After Life is a sensitively compiled collection of images from the Key West City Cemetery. Some of the subjects are iconic and familiar. Others are hidden in quiet corners or as fleeting as a cloud blowing before the sun. All are memorable. As you reflect on them, you will smile and maybe shed a tear, honoring those who have gone before to make Key West the unique place it has always been – and is today. Photographers Carol Tedesco and Roberta DePiero have caught the spirit and shapes of the Key West graveyard from morning dew until sunset and placed the pictures on the pages of this artistic book with remarkable attention to composition, tone, and harmony. The images are gently bound together with a ribbon of prose created by historical novelist Jane Newhagen.

After Life: Images from the Key West Cemetery

Arts & Photography

Tedesco, Carol

DePiero, Roberta

Newhagen, Jane Louise

Photography & Video

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Ben and Helen Harrison set aside their comfortable life in San Francisco to go to Costa Rica and build a 38-foot sailboat. They had never built a boat before. Then, they had to get it down to mountainside to the water. And from there sail to Key West where they now live. It was a dauntless task and a challenge that put their marriage, their sanity, and their very lives on the line. A real-life adventure that will make you feel like you’ve got a berth on La Dulce Mujer Pintada, the Sweet Painted Lady.

Sailing Down the Mountain

Biographies & Memoirs

Harrison, Ben

Memoirs

Writing essays since the early 90’s, these missives found in “Because You Never Asked” are but a cross section of work that is still in progress today. Grapel considers them therapeutic objections to the paradigm of our culture and the negativity it is leading us into. “All cultures attempt to inculcate their constituents into someone’s narrow-minded, self-serving version of reality and this book is an attempt to translate these subterfuges into the truth,” he says. Although several of his earliest essays are included in this collection, the vast majority of them are contemporary. Regardless of the chronology, you will find they remain pertinent to whatever is happening around us at this moment.

Because You Never Asked (Book One)

Literature & Fiction

Grapel, Jerome

Essays & Correspondence

Jim Fox has been putting his thoughts onto paper for many years, both in poetry and as essays. Here are selected works that reflect his sensitivity as a poet and his straightforward opinions as an essayist. “These are my favorite pieces that I have written from the time of my youth up to the present,” says Fox. “I touch upon many topics such as religion, music, family and friends, politics.”

Fox Tales: Selected Poetry and Essays

Fox, James R.

Poetry

Maggie Malone is a first-class painter who just graduated from art school. But every time she gets a foot in the door in the gallery scene in New York City something goes wrong. She can't figure out if this is normal or if she is actually being targeted by unseen forces. On a tip from a fellow artist, she goes to Fleetwater, a small, thriving artist colony on Long Island. Taken up by gallery owner, Arthur Cotillion, Maggie is finally getting the accolades she deserves. The big shows and big-ticket sales are finally happening. So, what's wrong? And for that matter, what's wrong with the inhabitants of Fleetwater and why are people trying to kill Maggie Malone? The thing is: when someone sends you a gift horse, of course you don't want to turn it down, no matter what the history books say.

The Gift Horse

Silton, Leslie

Genre Fiction

The Hemingway Monologues reads like an intimate memoir. A fascinating blend of fact and fiction, the monologues reveal a tender, compassionate side of Hemingway that most people have never encountered. They can be enjoyed readily in performance or as a good, absorbing read. Sunrise is the first in this seven-play series that traces Hemingway's chronology from birth to death. The Hemingway Monologues give an intimate insight into the circumstances which shaped the famed author's life and inspired him in his writing. Brian Gordon Sinclair is considered to be "the foremost dramatic interpreter of Ernest Hemingway in the world today." (Stratford-upon-Avon Herald, UK)

The Hemingway Monologues: An Epic Drama of Love, Genius and Eternity: Part One: Sunrise

Sinclair, Brian Gordon

Arts & Literature

This is like two books in one, two collections of short stories by two brothers writing independently of each other, but with a common thread. Here you will find stories about people and events in Florida and the Caribbean -- so close to Cuba they call it Almost Havana. “Prepare to be astonished, prepare to be entertained,” says Evan H. Rhodes, author of The Prince of Central Park.

Almost Havana (Legal)

Belland, F W

Belland, Christopher C

When 12-year-old Billy Sanders moves with his mother and siblings to Upper Marlboro, Md., in 1970, he must re-start life in a strange town. Billy is troubled because his new home, a dilapidated farm house, resounds with strange noises and evil intent. To bring peace to his home, he must unearth the town’s horrible secret. But in so doing, he unintentionally lures violence and terror upon his own family. Scared the pants off me,” says H.L. Osterman, Short Changed. “You’ll keep the lights on at night after reading this excellent thriller,” observes Hollis George, editor of Bram Stoker, Without Fangs.

Just Us: Horror In a Small Maryland Town

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Guerra, John L.

Thrillers & Suspense

The frank and endearing true story of Peggy Butler, a young girl from the Appalachian foothills of southern Ohio, who loves music and dreams of becoming a performer, until an illness in her early teens changes her goal and her life dramatically. This stirring memoir offers a vivid picture of what it was like to be an aspiring nurse in the 1950s. Butler’s accounts of the stigma endured by people with tuberculosis, a contagious disease with no known cure at that time, are heart-rending.

And Then There Was One: A Nurse’s Memories of A.G. Holley State Tuberculosis Hospital

Butler, Peggy

Professionals & Academics

At 66 years old, Martha Browne, daughter of a snake handling preacher gone missing, is desperate to find love before her time runs out. Her latest prospect, 43-year-old Arthur Endicott, the new priest at her adopted Episcopal Church, shows great promise, though unbeknownst to her, he's been banished to Amity for engaging in unseemly behavior in a gay cruising park in the city. As Arthur tries to redeem himself and reconstruct his destroyed life, he must contend with narcissistic Martha, who challenges him at every turn. Along the way, he and the other citizens of small-town Amity, Kentucky, seek love for themselves. In this Altman-esque tale told from multiple points of view, a large cast creates an interwoven tapestry wherein each character carries a part of the whole story. The full picture comes into focus in a climax of murder, mayhem, and a little bit of magic.

The Snake Handler's Daughter: Tales of Sex & Intrigue In Amity, Kentucky (Tales of Amity Kentucky)

Lassiter, P. A.

Contemporary

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