GWPcatalogMay2015 - Green Writers Press

Vermont author Julia Alvarez has
written a brand-new story just for
our anthology Contemporary Vermont Fiction in order to bring to
light the plight of illegal immigrant
farm workers in Vermont. Julia Alvarez has written novels (How the
Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, In
the Time of the Butterflies, ¡Yo!, In the
Name of Salomé, Saving the World),
collections of poems (Homecoming,
The Other Side / El Otro Lado, The
Woman I Kept to Myself), nonfiction
(Something to Declare, Once Upon a
Quinceañera, A Wedding in Haiti), and numerous books for young readers
(including the Tía Lola Stories series, Before We Were Free, finding miracles, and
Return to Sender). A recipient of a 2013 National Medal of Arts, Alvarez is
currently a writer in residence at Middlebury College.
34 Miller Road Brattleboro, vt 05301
[email protected] 802-380-1121
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A percent age of net sales will be donated to 350Vermont.
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“… chronicling the profoundest Vermont anyone might possibly
know.”—S y d n e y L e a ,Vermont State Poet Laureate
Winter Ready
Publisher’s Note
In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we
understand; and we will understand only what we have been taught.
—Baba Dioum
I
started my publishing company, Green Writers Press, just over a
year ago—and what an exciting year we’ve had!
Green Writers Press invites readers to think of the new publishing
company as a community, a community that includes them as readers
and not as “consumers.” It is a publishing house where you can give support to local writers and artists who share your concerns; a place where
you help spread the word about global climate change and its profound
consequences. The more we work together—readers, writers, artists,
thinkers, activists—the more effectively we will succeed in broadening everyone’s awareness of our shared challenges and the ways we can
work to address them. With the Tar Sands pipeline proposal at a critical
point of decision, now is the time to make our voices heard and to lend
strength to those who are fighting to protect our planet and all the life
that it nourishes. We are excited to share our entire list of titles with you,
and introduce our new Spring List as well.
Our list features some great titles, most by Vermont writers! Please take a
look at the descriptions and you can support our authors with a purchase at
your local bookstore. Booksellers can email [email protected].
— Dede Cummings, publisher
On the cover: “Branching Out,” by Evie Lovett, a photographer and artist who lives in
Westminster West, Vermont. Her photographic work has focused on documentary portraiture. She has photographed drag queens in Vermont; her own children; North American Indian Days on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana; the hospital in Rwinkwavu, Rwanda; and
Muslim Women in Paris. Her most recent work uses digital media and encaustic to explore
self, family, memory, and history. Her work can be seen at www.evielovett.com and www.
vermontfolklifecenter.org/vision-voice/rainbow.
Poems
Leland Kinsey
$15.95 for print and $9.99 for e-book
Paperback | 96 pages | 5.5 x 8.25
isbn: 978-0-9899838-4-6
Winter Ready is a 96-page collection of new poems by a Vermont-based
writer who draws from his impressive repertoire of observations and physical landscape of the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont to bring to the reader
poems with universal meaning and at times a painful acuity.
Kinsey opens the collection perched up high on the chimney top, working and observing his surroundings, and throughout the book he never
really gets down. He chronicles a people and a place and a time, keeping
the hard work of writing poetry hidden in the seeming effortless verse that
is often funny and poignant, yet always sharp and clear.
Leland Kinsey was born and raised on a farm in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, where his ancestors settled
in the early 1800s. He has conducted writing workshops
for the Vermont Arts Council and the Children’s Literacy Foundation at over 100 schools in New Hampshire
and Vermont. Leland has worked as a farmhand, printer,
and horse trainer. He has published seven collections of poetry, including
In the Rain Shadow and The Immigrant’s Contract.
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Winter Ready is a chronicle, in poems, of the preparations for winter in
the Northeast Kingdom, of a contemporary rural narrator inextricably
connected to the Kingdom, his family past and present, and the natural
world.” —Howard Frank Mosher, author of Stranger in the Kingdom
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GWP Books
for Young
Readers
“This alphabet book is exquisite in every way....It will be pored over,
time and time again, by both children and their parents.”
—A n n a D e w d n e y ,author and illustrator of Llama Llama Red Pajama
“Smith tells her beguiling story with an uncommon wit, whimsicality,
and devotion. It is heart-warming, magical, spell-binding...a triumph
of a book.” —J a n i ss e R ay , author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
The Bird Book
The Beavers of Popple’s Pond
An early children’s alphabet book for ages 4–8
Brian D. Cohen & Holiday Eames
$19.95 for print and $9.99 for e-book
Hardcover | 56 pages | 8 x 10
isbn: 978-0-9893104-2-0
Sketches from the life of an honorary rodent
Patti A. Smith
$15.95 for print and $7.99 for e-book
Paperback | 272 pages | 5 x 7.5
isbn: 978-0-9893104-4-4
The Bird Book is a children’s alphabet book by artist and educator Brian D.
