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The Spirituality of Age: A Seeker's Guide to Growing Older

Park Street Press
256 pages
$14.95


“Beautifully written–Best book I have ever read on this most significant passage.”

–Gail Sheehy

The Spirituality of Age: A Seeker's Guide to Growing Older

The Infinite Sea

G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
320 pages
$18.99


“Heart-pounding pacing, lyrical prose and mind-bending twists . . .”

–The New York Times Book Review

The Infinite Sea

Memoirs of Lieut-General Winfield Scott

Univ Tennessee Press
414 pages
$59.95


“Covering a wide range of events—from the famous 1804 duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton through the end of the Civil War—Scott’s extraordinary account reveals the general as a sometimes egocentric but always astute witness to the early American republic.”

–From the publisher

Memoirs of Lieut-General Winfield Scott

Deep Lane

W. W. Norton & Company
96 pages
$25.95


“Deep Lane is a book of descents: into the earth beneath the garden, into the dark substrata of a life. But these poems seek repair, finally, through the possibilities that sustain the speaker aboveground: gardens and animals, the pleasure of seeing, the world tuned by the word.”

–From the publisher

Deep Lane

We're In This Together

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
130 pages
$20.61


“The book offers grounded and thought provoking perspectives on: the legal framework of PL94-142 and its successor IDEA; the disconnect between the needs of young children with autism and public school special education services; and the significant size of the at-risk population and the shortcomings of efforts to serve those students. “

–From the publisher

We're In This Together

Proud To Be An American

Clovercroft Publishing
32 pages
$12.99


“ritten by Greenwood in the words of “God Bless The U.S.A.,” and fully illustrated with colorful, vibrant images by Amanda Sekulow, Proud To Be An American follows a man and his grandson across the U.S. to various national landmarks including the Golden Gate Bridge, Arlington Cemetery and more.”

–From the publisher

Proud To Be An American

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