Books published by White River Press

OPEN YOUR EARS THINK OF A NUMBER From his bar stool on New York''s Lower East Side, surrounded by a colorful crew of locals, David Klein sets out on a quest for the infinite,ΓÇ¿hidden somewhere -everywhere?- in songs featuringΓÇ¿numbers in their titles. The book that follows is a masterful, erudite tribute to 60 years of pop music. If 6 Was 9 manages to be hilarious, geeky, seriously intellectual and heartfelt all at the same time. Revised and expanded, with a foreword by Drive-By Truckers frontman Patterson Hood, this comprehensive volume surveys number songs from zero through 99-making frequent detours across time and space along the way DAVID KLEIN spent most of his life in the vicinity of New York City. A graduate of Vassar College, he is now a journalist for the alt-weekly newspaper INDY Week, writing about music and pop culture. He lives in Chapel Hill, N.C., with his wife and two sons.ΓÇ¿Find him on facebook or Twitter @DKleinandFall

The poet Emily Dickinson's love affair with the eminent Judge Otis Phillips Lord, eighteen years older and her father's best friend, begins in her childhood and evolves over the years into passion. As Emily and Phil struggle with her need for privacy and his power as a man of the world, they stir up the troubled Dickinson family. Despite illness and the hostility of their greedy and jealous relatives, Emily contrives a secret rendezvous in Salem with the big, tempestuous man she calls Little Phil, and they even talk of marriage. Their courage to defy convention inspires the poet's unforgettable art. Poet, scriptwriter, and essayist Susan Snively lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, and works as a guide at the Emily Dickinson Museum. This is her first novel.

Psalms in Ordinary Voices is an exciting new collection of the Bible's 150 Psalms, each rewritten in contemporary language by an "ordinary" person. The authors are teachers, daycare providers, inmates, physicians, plumbers, locksmiths, janitors, children, artists, hair stylists, secretaries, pastors, a homeless man, and a sheriff, among others. A portrait of the writer in his or her everyday environment accompanies each Psalm. Together, the words and images reveal the beloved Psalms as both timeless and timely. Down-to-earth and deeply moving, Psalms in Ordinary Voices is filled with images, metaphors, hopes, and visions that build on and refresh the Psalms. A decade in the making, this book was created by Rev. Dr. Andrea Ayvazian, who conceived the project and edited the text, and photographer Ellen Augarten, whose images give insight into each writer's background.

**Updated 2018** When Glenn Sparks was a child, his father gave up his job as an aeronautical engineer and relocated the family in order to open a doughnut shop. His father's vision was to create a "family" business. While that vision wasn't quite realized, the things that happened over the 20-year history of running a doughnut shop proved unforgettable. Now a university professor, Glenn did the arithmetic and discovered that over the 20-years, he had personally handled over 8-million doughnuts. Upon reflection, he concluded that this life statistic didn't begin to tell the story of what it was like to be in the doughnut business. There was still a story to be told and, "Rolling in Dough: Lessons I Learned in a Doughnut Shop" is that story. The book's inspiration came from Glenn's family and friends who encouraged him to write about growing up in the doughnut business after they heard him tell stories of his childhood that seemed to them almost unbelievable. While the book has the feel of a personal memoir, it is more than that. The Sparks family's venture into the world of a franchise doughnut shop is organized into a series of "lessons" that provide the chapter structure and help to organize the material. In pondering the life lessons, readers will be entertained by some hilarious stories, meet an unforgettable cast of characters, and get a view of the doughnut business that only an insider could provide. One thing is certain: after you read this book, you'll never look at a doughnut shop in quite the same way.

CHILDHOOD SUMMERS ON THE ST. CROIX RIVER IN MINNESOTA. Alan Emmet is looked after by a flinty trio of strong-minded women, almost as if she had three mothers. Her imagination is fired by their tales of pioneering ancestors, including the great-grandmother who hid her children in the asparagus patch when Indians invaded their lonely prairie dwelling.Emmet''s favorite aunt scoffs at convention, reads poetry to her, and makes all the cousins lie naked in the sun each day. Another aunt introduces her to jazz and fancy cars. Daredevil Uncle Archie lives to fish and travels the world but can''t hold a job. Always listening, Emmet hears her mother and aunts talk about their childhood friend, Scott Fitzgerald, and the expatriate maiden aunt who''s left them her jewels. She hears an aging sophisticate describe watching Lindbergh land in Paris.She returns often with her husband and children to the unchanged but always moving river, a place that enfolds them all.

