Books published by Haley's

from the foreword by Anna MundowSome of the poems here are like good jokes. They take us by surprise. Others touch the heart as they capture anxieties and absurdities of our current times. The overall effect is delightful.

a memoir by the late Michael True, late professor of peace studies and literature at Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts, and as guest scholar at US and international colleges and universities, with accounts of his special connection with poets, his peace activism, and his family life

a memoir by the late Michael True, late professor of peace studies and literature at Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts, and guest scholar at US and international colleges and universities, with accounts of his special connection with poets and his peace activism, including an preface by his daughter Betsy True, forewords by Scott Schaeffer-Duffy and Claire Schaeffer-Duffy, and essays by his six children, Mary Laurel True, Michael True, John True, Christopher True, Anne True, and Betsy True

Big Al takes his friend Cole on an unusual treasure hunt. Their adventure includes solving riddles to get them where they need to be. Can you help them solve the riddles? And what treasure awaits them?

The campers' cooler goes missing. Their animal friends help find it.

A retrospective view of the social justice chorus, Amandla as it evolves to Fiery Hope under the direction of Eveline MacDougall, the author. With autobiographical information about the author.

H. Peale Haldt Jr. tells about his high school and college summers in the 1930s as a deckhand aboard vessels ranging from a Norwegian freighter to Sea Cloud, the largest four-masted yacht in the world.

Big Al helps Mary Beth and the neighbors clean the park.

With a bear hug, Big Al makes Jack stop feeling sad.

In Loving Life on the Margins: the Story of the Agape Community, the authors say they attempt to do what Jesus asked: "Interpret the present time" (Luke 12:56) through the lens of the past. The authors hope the reader of this book, will find in the Agape story something worthy of interpretation as a commentary on the lineage and future of small faith communities like ours.Over the years, the authors have been drawn to the image of God as the Divine Feminine, that God's heart and ungraspable power is Mother as well as Father. The authors have come to believe that the womb-love of God gives birth to voices joined in prayer and song, souls born into longing and pain, struggling to be reflections of what is possible in short time on this imperiled, glorious planet.

Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day's daughter, Tamar, solve a 1941 mystery involving the Catholic Worker house at 115 Mott Street in a novella by Scott Schaeffer-Duffy. Mr. New Shoes challenges the Catholic Workers to figure out how he is at the center of mystery.

Sunny's mom, Amanda, returns from deployment in Afghanistan injured and confined to a wheelchair. Spark, her service dog, helps her regain independence. When Sunny accompanies Mom and Spark to appointments at the veteran's center, she meets Malcolm whose veteran dad, Gabe, also has combat-related injuries. Sunny and Malcolm become friends and decide that Gabe, too, needs a specially trained service dog. Together they strive to make it happen.

New and collected poems by Candace R. Curran, twice the western Massachusetts Poet's Seat laureate, with a painting by Richard Baldwin of Wendell, Massachusetts

From their graves in Quabbin Park Cemetery, imagined residents... of the former towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott, Massachusetts, reminisce about their lives in the Lost Valley before their towns were flooded to create a drinking water reservoir for the city of Boston. "In a remarkable feat of literary clairvoyance, Dorothy Johnson brings us the voices of the dead from the drowned Swift River Valley, conjuring up their lives and their vanished world-in epitaphs so vivid and so laconically graceful that for a moment each speaker stands before us, startling and true," says freelance journalist Anna Mundow. This is the author's homage to A Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters. Illustrations and cover design by C. V. Smith.

Daddy comes home from war with post traumatic stress syndrome. His service dog is trained to be dedicated to Daddy, and Daddy's dog is not meant to be a child's pet. Cynthia Crosson, Ed.D, a psychiatric social worker, and Carole Williams, illustrator, provide children with a clear, gentle explanation about why this is Only Daddy's Dog.

the memoir of Pioneer Valley, Massachusetts, antiwar and antinuclear activist Frances Crowe