Bookstore: Non-Fiction
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Side-Yard Superhero Audiobook Edition
By Rick D. Niece, Ph.D.
"Bernie, you're the reason. You're the reason I came back home." Although life's journey took him far from his childhood home, Rick D. Niece, Ph.D., never forgot the people he met and the lessons he learned as a young man growing up in picturesque DeGraff, Ohio, population 900. A small-town newspaper boy who became a lifelong educator himself, Dr. Niece was deeply touched by the endearing residents of DeGraff who shaped his youth-especially Bernie Jones. Confined to a wheelchair with severe cerebral palsy, Bernie became Rickie's friend, inspiration and superhero, opening a world of compassion, trust and adventure to them both.
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Nanisé, A Navajo Herbal:
By Vernon O. Mayes and Barbara Bayless Lacy
Nanisé, A Navajo Herbal, co-authored by Vernon O. Mayes and Barbara Bayless Lacy, details 100 plants that are found on the Navajo Reservation, providing the reader with the Navajo name for each plant as well as ways the Navajos used them in everyday life, whether for ceremonial, medicinal or household purposes - complete with illustrations. The 100 plants are some of the most common Reservation flora of over 1,500 species of wild, vascular plants, including ferns, horsetails, conifers and flowering species and were selected by the Navajo Health Authority, Ethnobotany Project staff and approved by the Navajo Medicine Men's Association.
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GUNSMOKE: An American Institution, Paperback Edition
By Ben Costello
After two successful print runs in hardcover and a CD, Ben Costello's Gunsmoke: An American Institution is finally available in a softbound format.
The impressive book is chock full of hundreds of photos, bios and background stories of Miss Kitty, Marshal Matt Dillon, Doc Adams and all the Gunsmoke television show characters. For 20 years, Gunsmoke ruled the airwaves, and now western and television history buffs can relive the show's 635 episodes and millions of memories for less.
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Excuse Me, Can You Repeat That?
By Cathryn Cushner Edelstein
Inspired by 30 years of teaching, Excuse Me, Can You Repeat That? by Cathryn Cushner Edelstein provides essential information for international students to understand and be understood when communicating in the United States. Included are comments about personal experiences by international students who have studied in the U.S.
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Rattlesnake Rules - Paperback Edition
By Conrad J. Storad
Conrad demystifies the world of rattlesnakes and introduces children to such topics as who, when, and what rattlesnakes eat. He shows readers why rattlesnakes have rattles and what it means if you hear one. You will learn how the snakes’ forked tongues help them survive. The delightful and colorful illustrations of Nathaniel P. Jensen help bring the story alive.
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Arizona Color Me Wacky!
By Michael Hagelberg, story by Lynda Exley & Conrad Storad
Born out of the wildly successful Arizona Way Out West & Wacky, Arizona Color Me Wacky! features 32 pages of coloring fun. The accompanying text teaches children about the Grand Canyon State's unique animals, plants and insects. The delightful, yet scientifically correct illustrations were created by award-winning illustrator Michael Hagelberg.
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The Band Plays On:
By Rick D. Niece, Ph.D.
Celebrating the soul of America's heartland, The Band Plays On is Rick Niece's heartfelt tribute to friendship, community, and, most importantly, his father, Lewis Niece. When DeGraff, Ohio's beloved band director is invited to conduct an encore performance, "Lewie's Alumni Band" gathers to celebrate with gusto. As the band practices for its final parade, Rick, his baritone in tow, reflects on treasured memories, relationships, and the legacy of a small town with indomitable spirit. The second volume in the delightful Fanfare for a Hometown series, The Band Plays On provides an entertaining, inspirational glimpse into lives richly lived�and shared.
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Arizona Literary Magazine 2012
By Edited by Arizona Authors Association
This 2012 Centennial Edition issue publishes all the winning entries of the Arizona Literary contest in the unpublished categories, and features all the winning authors and their books in the published categories of that same contest.
