How do we sew together the hoped-for future and the unfortunate past, the bright as well as the darker patches of our lives? How do we stitch cultural differences, join disparate worlds, to create something both beautiful and useful? Bonnie Lee Black subtly addresses these universal questions through vivid stories of her life-changing experience living and working in the fabled city of Segou, Mali, in West Africa. At the request of a talented group of Malian seamstresses, Black taught them the craft of American patchwork quilting and spearheaded an economic development effort called the Patchwork Project. She has now created a many-layered patchwork quilt of a book that brings that time and place and all its colorful characters to life on the page. Threaded throughout is the fictional narrative of Jeneba, a slave-quilter in the antebellum American South who had been kidnapped from the Kingdom of Segou as a child, as well as the real voices of the Malian women who took part in the Patchwork Project.

How To Make An African Quilt: The Story of the Patchwork Project of Segou, Mali

Biographies & Memoirs

Black, Bonnie Lee

Community & Culture

Nighthawk Press

Tributes and Tirades: Taos Life and American Politics is a collection of commentaries and opinions on events in a troubled period in American politics and life in Taos, a storied northern New Mexico town. Some of the essays are revisions of previously published Op-Ed or literary-anthology pieces. Others appear in print for the first time. Author Robert J. Silver, a psychologist by background and training, was captivated by Taos’s legendary transformational power. These collected writings are the result of the magic that is Taos.

Tributes and Tirades: Taos Life and American Politics

Politics & Social Sciences

Silver, Robert J.

Philosophy

How is it that one small mountain town in northern New Mexico has succeeded in attracting and sustaining so many remarkable women over the years? This central question is at the heart of this exciting new celebratory book, The Remarkable Women of Taos. This book is the natural outgrowth of an unprecedented year-long community celebration honoring outstanding historic and contemporary women of Taos. The 167 women portrayed here share their passions, accomplishments, and advice – as well as their stories of challenges overcome. Taken together, these narratives provide a sampling of the breadth and depth of the remarkable women who call Taos home. From Mabel Dodge Luhan and Agnes Martin to Sherrie McGraw, Corina Santistevan and Sharon Dry Flower Reyna of today, Remarkable Women reveals the centuries-long role women have played in shaping this one-of-a-kind community.

Remarkable Women of Taos: A Year Long Community-wide Celebration Honoring Outstanding Taosenas

VARIOUS

“Eileen Wiard’s debut novel hums with a rich understanding of the challenges kids face daily around identity, acceptance, and tough life choices. As 13-year-old Crystal navigates the difficult terrain of being one of a few African American students in a mostly white suburban school, she learns firsthand the pain of being an outsider. It isn’t until she meets Lee, an immigrant boy from Thailand who suspects he may be gay, that she begins to think about the full meaning of diversity. Crystal is such a generous, warmhearted guide that I would follow her anywhere, and Inside Outsiders is a gentle and compelling read.” - — SUMMER WOOD, author of Raising Wrecker “A heartwarming, no-nonsense story — recommended reading for anyone who thinks one kid can’t make a difference and build a community.” — MINROSE GWIN, author of The Queen of Palmyra

Inside Outsiders

Children's Books

Wiard, Eileen

Growing Up & Facts of Life

At the age of forty, Ethel, who grew up in Los Angeles, California, decided to take possession of her true name, Hannah-the name on her Israeli birth certificate. To make a little ceremony of it, she asked the bishop of an esoteric storefront Gnostic church in Hollywood to baptize her. Without preconception or preparation, she found herself pulled into a world of early Christian myths and symbols. The "dreamtime" world that engulfed her after this baptism became her guidance, as marriage and family disintegrated. As Hannah, she was drawn up through church sacraments from a suburban life she'd never wanted to live, through a mystical initiation she never asked for, which culminated in ordination to the Gnostic priesthood. But that attainment was not the conclusion. Hannah Rappaport's memoir of this journey is mystical and pragmatic, heartbreaking and healing."I am mesmerized by Hannah's story. When a Jewish woman can be utterly transformed by her encounter with an ancient Christian Wisdom Way, and still honor her roots, there is hope for peace on earth. Hannah Rappaport is a living example of the power of the interspiritual life. Highly recommended." Mirabai Starr, Author of GOD OF LOVE: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity & Islam"Hannah Rappaport's uniquely beautiful and accomplished tale of spiritual transformation will serve as guidance and inspiration for those who hear the call of the transcendent in their own lives." Sean Murphy, Author of: Hope Valley Hubcap King, Time of New Weather, The Finished Man, One Bird One Stone

Love on the Brink of History

Rappaport, Hannah

Religion & Spirituality

A collection of real life episodes, poems and essays from women who view nature through the lens of their experience. This book will transport the armchair traveler to the far reaches of our globe to recount heroic, sometimes Quixotic, but always fascinating accounts of the search for solitude and spiritual renewal.

Drinking from the Stream: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Steve Fox had just started his second semester of graduate English study at the University of Texas in January, 1967, when he was drafted to serve in the voracious Vietnam War. But Fox, 23, kept his eyes open and learned how to adapt, resist, and avoid the war in Asia with timely help from a string of angels he meets. He got himself assigned to Athens Air Base in Athens, Greece, where Greek and American friends reveal the terrors of the dictators—known as The Colonels—running the country. In 1969 an ex-Greenwich Village folksinger and Steve’s mentor in Athens, Allan Wenger, makes Steve part of the Greek Resistance to the Colonels. Steve and his smart and sassy American girlfriend drink deep of Greek ruins and lore, set a headlong course of self-reinvention as they return to the U.S. and Mexico, and explore the tangled path of love in revolutionary times.

Odyssey: Love and Terror in Greece, 1969

Fox, Steve

Memoirs

"The Place Where Wildness Dreams" enters Earth’s dream, offers a new sensibility of who we are as part of an integral community, and opens our minds to the consciousness of the natural world. All the world is here — from Bear to Rabbit, from Jaguar to Pica, from Mountain to Valley. The beings of the desert, the prairie, the forests and skies all reside with us, in a place that is both “out there” and within. The distant is brought near. And that which is too close to see is made visible. As a reader, you join the author’s innate sense of journey…and you find in your own gypsy soul that this journey is not one you are just starting, nor will it end with the final page.

The Place Where Wildness Dreams: Essays from the Field

Rykken, Alexis

In Fire and Ash, Christine Sherwood does the impossible: she makes sense out of cancer. Her journey into darkness and back out again will save lives, helping others to know there is a brilliant and unwavering light at the end of the tunnel. — Sean Murphy, author of the International Book Award winner One Bird, One Stone and The Time of New Weather

Fire and Ash: The Alchemy of Cancer

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Sherwood, Christine

Alternative Medicine

Coming of Age: Come Rain or Come Shine took more than ten years to write. The author, finding herself alone, her marriage of forty-two years imploding, examines each piece of her life to understand what happened to her. She “comes of age” as a senior, finding her voice to tell her story as truthfully as she can. She discovers who she is and transforms herself in the process. Others present in the story may view it differently, with varied colors and threads. This is only the author’s version of the fabric of her life.

Coming of Age: Come Rain or Come Shine

Grossman, Martha

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