Cohen and writer Holiday Eames, created for their son, David.Each letter
of the alphabet, in both uppercase and lowercase, corresponds to the bird
illustrated on each page. The descriptions are a delight to read for inquisitive children and adults alike.
Originally hand-colored and letterpress-printed, only 26 copies were
made. Now gathered as a trade book for the first time and printed in four
colors on beautiful recycled paper, these stunning prints will also appeal to
adults interested in art books, small-press books, printmaking, and birds.
Their children and grandchildren will thank the parents and gift givers as
well, for the birds in the book and the accompanying couplets will open up
a world of art and poetry that will become a family favorite.
Tucked away in a remote valley in Vermont, a colony of beavers is beginning the night’s work of dam repair, scent marking, and tree felling, when
a soft call alerts them to the arrival of the strange honorary member of
their clan—this book’s author, Patti Smith. The beavers scramble ashore
and poke eagerly about her feet as she prepares to picnic and to record the
events that transpire on the shores of Popple’s Pond. Through the seasons
and through the years these records—here transformed into interwoven
vignettes—invite the reader to enter the world of the beavers and the other
inhabitants of the wetlands. Meet Terrible Jack, the lonely moose, Henri
the civilized goose, and the myriad small creatures that populate the night
forest. Follow the trail of a bear cub through the moonlight, enter the lowroofed world of the snowshoe hare, or stand in the midst of a melee of
flying squirrels. Patti brings a naturalist’s perspective and compassionate
voice to these unusually intimate stories.
New! Notecards
These 5" x 7" notecards of each bird from the book are available through
our online store, as single cards, or in a full group of 26!
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Patti Smith is a naturalist at the Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center (BEEC) in Brattleboro,
Vermont, where she writes and teaches about natural
history. She lives in the foothills of Vermont’s Green
Mountains.
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D oves
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“Lasting Words offers us a delicately crafted guide, providing strong,
secure scaffolding for the journey of living while dying, dying while
living.” —Reverend Julia Dunbar, M.Div, Director of Pastoral Care
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
“A book of eloquent testimony, in poetry and image, to the mystery
and beauty immanent in nature, now so desperately imperiled. Like all
art, it asks that we look up and see.” —Publishers Weekly
Lasting Words
Words and Images for a World in Climate Crisis
Greg Delanty & John Elder, eds.
$30.00
Paperback | 224 pages | 8.5 x 8.5
isbn: 978-0-9893104-6-8
A Guide to Finding Meaning Toward the Close of Life
Claire B. Willis & Marnie Crawford Samuelson
$24.95 with stunning color photographs throughout
Paperback | 140 pages | 7. x 9.25
isbn: 978-0-9899838-0-8
So Little Time is a revolving door of political activism, spirituality,
nature, and humanity. It is a call to action where urgency meets poetry in
no uncertain terms, asking, “What hour are we in?” Featuring the poetry
of Greg Delanty and a host of other poets, it takes its cue from the grassroots sensibility of Vermont, stripping down decades of unwavering ideals to arrive at an interpretive look at what it means to be “green” in an
evolving world. A work of education and art as invigorating as the poets,
teachers, and activists who inspired it, So Little Time addresses what it
means to take up action for something as simple as good, healthy, and
clean living. It stands on a fundamental set of questions: “What are we
looking at?” “What are we seeing?” “What’s really there?”
With a Foreword by John Elder, stunning black and white photography and quotes from environmentalist Bill McKibben, So Little Time is
an inspiring call to action and an urgent plea to stop the global climate
crisis.
Written words never matter more than they do at the end of life. Expressions of joy and sorrow, the desire to connect with loved ones who may be
emotionally far away, the seeking of comfort for oneself and strength for
others: all are present when time is short. But perhaps most pressing is the
search for meaning—meaning that can be found through writing. Based on
research and the author’s experience working with profoundly ill people,
Lasting Words focuses on special end-of-life concerns. She guides the writer
through a personal journey to Gratitude, Hope, Forgiveness, Wisdom,
Prayer and, ultimately, Endings. Filled with true stories, illustrated with
evocative photographs, and interspersed with pertinent poems and quotations, Lasting Words creates a living legacy for every person who uses it.
Poetry & Photography | Nature | Environment | Class Textbook
~
“Environmentalists long ago won the scientific battle, but we needed to
reach people’s hearts as well. This superb volume will do exactly that.”
—Bill McKibben, author and founder of 350.org
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crawford samuelson
So Little Time
Claire B. Willis is a clinical social worker, an ordained lay
Buddhist chaplain, and a yoga teacher. In her private practice,
she has spent over two decades working with oncology patients facing end-of-life issues.
Marnie Crawford Samuelson is a documentary photographer and a radio and multimedia producer. Her
photographs are featured in The Wild Braid, featuring
poets Stanley Kunitz and Genine Lentine.
