Books published by Piscataqua Press

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Eva Guardia believes that she killed her six-year-old son on November 2, 1999.Eighteen years later, her attorney, Benjamin Truitt, is not so sure, and he soon finds himself following a trail that leads him into Eva's past and back through prophecies and madness, secrets and psychedelic drugs, uncovering old truths and creating new lies along the way...What begins as a simple case unravels before Ben's eyes, and soon he must look for an answer to a question that most believe has already been answered. Who killed Eva's son?

The country is divided.The president is reviled by some, adored by others. Protesters and minorities march in the streets to demand their rights to be heard. The government increases its crackdown on the opposition. The nation wavers on the brink of disaster.But it's not 2018.It's 1968, and, for Jason, a young man with a secret, the nation's internal strife mirrors his own struggle to find himself. A Midwesterner, Jason leaves his suburban home to attend Vanderbilt Divinity School. There, in Nashville, Tennessee, he meets a man who challenges his view of America, and offers him the assistant director position at a folk school, deep in the Appalachian Mountains. It's among the families that live in the Cumberland Mountains where Jason discovers a truth about himself that changes his life forever.

Portsmouth is New Hampshire's only city on her short Atlantic coastline, and a study in contrasts. Compact, but urban in feel. East Coast old but vibrantly renewing itself. Small enough to explore in a weekend, and a fascinating place to live, work, and play. Walk along with the artist, a New Hampshire native, as she sketches whatever stops her feet and tugs at her heart.Sue Anne Bottomley is a New Hampshire native. Raised in NH and Massachusetts, and an art major at the University of New Hampshire, she left the area after her college graduation to live in Washington state, Maryland, and England. After many years away from home, she returned to live in New London, NH. Her first book is Colorful Journey: An Artist's Adventure Drawing Every Town in New Hampshire. Pep Talks for the Would-Be, Should-Be Artist is her second book.

Shanna and her family are headed to the beach for the weekend. Her imaginary friends Irga, Shelby, and Bentley will be joining her this year.Shanna is so excited to introduce them to all of her summer friends.It's going to be a Very Special Vacation!Imagination is an important tool for young children. It helps them make sense of their world, and to explore new ideas and situations in a safe environment. Make room in your child's world for art, reading, and imagination!A portion of the profits from this book will be donated to Cradles to Crayons, a nonprofit dedicated to helping homeless kids. Deby Gervais is an author living in Newburyport with her husband Rick and Shih tzu Kanji. As children, innocence lets our imagination take us to places that are safe. As adults we relive our imaginary thoughts and dreams by reading stories to our children and grandchildren. My daughter Lynsey's imagination and our shared enthusiasm for reading is how Shanna Poe's Imaginary World came to be. Everyday with Shanna Poe is A Very Special Day.Ellen Topitzer Ellen is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer living in Western Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Montserrat College of Art and has contributed to multiple children's books over the years.

Random stories from White Plains, Middlebury, Pentagon, CIA, Dartmouth, Bank of Boston, Lincoln Canoe and more with family and friends.

Memory poems spanning the life of the poet. Each poem is paired with a dragonfly image. In DRAGONFLY WINGS she offers poetic perceptions collected over forty years of her life. Bonnie lives with her husband, Craig, in Cape Neddick, Me.

Is there something "different" about you?Have you ever been worried that you would be embarrassed if your friends found out about it? That's Tad's trouble. Tad's a frog, and one day his secret comes out. Will his friends still like him? Will he find new friends?James Fleck is an artist who has lived in New Hampshire his entire life. His book "A Tad Bit Different" was created at the age of 12 years old, as a picture book for a elementary homework assignment. He has since turned into the book you are reading today. In James's spare time, he is a freelance artist/graphic designer who loves the outdoors and spending time with his wife Sarah and daughter Janell Rose.

In this delightful rhyming tale, two brothers know they are supposed to stay in bed until Christmas morning, but they can¿t resist sneaking downstairs in the middle of the night. When they hear sleighbells outside, they rush back to bed. But will they make it in time? If Santa sees them awake, will they still get presents? A. H. Walker enjoys writing poetry and has co-authored with his wife, a memoir of his son, who lives with autism. The Christmas Morning Sneak is the first children's book he has written although he has plans for more in the works. John Walker, a 34 year-old man living with autism, is the subject of his parents' memoir, Bringing Up John: One Family's Life with Autism. He has been drawing since early childhood and loves creating cartoon characters. He currently works with a local cartoonist, Chet Buckley, helping him with his comic books.

