Blood: the Color of Cranberries is a sweeping chronicle of the Milton family, sophisticated Chicagoans who are forced to move to a small, northern Wisconsin peat bog in 1920, due to the sudden and unexpected death of a family member. The twisting interplay of personalities, each with their own secrets, delays the unraveling of this mysterious "accident" for forty years. Along the way, the reader is introduced to a history of cranberry cultivation in Indianhead country, as well as the life and communities of the North Woods prior to 1960.

Blood: The Color of Cranberries

Literature & Fiction

Barratt, Pamelia

Genre Fiction

Plowshare Media

We've all wondered what we would do if we could live our lives over again, knowing what we know now. It's easy to imagine, but the actual result might be far different than we may think, or wish.... In 1972, Bob B. Pilhaus is a radical, 24-year-old surfer/hippie/intellectual, a cultural refugee, a lost soul, desperately searching for meaning and peace of mind. Stoned and alone on a train to Biarritz, looking for relief in some soothing, autumn waves on the Bay of Biscay, BP tries to ingratiate himself with a beautiful woman in the dining car--a French-Canadian, ex-fashion model named Esmeralda. There is far more to her than it appears, though, and Beep makes a bargain he lives to regret, never dreaming that time travel could be so easy, or that growing up again could be so tough....

Beep!: Beyond The Frogpond And Back

Parks, Stewart

Literary

Not-Earth, that wonder world of absurdity, is doomed. But what's this--a twelve year old rescuer? Roll on the mayhem! Benny Santiago's first days as a person with extreme talent and abilities (superhero is so last-year) are very tough, especially since he doesn't even know yet what his talent and abilities are. Joining forces with a clever new friend, Alma Patch, in search of the two Toms from Jugo Juice, Inc., their paths collide with Doctor Vert and Señor Snert (a couple of Planet Bandits from the world of Hert), as well as retired pirates turned restaurateurs; an almost-invisible, elf-like cowboy ape; a hog and dog recovery agent; and the most diabolical belch ever created. With tons of puns, a lot of alliteration, and more spoonerisms than you can stake a shick at, Benny Santiago and the Mask of Mortimer Muerto is a must read for kids, adult kids and senior citizen kids alike.

Benny Santiago And The Mask Of Mortimer Muerto

Children's Books

Tate, Jesse

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Margaret Harmon has a new collection of original fables, The Genie Who Had Wishes of His Own: 21st-Century Fables. Twenty-two brand new heroes, villains, and earnest strivers go after health, love, and fulfillment. These are fables we read when the children are asleep. • Idealistic architect Zoe, in “One Piece of Perfection,” creates a building that might heal the Earth . . . if she can protect it from the people living in it. • Health-food expert Myrna decides to rescue her husband from a nutritional wasteland in “The Woman Who Loved Her Husband.” But Stanley’s a big man who likes ice cream. • Roger (“The Philanthropist”) makes himself a multibillionaire by exploiting workers, squeezing expenses and stretching loopholes—until he accidentally explodes his world. • Nina, who knows exactly what she wants, finds a genuine genie, who discovers what he wants, in “Freeing the Genie.” Quirky and determined, these trapeze artists, juggler, caterpillar, song sparrow, ballerina, and the rest are exactly who we want them to be: us. Our favorites walk beside us as private guardians and powerful allies. “Fantastic!” —Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 "There is something hedonistic and luxurious inherent in these fables . . . Look around for this book. You’ll find it useful in countless social and literary ways.” —Carolyn See, author of There Will Never Be Another You “Growing up with Aesop, Phaedrus, and La Fontaine at easy reach, I was critical of modern attempts—that is, until James Thurber, the toughest act of all to follow. Well, comes now before us Margaret Harmon with her collection, and the prospects are bright for some fabulous reading once again.” —Shelly Lowenkopf, author of The Fiction Writer’s Handbook “Very clever.”—Barnaby Conrad, author of Matador “Wonderful, unexpected resolutions gently prod us to consider our own relationships.” —Pam Dixon, author of Online Privacy

The Genie Who Had Wishes of His Own: 21st-Century Fables

Harmon, Margaret

This is a story about the Peacock family, a family as old as Chicago. Born in 1837, the city and family grew side by side, undergoing tremendous physical and cultural changes. The family's patriarch, Elijah Peacock, arrived at the tip of Lake Michigan the same year that the city was incorporated, a third-generation jeweler and watch repairman emigrating from England. Building a business in a new land, fathering seven children by two wives in the process, the next four generations of his family, locally renowned for its elegant jewelry store, CD Peacock's, provides the basis for Pamelia Barratt's latest historical mystery novel. The mid-twentieth century finds the family coping with the downturn of their business following WWII. Feathers are ruffled when Bernard Peacock is determined to marry Safi, a Jewish girl from Maxwell Street. Mysteries and secrets are embedded within the family tree and concealed by the pride of consecutive generations. Tensions created by the divisions of class and ethnicity set the stage for a compelling love story during the transformative years of a great city, woven into a murder mystery intimately entwined with Chicago's development.