Spirituality | Self Help | Relationships
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GWP Books
for Young
Readers
Josie Goes Green Series, Book I
“The Bike Brigade are real heroes, not only because they bike
but because they organize.” —B i ll M c K i bb e n , 350.org
“Wonderfully accessible—funny
and fierce, carefree and conscientious—the story is as inspiring
as it is engaging.”
—Kathy Collins of Teachers
College Reading and Writing
Project
Josie and the Fourth Grade Bike Brigade
Josie Goes Green Series, Book I | Children’s ‘cli-fi,’ climate fiction
By A. B. K Bruno; Illustrations by Janet Pedersen
$6.95 | Paperback | 94 pages | 5 x 8
isbn: 978-0-9960872-2-3
Josie and the Fourth Grade Bike Brigade follows a fourth grader from Brooklyn
named Josie. After a summer with Grandma in Ecuador and an encounter
with Frozey the polar bear at the zoo, Josie decides it’s time to take action
on global warming. Her first idea for going green is to organize her classmates to drive less by forming the Fourth Grade Bike Brigade. Best friends
Matt and Lizzy, along with her brother Damien and other characters from
the neighborhood, go along for the ride. But not everyone is in favor of the
plan, and trouble begins for Josie and the Bike Brigade.
Josie and the Fourth Grade Bike Brigade is not just about climate change,
it’s about kids organizing themselves and taking action. “The book was inspired by the spontaneous activism of the students at P.S. 321 in Brooklyn,”
according to co-author Kenny Bruno. “About eight years ago, our local elementary school started the Go Green Walkathon and the Roots and Shoots
after-school club. As the kids learned about environmental issues and causes, they sprang into action. They went to local stores and asked them to
stop carrying disposable plastic bags. They raided their piggy banks for
donations to environmental groups. And we heard from parents that they
started pressing them to save energy and water,” said Bruno.
The co-authors are recent college graduate
Antonia Bruno and her parents, Kenny Bruno
and Beth Handman, who reside in Brooklyn, NY.
The book has also received
advance praise from the heads
of the Sierra Club, Greenpeace,
Friends of the Earth, and more!
The interactive website (http://
www.josiegoesgreen.com) will
be Josie’s online home both to
teach kids about global warming and encourage them to take
action in their community.
Illustrator Janet
Pedersen lives
in the same
neighborhood!
Children’s Early Reader | Ages 7–11 | www.josiegoesgreen.com
“I love this book and I can’t wait to have my kids read it. Great for adults
too—irrepressible Josie and her pals can teach grown-ups a thing or two
about protecting the planet.”
—Mike Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club
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“Stretch marks and saggy tummies—but beautiful all the same! Stunning
photos reveal what women really look like after giving birth.”
—S a r a h B r i d g e , Daily Mail
“These writings are as rich and dense and hard and lovely as the state
itself.” —R i c k B a ss , author of All the Land to Hold Us
Contemporary Vermont Fiction
The Bodies of Mothers
An Anthology
Edited by Robin MacArthur
Foreword by John Elder
$19.95 | Paperback | 322 pages | 6 x 9
isbn: 978-0-9899838-2-2
A Beautiful Body Project
Photography by Jade Beall
$50
Hardcover | 160 pages | 12 x 12
isbn: 978-0-9899838-6-0
Contemporary Vermont Fiction: An Anthology is a 240-page collection of short
fiction by established Vermont-based writers, each rendering their own
unique and diverse perspectives on the cultural and physical landscape of
the Green Mountain State.
Featuring stories by Howard Frank Mosher, Annie Proulx, Wallace
Stegner, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Castle Freeman Jr., Laurie Alberts,
Ellen Lesser, Joseph Bruchac, Suzanne Kingsbury, Julia Alvarez, Jeffrey
Lent, Bill Schubart, Miciah Bay Gault, and Peter Gould, this book is a chorus of voices portraying the varied landscape and culture of Vermont.
The Bodies of Mothers merges stunning black-and-white and color photography by Jade Beall with stories and quotes from the women photographed. Jade’s book series and media platform features unretouched
photos of women alongside their own stories of their journeys, building
self-esteem in a world that often leaves women feeling insecure. Jade’s
dream is to inspire future generations of women to be free from unnecessary self-suffering and embrace their beauty “just as they are.”
Jade Beall is a world-renowned photographer specializing in truthful images of women to inspire feeling irreplaceably beautiful as a counter-balance to the
airbrushed, Photoshopped imagery that dominates
mainstream media. Her work has touched women’s
lives and garnered global attention from media outlets
including the BBC, The Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan, and beyond.
all photos © jade beall
Vermont author Julia Alvarez has written a brand-new story
just for this collection, in order to bring to light the plight of
illegal immigrant farm workers in Vermont.
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Robin MacArthur is a third-generation Vermonter from
Marlboro who has been studying Vermont-based fiction
(and writing her own) since she left for college at eighteen.