This book will give you the practical tools and techniques you need to participate effectively in your child's SPED meetings. Full of suggestions, templates, and proven strategies that both research and experience have found productive, this guide will help parents be actively involved in SPED team meetings and work collaboratively with educators. Dr. Robert Scobie has spent his entire career working with children and parents in academic settings. He has served as a high school teacher, principal of a K-8 school, a special educator at elementary and high school levels, assistant professor and chairman of an education department preparing prospective teachers, and an adjunct professor in a special education graduate program. Most recently as an educational advocate for families of special needs children, he has used his professional knowledge and experience to help parents to be strong advocates, to see themselves as having valuable knowledge about their child, and to develop a collaborative relationship with school staff.

This guide contains proven SPED Case Manager strategies that research and experience have found effective in facilitating team meetings, and enhancing positive collaboration with parents that will ultimately create the best educational experience for the SPED child. Templates are included to help you prepare meetings, record decisions, track implementation and follow-up. Dr. Robert Scobie has spent his entire career working with children and parents in academic settings. He has served as a high school teacher, principal of a K-8 school, a special educator at elementary and high school levels, assistant professor and chairman of an education department preparing prospective teachers, and an adjunct professor in a special education graduate program. Most recently as an educational advocate for families of special needs children, he has used his professional knowledge and experience to help parents to be strong advocates, to see themselves as having valuable knowledge about their child, and to develop a collaborative relationship with school staff.

A community Response to EducatingChildren with Disabilities in VermontAll Children Matter tells a unique story about four small towns in rural Vermont that came together to provide educational and therapeutic services to children who, simply because of their disabilities, were excluded from public education. In the early 1970s and through the next two decades the inclusion and acceptance of children with severe disabilities within the public schools slowly took place, with Vermont at the forefront of these efforts. The Woodstock Learning Clinic in Woodstock, Vermont was integral to this progressive movement.This story will interest many people, including students of special and regular education who are studying the history of the institutional movement in the United States and the struggles of families who wanted to keep and raise their children at home. Most of all, this book is a tribute to the founders of the Woodstock Learning Clinic, the hundreds of volunteers involved in its programs, and the parents who never relinquished their dream to ensure that all children deserve a free, appropriate education within their home community.

Don May began his reporting career at the Washington Daily News in 1950. He then worked for United Press International for twenty years, covering foreign and national security policy and later the global economy. This led to a lasting interest in poor countries, especially in Africa. In 1996 Don and his wife, Alison, founded the Salikenni Scholarship Fund, a nonprofit organization that pays tuition for needy boys and girls in one cluster of rural villages in The Gambia in West Africa, sponsoring students from middle school through four years of university. This book tells the story of that project, its successes and failures, focusing on the students, who yearn for education but must overcome huge obstacles to achieve it.

As a new religion spreads through the land of Trenig, Henith and Braen, priestesses of the Goddess Religion, set out on a journey to learn more about this new religion and why its followers fi nd it necessary to destroy the stone circles and the ways of the Goddess. This novel takes place in a time beyond time and is both utopian and dystopian as Henith and Braen visit a variety of stone circles giving the reader glimpses of another time and dimension where Goddess worship is the predominant religion.

A collection of short, accessible meditations and letters, Swingin' Loose is written to help you get along better with yourself, other people, and God. No matter where you are in your life, there are tips in Swingin' Loose that are useful. Jane Lee Wolfe is a spiritual leader who works with people who want to get their spiritual lives in some kind of order. Or maybe they are just poking around to see if spiritual health makes any difference. She's been at this for a long time. She lives in Vermont.

The Writing Master, a work of historical fiction set in 1856 in New Haven, Connecticut, is about Charles Cooper, a penman-teacher of handwriting-who is attempting to come to terms with his tragic past, and Lily Prescott, an unconventional woman with her own troubled story. When a brutal murder takes place just outside the city, Charles becomes involved in its solution.

Three years into college, Keva DeVelle (Horry) was in pursuit of a career as the next major network anchorperson. She was grounded in her faith, well-rounded in her academic and social life and focused on being the comforting voice millions would hear every evening at six o'clock. During that same year in college, her learning that she and the love of her life were going to have a baby was more than an interruption of her dream...it was the beginning of her assignment. No twenty-two-year-old young woman could possibly prepare for whirlwind circumstances and life-altering events consuming nearly two decades. She was not prepared, but she was equipped. Being married to a professional athlete - who happened to win more world NBA championships than anyone who wasn't on the 1960 Boston Celtics team, and who quickly earned the nickname "Big Shot" - was, to say the least, challenging. The unimaginable task of maintaining a long-distance marriage and the enormous responsibility of caring for a special-needs child equaled a perfect storm of overwhelming peaks and inconceivable valleys for her. But through it all, she never lost her firm grip on her faith. Time and again, she told her Maker, "I will not let go unless you bless me" (Genesis 32:26). Glamorous Sacrifice is a poignant reflection of that blessing. The blessing of being an expert odds-defying conqueror. The blessing of seeing medical facts, but believing in Divine truth. The blessing of recognizing an appointed assignment, and fulfilling it for the glory of someone else. The blessing of a wife's devotion, a mother's love and the championing of purpose. "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." -1 Corinthians 13:13

