Upcoming Books

Emmi

Posted on March 30, 2024 by Steve Semken

Emmi | Sandy Moffett | 9781948509565 | $21.99 | 246p | Trade paper | Release June, 2024 A second novel by Sandy Moffett. Emily Reese, an eleven-year-old girl who has trouble reading, trouble with numbers, trouble with school, trouble with friends, who is only happy when she is alone in a special wild place that […]

Inside Voices

Posted on March 15, 2024 by Steve Semken

For fifteen months Amy Kolen traveled between two very different worlds: a medium-security men’s prison, where she participated as an outside singer in the prison choir, and the confines of her mother’s room in a health center, where her mother required round-the-clock care following a massive stroke. Inside Voices speaks to our longing for human connection and is a testament to how embracing new experiences with “beginners mind” can deepen understanding and bring inner peace. […]

The Shadows Could Not Reach Her

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Steve Semken

Midwestern expanses of land and sky. Inspired by the powerful and bold spaces that I am lucky to call home. Making meaning from art and text. […]

When My Husband Ran For President and Other Short Stories

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Steve Semken

Even So

Posted on February 26, 2024 by Steve Semken

A book about overcoming the odds and finding your way; it’s about breaking barriers and transcending one’s original station in life; it’s about courage in the face of adversity; and it’s about accepting one’s uniqueness rather than trying to change it. The main character is a farm kid growing up in Iowa in the ’60s and ’70s amongst a family of ten. Through a series of hilarious and tragic stories, David Coster paints a dramatic picture of that world and tells the tale of what it took to pull himself into another […]