She has an MFA in Fiction from Vermont College of Fine
Arts; her essays and stories about Vermont have appeared in Orion, Shenandoah, Hunger Mountain, and Alaska Quarterly.
~
“No place is a place until things that have happened in it are
remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments.
Fictions serve as well as facts.” —Wallace Stegner
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GWP Books
for Young
Readers
“Polly Lightfoot is the most likable—and the most resourceful—
teenage character in American fiction since Huck Finn.”
—H owa r d F r a n k M o s h e r , author of Stranger in the Kingdom
“It’s a pleasure to meet this fellow sufferer of Obsessive
Climate Disorder; he’s definitely funnier than most of us
environmental types.” —B i ll M c K i bb e n , 350.org
Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Finalist/humor
A Rom-Com Cli-fi novel—the first of its genre!
Brian Adams
$16.95 for print and $7.99 for e-book
Paperback | 322 pages | 5.25 x 8
isbn: 978-0-9960872-0-9
photo © karen gardner
Meet Casey, a community college professor with OCD (Obsessive Climate
Disorder). While navigating the zaniness of teaching he leads a rag-ag
bunch of climate activists, lusts after one of his students, and smokes a
little too much pot. Quirky, socially awkward, and adolescent-acting, our
climate-change obsessed hero muddles his way through saving the world
while desperately searching for true love. Teaching isn’t easy with an incredibly hot woman in class, students either texting or comatose, condoms
strewn everywhere, attack geese on field trips and a dean who shows up at
exactly the wrong moments.
What’s a guy to do? Kidnap the neighbor’s inflatable Halloween ghost?
Confront evangelicals and lesbian activists? Channel Santa Claus’s rage
at the melting polar ice caps? Shoplift at Walmart? How about all of the
above! Who would have thought climate change could be so funny! Actually, it really isn’t, but Love in the Time of Climate Change—a romantic comedy about global warming—is guaranteed to keep you laughing. Laughing
and thinking.
Brian Adams is a professor of Environmental Science
and co-chair of the Science Department at Greenfield
Community College in western Massachusetts, where
he has taught for the last 20 years. Brian is active in the
climate change movement both on and off campus.
Brian lives with his wife in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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cover art by donald saaf
Love in the Time of Climate Change
Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Finalist/YA fiction
Polly and the One and Only World
A YA/fantasy novel
Don Bredes
$14.95 for print and $7.99 for e-book
Paperback | 348 pages | 5.25 x 8
isbn: 978-0-9899838-9-1
Run away. That was all she could do. If Security grabbed her now, they’d ship her
off to a ReBirthing facility in the desert. Or burn her alive. They burned witches
in the Dominions. Great Mother, anything but that. But for 15-year-old Polly
Lightfoot, much more than her life is at stake. In a crumbling America governed by
hateful zealots and crippled by environmental catastrophe, her people and their
ancient craft face obliteration—unless, with her courage and magick, and with
the help of Leon, her valiant teenage companion, and the guidance of her shrewd
raven familiar, Balthazar, fearless Polly can forestall the coming doom.
This frightening, vividly realized depiction of a future America devastated by climate chaos and crushed under the heel of cruel fundamentalists
will inspire young readers to appreciate their own freedoms and their own
ability to work for positive social and political change today.
Don Bredes was born in New York City. He attended
Syracuse University, the University of California at Irvine,
and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner
Fellow. His first novel, Hard Feelings, was an American
Library Association Best Book for Young Adults in 1977
and a 20th Century-Fox film release in 1982. He has written four other novels, Muldoon (1982), Cold Comfort (2001), The Fifth Season (2005), and The Errand Boy (2009). He lives in the hills of northern Vermont.
“A thrilling journey, full of peril, exploit, friendship, and sorrow,
this book is sure to find readers.” —School Library Journal
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O u r 2 0 1 5 s p r i n g b oo k s
“I am entirely taken and altered by these spare, wise, hauntingly
conceived, brilliantly crafted poems.” — Jane Hirshfield’s review of
Jarrette’s first book of poems, Beso the Donkey
April 8, 2015
A Hundred Million Years
of Nectar Dances
Poems
Richard Jarrette
$14.95 for print and $9.99 for e-book
Paperback | 120 pages | 5 x 8
isbn: 978-0-9960872-9-2
photo © elisabethtsubota
A Hundred Million Years of Nectar Dances is a poetry cycle of singular beauty
in nature and reveals an inherent Buddhist quality. Jarrette’s poems are
clear and meditative, unfailingly beautiful. They are self-aware but not
self-obsessed, singing with the ecstatic humility of a mystic or shaman as
they join all the subjects of a life well lived within nature that is ever present. The poems dance and sing and play and rest with their subjects to
present a truly beautiful vision of the world. The ending poem, “The
Pond,” is perfectly representative of all the others before it, and yet its
impressive scope doesn’t rob any glory from what precedes it. The poems
create their own world where they solve their own problems, build memories, and speak to each other. Richard Jarrette’s book is a manifestation of
the inherent conversation between human nature and the wild around us
that sustains indivisible mutual integrity and ceases at our peril.
