Yucca imprint: 75 books

This “sparkling memoir” sweeps readers along with the astounding true story of a socialite who would devote her life to her country in war and in peace (Kitty Kelley, award winning biographer).   At President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s behest, young Page Wilson left the United States to serve...

An “entertaining and enlightening” travel memoir that explores the differences between life in France and life in America (Booklist).   To make a friend is a joy. To make a friend in another country is a wonderment—a small miracle. Pardon My French follows an American couple as they embrace...

An epic tale of tragedy and adventure based on the experiences of the author’s great-grandfather as he made his way across America during the Civil War. Told by his stepmother that he alone had been responsible for the death of his mother, abandoned by his father’s earlier departure for...

This historical novel offers an “imaginative chronicle of an extraordinary woman” whose exploits across the Middle East helped create modern-day Iraq (Kirkus Reviews). A brilliant academic, mountaineer, explorer, linguist, politician, and towering literary figure, Gertrude Bell is the most...

“A true story of unfettered freedom and adventure, speed, sex, fun and drugs” by the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award nominee (Columbia County Observer). For anyone who’s heard about the 1960s, for those who remember it, and for those who can’t, this is Robert Wintner’s touching...

The acclaimed historical novelist brings to life “a heroine for all ages”—Flora MacDonald, who saved Bonnie Prince Charlie and became his secret love (Bryce Courtenay).   The Pretender’s Lady, Alan Gold’s meticulously researched novel, vibrantly portrays the life of Flora MacDonald, the...

A Kaspar Brothers novel set during the aftermath of World War II in Germany from the author of The Losing Role and Lost Kin.   It’s May 1945, the war’s just over, and Harry Kaspar, an American captain in Germany, is about to take a new posting in the US occupation—running a Bavarian town named...

A “bold and eye-opening” new theory about when Christ lived, set out with “meticulous and clear” scholarship by the author of The Jesus Mystery (Professor Robert Eisenman, author of The New Testament Code). While researching the historical Jesus, a Swedish scholar discovered a strangely...

The Pulitzer Prize–nominated author chronicles navigating the traditional western medical system during his wife’s battle with a brain aneurysm.   Brainstorm is the candid and powerful memoir of a couple’s harrowing experience of an aneurysm and their road to recovery. It is a journey of love,...

An Episcopal priest imagines how St. Paul the Apostle might counsel modern American Christians in today’s trying times.   For almost two thousand years, Christians have asked two essential questions: “What would Jesus do?” and “What would Paul say?” Saint Paul wrote more of the New Testament...

From an acclaimed musician comes an inside look at the Occupy Movement—one of the most controversial and influential progressive movements of our time. In 2011, internationally recognized singer/songwriter Laura Love put her career—and her comfortable life—on hold to join the Occupy Movement....

Reunited in post-WWII Germany, two brothers are caught in a deadly mystery in this “hard-hitting tale of international intrigue” (Ben Pastor, author of Tin Sky).   Munich, 1946: Even in a city still recovering from the war, murder is still murder. But when Irina—a Cossack refugee—confesses...

**“A gripping, globe-hopping saga of the struggle to outrun an unconquerable pandemic” from beyond planet Earth by the author of Misery Bay (**Neal Burdick, author of Adirondack Reflections). When a two-thousand-year-old mummy is unearthed in central China, investigators from around the...

A Canadian Mountie is hunting human traffickers in Nova Scotia in this thriller that keeps “the pace at top-speed [with] characters that are unforgettable!” (Suspense Magazine) Misery Bay, a picturesque fishing village on the Eastern shore of Nova Scotia, is a seemingly idyllic location....