Books published by Stillwater River Publications

The idea of this dog being left behind alone in an apartment for about a week then four more in the pound was heartbreaking. The love she had to share, her passion for life and her exuberance taught us a bit about how to live. She became not only a great pet, but the love of our lives and an integral part of our family and crew. This is the tale of her adventure, from abandonment to a luxurious yacht in the Caribbean.This picture book tells Hanna's story in a way young children will understand and enjoy. The beautiful illustrations bring the story to life.

A "Great American Novel" that will Grip Your Imagination and Refuse to Let Go...When Whistle's young life takes a dramatic turn in one of the worst ways imaginable, the boy decides it's time to move on and see what lies ahead. Besides, the pull he feels is far too strong to resist.Starting out with little to no life experience, Whistle has absolutely no idea where he might end up, or the path his journey will lead him down. But one thing he is quite certain about is that it's going to be one hell of a ride.This book is filled with extraordinary characters and amazing situations that ramp up the story from the very beginning to the very end.And through it all, there will be great successes and epic failures. But you'll see that the long trail traveled will definitely be more than worth it in the end.Shane Joseph Hopkins is a twenty-three year veteran on the Newport, Rhode Island Emergency Medical Technician for the last twenty-eight years. Before that , Shane served his time in the military during "not so friendly times." After his tour of duty, he was honorably discharged from the United States Navy. Her now lives with his wife Lisa in their log cabin surrounded by plenty of woods and wildlife. They have two grown children, Kelcey Read, and Dryden Peter. They also enjoy five crazy grandkids, Catalina May, Dryden Shane, Nadia Read, Delilah Rayne, and last but not least, Mabel Lily. This is Shane's first novel to be published, but definitely not his last....

"The Bull and Other Stories-rhythmic with a jazz cadence, poignant, timely and timeless, vivid detail-but above all Michael Fine is a storyteller, and a damn good one at that." -Bert Crenca, founder of AS220A bull gets loose in Tennessee. A black sergeant stops the murder of a Trump supporter in North Carolina. The third husband of a nurse in Pawtucket wins the lottery. A schizophrenic woman who lives on Kennedy Plaza discovers that Social Security thinks she is dead. The 19-year-old Latina caretaker of a rich old man loses her mother to COVID-19. A horse that represents the hopes and dreams of a family in India falls asleep, and then awakens.Ten stories. People whose lives are transformed. People who struggle and survive, who see their world through lost hopes, inappropriate loves, and irrational dreams. Ten stories, each one a new way to listen, see, feel and dream.

Read along with the adventures of Mack the dog! Watch while she helps with chores, visits friends, and enjoys her cookies. From the author and illustrator team behind Best Friends.

Volume Three of Robert W. Hayman’s panoramic Catholicism in Rhode Island and the Diocese of Providence covers the rise of Catholic educational and social welfare institutions; the charity drives begun by Bishop Hickey; the growth of new parishes and missions; the Church’s efforts to relieve suffering during the Great Depression; its role on the homefront in Word War II; its relation to the labor movement; the Rose Ferron phenomenon; morality campaigns; friction between church and state; and, most vividly, the protracted conflict between Bishop Hickey and the Sentinellists, whose militant drive for autonomy in their French-speaking parishes went all the way to Rome. Extending through the administration of the much-loved Bishop Keough, this volume presents a comprehensive view of the many facets of the Church’s activities in the life of Rhode Island during the first half of the twentieth century.

True Story is Randy Blasing''s tenth book of poems. He plots the true stories he tells here along the trajectory of his actual life-from his memories of growing up in the Midwest to his experience of living in New England and visiting the Southwest and the Mideast-in no-holds-barred poems bristling with particulars and steeped in emotion, where past and present meet and come alive. For example, a starlit fall night brings to light childhood autumns that shape his life to this day; a classic-car show takes him down Memory Lane to when the heady fifties came unglued in the sixties; a graphic dream returns him to his lost first love. Or now he is a casual collector of Zuni fetishes, in which nature and the sacred intersect as art, in New Mexico; now he is the American father-of-the-groom at his son''s Turkish wedding; or now he belongs to an endangered species quarantined against a viral attack. Always true to his feelings, he keeps it real, whenever and wherever. 