Richard Jarrette is the author of Beso the Donkey (MSU Press,
2010), Gold Medal, Poetry, 2011, Midwest Independent Publishers Association; Finalist, Book of the Year, ForeWord Reviews; it
has been translated into Chinese by Yun Wang. Jarrette lives
semi-reclusively in the Central Coast region of California after
formative years in Los Angeles and Western North Carolina.
“There is so much richness in his vision and a sense of the sacred along with an
accomplished grace that is rare to find these days. It is wonderful to enter these
poems.” —Joe Stroud, author of Of This World: New and Selected Poems
“This is a profound way of thinking about where we are right now, and
what we better do about it.”—B i ll M c K i bb e n , 350.org
June 26, 2015
While Glaciers Slept
Being Human in a Time of Climate Change
M Jackson
$24.95 for print and $14.99 for e-book
Hardcover | 224 pages | 5.5 x 8.5
isbn: 978-0-9960872-6-1
While Glaciers Slept weaves together the parallel stories of what happens
when the climates of family and planet change. Jackson, a National Geographic Expert, reveals how these events are deeply similar and intertwined.
She tells the story of her parents’ struggles with cancer while describing in
detail the planetary changes she’s witnessed. Above all else, Jackson shows
that even in the darkest of times there is clear reason for hope and light.
Readers are drawn into a world where complex climatic themes and glacial processes are broken down for a general audience. Jackson dances us
over solar, wind, and geothermal mysteries, bringing us along on expeditions. Climate change, she convinces us, is not just about science—it is also
about the audacity of human courage and imagination. While Glaciers Slept
shows us that the story of one family can be the story of one planet, and
that climate change has a human face.
M Jackson is an adventurer and environmental educator pursing a doctorate in geography and earth science
at the University of Oregon, where she is researching
glaciers and climate change in the Arctic. M, a National
Geographic Expert, has received over 20 national
awards and honors for academic and creative work.
“M Jackson brings climate change down from an abstract global scale to
a very personal human scale. Particularly engaging for the non-scientist
reader.” —Dr. Steve Running, Nobel Prize winner and America’s
foremost expert on climate change
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GWP Books
for Young
Readers
“Hollie McNish is breaking boundaries and showing that
poetry has a place and a role in the twenty-first century.”
—J a m e s M c M a h o n ,CBS Tennessee
June 26, 2015
GWP Books
for Young
Readers
“Katy Farber creates a world of fascinating characters whose respect for
the natural world and loyalty to one another will inspire readers of
all ages.”—Rita Murphy, author of Night Flying, Black Angels
May 15, 2015
Why I Ride
Because the Bike Pedal Lasts Longer than a Gas Tank
Hollie McNish & Inja
$14.95 for print and $9.99 for e-book
Paperback | 120 pages | 5 x 8
isbn: 978-0-9893104-8-2
Celebrate the ride—its joy, its labor, its freedom. In our world of fossil-fuel
dependence, insisting on the value and beauty of riding a bicycle is a subversive and necessary act. And, as any rider will tell you, it’s fun! Why I Ride
is an ode to the experience of the rider that was collaboratively produced
by the award-winning lead poets of the UK arts collective Page to Performance and the Cambridge kids who participated in their summer 2013
workshops.
Each stanza of the poem receives its own page spread and is accompanied by a bicycle-themed photo in either vibrant color or classic black and
white. A video of Hollie McNish reading the poem over footage of Cambridge kids enjoying the ride is also available on YouTube. The book is a
multimedia feast based around verse that any reader will find accessible and
to which any rider will relate. Why I Ride is a book for your body as much
as your mind—it eggs on the muscles, evokes the wind in your hair.
“Why do you ride? / And if you could but you don’t / Why not?
Hollie McNish is a published UK poet
and spoken-word artist, based between
London and Cambridge. She runs poetry
workshops and recitals for schools and
charities through her poetry education organization, Page to Performance.
Inja is an artist, MC, and host whose work spans a huge variety of genres including dubstep, hiphop, grime, drum and bass, and freestyle poetry.
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The Order of the Trees
A Novel
Katy Farber
$9.95 for print and $3.99 for e-book
Paperback | 96 pages | 5 x 8
isbn: 978-0-9909733-1-7
Found as a baby on a bed of moss under an old-growth tree, Cedar’s beginning was a mystery. As she began her sixth-grade year, Cedar resembled her namesake with her wild mane of brown hair, her sinewy body,
and deer-like eyes. She makes her first true friend, a new student, Phillip,
with whom she shares her special woodland spot along with the gifts
it brings.
When Cedar suddenly falls ill, Phillip discovers that her health is connected to the fate of the forest where she was found. Their special
woods are threatened by an impending development, so to save it they
create a plan that includes a hospital, a getaway car, and a protest.
