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…
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…
Longstaff - In the Shadow of the Dragon's Back
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
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).…
Polsgrove - When We Were Young in Africa
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…
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…
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…
Kupfer - Leaving Long Island
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…
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…
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…