The culmination of a 35-year career, Dining with Liyuen presents authentic Chinese recipes that are easy to make at home. Liyuen Buesing is a chef, foodie, and entrepreneur. Raised in Taiwan, she learned the art of traditional Chinese cooking from her mother. Liyuen moved to New Hampshire in 1975 and has been teaching Chinese cooking in the Seacoast area for over 35 years. Her award-winning spring rolls are sold throughout New England. She is the owner and operator of Liyuen's Chinese Culinary Specialties, a cooking school, caterer, wholesale market, and Chinese carry-out in North Hampton, NH. "When I first moved to New Hampshire and became the food writer and restaurant critic for The Portsmouth Herald 14 years ago, I asked everyone I knew where to find great Chinese food in the area. Every single person recommended Liyuen's Chinese Culinary Specialties. After enjoying her truly authentic and delicious cuisine, I knew I had to take a class at her cooking school to learn how to make at least some of those dishes in my own home. I did learn to make the juicy dumplings and more, but I also I learned about the origin of those dishes and their importance through Liyuen's own fascinating, entertaining, and touching family stories. That we can now have those stories and recipes in a lovely book is almost-not quite-but almost as wonderful as hearing Liyuen tell them herself." --Rachel Forrest Food Writer and Restaurant Critic The Portsmouth Herald

A blistering story of surviving, and overcoming, the worst kinds of abuse: physical, emotional, sexual. Shirley Turner tells her own story, from a squalid childhood in Maine, to a forced marriage and motherhood, constantly moving from place to place with her controlling husband.Ironically, it is becoming a mother that brings her greatest happiness, and also her greatest tragedy.This is a journey of triumph, a story that exalts the incredible courage of one human being who refused to buckle under a barrage of despair, hatred, and trauma, inspired by the one pure love of her life.

One cold winter day, a little lamb named Dave was born. He became separated from his mother, and moved into the warm kitchen at Triple G Farm...Thus begins the story of a sheep who thought he was the family dog!!

Beth gets married and moves away, Looks for Janjan and has to pay. Venus takes Beth off to her bower. Will Janjan die of gold mage power? The walls between the worlds are thin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Weird things happen. Beth shared a house with Leda and Janjan until her friends went to live in the next world over from Earth with the elves (who aren't really elves). It's a long story. Actually two long stories. Last year Beth and her boyfriend Bobby went walking with the immortal Fae. Janjan helped them escape. Hoping for a normal life, Beth left Bobby, moved out of Portsmouth, and married Drew, who knew nothing of her past. Beth misses her friends and tries to contact Janjan. Materialist Magicians (who are both those things) kidnap her and magically bind her to the goddess Aphrodite. When Janjan comes to save Beth, she learns that the magicians and their ally, an ancient gold sorcerer, are planning to kill her with radiation and cut the Earth off from the elves. Binding Beth is a story of love and sex and friendship that takes you for a wild ride on the road around the human worlds. If you could have whatever you wanted, what would you want?

Anna Goodrich is a 28-year-old artist in New York City, out on a Friday night in the city when she gets the call that her uncle has suddenly died. When she returns home to mid-coast Maine for his funeral, she faces all that she left behind when she left seven years earlier. The pain of her own mother's death, the fractured relationships with her father and her first love. The life she had built for herself in New York - the art world, her boyfriend, her roommate who is also her best friend - allowed her to forget the grief and hurt she had left behind in Maine. But when her uncle leaves her a surprising inheritance, it forces her to face them, and the parts of her self she's buried. As she searches for answers about herself, and where she belongs, she discovers how people and places shape us, and how understanding, forgiveness and grace have the power to transform us and the people we love.

When she was 18, Barbara Hesselman joined the Army to finance her nursing education. A little more than four years later, and with less than six months of nursing experience, she was assigned to the 24th Evacuation Hospital in South Vietnam. On the neurosurgical intensive care unit where she worked, she and her fellow soldiers fought for the lives of the wounded-and sometimes their sanity-with hard work and silly antics that included a mascot named Mighty Ralph. The rhythms of daily life at the 24th Evac have faded from Barbara's memory. What remains are distinct stories involving the patients, corpsmen, doctors, and nurses. Although the Vietnam Conflict serves as the backdrop for When I Die I'm Going to Heaven 'Cause I've Spent My Time in Hell Barbara's stories of heroics, love, loss, despair, and even joy are timeless.