Star Cloud Press imprint: 179 books
Big Waves, Small Boat, Two Kids
A Family Sailing Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Mark and Katya bought a thirty-four-foot steel sailboat. With their two daughters, they sailed around Lake Superior, then moved aboard for a year and sailed to the Bahamas. The sailing life proved both challenging and rewarding to the extreme, and big decisions made along the way stretched them to...
by Mary Joy Breton
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Plunged into poverty by the Great Depression, Mary Joy tells how—after losing their home in Minneapolis—she and her family lived off an acre of land in then-rural Eden Prairie township. Volunteer work during a political campaign in 1968 led to a job offer that launched her back into the work world....
Un Moving Four Ward
Tales & Tips for Keeping Perspective Despite Life's Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Having suffered an accident in the dorms while a student at St. John’s University, Bob became a quadriplegic. This fact, however, doesn’t keep Bob from living his life fully. This book describes some of his adventures—and challenges—along the way. This book is for anyone who has faced, is...
by Mark Berriman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In this, Berriman's fourth collection, he continues to fight for the underdog. Pulling no punches, Berriman's words can be both inspiring and jaw-dropping.
Various Heroes
A Novel—Life, Death, and the Afterlife in the Upper Peninsula
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Roy Shea has never been one to make waves. But he’s noticed some changes in his beloved Upper Peninsula, changes he’s not entirely comfortable with. When two strangers come to town, Roy finds himself in more trouble than he ever bargained for—as do the strangers, as the ghosts of the Peninsula...
by Matthew J. Krengel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Duluth, Minnesota, is finally at peace and things are getting better on both sides of the Divide. However, dark forces are lurking. When Tasker the dwarf is kidnapped, Jane, Jacob, and the others realize something horrible is about to happen. Soon it becomes obvious that they need help and with Coronia,...
The Klinefelter Legacy
A Story of Faith, Family and Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
St. Joseph, Minnesota, police officer Brian Klinefelter was gunned down on January 29, 1996, leaving behind a wife and infant daughter. His death in the midst of a crime spree by three local men shocked Central Minnesota. But the response of his family and others affected by that night's violence...
180 Days
Reflections and Observations of a Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
180 Days: Reflections and Observations of a Teacher is a collection of poems from several different facets of being a teacher: first as a teacher and observer of the profession and students; as a continuing learner with students at the Young Authors Conference; as school documentarian and historian;...
A Penny A Kiss
Memoir of a Minnesota Girl in the Forties and Fifties
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
A young southern family moves from the hills of small-town West Virginia to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1939 and enters a new social stratum. After struggling to fit into a private girl’s high school, the daughter attends a western college, where she suffers staggering defeat and enters a relationship...
by Carolyn K. Boehlke
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Nadia Alvarez, a fifteen-year-old Mexican immigrant, travels from a remote and poverty-stricken village in southern Mexico with her family to the United States. They sneak illegally into the country through a drain pipe that connects Sonora, Mexico, to Arizona. As the family enters the country, the...
Finding Foxholes
A World War II Infantry Route, Then . . . and 48 Years Later
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Finding Foxholes is a refreshing look at WWII memories. It includes first-hand accounts from an American soldier who stormed Omaha Beach and traveled across Europe, and the tales of revisiting those European sights with his daughter and son-in-law decades later. This unique story explores side-by-side...
by Larry Schug
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
“With his inimitable sense of humor and timing, astute awareness of irony, perfect understanding of permissible sentiment, and sheer joy taken in the well-captured image and pleasingly turned phrase, Larry Schug has given us a book of poems not just to enjoy but to remember for years to come.”...
by Franco Pagnucci
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Tracks on Damp Sand is a book about light, about seeing, and about the power of words to capture and save what we see and save ourselves. The 62 lyric poems also include the story of a pair of bald eagles building their first nest and hatching their first young.
by Dean Urdahl
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Three Paths to Glory is the story of three regiments in the American Civil War: the 2nd and 5th Minnesota and the 1st Tennessee. It follows each of the regiments through the war through the eyes of men serving in them. Clinton Cilley, of the 2nd Minnesota will be awarded the Congressional Medal...