Nancy Royden traveled the world wild with curiosity in search of an authentic spiritual path. After being admonished for her open-mindedness of heart and spirit, she extracted herself from naysayers and went on a journey that catapulted her across oceans to discover the many different ways to experience divine truth. Among many life lessons from her voyages, came this beautiful book of poetry.

Transcendental Voyages from Kentucky to Kathmandu

Royden, Nancy

Religion & Spirituality

Rabbit House Press

Life is a moving, changing thing which insists we be flexible. Thankfully, we are given endless opportunities to grow and move forward when old opinions, attitudes, and ambitions no longer suit who we are today. A rich and abundant history of intellectuals and artists have paved the way for us to make the most out of this time on earth. With Cinderella Sweeping Up Erin Chandler combines her own hard-earned life lessons with those of our histories most influential thinkers. Whether it be Albert Camus, a French philosopher in the 1950s, Buster Keaton, the Vaudevillian genius from the 1920s, Hunter S. Thompson in 1995, Oscar Wilde in 1880 or Buddhist Monk, Huineng in 680 A.D., we learn from each other what it means to be alive. Each of the seventy essays studies a beautiful or damned circumstance and takes a celebratory look at life.Praise for Cinderella Sweeping Up:“In 1969, when I was fourteen years old, I DEVOURED "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," Joan Didion's epic collection of essays about California. This cemented my love for the essay. Erin Chandler's collection of essays are delicious. Easily read, easily understood but thought-provoking and just so damn entertaining. Takes Southern storytelling to an art form. I highly recommend Cinderella Sweeping Up!” – Leslie Jordan, Emmy-winning actor and author, Will and Grace, American Horror Story, The Help“Chandler examines both own her life and what it means to be alive. Each of these tiny essays is rich with wisdom, humor and compelling ideas, glittering with extraordinary people and experiences, and crafted by a large heart and an intelligent, open mind. Chandler illuminates and inspires with this delightful book.” – Katrina Denza, Chair, Writer Residency Program, Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities“As I delved, non-stop, into Erin’s essays, “I found myself engaged in each evocative sentence on a personal level… Erin, a natural teacher, has woven the simple threads of life into an elegant textile of truth. A keeper.” – Denise Lutz, Litpschitz House“Erin Chandler is the rare writer who shows us the sweetness in this world even as she boldly tells us the truth about what she finds. If you love Jeannette Walls you will love these essays.” – Lissa Sims, The Village Voice

Cinderella Sweeping Up

Arts & Photography

Chandler, Erin

Individual Artists

What can a child make of a small-town culture in which love is a given, but intimacy is deemed sinful? What does a shy adult do when he finds out his great-grandmother ran a bordello? How does a stubborn individual resist labels and remain the “gentleman” he was raised to be? Growing up gay and Catholic in the state of Kentucky in the mid-twentieth century, author and Broadway performer Kevin Lane Dearinger was puzzled by what he heard about sex: the sneers, lies, misrepresentations, distortions, guilt, and secrecy. Some of his experiences were traumatic, but most just contributed to a life-saving sense of the absurd. The natural was made unnatural by gossip and judgment, fear and cruelty, and sex was “bad” in Kentucky, but language, humor, and time have provided protection and perspective. Bad Sex in Kentucky is about seeking grace under pressure, even at the risk of a pratfall. It is about place, family, and heritage. It is about survival at a price and a kind of ferocious forgiveness. It is about the search for identity within the tangled intersection of sex and love.

Bad Sex in Kentucky (978-0-578-58855-1)

Biographies & Memoirs

Dearinger, Kevin Lane

Historical

After the Race

"Readers will fall in love with Alexandra Alt, an Indiana University senior whose mother has instilled in her the values of what she calls First Lady First: Jane Ann Alt, in her bid to make her daughter the next Jacqueline Kennedy, exhorts her to learn how to ride horses, write thank you notes, win votes, and otherwise be the perfect political wife. Against the early eighties backdrop of Ronald Reagan, the AIDS crisis, and a bygone innocence, Alexandra is faced, during an internship in Washington, D.C., with choosing between Jake Banwell, who comes from a troubled, impoverished family in rural Indiana, and Bill Beck, who comes from the perfect political family and aspires to be president. Women of all ages will relate to Alexandra's struggle to choose between these men, as well as the struggle to rid herself of the inner voice of Jane Ann, who "thinks women's lib, the Equal Rights Amendment, and equal pay for equal work are ridiculous." After the Race is, then, a not just a love story but a chronicling of the pressures young women faced even after the feminist movement had supposedly liberated them. Moreoever, as Alexandra asks herself What do I really want? Or is the question what does Jane Ann want?, readers of all genders and backgrounds will relate to this age-old struggle of fulfilling one's own legacy rather than a parent's. After the Race is a delicious read that will have you on the edge of your seat until the very last page." 	Jacinda Townsend, author of Saint Monkey, Broadcast Journalist, Professor, University of California, Davis

