Apprentice House imprint: 58 books
The Punk and the Professor
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Set in the suburban shadows of New York City as the 1980s crash into the ‘90s, The Punk and the Professor brings us into the troubled world of a young introvert. Jack Tortis is an underdog branded as a punk in a place where sameness is celebrated. Destined to be a drop out laborer like his estranged...
The Opening Act
Comedy, Life & the Desperate Pursuit of Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Ever since he was a kid, Larry Noto dreamt of being a comic. And eventually his dream of a career in stand-up came true . . . sort of. He’s performed in New York and Las Vegas. He’s worked in TV and radio. He’s opened for the biggest names in the business, including Brian Regan, Lewis Black,...
Deranged
Finding a Sense of Place in the Landscape and in the Lifespan
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Deranged links ecological explorations with moments of individual maturation in nineteen essays that braid natural history and memoir. On one level, Deranged investigates salient environmental topics such as Colony Collapse Disorder, forest fragmentation, the near-extinction of Britain’s Large Blue...
by D. R. Belz
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Welcome to the real and imagined worlds of D. R. Belz, where you’ll find: a practicing white witch kindergarten teacher whose practical joke brings a strange consequence; a young priest-in-training who encounters a literal femme fatale; a homeless man who finds a baby in a trash bin on Christmas...
Drops on the Water
Stories about Growing Up from a Father and Son
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Drops on the Water is a book about the childhood experiences of a father and son, and their gradual entrance into adulthood. It traces the similarities and differences between distinct generations in their unique geographical environments. From the suburbs and fairgrounds of the United States to the...
Cumberland
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In the fictional coastal town of Cumberland, Georgia, fifteen-year-old twin sisters Ansel and Isabel Mackenzie have lived with their eccentric grandmother since a car accident killed their parents and paralyzed Isabel. Over the past seven years the responsibility of caring for her sister has fallen increasingly...
White Boy
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
In the summer of 1961, black and white Freedom Riders from all over the U.S. converged on Jackson, Mississippi in a campaign to force the desegregation of public transportation and public facilities. Buses were burned. Some Riders were beaten almost to death. They were jailed by the hundreds, and they...
by Zackary Sholem Berger
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
One Nation Taken Out Of Another is a joyride through the Five Books of Moses on the back of a strange chimera - with an American head, a Yiddish heart, and all manner of multicultural, bassackward, and wandering limbs grafted on to the whole. The included poems are in English, Yiddish, and both. It's midrash and whimsy, and an exploration of Bible, tradition, exile, redemption, and mystery.
Taking a Detour
Life Lessons from a Near-Death Experience and the Long Journey Back
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
On a hot summer day in 2009, Dave Sandler’s life took its biggest detour. He dropped dead on a softball field, but God was not ready to take him. Taking a Detour, describes the many health obstacles and professional challenges he overcame when a cure for cancer caused unforeseen—and catastrophic—health...
The Only Sacred Ground
Scientific Materialism and a Sacred View of Nature Within the Framework of Complementarity
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
For the past several centuries, science has been offering us a powerful new way to understand nature, but the accompanying rise of materialistic philosophy threatens to drain the meaning and sacred quality of our experience of nature. The resulting tension represents a fractured and incoherent apprehension...
Dredging the Choptank
Maryland Ghost Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Chilling and mysterious folklore comes to life in this supernatural thriller about a writer investigating ghost legend in a town in denial. Stakes are raised when the writer protagonist discovers a Native American burial ground under an Eastern Shore jail and begins hallucinating black shapes and undulating...
by Ben Shaberman
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Jerry’s Vegan Women is a fun, poignant, and occasionally steamy collection of fictional stories that follows the adventures of Jerry Zuckerman as he makes his way through the shelters, sanctuaries, and bedrooms of an eclectic assortment of vegan women. The book begins with Jerry as a sixth grader who...
Just Mercy
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Bernadette Baker lives through every mother's worst nightmare when her adopted sixteen-year-old daughter, Veronica, is brutally murdered in a shocking and random act of violence. Ten years later the murderer, Raelynn Blackwell, is facing execution for her crime, and despite being united in their grief...
Dying in Dubai
A Memoir of Marriage, Mourning, and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
DYING IN DUBAI is a memoir of love, loss, reckoning, and renewal, set against the backdrop of a Rodeo Drive-on-Mars desert city. It tells of the sudden death of Roselee Blooston’s beloved husband, Jerry, and how her fifteen day journey through a profoundly disorienting environment, and the inner journey...