THE SECRET TO MEANINGFUL AGING: Learn how adopting a dynamic mindset can provide challenge and fulfillment after retirement and beyond.Most people look forward to retirement - until the novelty wears off. Faced with the loss of personal and professional identity, as well as physical and emotional changes that come with age, many find themselves struggling to find purpose and meaning in their remaining years.Author Baldev Seekri unveils the secret to meaningful aging: adopting a dynamic mindset that enables you to adjust the changes in your life and lifestyle after retirement and in your senior years, giving you the freedom to chart a new course, pursue your passions and discover a new - or renewed - sense of purpose in your golden years.You, too, can harness the power of your dynamic mindset to adjust to changes in your life, pursue new goals, find your sense of purpose and achieve fulfillment in your golden years. Learn how in Meaningful Aging-How Mindset Makes It Happen

Two little brothers, one big sister, and one tiny, very unique creature! These are the characters that will share a great friendship and love. Sometimes what makes us different is what brings us together!

The Exciting New Book in "The Promise" Series: Discovering Their Gifts."The tale has a timely environmental message made more exciting by the theme of developing special powers." -Kirkus ReviewsHave you ever wondered what it would be like if you were an ado­lecent boy or girl and you were given the incredible gift of invisibility? And suppose you could heal animals and people but you couldn't tell anyone? In this second book of The Promise series, two ordinary brothers, Peter and David Wilson, from a rural town in New England, and eventually a beautiful young girl from Brazil, are given these gifts and more. But special gifts often require extraordinary sacrifice. No one-friends, school mates, even Mom and Dad-can know of these remarkable abilities. For if they do, their gifts will vanish in an instant.Is the cost of this secrecy too high? Can they juggle everyday life with their newfound talents? Travel with these special youngsters and learn from their mysterious mentors in a fantastic adventure as they use their amazing powers to help save the beleaguered earth.Book One - The Promise: A Perilous Journey.A branch of a crashing tree pierces the ground and leaves a hole to a void below. This is all it takes for brothers Peter and David Wilson to explore the unknown-a cavern hidden from the world for millennia. The boys' dreams, persistence, and determination will solve many riddles, but their carelessness may be their ending. The adventure to meet the man called Eli is perilous indeed, but the gihs they are offered may be the opportunity of a lifetime.

Separately, the actors return for their bows. Heflin is last, his eyes still ablaze with acting.Take a Bow, Mr. HelfinImagine how great it would be if your kids had Ursula Le Guin for their teacher!Kids Write the Best Things"I hope every part I play is as-you've-never-seen-me from the last part I played." Looking for Al. . . you'll begin questioning what you saw and realize Hitchcock is having fun with his audience. After all, it's his movie.The Key to the Whole ShebangWhat's left unsaid, except in their eyes, is that it's their destiny to have a deadly confrontation.They're Almost Each Other. . . Kerouac's writing becomes visionary.Jack's Hoboing