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Arizona Way Out West & Witty
By Conrad J. Storad & Lynda Exley
Library Edition
In addition to true, but gross, humorous, interesting and wacky stories and facts, Arizona Way Out West & Wacky makes reading about Arizona’s history fun through word searches, crossword puzzles, recipes, crafts and many other amusing activities.
While Arizona Way Out West & Wacky solicits children to write and color on its pages, Witty: Library Edition, has reconfigured activities and word games with no coloring pages, and it’s formatted as a chapter book. It’s ideal for libraries and schools, because its readers are entertained and educated, but not tempted to mark up the copy. Plus, it comes with a curriculum guide in the back of the book!
Finally, history books kids will want to read!
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Side-Yard Superhero
By Rick D. Niece, Ph.D.
"Bernie, you're the reason. You're the reason I came back home." Although life's journey took him far from his childhood home, Rick D. Niece, Ph.D., never forgot the people he met and the lessons he learned as a young man growing up in picturesque DeGraff, Ohio, population 900. A small-town newspaper boy who became a lifelong educator himself, Dr. Niece was deeply touched by the endearing residents of DeGraff who shaped his youth-especially Bernie Jones. Confined to a wheelchair with severe cerebral palsy, Bernie became Rickie's friend, inspiration and superhero, opening a world of compassion, trust and adventure to them both.
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Spirit Stones
By Dianne Ebertt Beeaff
Nearly a decade in the making, award-winning author Dianne Ebertt Beeaff's transcending new book, Spirit Stones, explores the enduring lessons of Europe's prehistoric monoliths, stone circles and burial chambers. Beeaff's fastidious research, first-hand accounts and prevailing love of history capture not only the architectural essence of these archeological treasures, but also their spiritual strength. Uniting civilization throughout the ages, the stone relics being rediscovered throughout Western Europe speak not only of our Neolithic and Bronze Age past, but also of contemporary humanity. The lessons of these ancient stones can help our present-day society unearth and cultivate its own spiritual potential…with reverence, celebration and hope.
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Arizona Way Out West & Wacky
By Conrad J. Storad and Lynda Exley
In addition to true, but gross, humorous, interesting and wacky stories and facts, Arizona Way Out West & Wacky makes reading about Arizona’s history fun through word searches, crossword puzzles, coloring pages, recipes, crafts and many other amusing activities. Finally, a history book kids will want to read!
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My Bonus Mom!
By Tami Butcher
In rhythmic verse, My Bonus Mom! Taking the Step out of Stepmom, shows children of divorced families that a positive attitude can lead to a happy outcome and spring open their hearts and minds to accept their own "bonus moms." It captures the mixed emotions that surge through young children as they deal with divorce and adjust to remarriage. The children work through their feelings of dismay, fear and anger, and grow to love dad's new wife, whom they come to think of as their "bonus mom." Twice the attention, twice the love, twice the fun and twice as many birthday presents! What's not to love?
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Tasting Rain
By Kim Malchuk
Kim Malchuk’s husband, Mel, was taken by cancer during the height of their endearing romance. Devastated by the loss, she made the courageous choice to keep Tasting Rain despite her heartbreak. As a motivational coach/speaker, Kim shares her wisdom and wit in an inspirational memoir designed to help others live a life of self-awareness, authenticity and joy. Written in a free-flowing, embracing style, Tasting Rain provides a personal perspective on loss, healing and love. Having welcomed the power of positive thinking into her own life, Kim has become a master teacher of how changing our thoughts can change our lives.
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Cheery
By Dr. Elizabeth W. Davidson
Cheery is a Chiricahua Leopard Frog. He starts as an egg in a pond, turns into a tadpole, and then into a frog. Dr. Elizabeth W. Davidson explains why Leopard Frogs and other amphibians might become extinct. Cheery: How a Lonely Frog Finds Friends tells children what can be done to save the frogs.
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Addie Slaughter
By Susan L. Krueger, Ed.D. with Reba Wells Grandrud, Ph.D.
