Books published by Epigraph Publishing

An insider's view of Woodstock from the outside.Space Larrabee had planned to go to the 1969 Woodstock Festival, but he misses it because he procrastinates. And so begins his journey of a thousand miles.Experience what happens when Space meets Thyme. Explore their inner and outer universes as the shadow of Atlantis slowly looms over the music, psychedelia, and dreams of their life and times.Atlantis surfaces periodically in Space's life as a physical antagonist, especially at the Sufi meditation camp they attend at Woodstock, New York in 1974. He surfaces again three years later with a surprise move that shatters the world of Space and Thyme.www.demunson.com

Nate Randall is an almost-was rock star, licking his wounds and failing in a relationship with his financially successful but nihilistic girlfriend, Sheila McNally, when she calls him from her hated job on the 97th floor of World Trade Center Tower 2, which is on fire and about to crumble into lower Manhattan. As her final act, Sheila tells Nate the combination to the safe in her apartment containing a secret trove of damning information. The documentation implicates her employer, United Silicon Enterprises, along with high government officials and members of the garbage mob that include her despised father, Bill McNally, in a scheme to profit from the massive stream of toxic waste the company produces every day.Shaken and transformed by Sheila's death, the subsequent cancer-related death of his best friend and former band mate, Rico Exman, and a couple of near-death experiences of his own, Nate metamorphoses himself into a cub reporter for a small newspaper in Dutch Hollow, the upstate New York town of Sheila's birth. While initially finding a new lease on life as a muckraking investigative journalist living among a tribe of quirky fellow misanthropes (and reluctantly falling in love with a young reporter in the process), Nate becomes increasingly radicalized by the revelations he discovers.Realizing that exposing the byzantine world of the black market toxic waste/drug cartel conspiracy will ultimately be a fruitless, unappreciated and ineffective task, Nate is drawn into the orbit of Nick Vitello, a disgruntled elder mobster who craftily manipulates him into spearheading a violent act of what can only be described as eco-terrorism. As can reasonably be expected, things do not quite go as planned, with catastrophically mixed results. Many of the book's revelations are true and are based on investigations the author performed over a five-year period for The Nation Institute. New York State and especially Hudson Valley residents will enjoy trying to figure out which characters, institutions, events and locales have their seeds in reality, and will hopefully be motivated to look a little closer at the beautiful but tainted world around them. Wasted is testament to the dawning realization in the opening decades of 21st Century America that the threat of terrorism pales in relation to the devastation being wrought by unscrupulous members of our nation's power elite in the name of greed.

This guidebook contains a full-color reproduction of each kneeler and a synopsis of the chapter from The Venerable Bede's Life of Cuthbert, written not long after Cuthbert's death in 687, that inspired the image. I have included some verse to accompany individual images or, in some cases, thematic groups such as the many healings attributed to the saint. I imagine these words being spoken by different characters as in a medieval miracle play, hence my title, The Story of Saint Cuthbert in Many Voices.

In the blink of an eye time can collapse and the curtain between lives blow open before settling back in place. I'm sure it happens all the time, ignored, unnoticed. Go ahead. Close your eyes and imagine such a moment. Who are you? Where are you? Imagine your many selves in that moment all aware of you, as you are of them.Now who are you? Are you still a single self trapped in the confines of time? Let's assume you're not. What tale would you weave of the variation on a theme called your lives here on Earth? To what end are you here?There, I see it now, the dawning, the light in your eyes. Yes, it's true, you, in all your myriad forms, are on a hero's journey. Wandering through time and space, stumbling, tripping, running, crawling, dancing toward wisdom, compassion, and, most importantly, love.Look around you-your family, your friends, even your enemies, they're all on the same journey, the warp to your weft. The anchor points in your eternity.Believe it or not, you are the director, co-writer, and lead actor on these stages, in these pages. What journey will you take us on? Would you like me to share a bit of mine? Where should I begin when there is no beginning? What ending when there is no end?I'll start with the man at the tavern.

Waking up on the Couch is a journey of spiritual awakening. It is an intimate look at how we develop our personalities, identities, defenses, and the letting go of whatever keeps us small. Using her personal story, Beth Miller, invites the reader to take an inner journey, delving into your deepest being in discovery of abiding and embodied contentment.

Here's a sequel that is fecal! A natural progression from the book "What Do Animals Eat?"because what goes in, must come out. Read a fascinatingand informationalrhythmical and rhyminganswer to the question,"Where Do Animals Poop?" "Just like animals movein water or land or sky,they also make movementsas they swim or walk or fly." From Alligator to Zebra,complete with poop photographs and synonyms.

Do you sometimes wonder what you are doing in this world? Is your presence here the result of an accidental collision of random molecules, or are you a coherent entity, with a purpose to pursue?According to this book, your existence is not a mere freakish happenstance, a fleeting flash of light in a senseless sea of darkness. Instead, you are an enduring consciousness: imaginative, adventurous, creative, caring, and loving. Life on Earth can reveal to us many expressions of beauty and wonder. At the same time, this world can also bring us pain, discouragement and a whole catalog of ills. The good and the bad are somehow entwined in each other. Each day we are fed the sour, along with the sweet. If we develop insight as we go along from day to day, we will adapt, we will survive, and we will learn.The concepts presented in this book remind us who we truly are, and also describe and explain some of the underlying workings of this world.

"This is a lovely and much needed book that provides an opportunity to open the conversation regarding bullying with our youngest children. In a 'question and brainstorm answers' format, Ms. Kempner's book will enable families to identify specific episodes of bullying that can occur in preschool and elementary school age children. Once identified, the readers are asked to think of alternative ways to handle the situations in which bullying can, but doesn't have to, occur." ¿Susan D. Boulware, M.D, Assistant Clinical Professor in Pediatrics, Yale Medical UniversityEndorsed and supported by The Turner's Syndrome Society of the United States, TSSUSThis anti-bullying book is designed to teach children to have empathy towards other children that may be perceived as "different." The books helps children realize how painful it is to be teased, isolated or bullied, which hopefully will inspire them to refrain from treating others in this way.From the author:We need to come together as parents, professionals and educators to increase the awareness of the "differences" in many of our children today. We need to teach our children tolerance and acceptance of their peers who are so-called "different." As diagnoses of Autism, ADHD and other syndromes and issues are on the rise, we have no choice but to use awareness and understanding to reinforce empathy in our children. Children that are "different" should not be made to feel like outcasts; they need to be understood, not shunned or ignored.The author: Jennifer Kempner, LCSWR is a mother of three children and a New York State licensed clinical therapist. She received her Master's Degree in Clinical Social Work, specializing in Child and Family Counseling, from Fordham University in New York. She has been working with children, adolescents and adults in various settings since 1999. She currently practices in Dutchess County, New York. For more information, go to http://healingatheart.com/The illustrator: Mish Fornal studied at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale Florida and at the School of Visual Arts of NYC. Her illustrations represent the love she experienced in her childhood. Mish now lives in Marlboro, New York with her partner, Dale, and children Pheebee and Cooper. Mish can be found on Facebook under Mish Fornal and Sweet Sketches.