Night Shade

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Night Shade

Author: Pauline Knaeble Williams

Format: Trade Paperback

Trade Paperback Price: $16.95

Release Date: Now Available

ISBN: 9781938473296

Book Description

Early one summer morning in 1850, as Penny McGinty leans over a cookstove in the sweltering Philadelphia kitchen, a knock from a slender fist upon the back door of the tall, narrow house interrupts the hum of insects hovering in the yard’s overgrown garden. At first, neither Penny, nor the wealthy family for whom she cooks, nor the niece who spends her hours reading in the upstairs drawing room, nor even the man tending his horse in the stable just beyond the stone wall at the back of the garden will recognize the sound of the knock for anything than it is. Penny McGinty opens the door and invites the traveler inside. Thus, begins Night Shade, a story of awakening, sacrifice, and struggle as the conflict for the nation’s soul looms.

About the Author

Pauline Knaeble William’s first book, Finding Hollis, was a finalist for the Midwest Book Award in 2014. She grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota and currently lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children. Night Shade is her second novel.

Popeye: A Memoir of Cultural Barbarian

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Popeye: A Memoir of Cultural Barbarian

Author: Thomas J. Hickey

Format: Trade Paperback

Trade Paperback Price: $19.95

Release Date: Now Available

ISBN: 9781938473319

Book Description

POPEYE: A MEMOIR OF A CULTURAL BARBARIAN, dubbed “Forest Gump meets Jack Kerouac,” chronicles Tom Hickey’s colorful life and growing struggles with alcohol addiction, mental health, and numerous suicide attempts. From his Irish Catholic midwestern upbringing, raucous college years, European cultural barbarianism, life in Poland behind the Iron Curtain, raising a family out West, and the Great Recession, to his current mental health issues, addictions, and homelessness, POPEYE is a page-turner. Not intended to cure or caution, POPEYE merely tells the tale of one man’s life in his own words as if he were sitting on the stool next to you.

About the Author

Thomas J. Hickey is a fourth generation Cub’s fan who grew up Irish Catholic in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and attended the College of St. Thomas in St.Paul, Minnesota. He has raised millions for charities including the Jackson Hole Community Counseling Center only for himself to also struggle with addiction and depression. A proud parent of two adult children (Gina and Luke), Hickey currently lives a transient existence on the Florida Panhandle.

Tides of the Kennebec

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Tides of the Kennebec

Author: Kathleen Vellenga

Format: Trade Paperback

Trade Paperback Price: $16.95

Release Date: Now Available

ISBN: 978-1-938473-34-0

Book Description

Strangers in Our Midst introduced us to the friendship formed between Elizabeth and Attitash in 1620, and across the first years of Plimoth Plantation; In the Midst of Bounty showed a growing colony in tension with itself as well as the Indigenous people of the area; and now, Tides of the Kennebec carries that rare relationship across several decades as each woman explores the meaning of friendship and family, as well as telling the story of the competition between the desires of Boston financiers and Plimoth settlers for the Abenaki’s trapping bounty in Maine and how Indigenous people paid the price.

About the Author

Kathleen Vellenga spent fourteen years as a Minnesota State Legislator, focusing on breaking down cultural barriers and empowering people. As executive director of the St. Paul Children’s Initiative, she led the establishment of multicultural Family Centers in St. Paul, including the American Indian Family Center. The Minnesota Indian Affairs Council honored her “in appreciation of your effort to support the needs of our children and their families.” She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.