Famous Sheriff John Slaughter's young daughter, Addie, bravely travels from Texas to the Arizona-Mexico border, settling on the 1800s Slaughter Ranch. Along the way, her mother dies; she narrowly escapes a stagecoach robbery and murder; an earthquake destroys the ranch; her father's earlobe is shot off; and she meets Geronimo.
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Arizona Literary Magazine 2010
By Edited by Arizona Authors Association
This 2010 issue publishes all the winning entries of the Arizona Literary contest in the unpublished categories, and features all the winning authors and their books in the published categories of that same contest.
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Tractors, Planes, Golf and Dames
By Don W. Volk
With honesty, humor, and humility, Don W. Volk—in his memoir Tractors, Planes, Golf and Dames—shares stories from the more than eight decades of his life (so far) that saw him grow up to serve as a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps and the U.S. Air Force through three wars and pursue a career in the PGA of America.
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As Nora Jo Fades Away
By Lisa Cerasoli
As Nora Jo Fades Away will make your heart and mind wrestle, as Cerasoli's does, with concepts like love vs. logic and Heaven & Hell. Dementia, Alzheimer's and related mental illnesses are not something a person can really "prepare" for. This story redefines the price a family is willing to pay for one of its members to hold onto dignity.
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The Liz Reader
By Elizabeth Daniels Squire
A collection of short stories, poetry, newspaper columns, and essays. Edited by her husband, C.B. "Chick" Squire, this compilation includes previously unpublished works by this award-winning author plus tributes from Margaret Maron, Anne Underwood Grant, and many others. The book is filled with writing tidbits, as well as great stories.
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Arizona Literary Magazine 2009
By Edited by Arizona Authors Association
This 2009 issue publishes all the winning entries of the Arizona Literary contest in the unpublished categories, and features all the winning authors and their books in the published categories of that same contest.
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GUNSMOKE: An American Institution on CD
By Ben Costello
Fifty years of Gunsmoke – including bios, background stories and hundreds of photos – is now available on CD. Television buffs conveniently enjoy a “greener” version of the 620-page book Gunsmoke: An American Institution by Ben Costello on their computer, where they can zoom photos or enlarge print for their reading pleasure.
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Inside the Minds of Car Dealers
By Ray Lopez
A former “swift talking, blood-sucking salesperson” gives an insider’s look under the hood of car dealerships, revealing every trick they use against you! Learn psychological ploys and manipulative schemes typical dealers employ to squeeze every last dime out of you––while being sold a car you may not even want!
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Perfectly Amanda, Gunsmoke's Miss Kitty
By Beckey Burgoyne
Perfectly Amanda, Gunsmoke’s Miss Kitty: To Dodge and Beyond provides a chronological look into Amanda Blake’s life both on- and off-screen. As a fan of Gunsmoke’s Miss Kitty, author Beckey Burgoyne was more than happy to take on the task of writing Blake’s biography. However, this is more than just a typical biography. It’s a tale of strength, courage and compassion. It’s the story of a legendary character that sparked a generation of women to challenge conventional views on the traditional roles they were expected to play in society. Blake’s positive influence on young women can still be felt today.
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Our Orphaned Owls
By Samuel Lopez
One night, a big storm hits the farm. High winds and rain sweep through the tree where a mother and father owl are caring for their babies. During the storm, the mother owl disappears. The father owl doesn’t know what to do. Can Farmer Samuel and his wife save them?
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The Three-Legged Kitten
By Samuel Lopez
A kitten flies out of the window of a speeding car and bounces across the road. The kitten is badly injured. Can Farm Samuel find her in time? Even if he does, would the little kitten let him help her?
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Stinky Little Scroungy
By Samuel Lopez
Farmer Samuel’s nephew Mossy discovers a dirty, smelly, and very sick puppy hidden in a box of rags. There is no time to spare. Will they be able to save him? They have to act fast!