On a warm October day only a few years past the middle of the 18th century, a boy was born on Unst, the most northerly of isle of Shetland. He was named Michael Magnus, laird of Burrafirth. His father, Laurence Bruce, gave the title to his son immediately. It was good, he said, for the boy to grow up knowing who he was and what such a rank entailed.When Michael turned five, his mother died, her lifeless body found among the seals who sing on the shores of Burrafirth. Now that the boy is nine, he needs a tutor. But the question must be asked, which one will be the teacher and which will be the student?This fascinating tale of Scotland is perfect for all readers from 12 to 80.

"Like all good humorists, Francesca De Grandis has a radical and subversive agenda."-Peter Coyote, actor and writer * Know your beauty. * Be free. * Fulfill your fantasies. * Self-Help meets Mad Hatter meets chaos theory...and a few recipes. Sanity is not always the best option. Inner peace, personal growth, recovery from trauma, career advancement, prosperity, sensitivity to others, community service, and social change can demand a shift-to illuminated lunacy. Crazy times call for healthy madness! Share My Insanity * takes self-help another step, the last nine yards to our personal dreams, human rights, and Gaia's well-being. Suitable to all faiths. * is experiential mysticism-a process that heals the spirit. Not intellectual discourse, but a cultural matrix for a new paradigm. * supports the whole multifaceted you. Pagans, poets, clowns, healers, survivors, artists, anarchists, Unitarian Universalists, Otherkin, activists, genderbenders, gamers, geeks, entrepreneurs, and other independent souls-together we create! An interdisciplinary interweaving of newly-evolving DNA. Francesca De Grandis AKA Outlaw Bunny-middle management for Chaos Gods. A one-woman interfaith community, Francesca practices Goddess Spirituality, is a long-time student of Taoism, visits Christ, and has been told she's Buddhist. Francesca struggles spiritually because she's a brat, but she does her best and tries to stay tight with God. Francesca created Another Step: a nature-spirituality curriculum without dogma; star-drenched ecstatic mysticism. www.outlawbunny.com self-help / spirituality / personal transformation Acclaim for Share My Insanity and Francesca De Grandis [A] group studying the writings of Francesca De Grandis or Thomas Merton could provide a wonderful and vibrant community. -The Aspiring Mystic, Carl McColman While protesting at the Wisconsin Capitol, I was also in the middle of my own personal upheavals . . . [Share My Insanity] pointed a way to finding balance again. -Kat Anderson If you're tired of thinking no one understands you, read Share My Insanity. You're not alone. -MaryColleen MacDougall, President Emeritus Interfaith Council of Franklin Co Massachusetts Share My Insanity helps entrepreneurs, potential entrepreneurs, artists, and people from many other walks of life achieve major goals with serenity, joy, and self-love. -Beverly Macy, Author of The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing Not intimidated by the ignorance, bigotry, and small-mindedness of other people, she teaches her readers the same supreme self-confidence with wisdom, compassion, and a great deal of humor. -Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, Author of Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard Francesca De Grandis made numerous breakthroughs . . . her insightful research in anthropology led to her innovative work in the modalities of healing. -S.S. Kush, Professor of Anthropology I could draw stars and rainbows all over this book . . . Share My Insanity gives me a sense of connection and contentment, and snaps me back to myself, my body, and my needs. -Ljot Lokadis, gender performer Francesca sees the world through the eyes of a wise spiritual master, a sadhu, a shaman. And she writes in the voice of a renegade, a wild woman, a trickster, a sacred clown. The resulting combination of her profound sensibility and wacky lunacy is irresistible and transformative.-Donna Henes, Author The Queen of My Self

NOW AN ALETHEA ROOT FILM!Winner of KIRKUS Discoveries "Best Fiction of 2010"It's 2008 and there's more melting down than the economy. Peter is a successful Wall Street player until his world is turned upside down by theglobal economic crisis. The trick is to keep his life and career together while his sisters in Seattle struggle to hold on to jobs, homes and sanity.Younger sister Florence is losing her grip on reality...she jumped off a bridge, for starters. Mental holograms crack into the fissures of hermind as pieces fall away. Her brother and older sister, Sara, are forced to disrupt their lives in an attempt to save her. Ticking time bombs, real andimagined, challenge them to choose how they will show up for each other and for themselves. Moving between Seattle and New York, the story is toldthough the voices of the three siblings as they face their own crises and try to stay afloat.With insight and empathy, Olevin explores the mysterious world of mental illness, the corruption and greed of financial markets, and the tangled tiesof family. The Good Side of Bad is a finely wrought, humorous and moving journey towards compassion and the other side of loss.