Inspirational gospel autobiography describes how the  author has relied on her faith to thrive despite the loss of three  children and struggles with life-threatening chronic illness. "Sure, I  have Pity Parties," she writes. "But I pray myself out of it."

When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder

Biographies & Memoirs

Johnson, Florence Williams

Community & Culture

Van Doren Company

When Melissa Jeanne Miller died in 1991 at the age of 35, she left behind the truncated career of an author whose work had deeply affected her teachers, editors, and fellow writers. "She is as close as I will ever get to significance in literature," wrote Stephen F. Austin University professor F. A. Rodewald. The collection includes her story, "Water Girl, 1967," winner of the American Literary Review's Short Fiction Award. The story "proclaims genius to me," said Rodewald, "Like nothing I have read since Dickinson. I still wonder where in heaven or hell she came from." This collection includes an introduction by editor-publisher William Van Doren.

Water Girl: Collected Poems and Short Stories of Melissa Jeanne Miller

Miller, Melissa Jeanne

The biography of a 107-year-old devoted educator who was the pride of Charlottesville, Virginia, and a leader in its African-American community, Rebecca Fuller McGinness-A Lifetime conveys 107 years of history, and a striking portrait of the woman who lived it.

Rebecca Fuller McGinness - A Lifetime: 1892-2000

Bryant, Florence Coleman

Professionals & Academics

MELTLINES collects 19 poems rooted in the topography of the Canadian Northwest and Alaska, from the winner of the 2001 Gerald Cable First Book Award (for ODD BOTANY). A deluxe chapbook-style volume with a color cover featuring the author's own freehand map of the region.

Meltlines: Poems

Moeckel, Thorpe

Goat Bell, Still &amp; Sweets is an illustrated collection of remarkably evocative, sometimes poignant hunting dog stories and vignettes, dedicated to the memory of the author's beloved animals. If any accounts of hunting trips can appeal to all readers, including those who have never hunted, it would be Bill Trevillian's, with their way of drawing on universal emotion.

Goat Bell, Still & Sweets

Literature & Fiction

Walls, Brittany F.

Trevillian, Bill

Short Stories & Anthologies