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The Miracle of the Little Kitten
By Samuel Lopez
Farmer Samuel can hear a little kitten calling for help. He searches everywhere but he can’t find him. Just when he’s about given up hope of finding the kitten, here comes his dog Stinky Little Scroungy (yes, that’s his real name!). Scroungy has something gray and furry in his mouth. Is it the kitten?
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Rattlesnake Rules - Hardcover Edition
By Conrad J. Storad
Conrad demystifies the world of rattlesnakes and introduces children to such topics as who, when, and what rattlesnakes eat. He shows readers why rattlesnakes have rattles and what it means if you hear one. You will learn how the snakes’ forked tongues help them survive. The delightful and colorful illustrations of Nathaniel P. Jensen help bring the story alive.
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Lady Lost
By Marge Graziano
Imagery, wisdom and humor punctuate Marge Graziano’s personal account of an elaborate home restoration project she undertook unexpectedly but accomplished with pure heart and soul. When she was introduced to the “Lady” of the Honeymoon Cottage, Marge never expected where this fantastic journey in historic Jerome, Arizona would lead.
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Healing Stones and Gardens
By Sherry Black and Evertt Buss
Breathtaking images of peaceful gardens; colorful, multidimensional stones; and tranquil nature sounds, shifts the mind to right-brain thinking to free us from anxiety and stress.
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Jack & Walter
By Ben Costello
Jack & Walter: The Films Of Lemmon & Matthau is a memorable testament to the friends who made each motion picture come alive. With complete biographies of both Lemmon and Matthau, full credits and storylines for all 11 films, over 100 publicity and behind-the-scenes photographs, memories from co-workers and co-stars.
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Granted!
By Chris Taylor
Teachers, who as a group spend in excess of $1.3 billion of their personal funds per year on classroom materials according to the American Federation of Teachers, learn how to easily and successfully tap grant givers instead of their own pockets for much-needed funds with Chris Taylor's newest book, Granted! A Teacher's Guide to Writing & Winning Classroom Grants
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Arizona Literary Magazine 2008
By Edited by Arizona Authors Association
This 2008 issue publishes all the winning entries of the Arizona Literary contest in the unpublished categories, and features all the winning authors and their books in the published categories of that same contest.
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Campingly Yours
By Thomas C. Adler
A tribute to family, friendship and forty-five years at summer camp, Campingly Yours paints a poignant picture of character, charisma and courage, lovingly nestled in America’s heartland. Punctuated with vivid imagery and laugh-out-loud humor, Thomas C. Adler’s moving memoir is a joyful, tender journey that is well worth the ride.
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Productivity Plus
By Jim Temme
Written by a consultant with a client list of corporate giants, Productivity Plus is a no-nonsense lifestyle guide that makes the secrets to corporate success and self-actualization affordable and accessible to everyone. It addresses time management, stress, personal and professional responsibility, improving family life, finances, healthy lifestyle, self-esteem, humor, controlling anger and worry. Key behaviors are identified to help goal seekers break self-limiting behaviors and form healthier, productive habits. Each chapter is packed with exercises and ideas to live life with enthusiasm, energy and focus. Following Productivity Plus is akin to being shadowed by a life coach that keeps readers on track with personal and professional goals.
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Dave Pratt, Behind the Mic:
By Dave Pratt
Dave Pratt, Behind the Mic: 30 Years in Radio is the life story of a small town boy who beat the odds to become the most prolific name in the history of Arizona radio. Over three decades, The Morning Mayor has been honored with over 100 awards, sold out arena and stadium concerts, topped ratings in three different formats, become one of the highest paid radio personalities in the nation, defeated cancer, and has raised millions of dollars for charity. More importantly, Dave has never forfeited his personal beliefs and has never sacrificed his personal character. The loyalty of his listeners and the love of his family have continued to be his driving force.
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Riding the Hollywood Trail
By Charlie LeSueur
For more than 50 years, “B” Westerns packed neighborhood theaters. Through extensive research and interviews with actors and their families, film historian Charlie LeSueur paints an all-encompassing portrait of this Western movie era with Riding the Hollywood Trail: Tales of the Silver Screen Cowboys. LeSueur brings Westerns and their cowboy stars to life!