Dae, Pamela

Literature & Fiction

In After the Race, college senior and congressional intern, Alexandra Alt, confronts the social paradoxes that confounded a generation as she struggles to define herself and decide her own future, ultimately confronting the one unplanned event that could derail all her plans and disrupt her family bonds.

It's early cell phone days and pompous billionaire Jack Henniger, the 80-year-old founder of Agent Brown, gets himself in trouble with the mob and his demure middle-aged wife when he takes up sexting as a retirement hobby. While Catherine is hell-bent on improving things in bed and getting the penny-pincher to bump up her widow's pension, everybody wants a piece of Jack; especially the sadistic hitman husband of his blackmailing personal assistant and the dominating German housekeeper. Someone in the house wants Catherine to believe that she is crazy, and maybe she is; but certainly, someone is trying to kill her.

Thumbs

Humor & Entertainment

Denise Lutz

Humor

“Through the growing and nurturing years there is no influence as important as the coaching a youngster receives. Those he selects as his heroes mold his character and create the fiber of the individual”. So preached Dan Chandler the son of Happy Chandler, beloved two-time Kentucky governor and baseball commissioner, and the wildly eccentric father of Erin and Chan. Dan uprooted his kids from their southern aristocratic roots and the political world of the Governors mansion and deposited them into the gaudy yet glamorous life of 1970’s Las Vegas, where debauchery and brutishness was respected and everyone practiced the Golden Rule…. “The guy with the gold makes the rule.”After years of living a roller coaster life on his coattails, becoming adults proved to be their biggest challenge. Chan took the cowboy approach to life, on the road from one end of the country to the other, packing guns, breaking hearts and staying one step ahead of the law… usually. Erin followed the Vegas showgirls of her youth and found Hollywood. The brother and sister struggle to create balance. Author and playwright, Erin Chandler is candid in the telling of her life long difficulties with her loving, although overwhelming, alcoholic father, her heartbreaking challenges with her charming but dangerously self destructive brother, and her own relentless demons. Dark yet uplifting, filled with humor and insight, June Bug Versus Hurricane will leave audiences as haunted as its characters.

June Bug Versus Hurricane: Memoir

Memoirs

"Through the growing and nurturing years there is no influence as important as the coaching a youngster receives. Those he selects as his heroes mold his character and create the fiber of the individual". So preached Dan Chandler the son of Happy Chandler, beloved two-time Kentucky governor and baseball commissioner, and the wildly eccentric father of Erin and Chan. Dan uprooted his kids from their southern aristocratic roots and the political world of the Governors mansion and deposited them into the gaudy yet glamorous life of 1970's Las Vegas, where debauchery and brutishness was respected and everyone practiced the Golden Rule.... "The guy with the gold makes the rule." After years of living a roller coaster life on his coattails, becoming adults proved to be their biggest challenge. Chan took the cowboy approach to life, on the road from one end of the country to the other, packing guns, breaking hearts and staying one step ahead of the law... usually. Erin followed the Vegas showgirls of her youth and found Hollywood. The brother and sister struggle to create balance. Author and playwright, Erin Chandler is candid in the telling of her life long difficulties with her loving, although overwhelming, alcoholic father, her heartbreaking challenges with her charming but dangerously self destructive brother, and her own relentless demons. Dark yet uplifting, filled with humor and insight, June Bug Versus Hurricane will leave audiences as haunted as its characters.

June Bug Versus Hurricane

Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic

Wilson, Mike

Literary

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The Millionaire's Checklist

Steve Brook

Humor & Satire

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Transcendental Voyages from Kentucky to Kathmandu

Cinderella Sweeping Up

Bad Sex in Kentucky (978-0-578-58855-1)

After the Race

After the Race

Thumbs

June Bug Versus Hurricane: Memoir

June Bug Versus Hurricane

Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic

The Millionaire's Checklist