Having escaped religious persecution in Eastern Europe in 1903, Alan Hassenfeld's grandfather and great-uncle arrived in America as penniless teenage immigrants - refugees who went from hawking rags on the streets of New York City to building what became the world's largest toy company, Hasbro. Alan's father, Merrill, brought Mr. Potato Head and G.I. Joe to consumers and his only brother, Stephen, made Hasbro a Fortune 500 company and Hollywood player. Alan was the free spirit who wanted to write novels, date beautiful women and travel the world. He never wanted to run Hasbro, and no one ever believed he would - or could.And then Stephen died, tragically of AIDS. "Kid Number One," as Alan liked to call himself, was suddenly chairman and CEO. Silencing the skeptics, he took the company to greater heights - and then almost killed it with a series of bad decisions including Hasbro's acquisition of rights to POKéMON. Putting ego aside, Hassenfeld gave his long-time lieutenant Al Verrecchia command and set in motion a plan whereby he would leave the corner office. Verrecchia saved the company, and after renewed success, he himself retired, leaving Hasbro in the hands of current CEO and chairman Brian Goldner, so highly regarded that he was brought onto the board of CBS.With his fortune, Hassenfeld could have sailed into the sunset on a yacht, but instead, he went to work expanding the long family tradition of Tikkun Olam - "repairing the world" - begun by his grandfather and great-uncle, who, grateful to have survived, tirelessly helped immigrants and needy citizens of their new country. Alan Hassenfeld's philanthropy has helped build two children's hospitals, establish numerous educational and health programs, train young doctors and scientists, resettle refugees, promote peace in the Mideast and more. For decades, he also has been a highly visible advocate for national political and ethics reform, despite personal threats and the scorn of crooked politicians.Kid Number One: A story of heart, soul and business, featuring Alan Hassenfeld and Hasbro, weaves these stories into a seamless, dramatic narrative that begins with the slaughter of Jews in 1903 Poland and continues to today -- when in an era of unchecked narcissism and greed, Hassenfeld, like Bill Gates, serves as a model for what people of great wealth can do when they put self aside. Kid Number One also chronicles the history of American toys -- and not just such Hasbro classics as Monopoly, Transformers and Star Wars, but also Mattel's timeless brands including Barbie and many lesser-known toys by companies large and small, many no longer in existence.Granted exclusive and unprecedented access inside a $5-billion toy and family-entertainment company and one of America's leading if largely unknown philanthropies, G. Wayne Miller, author of the best-selling Toy Wars: The epic struggle between G.I. Joe, Barbie and the companies that make them, is uniquely qualified to tell this tale.

This is a story that will warm your heart with the simplicity and beauty of childhood friendship and wonder. The fluid charm of the watercolor illustrations bring you back to those long beach days spent playing in the waves and in this case, avoiding mischievous seagulls.

Chester is a horse who lives on a farm with many other animals and dreams of becoming a famous race horse. Chester faces many obstacles as he trains for a big race with Farmer Joe who owns the farm where Chester lives.

Puny Pete wants to help his family "just like his brothers and sister," but they lovingly pat his head and tickle his tummy and tell him he's too little. Puny leaves home to prove he is "Big." Oh, what dangers lurked everywhere he went! Did he get hurt? Who tried to eat him? Did he ever find his brothers and sister again?

Randy Blasing's ninth book of poems, set now in memory in his native Minnesota and now in New England, New Mexico, or Turkey, centers on his drama of dying four times in open-heart surgery and emerging from his near-death experience a different person, with renewed faith in the sanctity of every day."A Change of Heart, with its nod to Auden, is a mature collection celebratory of life. The speaker who cheats death is that much more aware of the living, breathing world around him. Heightened meditations are rendered in tender, explosive sonnets and exact blank verse. Here is the heart as muscle and life force, as vehicle for romance, as the beating meter of each of these glorious poems." -Denise Duhamel "James Wright famously aspired to write poetry that privileged, above all, 'the pure, clear word.'Randy Blasing seeks the same demanding goal in this fluent and moving collection of sonnets and near-sonnets, poems limpid, graceful, and fearless in their reckonings with mortality, in which craft and longing are alchemized into something like wonder." -David Wojahn Randy Blasing's ninth book of poems, set now in memory in his native Minnesota and now in New England, New Mexico, or Turkey, centers on his drama of dying four times in open-heart surgery and emerging from his near-death experience a different person, with renewed faith in the sanctity of every day.

Jay Walker is reaching out to the world through his poetry, speaking on world issues & reflecting on all the aspects & events of his life & his art. Where I'm Comin' From is not a love letter to Rhode Island; it's a declaration of the status of his emotional journey to the ultimate destination of peace, love & nakedness for all.

Jason E. "Jay" Walker was raised in Cranston, a suburb at the southern border of Providence, RI. He's never been interested in anything but the arts and humanities - entertaining, educating, inspiring, moving, and connecting (with) people - and everything he's done with his life is to pursue his lifelong dream of success in those fields. He was first alternate for the Providence Poetry Slam(TM) team in 1999 and has performed in and/or hosted poetry events throughout the RI area. He's also an established actor in RI independent film and semi-professional theater. He currently lives in Hopedale, MA, but he plans to one day live in warmer climes and travel the world.