A Black man adopted by extended family and raised in a loving home is haunted by questions about the birth father that no one will tell him about. A haunting memoir about the power of DNA connection and the persistent need to know your roots.
Jarrell’s story will be helpful for adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents, as well as youth groups and classes in congregations and social studies classes.
Retail Price: $20.00
ISBNs: 978-1-958728-16-1 (paper) & 978-1-958728-17-8 (ebook)
LCCN: 2023949737
When a Syrian journalist disappears from the London home she shares with her British partner while investigating the treatment of asylum seekers by Britain’s Ultra Party, her partner seeks help from four renegade Members of Parliament and the community of Syrian immigrants. Their search for Ana leads them to an international adoption network, Britain’s retired chemical weapons facility, and a runaway Saudi princess and provokes an international scandal.
Retail price: $20.00
ISBNs: 978-1-958728-18-5 (paper) & 978-1-958728-19-2 (ebook)
LCCN: 2024930300
Aida Dziho-Sator was a child when the Bosnian War began in 1992. She has since become an internationally traveled professor of English Literature who somehow manages to also write exquisite poetry while teaching, applying for travel grants, and raising two children. Her poems are about relationships, memory, being a woman, and internal and external wars. They are truthful, powerful, and even funny.
Retail Price: $15.00
ISBNs: 978-1-958728-21-5 (paper) & 978-1-958728-20-8 (ebook)
LCCN: 2024930887
36 authors from different ethnicities and religions reflect in prose and poetry on losing loved ones and finding a way forward. Includes information on how different religions handle death and how people have coped with deaths from war, from police violence, suicide, murder, AIDS, dementia, illness.
Perspectives include a mortician, a New Age spiritualist, a police officer, and women and men from around the world. New edition with added material. A book for congregations, funeral homes, and all those living with loss. Profits from will go to international health care workers.
Retail price: $15.99
ISBNs 978-1-958728-22-2 (paper) & 978-1-958728-23-9 (ebook)
LCCN: forthcoming
Pressed by Kelly, newly married Curt and Kelly agree to adopt a child. But Kelly struggles with depression and memories of his family’s abusive rejection of him because he is gay and Curt is uncertain if he can love their unusual son. With the help of Curt’s parents, they work at it, sustained by the cabin in the Ozarks that has for generations been a lodestone for all of the men in Curt’s family. Can they be a family? Can the cabin’s magic include two outsiders, Kelly and their son Clarkson? A moving story of loving and making family in the Twenty-First Century. The sequel to One-Match Fire (2022).
Retail price: $19.99
ISBNs 978-1-958728-24-6 (paper) & 978-1-958728-23-9 (ebook)
LCCN: forthcoming
Selected poetry, short stories, and memoirs about different kinds of love and loving for your favorite persons. These pieces were selected by judges from a contest held by Blue Cedar Press in 2024.
Retail Price: $20.00
ISBNs: 978-1-958728-26-0 (paper) & 978-1-958728-27-7 (ebook)
LCCN: forthcoming