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Fortune in Your Hand
By Elizabeth Daniels Squire
In a newly revised and expanded edition of this classic handbook of the art of hand-reading, author/columnist Elizabeth Daniels Squire takes readers on a step-by-step journey of discovery. Includes illustrations, charts, and real-life examples utilizing the handprints of such notables as Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Salvador Dali, and others.
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When Life Throws You a Curve
By Elizabeth Golden
Diagnosed with Scoliosis at 13 and suddenly facing major surgery, Elizabeth Golden knew others facing similar challenges could benefit from her ordeal, so she recorded it from diagnosis to victory, giving birth to When Life Throws You A Curve: One Girl’s Triumph Over Scoliosis and helping readers maneuver the unexpected curves of a road unplanned.
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The Misadventures of a Roving Cartoonist
By Tom Gill
For nearly four decades, cartoonist Tom Gill brought to life the daring adventures of the Lone Ranger and his faithful sidekick Tonto. In his own words, Gill describes his remarkable life as a self-taught cartoonist who went on to draw some of the most famous comic books in American history.
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Girl Talk
By Gigi Garner
Women are compassionate listeners who seem to know intuitively when to offer advice or merely a hand to hold or a shoulder to lean on. Author Gigi Garner has collected many of these intimate moments and compiled them into a book that offers tips on a variety of subjects for women everywhere.
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The Secret Life of a Snowbird
By Len Schritter
The Secret Life of a Snowbird provides a window into the life of snowbirds, those refugees from the frozen north who escape winter at home by migrating southward each year. With a keen eye for the absurd as well as the meaningful, author Len Schritter (a potato farmer from Idaho) shares his observations of his annual trek to Mesa, Arizona.
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WWII: A Legacy of Letters
By Clinton Frederick
Clinton Frederick returned to his grandparents' house for a family wedding in 2002. In the attic, just as he'd remembered, were Japanese swords, parachutes, and other memorabilia from WWII. In a trunk stuck back under the rafters, Clinton made a discovery that would change his life forever. Inside were more than hundred letters written by his father, Captain George Frederick.
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Tic Talk-Living with Tourette Syndrome
By Dylan Peters
In Tic Talk - Living with Tourette Syndrome, Dylan Peters shares what he has learned of tolerance and acceptance during the five years he’s had Tourette Syndrome. In a style that is often humorous and always insightful, Dylan helps others, young and old understand TS and the enormous pressures this little-understood affliction places on those who have it and on those who love them.
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Henry's Daughter
By Mildred Norman
Nearly all cultures except ours, it seems, value the knowledge and wisdom of their elders. They recognize that the information gleaned through life experiences, when blended with an awareness and understanding of what preceded them, enhances all of existence. With Henry's Daughter, readers are given an extraordinary opportunity to learn of the day-to-day, headline-to-headline world that in many ways laid the groundwork for the 21st century.
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Don't Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River
By Vincent Beach
In his storied autobiography-Don't Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River-written with the help of his wife Anni, Vincent Beach shares the intimate details of his inspiring life. An ordinary man by his own description, Vincent says he wrote it because he believes life stories provide an opportunity to better understand the complexities of human beings and the realities of every day living.
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I Just Am
By Bryan Lambke and Tom Lambke
Bryan Lambke was born in 1981 with Down syndrome, a disability that affects children in one of every 800-1,000 births. Bryan, with the help of his father Tom, has just authored I Just Am, a book that is both charming and disarming, one that offers an insight into his world.
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GUNSMOKE: An American Institution, Hardcover Edition
By Ben Costello
Although the last new episode aired in 1975, fans everywhere are still watching reruns of Gunsmoke every day. With performer biographies, hundreds of photographs, episode logs, updates on surviving cast members, and interviews with the show's luminaries, GUNSMOKE: An American Institution will be a favorite for fans and historians alike.
