism and literary theory? The future superimposed with sepia-toned photographs? Yes. In My Place in the Spiral, "the past...[serves as] a vision of [the] future....[t]he gyre of memory... looping back again." In these pages, Rebecca Beardsall gives us the people we love alongside the ancestors we may never have met. In doing so, she encourages us to rediscover in them our present and future lives.\n-Marjorie Maddox, www.marjoriemaddox.com, author of the prose collection What She Was Saying\nThrough Beardsall's use of photographs and narrative captions, it's as if we have all been invited to an intimate family slideshow. My Place in the Spiral begins with a look at time, at memory, and at our place in all of it and ends with the satisfaction that Beardsall has found herself, her nana, and her great-grandmother connected in the those spiraled lines that are always retreating and returning all at once.\nRebecca Beardsall's quest to find out how and why she has always connected with her nana and great-grandmother is a literary journey through photographs and travel. With each turn of the page, we see what she sees, the closing of the distant connection between two women she had always wanted to meet but couldn't and the warmth that grows inside of her with every discovery that she is more like them than she could have imagined.\n-Kase Johnstun, http: //kasejohnstun.com/, author of Beyond the Grip of Craniosynostosis\nMy Place in the Spiral is ostensibly about her search to find out something about her grandmother. And it is that, and that simple story is interesting enough in its own right. But it's also about more far more than that. Through photographs and footnotes, the book asks us to suspend ourselves in multiple moments in the same moment, to see one body in multiple bodies (or is it multiple bodies in one body) and, in doing so, to confront any number of quietly sublime truths about our complicated relationship to time. At various points, the book reminded me of Mitchell, Vonnegut, and Dickens; yet the book goes beyond those now dusty meditations on time to propose yet a new relationship to time.\nBeardsall uses family history to bend time back on itself so effortlessly. The story runs through your hand a bit like sunlight or cold river water or time itself: beautiful, important, impossible to capture or contain, let alone describe.\nReaders will find themselves in My Place in the Spiral, I think, because we have all looked into a mirror and watched an unexpected ancestor peer back out. Time does not progress. It swirls. It eddies. It flows faster. Sometimes it stops, even doubles back on itself. 
-Nathan R. Elliott, Ph.D, writeronabike.online\nMemoir takes a visual, time-traveling and always intriguing interpretation as Rebecca Beardsall's book crisscrosses family, history and destiny in sometimes startling discoveries that inspire further exploration of the mysteries in one's own memories. 
-Sarah Eden Wallace, multimedia journalist, Falling Star Studio

My Place in the Spiral

Beardsall, Rebecca

In this luminous first collection, Kristin Rose Jutras presents a heart-breaking and at times funny interpretation of human existence in poems with a wholly unique voice. She uses Robert Lowell's Life Studies as a blueprint for the architecture of this book and intersperses poetry and prose throughout while dealing with questions of family mythology. Rose Jutras explores identity, birth, aging, death, and addiction against a back drop of Greek myths interwoven with a family saga. Whether meditating on a painting of Matisse, a spoon, or the role of collected family trauma, Rose Jutras brings each subject into an unexpected and expanded existence.

How to Hypnotize a Lobster

Jutras, Kristin Rose

Poetry

Life is an adventurous and winding road, and License to Learn delivers a flexible and intriguing map so that you can navigate your own unique journey. With this map, you are invited to see life's experiences-some chosen, some not-differently, and to make meaning from them in new ways. The key is that the so-called "comfort zone" is truly not the place to be when you want to learn, grow, or develop-except as a place to rest and reflect before heading "out" again. License to Learn aims to improve your ability to learn from your own life experience, and the genre-breaking format will lure you in with true tales of all kinds to use as examples. With this map as your guide, you can change your relationship to discomfort. And you can become your own best teacher.

License to Learn

Switzer, Anna

In this daring sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, we see Lady Catherine's daughter Anne through a new lens. Far too long, Anne de Bourgh has been pitied, ignored, and dismissed as boring and sickly. Her hopes begin to rise when two young gentlemen, both of whom would make a great catch, start paying attention to her. With the help of Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, Anne embarks on a journey to discover which beau is the best prospect as her potential husband. Will either one end up asking for her hand, and can she be certain of his character? Anne must contend with differences in the gentlemen's personalities, poise, and intelligence, and even consider troubling rumors. Are the two men in competition over her? And will Lady Catherine be satisfied with either one as Anne's husband? Along the way, Anne realizes she is not the only one whose life could be changing.

Insight and Suitability

Wollak, James

Jade Handan has murdered her father. For the past twelve years, she's been forced to forego discovering who she is and become the mother who abandoned her. Snapping from the abuse, she leaves his dead body in her California home and is wandering the highway without a plan when Beatrice Hazeldine rescues her. Bea appears to be everything that Jade is not: eccentric, passionate, confident. With nothing more than a picture of her mother and a note from an old love in New York, Bea and Jade head out to find Jade's mother. The road trip becomes less about fleeing a crime and finding Jade's mother, and more about the two women revealing their true selves. When Jade's past inevitably catches up to her, she is sent reeling. Confronting her actions tests the person Jade has become. She finds even what we trust most can be lost and the truths we most want to run from are those that make us who we are.

Late Magnolias

Biographies & Memoirs

Paige, Hannah

True Crime

Out of the maelstrom of a daughter's heroin addiction come these gripping poems of love and powerlessness, tenacity and surrender, brokenness and resilience. In The Heroin Addict's Mother, eminent psychologist and author of the bestselling Healing Through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair offers an intimate memoir that serves as a poetry of witness to the opiate epidemic that is ravaging millions of families throughout the United States. A...gritty and stirring collection of heartfelt poems...emanating from the power...of a mother's undying love for her addicted child. These poems will resonate with so many out in the world suffering from addiction. John F. Kelly, Professor of Psychiatry in Addiction Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Founder/Director, Recovery Research Institute, Mass General Hospital Greenspan gifts us with...forceful and courageous poems that speak not only to mothers of addicted children, but to all of us who have feared and fought for our children to be safe and well. Harriet Lerner, Author of The Dance of Anger Only a true poet can tell such truths with such power... Deena Metzger, Author of Ruin and Beauty ...breathtaking, truly brilliant. Destined to be tremendously helpful to so many people going through similar terrifying, gut-wrenching experience and to help others understand in great depth what that world is like. Paula J. Caplan, Author of Don't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship Miriam's words capture the essence of what we who are touched by addiction live and breathe. They remind us we are not alone and that we too can recover. Joanne Peterson, Founder/Executive Director

The Heroin Addict's Mother

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Greenspan, Miriam

Addiction & Recovery

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