Hoke Barclay – The Missionary’s Wife
About the BookIt was September 1943, and the world was again at war, when my mother, Alexis Hart Barclay, first stepped foot in Venezuela, South America. She was twenty-four, smart,…
Baur – Alternate Take
About the BookTime Travel is open to the public.For a resource-depleted world, the breaking news offers a glimmer of hope as humanity disperses throughout the eras. For siblings Mia and…
Suhr – Learning About Love
About the BookFor the first time available in English — in a superb translation by Louise Stoehr — Learning About Love: A Novel is Geerje Suhr's second book with Culicidae…
Baur – Remastered
Get ready for Remastered... Days Hours Minutes Seconds 'Remastered' is now available world-wide... About the Book Time Travel didn’t go as planned. Remastered, sequel to the novel Alternate Take, dives…
Tavallaei – Poems as Short as Life
From the Introduction by the AuthorAs an Iranian, I am interested in our inclination to versifying, the ability to write in verse forms, and I love the unique Persian language,…
Osterberg – Dream House On the Prairie
About the BookDream House on the Prairie is an architect’s journey through several decades, with candid accounts of what went wrong—and what went right—in reconstructing a deteriorating century-old farmhouse. The…
Suhr – The German Exchange Student
About the BookThis witty developmental novel depicts the friendships and love experiences of a girl, Gorda, from childhood through high school. Initially we are confronted with the gloomy environment of…
Brantley – Phases
About the BookHere is the text from the Introduction of the second edition (2022), in the author’s words:A teaching life of more than thirty years has given me the boon of closeness…
Brantley – We Are the Sum of Tiny Spaces
We Are the Sum of Tiny Spaces, Diana Brantley’s second book of poetry, offers fifty new poems written in her forthright, engaging voice. She returns to her favorite subjects: nature…
Larche – Angels in the Snow
About the BookWoven upon a tapestry of environmentalism and the search for peace, Angels in the Snow tells the passionate intergenerational story of three couples separated by the Berlin Wall…
Osterberg – We All Fall Down
About the BookWe All Fall Down is a user’s guide to help us reduce our chances of falling and being injured during falls. Through case studies and analysis, the book…
Meritt-Gordon and Grosscup – Tell Them What You Want
About the BookTell Them What You Want is an inspirational coming of age story of an African-American girl (Bernie) growing up amidst the immense local and national social turmoil of…
Liikkanen – Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design
About the BookAre you planning a new sauna, renovating an old one, or just dreaming? Do yourself a favor: save your sauna project and read this wonderfully illustrated book about…
Andrews – Vervm Fictvm: Architectural Delineation and Speculation, 1984-2020
About the BookThe drawing has always been our most essential method of communication. Drawings have offered us both a glimpse into the past and a view to the future. As…
Clark – These Doors
About the BookThese Doors presents Timber (Pop. 50), sequestered in the Oregon woods from which few emigrate and fewer want to. In the style of a novel where plot threads…
Leverenz – So Mortal, So Dear
About the Book The poems in this volume, written between 1987 and 2017, were selected and ordered by David Leverenz before his death in August, 2017. Although David rarely shared…
Andrews – Rationalism and Poetry
About the Book (From the Introduction) Como’s Asilo D’Infanzia Sant’Elia occupies a unique position in the oeuvre of Giuseppe Terragni. Executed between his two most celebrated works, the Casa del…
Naegele – Guide to the Only Good Architecture in Iowa
Available Now Naegele’s Guide to the Only Good Architecture in Iowa is a deceptive title but it is not a misnomer. Guide is accurate. Iowa is fairly accurate. Naegele’s is…
Careri – Walkscapes
Walkscapes: Walking as an Aesthetic Practice by Francesco Careri was originally published in a dual-language Spanish/English edition in 2002, and republished in 2012 (only in Spanish) both times by Editorial Gustavo Gili,…
Jacks – A House and its Atmosphere
About the Book A House and its Atmosphere is a meditative essay about the experience of designing and building a house of one’s own. Told in seventy black and white…
Longstaff – In the Shadow of the Dragon’s Back
About In the Shadow of the Dragon's Back: A Young American Girl in South Africa During the Early Years of ApartheidThe book is the story of a young American girl…
Friday – I Remembered
About the Book (From the Author)I Remembered chronicles my experience—at age forty-nine—when I recalled the sexual abuse by my father as a young girl. Through my journal entries, represented here…
Yates – White Creek
About the BookA witty, haunting tale of family and friendship, regret and redemption, set on a remote Wyoming cattle ranch in the dead of winter.The White Creek Ranch has been…
Brantley – Transatlantic Trio
About the Book (from the Prologue)Francis Jeffrey’s indictment of William Wordsworth’s The Excursion (1814) as “mystical verbiage of the Methodist pulpit”—“This will never do!”—will itself never do (Jeffrey 463, 465).…
