Samizdat Creative imprint: 4 books

In 1855, a wealthy 24-year-old English woman, Adeline Paulina Irby, left her London home to search for her purpose in life. By a strange turn of events, she ended up in Sarajevo where she stayed and became a national hero.In 1999, an average 22-year-old man left his home in the United States to live...

The history of womens religious communities during the past fifty years is only now being written. This book details the transformation in the 1960s of one community, the Congregation of the Humility of Mary, commonly known as the Humilities of Iowa. After a thoroughly collaborative process led by a...

Brace yourself. In her dark memoir, Lexee Booshay forces the reader to grow up as fast as she did. Her story begins in early childhood when her parents pitch Lexee and her younger brother into the cauldron of their own struggles of domestic violence, addiction, infidelity and poverty. Lexee watches over her brother, while believing that rocks, trees and birds around her will keep watch over her.

Are you planning to leave your church? Maybe you'd like to, but you feel stuck. You're not alone--millions of people, especially men, are fleeing their churches or mentally checking out. Ed Galisewski offers a witty, hard-hitting view from the pew as only a "Joe Palooka" from Jersey can. Galisewski pulls...