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For young actors, parents, and teachers — The Firebird contains three short plays for young people, ages 9+. The Firebird, a fun comedy based on a Russian folktale, A Midsummer’s Nightmare, or, Explaining the Entire Plot of a Most Beloved Shakespeare Comedy in 45 Minutes (or less), and Enciano, the Musical. Kids will love these short plays compiled by director/teacher/writer/actor Candy Danzig.
The history of Sacajawea, who traveled with Lewis & Clark on their expedition, has been documented by the writings in their journals, and her story has been told and retold through the years, even to our school children. But how often do we get a chance to travel along with Sacajawea on her inner journey as well?
Sacajawea’s Song is the beautifully-imagined journey — both across the land and the landscape of the heart — of one of this country’s best-known native daughters, Sacajawea.
Decline and Dysfunction in the American Church proposes an interdisciplinary explanation, one that converges at the intersection of Christianity and psychology. Based on his research of over 25 years of parish and diocesan ministry, Culpepper contends that the American church has, for many, become irrelevant to their lives due to the toxic influences of co-dependent patterns of behavior. The same co-dependent behaviors that devastate the efforts of human families to love and support one another effect church congregational and denominational “families” in similar ways.
The Essence of Less invites you, from the time you discover you have too much stuff—or too much media-, information-, social-, work- and device-driven overload – to enter its pages and allow focus to be your guide through Clark’s exploration and celebration of “lessness” — including the times to
“Let it go—bow your head, drop your eyes with a sigh;/ Give the pearl to the sea, the balloon to the sky.”
These unusually varied tales by Frank Pettinelli are a delightful collection of unique stories. His mercurial imagination gives no warning of what to expect next and will keep us attuned for future creations by this author.
This is a deeply felt book about a family in crisis that lives inside you and lends itself to multiple readings. Sad, but not without its small, yet sustaining, redemptions: “In the evening, overflowing with secret love,/ I dangle my feet above the receding/ spillway and listen: ripples. The moon’s/ reflection rides them like a blessing.
Trudi Taylor’s challenging and thoughtful book about breasts will surprise you with its wit and insight. It shakes off the stereotypes men have about women’s breasts, and more importantly, forces women to really think about and honor their bodies and their breasts, whether they are firm, floppy, big, tiny buds, or surgically scarred. Read it for yourself. Share it with someone you love. Spend an evening with friends talking about the stories and working through the exercises. But, most important of all, have your son or daughter read this book and talk to them about loving others and loving themselves.
Letters for my Little Sister began as a conversation peppered with questions — between women who found they had little to no idea what to expect from this phase in their lives.
Compiled from letters, essays and poems from almost seventy women around the world, Letters is written for every woman to read, to share — with each other and with the men and women who love them.
Experiences that sear but do not wither the soul. Steve Roberts has established himself a voice that does not falsify the cruel circumstances that have commanded these powerful poems to be written.
Unabated honesty and fastidious craftsmanship make these lines almost unnerving in their intensities. Strong stuff — and strongly recommended.
A beautifully illustrated memoir in poetry form, by Hillsborough’s poet laureate, Barbara Kenyon.