Katy Farber is a teacher, author, and founder of the
blog Non-Toxic Kids. She is also the author of two
books about education, Why Great Teachers Quit and
How We Might Stop the Exodus and Change the World with
Service Learning. Katy has written for various news and
patenting publications, including MomsRising, Moms Clean Air Force,
Educational Leadership, CNN’s School of Thought Blog, Problogger, Fox
News opinion, and many others. www. katyfarber.com.
Children’s Middle Grade Reader | Ages 9–16 | Grade Level 5–8
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GWP Books
for Young
Readers
The Last Goodbye was chosen as one of eight finalists in the
Silent Book Contest at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.
The Last Goodbye tells, through illustrations without text,
the poignant story of a son’s relationship with his father.
GWP Books
for Young
Readers
“Jensen’s magical chapter book debut, opens up an enchanted world
along the shores of Nantucket that children of all ages will love.”
—Suzanne Kingsbury, author of The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me
June 12, 2015
May 15, 2015
The Hidden Forest
The Last Goodbye
An illustrated picture book for children & adults
Yuan Pan
$19.95 with color illustrations throughout
Hardcover | 34 pages | 8.5 x 8.5
isbn: 978-0-9909733-0-0
A Novel
Daintry Jensen
$19.95 for print and $9.99 for e-book
Hardcover | 128 pages | 6 x 9 | color illustrations
isbn: 978-0-9909733-4-8
The Last Goodbye is a semi-autobiographical story about loss and nostalgic
reminiscence of childhood. The son sets off for boarding school and later
makes the long trip overseas to begin his career. Whether at the bus stop
or at the airport, his father is always there to see him off on his journeys.
When the son realizes he should spend more time with his father, he
finds his father very ill and misses the opportunity to bid his father a final
goodbye. Images of the orchid serve as a visual metaphor for the transformation of the father, from how his son remembers him while growing
up to the sad discovery that his father is no longer there.
Nantucket Island in the summertime—a dream come true, right? Not for
twelve year old Adelaide, whose father died a year earlier and now has one
ambition in life: to be a great explorer and adventuress like her idol, Amelia
Earhart. Adelaide loves fantasizing about the future exotic places she’ll
travel to, to help her escape what’s really going on. To Adelaide, going to
her grandparent’s house on Nantucket for the whole summer sure doesn’t
fit the bill. She thinks . . . Adelaide couldn’t be more wrong. When, at her
grandparent’s house, she decides to go out exploring when she comes
across an extraordinary white rose in her grandmother’s island garden. She
clips it and boom! A chain of events is set in motion that pull her into another world where she must battle the Merqueen to save her younger
brother Louis, with the help of Max the Sankaty Lynx, McFadden the faerie
fisherman and King Micah, a Native American islander. Through doing so,
Adelaide ultimately is able to bring herself back to life.
Yuan Pan is an artist, graphic designer, and illustrator. He
teaches graphic design in the Art Department of Keene
State College in New Hampshire. he received a BFA in
Chinese Painting from the Yunnan Art Institute in China
and a MFA in Digital Art from the Memphis College of Art.
Yuan Pan’s creative work is strongly influenced by his Chinese painting and
calligraphy background, as well as by modern Western art and design. He
makes use of both traditional and digital media in his art and design works.
While focusing on the process of visual achievements and aesthetic value,
he uses art as a tool to reflect his thoughts and attitudes about life and his
understanding of Western and Eastern philosophies.
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Daintry Jensen has a background in dramatic writing.
Before that she was spending her summers on Nantucket
Island where she had many an adventure that sparked the
imagination and where she returns to whenever she gets
the chance.
Children’s Middle Grade Reader | Ages 9–16 | Grade Level 5–8
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O u r 2 0 1 5 f a l l b oo k s
“Dr. Lauren Alderfer is a pioneer in the field of mindfulness in
education. Teaching from the Heart of Mindfulness shows us what a truly
mindful teaching practice looks like.” —M e e n a S r i n i va s a n , author
of Teach, Breathe, Learn: Mindfulness In and Out of the Classroom
May 27, 2015
Teaching from the Heart
of Mindfulness
Lauren Alderfer
Foreword by His Holiness The XIV Dalai Lama
$19.95 for print and $9.99 for e-book
Paperback | 224 pages | 6 x 9
isbn: 978-0-9960872-7-8
Teaching from the Heart of Mindfulness invites you to experience mindfulness
as a way of being—from the heart, in presence, and through teaching. A
great gift for any teacher, this book is both inspirational and is a professional resource for mindfulness in education, applicable at all levels and contexts. The chapters begin by grounding the teacher in a mindful practice
followed by a real classroom vignette for implementing the mindful practice. A repertoire of mindful teacher tools, useful throughout the school
day, make up the other sections of the book. Developing one’s inner practice of mindfulness, both in and outside the class, unfolds as a quieting of
the mind, giving way to the expanding expression of the heart, cultivating
mindfulness for teachers and in so doing benefiting their students.
