by Pam Knight | Jul 21, 2026 | Announcement, New Release, News
In Acceleration: Sordid Stories of Septuagenarian Decline, sociologist Michael A. Messner tells stories of ageing decline and forges ahead with humor against ads to remain strong, virile, and forever young. With declining hair, weakening muscles, arthritic hands, diminishing eyesight, and face wrinkles, ageing people face a quandary. As the passage of time accelerates, our bodies decelerate. We slow down. We hurt. We face limits, sometimes humiliating ones. And we complain. As boomer men get older, online musclemen bombard us with pitches. For only a few bucks (often, quite a few). we can remain strong, virile, and forever young. So, do we pony up our retirement savings in hopes of re-sprouting a head of hair, smoothing our skin, bulking our biceps, and achieving erections on demand? As professor emeritus of sociology and gender studies at the University of Southern California, Messner researched gender-based topics. In this personal account of being a targeted ageing man, Messner enjoys comparing earlier years to his life now as an active septuagenarian. Copies can be ordered on Amazon.
by Pam Knight | Nov 5, 2025 | Announcement, New Release, News
Time Did It, a Family Saga, tells the true story of Ute Carson and her aristocratic family, whose lives, land, status and fortune were lost as they escaped Nazi Europe. Ute Maria Elisabeth Gräfin von Hardenberg-Carson was born on the Baltic Coast in Köslin, Pomerania. Providing a different perspective on 19th and 20th century Europe, the countess shares the drama, sadness, love, anger, betrayal, and joy that make her the woman she is today. Now living a very full life in America, Ute Carson continues her journey with unflinching love for family, a passion for living, and a wondrous outlook in spite of everything.
by Pam Knight | Mar 14, 2025 | Announcement, New Release, News
Free of the Shadow, poems and stories by Lou Faber, shows sharp wit, deep struggles and astute observations of a twice adopted child who never knew his birth parents. A retired attorney and prolific blogger living in Florida, Faber pieces together his heritage and how he learned to love and be loved, in this second book of poetry. This is for the child /who peers from faded photos /who craved a father and a mother /having both, having neither. Insightful, reflective, a great read.
by Pam Knight | Jan 5, 2024 | Announcement, New Release, News
Love’s Wishbone by Robert Pfeiffer are the poems of a father, a husband, a human, at midlife – melancholy, nostalgic, tinged with regret, yet ultimately hopeful for the future. These poems look backwards with nostalgia and regret, but also with fondness and forgiveness. They look forward with apprehension and fear, but also with hope. More than anything, Pfeiffer’s poetry in Love’s Wishbone is about trying to find meaning in moments before it’s too late.
by Pam Knight | Nov 8, 2023 | New Release, News
Say Anything, the fifth book of poetry and prose from Lee Rossi, captures insights and unresolvable contradictions as he shifts from a social exterior reality to an inner psychological reality; from a world of fact and idea, to a world of nuance and shadow. Filled with oxymoron and paradox, the poems and prose gleam like pieces of colored glass in a kaleidoscope, with changing facets and shifting viewpoints.
by Pam Knight | Nov 8, 2023 | New Release, News
In Coming Home, Kay Tobler Liss’s second novel, four generations of a family return to cherished places in nature from their youth and uncover buried secrets about themselves. From the coast of North Carolina to New York, from Savannah, Georgia to Switzerland, the places include a meadow, a pine grove, a river, and mountain valley. Their journeys begin after a Christmas dinner together and end a year later when they share their healing journeys with each other, and thus start to heal as a family. One of the pivotal events in the life of the family is the death of a sibling and son. The most valuable lesson they learn is that nature can not only be a source of beauty and solace but of personal transformation and expanding one’s compassion for all life.
