In this honest and insightful book, My Disability Doesn't Define Me, Vendetti shares with us his personal journey as a young man with Cerebral Palsy. Through his years in elementary school, secondary school, and then college, Vendetti and his mom quickly learned that advocating for himself required more than just a meeting with the school and some paperwork. It required a strength, perseverance, and resilience that Vendetti had to discover from within.
In "Deep Forest Ruminations," the main narrative in this collection, the author develops a philosophy tempered by the wild while camped with his German shepherd dog on a pristine lake in the West Canada Lakes Wilderness. Leading up to this experiment in staying put, the twelve shorter narratives and personal essays brought together here focus more on backpacking and snowshoeing in the Adirondacks over the course of two decades, both alone and with others.
Book One of the UPD Novella SeriesSomething has emerged from the lake waters of Houston to slaughter partying campers. A special unit of the FBI is dispatched to investigate and stop the murders. The Unnatural Perpetrator Department, division of the FBI, is a unit of agents that specialize in the mystical, the occult, and the divine. They are tasked with hunting and stopping serial killers of 'unnatural origins.'Enter Agent Dianna Saferstein, a gifted criminal profiler from a mundane background.
During their many travels to countries in Europe, Jim and Carol McCord have seen and responded to the world around them through two different lenses--Jim through the lens of emotive wordsmithing and Carol through the lens of striking visual imagery. In this beautiful collection of poems and photographs from their travels in England, France, Greece, and Spain, the two lenses come together in one seamless offering of artistic expression.
In researching his genealogy, the author was surprised to discover a personal link to the Albany, New York, 1933 kidnapping of John O'Connell, Jr -- one of the crimes of the century. The O'Connells were prominent leaders in Albany, with connections all the way to the governor's office.
Reed Alexander will be signing his new book, In the Shadow of the Mountain, on August 10th from 11am to 1pm. In the quiet town of Kodiak Lake, deep in the Adirondacks, some people have begun acting oddly and others are terrified. What is stalking this winter wonderland seeking refuge inside the residents of this sleepy town- and what is watching from the shadows with far too many eyes?
George, Butchie, Georgie and Gigi -- all the same person but all so different. George was a boy who realized he was a girl when he was a child. He never hid this but didn't flaunt it either. He fully lived his life all the time planning to become a woman accomplishing this dream in his mid-sixties and fully becoming Gigi. This is a true transition story full of triumphs and trials, joy and tears. We know you will enjoy meeting and getting to know Gigi Conboy Rosselli.
