Lorinda Boyer strove continuously to be virtuous in the eyes of God and to live the life she believed He intended for her. She married her high school boyfriend at eighteen and had two kids by twenty-eight. Although she created a perfect Christian home for her family, she never felt wholly content in her role […]
Circling Home: What I Learned By Living Elsewhere
When Terry Repak and her husband moved to West Africa with two small children at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1990s, she seized the opportunity to connect with people of other cultures and bear witness to the ravages of the disease. Circling Home chronicles the adventures and challenges of raising children to […]
Belonging Matters: Conversations on Adoption, Family & Kinship
Belonging Matters supports the adoption community while creating a conversation with those not directly touched by adoption. The collection explores the pursuit of identity and the boundaries of family and kinship. It challenges the reader to embrace all of who we come to be, and to discern with whom and where we belong. Because belonging […]
What Is This Childhood?
This book explores the consciousness of the young child through language development, often in their own words. The child’s early utterances reveal a unity of word and experience and of experience and meaning. Children live more fully in perception than conception. Yet, speech as it unfolds eventually leads the child to abstraction, self-consciousness, and critical […]
This is the Dawning: a Woodstock Love Story
Paul and Sylvia meet by chance and there is an immediate connection. He is a Vietnam Vet; she is an aspiring filmmaker. Both are children of immigrants. They have only seen the strife of married life until they meet Max and Miriam Yasgur, the owners of Yasgur’s Farm. Paul and Sylvia see how love and […]
You Cannot Forbid the Flower
Seventeen and in love with a girl he’d never even spoken to, a young Hungarian is forced to flee his homeland after Romania wins control of Transylvania at the end of World War II. A refugee in his own country, he soon finds love in the ruins of Budapest. But life under the ever-watchful eyes […]