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Leadership Unbound
By Lawrence W. Corbett and Jerre L. Stead
Benjamin Franklin wrote, "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest . . ." This book is proof of that theory.
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Mr. Monday and Other Tales of Jewish Amsterdam
By Meyer Sluyser, foreword by Mels Sluyser
True stories of rugged people with tender emotions tested beyond human comprehension during the Nazi invasion. Sluyser's characters are people from his past who face life-and death-with indefatigable humor and resolve. With laughter and tears, Sluyser has thankfully immortalized for readers everywhere the yesterdays of his life.
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Flying for Peanuts
By Marty Thompson
Filled with inside information from a seasoned traveler, Flying For Peanuts
offers an outrageous guide for surviving-and actually enjoying-the Southwest
Airlines flying experience.
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My Life As a Gay Man in a Straight Woman's Body: An Autobiography
By Carol Sherman-Jones
There is little about Carol Sherman-Jones' life that one could characterize as normal. How many other sixth graders do you know who would hire the playground bully to break her arm just so she could get some attention? How many people do you know who have wrestled a midget in lime Jell-O to earn some
rent money? How many people do you know who have purchased a rundown bar for one dollar and then, with no business experience whatsoever, turned it into wildly successful gay bar?
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Letters of Love:
Stories From the Heart
By Salvatore Caputo, Editor
In this warm collection of love letters and stories, a group of everyday people shares hopes, dreams and experiences of love. Love won, love lost, and love found again. Most of all, they share their belief that love is a blessing that makes life's challenges worthwhile.
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The Economical Guide to Self-Publishing:
How to Produce and Market Your Book on a Budget
By Linda F. Radke
Unpublished and published authors alike learn trade secrets to successfully and profitably self-publish and market books from The Economical Guide to Self-Publishing, second edition, written by 24-year veteran publisher Linda Radke, owner of Five Star Publications, a producer of award-winning books for all ages. In addition to the nuts and bolts of publishing, readers receive an invaluable arsenal of conventional--and unconventional--methods for marketing, promoting and obtaining publicity. Beyond being updated to remain current with the ever-changing publishing industry, the new edition includes brief articles from authors, who share their candid experiences on the front lines of book promotions.
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Nannies, Maids and More
By Linda F. Radke
Linda F. Radke takes the reader step by step through the process of hiring—and keeping—household help. Complete with sample ads, interview questions, and sample employment forms, it can help you find the right addition to your household.
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Household Careers:
Nannies, Butlers, Maids & More
By Linda F. Radke
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Profits of Death:
An Insider Exposes the Death Care Industries
By Darryl J. Roberts
In his controversial new book, Profits of Death: An Insider Exposes the Death Care
Industries, Darryl J. Roberts, a 30-year veteran of the death care business, breaks the
industry's tacit code of silence. By unlocking the doors to the mortuary and swinging back
the cemetery gates, he reveals to the American public the unvarnished truth.
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SHOAH:
Journey from the Ashes
By Paul M. Howey
Shoah: Journey from the Ashes includes an historical prologue which chronicles the 2000 years of anti-Semitism
which led inexorably to Hitler's "Final Solution" and the creation of death camps whose
names still reek of the horrors that occurred in them � Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor,
Treblinka, Majdanek, and Auschwitz. It was in Auschwitz that Cantor Fettman lost nearly
every member of his immediate family.
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For the Record:
A Personal Facts and Document Organizer
By Ricki Sue Pagano
We've all become frantic from time to time, searching for a document or some bit of
personal information that WE NEED RIGHT NOW! The examples are many: "When did
the doctor first give me this maintenance medication?" "What was the phone number of
my last employer?" "How many more payments are left on this loan?" "What's my
spouse's Social Security number?"
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Promote Like a Pro:
Small Budget, Big Show
By Linda F. Radke
Getting a book published is no easy task, but promoting it may be even harder. Linda F.
Radke's Promote Like a Pro: Small Budget, Big Show helps self-publishers (and other
entrepreneurs with projects to promote) reach the audiences that want their books.
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P: 480-940-8182