Lauren Alderfer, PhD, is an author, adjunct professor, teacher, and mindful practitioner for over 30 years.
She leads mindfulness practices in teacher training programs and is a visiting author in schools around the
world. She is the author of Mindful Monkey, Happy Panda.
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“In this book, Teaching from the Heart of Mindfulness, Lauren Alderfer
explains how it is possible to cultivate warm-heartedness through the
practice of mindfulness.” —His Holiness The XIV Dalai Lama
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“Now I know how I can stay actively engaged in the daily practice of
mindfulness, giving myself permission to lay down my burdens and be.”
—S u z a n n e K i n g sb u ry , author
September 7, 2015
Pet Logic
Do you choose to have a pet . . . or an experience?
Nicole Birkholzer
$14.95 for print and $9.99 for e-book
Paperback | 128 pages | 5 x 7
isbn: 978-0-9909733-7-9
Each person seeks connection, we are always looking to belong, to love and be
loved. Pet Logic, Nicole Birkholzer’s stunning little debut, helps us find that connection. Birkholzer, an animal intuit, mindfulness expert, and former executive coach,
spent fifteen years writing down the powerful lessons of her trade. In Pet Logic, she
has gathered twelve of her most inspiring essays, and whimsical anecdotes, to show
us how we can make our lives richer by viewing the world through the lens of the
pet kingdom.
Nicole Birkholzer is an adventurer and environmental educator pursing a doctorate in geography and earth science at the University of Oregon, where she is researching glaciers and climate
change in the Arctic.
“Sydney Lea is our preeminent poet of the soul’s making among local
places and people.”—M a rk J a rm a n , author of Bone Fires
September 7, 2015
What’s the Story?
Reflections on a Life Grown Long
Sydney Lea
$19.95 for print and $9.99 for e-book
Paperback | 224 pages | 5.25 x 8
isbn: 978-0-9909733-8-6
What’s the Story? Reflections on a Life Grown Long is by turns elegiac, humorous, sad,
joyful, angry. This book of extremely short prose reflections entertains an abiding
question for Lea: to what extent does “my” version of what happens in this life and
in the world at large coincide with some imagined “real” version? If the author had
an opinionated, positive answer to such a question when young, life has imposed a
degree of humility upon him in older age, whether he wants it or not.
Sydnet Lea is poet laureate of Vermont, and author of eleven collections of poetry, a novel, and three books of naturalist essays. In
2015, his twelfth poetry volume, No Doubt the Nameless will appear
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“Sheila Post has a poetic, storytelling voice, and the courage to write about
big issues.”—H owa r d F r a n k M o s h e r , author of Walking to Gatlinburg
October 1, 2015
The Road to Walden North
Sheila Post
$24.95 for print and $9.99 for e-book
Hardover | 288 pages | 5.5 x 8.5
isbn: 978-0-9909733-9-3
Recipient of the 2009 Green Earth Book Award for his
Young Adult Fiction, Write Naked
October 1, 2015
MARLY, a novella
Peter Gould
$14.95 for print and $9.99 for e-book
Paperback | 128 pages | 5.25 x 8 | isbn: 978-0-9961357-1-9
In The Road to Walden North, Vermont author Sheila Post offers timely insights for
a new age still grappling with issues raised by Thoreau over 150 years ago. An elegiac ‘Walden revisited’, this resplendent novel invites readers to accompany the
transcendental journey of Harvard Professor Dr. Kate Brown—from ‘talking the
talk’ of theory to ‘walking the walk’ of experience along the less traveled road of
Thoreauvian simplicity.
So, this dude comes up from the city to take an eco-writing workshop at a little college in way-northern Vermont, where I happen to teach watershed analysis, wildlife
habitat, advanced chain saw, and self-defense for women. He’s not my type--actually, no man has been my type for a while now, but I bumped into him on campus,
and he turned out to be teachable, and kind of attractive in a noir, 1950’s American
clueless hetero male jackass John Wayne kind of way. Had creases on his pants I
really wanted to mess up. Drove a Buick! Also, he made me laugh—a lot—and that
can go a long way to breaking down barriers.
Sheila Post, PhD., a former college associate professor and
specialist in Transcendentalism, taught American literature for over a
decade in New England before deciding to write her own. With
various publications in academic journals, she now writes novels,
essays, and blogs about the simple, the natural, the local, and the
transcendental.
Peter Gould is a founder of youth Shakespeare camps around
Northern Vermont, and a professor of meditation-for-conflict-transformation at Brandeis University. Peter was a member of the original
back-to-the-land movement in Vermont in the 1970’s, a way of life he
has chronicled in fictional form in the novels Burnt Toast (Alfred A.
Knopf, 1971) and Write Naked (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2008).
“. . . pure authenticity. Every word rings true to this place and its people;
I know; I’ve lived here for 45 years.”—D av i d B u d b i ll
“John Elder is perhaps one of the finest nature writers in our land.”
