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Joy Road is a memoir by Julie Evans, a change-of-life baby who spent much of her Midwestern childhood nurturing her alcoholic mother and her chronically ill father. Both parents died while she was still a teen. She takes readers on a tumultuous ride from the 1970s to the 2000s as she struggles to find herself, developing addictions to sex, drugs, alcohol and nicotine. In the end it’s her experiences as a wildlife rehabilitator, and the wise counsel of a country...

By Joseph P. Eckhardt Link to the Living Large book trailer, the Facebook page and the LibraryThing reviews. Purchase here (click on red button at left and receive a 20% discount; shipping within U.S. only) or on Amazon. Living Large: Wilna Hervey and Nan Mason, by noted silent film historian Joseph P. Eckhardt, is by turns a rollicking dual biography and a sweet love story. Wilna Hervey—a six-foot-three-inch, three-hundred-pound heiress—won the role of “The...

By Lawrence Webster Winner of 2013 Independent Publisher Book Award in biography category Winner of 2013 Benjamin Franklin Award (IBPA) in biography category Winner of 2012 ForeWord Book of the Year Award in biography category The unusual and enduring partnership of Maud and Miska Petersham will intrigue everyone who is interested in the integration of life and work, values and livelihood. Maud and Miska met when they were young, aspiring artists working in their...

Edited by Weston Blelock and Julia Blelock Finalist at the National Best Books 2009 Awards This book explores the roots of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. It explains definitively and for the first time why the festival was named Woodstock, and why it continues to be so closely associated with the eponymous art and music colony in upstate New York—even though the concert actually took place close to sixty miles to the south and west, in Bethel, NY. Project Launch The...

By Anita M. Smith Winner of 2007 Independent Publisher Book Award in U.S. Northeast best regional non-fiction Winner of the National Best Books 2007 Award in creative non-fiction Finalist for 2006 ForeWord Book of the Year Award in regional (adult non-fiction) category Anita M. Smith’s Woodstock History and Hearsay begins with the indigenous god Manitou sending down from the sky the first woman in the shape of a tortoise. Overlook Mountain, which dominates the...

A history of Woodstock, NY based on Woodstock History and Hearsay by Anita M. Smith Drawn from Anita Smith’s iconic work, this is a popularized, art edition completely executed in reverse lithography with “white print” on cobalt blue. It presents a history of Woodstock, NY from the time of the Amerindian, but takes the saga up through the Festival of 1969 in a “psychic portrait.” The book is filled with stunning halftones, woodcuts, vintage ads, a map, and reproductions of paintings by...