Island Press: 819 books

A modern and independently minded woman in her mid-forties believes that love is behind her – and just as well. Everything is as it should be until a violent storm knocks down a large pine in her backyard cutting the lines. Next morning, she calls for a tree service company to clean up the mess,...

At 95 years young, Freya is still madly in love with her best friend Leslie, but years ago Leslie fell in love with Marshall, shattering Freya’s world.  It is now a lifetime later, and Freya has been commissioned to write the family history. You will laugh and cry as Freya explores the intimate...

MS took it all—the ability to walk, read, sing, and my teaching career—all except my faith.  Everything that told me who I was and everything that gave life meaning, stripped away in one massive attack. MS catapulted me into my wilderness. What do you do, and who are you, after that kind of loss?...

Twenty-four stories were selected from 260 entries submitted to the Margaret River Short Story Writing Competition. These are stories about men, women - and children - who stand aside from the mainstream world, and see it, as Emily Dickinson would say, 'aslant'. In Barry Divola's winning story, Knitting,...

During the 1930s and ‘40s, the Big Band Era and national radio broadcasts found the guitar slowly emerging from its status as a rhythm instrument to a viable, natural melodic voice. A minute number of guitarists would later capture the infectious sound of the guitar in the recording studios, releasing...

Can’t get enough of Pride or Prejudice in book or movie form? Captivated by Austen’s entertaining repartee and Elizabeth’s enlightened living? Do you despair at having to put down the novel or step away from the DVD? Despair no more! How to Speak Like Jane Austen and Live Like Elizabeth Bennet...

À une semaine de Noël, David Poulter se rend à une réunion d’anciens élèves de son cursus de Chimie, quinze ans après qu’ils aient tous été diplômés de l’université de Manchester. Il est impatient de revoir ses...