An Ostentation

Warning: Contains Flying Cats, Faeries, Jinn, creation stories from around the world, a snarky teen girl and a shy foster child - all swept-up together in a mission to save the world from a wind demon who is heating up planet earth.Irish Mytholology meets current time when a gwyllion wind engulfs 13-year-old Apple Standish, opening the veil between her boring everyday Dublin reality and the unseen magical world of Magnificats. Stubborn Apple is not so happy about all the Mystical Cat nonsense. And best of all - you won't even know you are learning in this wild Cat Tail of a ride.  Magnificats is Lexile scored at Harry Potter reading level.It has approved vocabulary words from 5th grade to SAT.Cat breeds are meticulously accurate.Creation myths from Magnificats of each continent are not fictional. Learning has never been this much fun!Glossary included. Vocab words listed on Website for Teachers and Librarians...magnificatsblog.wordpress.com/educators-and-librarians/

Magnificats

Dolyn, Gwyn

Mythology & Folk Tales

The Discovery of Our True Being From the author of Soul Work: A Daybook of Encouragement and Guidance for the Spiritual Journey comes a book that offers a systematic approach to spirituality based on contemporary understanding of the human condition. It combines eastern spiritual practices and western psychology in a systematic process of uncovering our True Self. We need only look at small children to see that when we come into this world, our birthright is pure Goodness. Toddlers radiate love, joy, curiosity, compassion, will, creativity, and more. But as we grow, we develop an ego that then accumulates layers and layers of rigid conditioning. We become a false self that is inauthentic and often neurotic. We become what society wants us to be, and are not anchored in anything real that provides ultimate meaning. While this ego development is necessary in order to learn how to survive in the world, we pay a heavy price for this-we are cut off from our Divine attributes by these layers of conditioning. The spiritual path outlined in this book is a way to realize our connection to our Divine endowment and live a life of joy, love, compassion, authenticity, clarity, wisdom, and meaning. It entails the use of western psychodynamic knowledge to support eastern meditative practices in a process of working through our layers of contraction to recover our Essential Being-our True Self. The melding of these methods results in a unique approach to spiritual work that has been found to be helpful to many people. It is offered to spiritual seekers as a sound path to learning how to be what we truly are-Divinely endowed.

The Unfolding Discovery of the Truth of Our Being

Self-Help

Vessey, Donald

Spiritual

A number of young survivors of the Yugoslav wars of secession are determined to help bring war criminals to justice. Untrained and unauthorized, they work independently, each devising their own way of collecting incriminating evidence. Risking their lives, they spy, record testimonies of torture victims, and track fugitives as far as Eastern Oregon. The mix of romance, assassin’s bullets, and Balkan?/?cowboy culture clashes keep the narrative moving. This complex story of international intrigue follows the historical events of the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s to the desolate wilderness of the Malhuer Wildlife Refuge. The preface and epilogue summarize the Balkan tragedy for the reader.

Malheur

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

In this rich and nuanced book, the spiritual writer, Dr. Donald Vessey, presents many of his ideas in the form of a fictional character, Daniel Beck. As a member of the U.S. Army Rangers in the Vietnam War, Dan is captured and ends up a POW housed in a small-town jail in North Vietnam. There he meets Bac Thay, a wise and compassionate Buddhist Master who is jailed for protesting the war. During their incarceration and his subsequent stay at Master Thay's monastery, Thay opens Dan to a deep understanding of the divine nature of humanity, and helps him develop his experience of the spiritual dimension. This leads to a new appreciation for his Catholic upbringing. Dan returns home determined to help people find the love, joy, and meaning of authentic living beyond all conditioning and belief. He feels that being a Catholic priest would offer a way to impart this to people. As a result, Dan enters Catholic Seminary at the end of the war and becomes a priest. In his role as Father Dan, he helps a variety of people deal with difficult problems in very wise ways. However, he struggles to reconcile Buddhist teachings and his own personal understanding with the rigid doctrine of an organized religion. In his first full assignment as a parish priest, he encounters a variety of characters, both lovable and difficult. The story of the mysterious departure of his predecessor also unfolds. His attempts to unravel questions surrounding his experiences with an old girlfriend helps him examine his attempt to live a whole life. Full of practical spiritual wisdom, humor and heartwarming situations, as well as unforgettable characters, it is a book that is hard to put down all the way to its dramatic conclusion.

Light from a Rising Soul

Woven into two parallel stories, Putin's retaliation against a Chechen war journalist extends to a homeowners association in San Diego. Patchy lawns and dogs off leashes diminish in importance when Quietwater discovers espionage and a murder in its midst. An HOA fine cannot stop an assassination. Perhaps, love and the good detective work on the part of Thelma Lee of the San Diego Police Department can.

Intersecting Parallels

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