The Distance between Stars is the story of two Americans divided by history and skin color. Joe Kellerman, white, is an accomplished diplomat who has spent his career solving difficult problems in sub-Saharan countries. Maurice Hightower, black, is a prize-winning but controversial journalist who has spent his life exposing injustice in the United States. During a fact-finding trip to an African country that is quickly sliding towards civil war, and where the U.S. government is accused of supporting the increasingly violent opposition, Hightower travels alone into the bush and then disappears. The dangerous assignment of finding the missing man and bringing him to safety falls to the U.S. Consul, Joe Kellerman. The Distance between Stars follows Kellerman's hunt for a man he does not admire, traces Hightower's pursuit of a truth that ever eludes him, and balances the costs each man must pay to find redemption for a life lived imperfectly. While the novel takes place in Africa, it is a uniquely American story.

The Distance Between Stars

Literature & Fiction

Elzinga, Jeff

United States

Water's Edge Press LLC

It is the summer of 1968, but for Marion Goodman, a 62-year-old widow from Wisconsin, life on her Summit Road farm is miles away from the strife of the nation, until one evening when she aims her rifle at what she thinks is a coyote and instead discovers a runaway teenage girl foraging in her garden. Despite an inner voice warning her not to, Marion acts on her impulse to be generous to those in need. In doing so, she unwittingly solders the link of a chain that will bring others to her door—a girl fleeing abusive foster parents, a draft dodger with a growing list of crimes, and a young man truly without a home. When the three converge at summer’s end, Marion’s once-safe haven is threatened by a sociopath’s violence and revenge.

Summit Road

Hogue, Dawn

Literary

Kathryn Gahl's THE VELOCITY OF LOVE is a poetic memoir about wonder, loss, and longing. Kathryn's magic lies in transforming unimaginable grief into everlasting grace.

The Velocity of Love

Gahl, Kathryn

Poetry

Karl Elder, Lakeland University's Fessler Professor of Creative Writing, has gathered the best of his poetry in Alpha Images: Poems Selected and New. This 270 page volume includes over 50 new or previously uncollected poems. Noted for exceptional range-his work in open, closed, and invented forms-Elder's verse is similarly multifaceted in his choice of subject matter.

Alpha Images: Poems Selected and New

Elder, Karl

Daniel Smith's Ancestral draws from the thirty years he farmed his family's dairy farm in northwestern Illinois. With poetry grounded in the rural Midwest, Ancestral explores a family's deep attachment to the land, the physical work of farming and the emotional disruption one endures when such a life is no longer sustainable. These poems provide a powerful depiction of the changes impacting agriculture and our rural communities.

Ancestral

SMITH, DANIEL

Eugene's Boy: A Life Remembered

Biographies & Memoirs

Therkelsen, William Charles

Memoirs

Poetry about the land, nature, etc.

Geosmin

Young, Catherine

In The Lone Snake, Lisa Vihos brings Renaissance artist Sofonisba Anguissola to life as a woman yearning for recognition in a world not ready for her. When Anguissola’s life intersects with a young poet, the aging artist finds she has more than just the story of her life to share. Through Sofonisba’s memoir, readers journey with the artist to her early years in Cremona, to Rome where she studies with Michelangelo, to her time at the Spanish court, and eventually out to sea, where she meets the love of her life under a starry sky. Vihos’s portrait of life in the 16th century is a rich tapestry that blends art history, romance, and verse to tell a timeless tale of what it means to create.

The Lone Snake: The Story of Sofonisba Anguissola

Vihos, Lisa

Genre Fiction

Statements Made in Passing by Kathleen Serley is a collection of forty poems anchored by family and a sense of place. The poet invites you into her garden to share her appreciation for the natural world, reflects on the way family nurtures, and widens her lens to show broader connections. She writes about melons and monarchs, apples and acorns and about woodland walks always with an eye to how these observations connect us to family and expand our world view.

Statements Made in Passing

Serley, Kathleen

The Water Poems

Hurtt, Maryann

Zelke-Windau, Marilyn

Ressmeyer, Georgia

Cavanaugh, Sylvia

Harrison Durdin, Nancy

Grand Avenue Poetry Collective

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