—D av i d M a n c e III, editor, Northern Woodlands magazine
October 1, 2015
October 1, 2015
Hidden View
Picking Up the Flute
a novel
Brett Ann Stanciu
$19.95 for print and $9.99 for e-book
Paperback | 200 pages | 5.25 x 8
isbn: 978-0-9961357-0-2
A memoir with music
John Elder
$19.95 for print and $9.99 for e-book; 24.95 audiobook
Paperback | 224 pages | 5.25 x 8
isbn: 978-0-9961357-2-6
Hidden View is a novel set in the Vermont agrarian landscape, a story of Fern Hartshorn, unworldly, and unexpectedly pregnant at nineteen. Marrying an older man
she barely knows, Fern begins her adult life on an isolated and hardscrabble farm
named Hidden View. Shortly after the birth of her daughter, the future of the farm
is jeopardized by a family dispute over ownership between her husband and his
brother, Lucien.
Picking up the Flute is a memoir framed by the author’s experience of learning to
play traditional Irish music on the wooden flute. It offers both a beginner’s account
of exploration and discovery, and a retiree’s reflections on life’s wholeness.
Brett Ann Stanciu studied philosophy and writing at Marlboro College, and
Western Washington University. Her writing has appeared in publications such as
The Long Story, Taproot, and Vermont Literary Review. She is a sugarmaker in Vermont.
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John Elder has published widely, both as a scholar of environmental literature and as a writer of personal, reflective essays. His previous
three books each combined discussions of literature and environmental history, descriptions of the Vermont landscape, and memoir.
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November 1, 2015
Additional Upcoming Fall Books, 2015! Stay tuned!
November 1, 2015
Planning for Escape
a novel
Sara Dillon
$19.95 for print and $9.99 for e-book
Paperback | 224 pages | 5.25 x 8 | isbn: 978-0-9961357-4-0
Planning for Escape is the haunting, and darkly comical, story of a young woman’s
quest for personal and artistic fulfillment, a goal she is brilliant at sabotaging. The
story moves from New England to Ireland, to Japan and back to New England again,
finally coming to rest in Greensboro, Vermont, Catherine’s final “escape” with her
two adopted children. Centered around an intense and witty interior monologue,
the plot weaves back and forth along with Catherine’s own unique take on memory,
family and the endlessly disappointing search for love.
Sara Dillon has deep family roots in northeastern Vermont. She
has been a legal scholar, as well as a teacher and writer of fiction and
poetry. Holding a PhD in Japanese literature from Stanford and a law
degree from Columbia University in New York, this is her first novel.
(Photo: A younger Sara Dillon in Japan.)
David Budbill, Broken Wing
Ron Krupp, A Woodchuck’s Guide to Gardening
Willem Lange, Tales from the Edge of the Woods
Cardy Raper, An American Harvest
Leslie Rivver, Blackberries and Cream
Neil Shepard, Sundog Poetry Book
David Sobel, Wild Play: Parenting Adventures in the Great Outdoors
William Symes, Mastering the Art of Psychotherapy
And our Community Supported First Book/CSA book by Vermont
writer/activist, Tim Stevenson, Resilience and Resistance: Building
Sustainable Communities for a Post Oil Age
“A unique combination of Barbara Kingsolver, With the warmth and
humor of Maeve Binchy.”—J oyc e m a n d e v i ll e , Orange Prize Nominee
November 1, 2015
Your Own Ones
a novel
Síle Post
$19.95 for print and $9.99 for e-book
Paperback | 224 pages | 5.25 x 8 isbn: 978-0-9961357-3-3
In Your Own Ones, Síle Post’s “poetic, storytelling voice, courage to write about
big issues, great heart, and real personal vision” [Frank Howard Mosher], shape
this lyrical, visionary novel of one woman’s transcendental journey back to the old
country, now lost in the unsustainable ways of the new. For wild salmon conservationist, Áine O’Connor, the journey of the wild salmon charts the route of her own
journey back—to the rivers of her birth on Celtic Dingle Peninsula—to continue a
thousand year family tradition of protecting the land and sea.
Síle Post has followed the trail of the wild salmon, crossing the
Atlantic herself in search of simply extraordinary places. In her
writing, she weaves her passion for Place with her calling to protect
her own ones—the wild salmon of the Celts, the beaches of Prince
Edward Island, and the primeval forests of Walden North.
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THANKS TO ALL OUR SUPPORTERS,
READERS, & FRIENDS!
Last words from Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom’s Howard Frank Mosher:
Green Writers Press is off to a fantastic start. I feel so honored to be
included in the beautiful new Contemporary Vermont Fiction Anthology.
Who says “the book” is endangered or dead? These place-based
books, many set squarely in the natural world we all once
belonged to, are a testimony to the immortality of
literature. Dede Cummings’ Green Writers Press
is helping to keep our literary culture
alive, in Vermont
and far beyond.