"The end of the summer is hot and her bangs are cut and her eyes are bright with intrigue and excitement." As an illustrated novelette, Seasons is a tender story of one woman's journey through the seasons of life. It combines unique, thought-provoking illustrations, portraying various life events that have happened to you, someone you know, or someone you will know. Sometimes life prepares us for what is ahead, and sometimes it doesn't. Even when we may "see it coming," we are often shocked or amazed at where we are and who we've become. At each new junction of our lives, with each new season, we often wonder, "How did I get here?" The images in this book are made from Polaroid transfers. Each image begins as a 35mm slide that is transferred to Polaroid film. The negative of each photo is rolled onto watercolor paper and developed and processed. After it is dry, the image is hand-colored with pastels, watercolors, and/or watercolor pencils. It is then digitally scanned into the computer for fine tuning. This technique offers an ethereal quality to each image and a dream-like world in which to immerse yourself.

Seasons: One Woman's Journey

Rivers, Dorine

Literature & Fiction

River City Publishing

Shelley Fraser Mickle has written several novels, including Replacing Dad and The Queen of October, which was a New York Times Notable Book.Publisher's Weekly wrote in its review of Replacing Dad, Mickle's easy, forth-right style transforms a familiar tale into winning fiction. The New York Times said the book, which was made into a CBS television movie, had sassy charm.Now Mickle has written The Turning Hour, a touching novel about the critical issue of a teenager's attempted suicide. The story, told from two points of view (mother and daughter), reveals the difficulty of reconnecting with each other, and dredges up the family history and personal pain that led to the tragedy. The book is suitable for both adults and young adults.

The Turning Hour

Mickle, Shelley Fraser

Contemporary

A boy's adventures in travelling to meet his brother returning home from MWI.

The Long Journey

Wayne Greenhaw

Young female street musician's search for a home, both real and spiritual.

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Borders, Lisa

Short Stories & Anthologies

"My mother's gift of beauty to the family, year after year, was a bowl of paper-white narcissi that she magically coaxed into full bloom every Christmas day." And thereby hangs a tale of Christmas long ago, when the simple gifts were the best gifts, and of Christmas today, when all an eighty-year-old woman wants is a small treasure her mother used to give away free.

It's Christmas!

Children's Books

Kathryn Tucker Windham

Shelley Fraser Mickle's novel, The Turning Hour, deftly explores the motivations behind a teenage girl's attempted suicide. The accompanying  Educator's Guide advises instructors on using the novel to challenge students to discuss troubling issues of adolescence. Written by a panel of educators who have used it in their classroom, The Turning Hour Educator's Guide begins with a biography of and interview with Mickle to give the author's perspective. It also provides an overview of using the novel as bibliotherapy, plus a bibliography for further research on this approach to literature. Finally, the guide offers traditional assignments for further exploration of the novel. The Guide is a valuable tool for any reader wishing to delve below the surface of the story.

The Turning Hour: Educator's Guide

Wagner, Mary Anne

A portrait of Peggy Morgan describes how one woman struggled to escape the brutality, poverty, neglect, and abuse of her childhood in rural Mississippi, her marriage ot Lloyd Morgan, her exposure to the racial violence of a South caught up in the Civil Rights Movement, and her key role as a witness for the prosecution at the retrial of Byron De La Beckwith, the man ultimately convicted of killing Medgar Evers.

My Mother's Witness: The Peggy Morgan Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Carolyn Haines

Memoirs

David Warner first arrived on Bimini in his youth. Captivated by the island's quirky natives and their relaxed culture, Warner has been returning frequently ever since. Rather than write a travel guide, in his new book Warner recreates the excitement and danger of the Bimini he has come to know for the traveler who prefers the safety of the armchair. Warner introduces us to the eclectic personalities that people the island--the fishermen and smugglers, the Hemingway scholars and the Hemingway compatriots, the lawless and the lovelorn--and recounts the adventures they lived. With his intimate knowledge of the island and its inhabitants, Warner, Bimini's adopted son, takes the reader on a trip to the Bahamas not available through any tour.

Bimini: Tales of an Island Getaway

Travel

David T. Warner

Caribbean

With its astonishing evocation of the interior and exterior landscapes of our visitable world and its dazzling lyrical intensity, The Soft Blare by poet Nick Norwood makes its debut as the third volume selected by Andrew Hudgins for the River City Poetry Series. As Pulitzer Prize winning poet Richard Howard writes, "I must not fail to commend his wonderful mastery of the strictly lyric mode, so rare among his contemporaries. Norwood's poems in this register can actually be sung, indeed they seem to have the music in them already." We could not have said it--or sung it--better ourselves.

The Soft Blare (River City Poetry, 3)

Nick Norwood

Poetry

"Judith's son has shot two students, a teacher, and himself at school. An ordinary wife and mother must suddenly grapple with extraordinary grief and horror, struggling to be the center of her remaining family but plagued by doubts and questions that maydisrupt her life more completely than the shooting"--Provided by publisher.

The Space Between

Kali VanBaale

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