Dutton – Paid in Sunsets
About the BookPaid in Sunsets: A Park Ranger’s Story is a humorous memoir of David A. Dutton's life as a Federal Park Ranger. Park Rangers are called upon to do many dangerous…
Williams – Summer of Weird Harold
Cover design by Kylin Schoeff. About the Book Not so far away there’s a quiet little place where the sun always shines, the water stays warm all year, and your…
Howard – The Girl with Wings
About the Book From the author of Discovering the Body, (“…a book so sure-handed and graceful that you might forget it’s a murder mystery…” New York Times Book Review) comes…
Zach – For The Birds
About the BookFor this second edition (2015) Dr. Zach updated her For the Birds book, which was originally published in 2005.The book is an intuitive and interactive way to learn how to read…
Polsgrove – When We Were Young in Africa
About the BookGrowing up as a missionary child in West Africa, Carol Polsgrove was raised to be American, but Yoruba voices filled her days and talking drums her nights. Lifting…
Kieklak – Run Better Run Faster
About the BookRun Better, Run Faster Using A Biomechanical Approach teaches you through a series of hands-on exercises how to run efficiently, safely, and feel great doing it....From the Introduction to the BookThis book…
Browning – Kites
Book DescriptionKites: The Art of Using Natural Materials is a collection of images which show how the beauty, intricacy and delicacy of natural materials have been used to form flying structures.The…
Clark – Sixty Something and Flying Solo: A Retiree Sorts it Out in Iowa
Sixty-Something and Flying Solo: A Retiree Sorts it Out in Iowa is a humorous, edgy memoir filled with serious ponderings. An Oregon transplant with no kids and no significant other, the…
Jacks – The Architect’s Tour
If you want to be a good designer, set aside the glossy magazines, turn off your computer, and seek out first-hand encounters with good design. When it comes to cities,…
Golisch – Fly and Fall
Fly and Fall is a book of poems about milk, honey, Kartoffelfeuer, kisses, flying, falling, heaven, cheap motels, hope, a kingdom, breaking, being, the first day of the new year,…
Moe – Sled Dogs to Saint Paul
About the AuthorWith their forty Alaskan Husky sled dogs, Frank Moe and his wife Sherri live near Grand Marais, Minnesota, on the North Shore of Lake Superior. When he’s not…
Croyle – Hertwig: The Zelig of Design
C. Arthur Croyle’s Hertwig: The Zelig of Design is an illustrated biography that traces the life and career of graphic designer Max Hertwig (1881-1975) through the most fascinating and formative years…
Koch – Sacred and Secular Music
Sacred and Secular Music/Geistliche und Weltliche Musik is a bi-lingual English/German music book by organist, composer, and retired professor of music Jobst Hermann Koch who arranged this collection of four-part…
Fern Kupfer Interview
This is a link to an audio file NPR of Fern Kupfer's interview on WOI with Charity Nebby from 23 January 2013. Fern talks about her new book Leaving Long…
Mawson – Shirley and Her Magic Blanket
In this children’s book, beautifully illustrated by Valerie Bouthyette, the author tells the story of Shirley, who experiences an adventure while spending time with her parents back on the farm…
Fern Kupfer Reads from Her New Book
On Thursday, 27 September 2012, Fern Kupfer read from her new memoir Leaving Long Island, published by Culicidae Press earlier this summer (see video embedded below). Kupfer has published hundreds of articles and columns in…
Kupfer – Leaving Long Island
Leaving Long Island is the story of a woman whose life experience includes the loss of a child, the end of a long marriage, and the discovery of a genetic inheritance…
Piontek – Have We Possibly Met Before?
Susanna Piontek is an internationally known German author who has published numerous stories in a wide range of books and magazines in Europe. This is her first book for an English-speaking…
Quillien – Clever Digs
About the Book Clever Digs: How Workspaces Can Enable Thought is a comprehensive investigation into the psycho-physics of office spaces. With a formidable scope Quillien lays out her argument that how we design…
Groves – Anna May Wong
Australian Architect and Senior Lecturer at Melbourne University Derham Groves recently published a book showing his students’ design of new shoes for the Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong with Culicidae…
Golisch – The Living Thing
The Living Thing is the tragicomic story of a woman in her late forties, approaching menopause, who is sent by her doctor to a spa town where she falls into…
Merritt – Perspective Drawing
About the Book A book that teaches hands-on perspective drawing using the projected image method developed by architect and former University of Florida architecture professor Harry Merritt. The book includes…
Quillien – Delight’s Muse
Delight’s Muse is a blessedly short, accessible, and thoughtfully illustrated summary of Christopher Alexander’s four volume work The Nature of Order. It rescues readers from the massive effort required to navigate…