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Rockafella
Jones and the Journey Home
by Lindy Conroe
illustrations by Susanne Riette
Book
2 of the Rockafella Jones Saga! Rockafella Jones is homesick. Since
helping her friend SallyLou discover treasure on her farm (in Book 1:
Rockafella Jones and the Hidden Treasure), she has been happily living
there with her new animal friends Yikes (a lizard), Applesauce (a
squirrel), Ceenie (a pig), and Gallop (a horse). All is going
well...except for the fact that she misses her family and her fairy
village on Cape Cod. It's time to go home. Attempting to do that, she
will find obstacles and setbacks aplenty, and she will need kindness
and support and from her old friends as well as ingenuity and help from
her new ones. Together they will experience adventures that none of
them could have imagined.
174p - $12.95
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Emergence
by Mark Bolanowski
The
second book of poetry from Mark Bolanowski. Turning over each leaf,
Emergence is the journey of a soul, seeking, finding, and taking
comfort in itself. Dropping its tether to the past and its
weight, this soul can – and does – take flight, realizing that the only
boundary beyond which travel is not possible is self-imposed.
Becoming its own rainbow, this soul begins to find and leave
pots
of gold everywhere.
142p - $12.95 |
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Rainbows
in Puddles
a real life story
by Mary "Corky" Treacy Thompson
Ed
Vikman and his twin Duane are men of courage and perseverance who were
born during the depression. Orphaned when their mother died in
childbirth and their father, a popular Lutheran minister, was killed in
a car accident. The life that followed was harrowing. Ed says early in
the account, "If I didn't dream I could make it, I would never even
come close." How they survived those early years is documented in this
story. It is a true story of endurance and love, a story filled with
heartache, but humor too. It was a life spent with an aunt who despised
them, a life of foster homes, and a life of near indentured servitude.
Despite this, the Vikman story is not one of misery and neglect.
Indeed, it is a story of triumph. When asked why the story should be
told, Ed said, "I want people to understand that it's not how a person
is raised, but what they do with their lives that's important. I simply
want our story told.".
200p - $13.95 |
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The
Winship Affair
A Carrie Bloomfield
Novel
by Phillip E. Temples
Life
is about to become much more interesting for Carrie Bloomfield,an
eccentric, but brilliant multidisciplinary scientist living in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. When a mysterious package from a deceased
colleague turns up on her doorstep, she soon discovers that its secrets
could lead to technologies that might revolutionize the world's energy
supply. But it seems that a shadowy international corporation knows
about the materials, too. They're determined to have it for themselves.
And they're not about to allow the law, ethics -- or especially, a
quirky scientist -- to stand in their way.
196p - $13.95
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Shadow
Campus
by Kathleen Kelley Reardon
Meghan
Doherty, a young business professor on the eve of tenure, is found
hanging and nearly dead in her Pacific Coast University office. Her
brother and only living relative, Shamus, a builder by trade, must
leave his small New England town to be in Los Angeles for a sister he
has kept at a distance since a childhood event he can neither forgive
nor forget.
280p - $14.95
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The
Snowman
Stories
by George Ovitt
The
Snowman brings together a
collection of stories about the lives of others as Americans. The
fourteen stories in this collection examine, as one character puts it,
"what has happened to us," to Americans, over the past three decades.
With humor, pathos, and an empathetic interest in the lives of a broad
cross-section of individuals, George Ovitt looks at the ways people
cope, or succumb to, the challenges of living, and dying, with
dignity.
196p - $12.95
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Of
Night and Light
by Michael C. Keith
Blue
Mustang Press is proud to publish Michael C. Keith’s new collection of
shorts stories entitled Of Night and Light. Keith’s book collects more
than 40 short stories covering all manner of speculative fiction,
humor, and even a bit of romance. As the title notes, there are both
light and dark themes within the book, though the author readily admits
he leans a bit darker at times.
The
subject matter in each of the stories is diverse. A student creates a
wave gun to avenge his father’s death; a GPS leads a man down the road
to an unpleasant past; a boy makes tar bubbles to rescue his drowning
mother; a destructive act against an ageless light bulb causes global
disaster; a life altering gift from aliens goes terribly awry; a
contaminated lake protects and transforms a family; and a
horticulturist inadvertently grows something monstrous. It is a strange
world that Keith’s book visits…and the stories are very comfortable
there.
286p
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Rockafella
Jones and the Hidden Treasure
by Lindy Conroe
illustrations by Susanne Riette
When
a fairy named Rockafella Jones falls from a dark, storm-filled sky one
night, adventures begin. Soon she meets a squirrel and a lizard, with
whom she becomes fast friends. She also meets a woman named SallyLou
Goldenrod who needs help solving a mystery and finding a treasure.
Aided by a dirt-hating pig and an elderly horse, Rockafella and her
friends pool their ingenuity and skills to help SallyLou try to save
her farm...which also happens to be their home! As they learn to work
together through twists and setbacks, they also learn about the
happiness that comes from helping others and about the power of
friendship.
108p - $10.95
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Trembling
in the Balance:
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal During the Civil War
by Timothy R. Snyder
Trembling in the Balance: The
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal During the Civil War is the
story of a canal company's struggle to operate a significant business
enterprise in one of the nation's major theatres of war. Since the
C&O Canal company was located on Maryland's southern border
with Virginia, it experienced much of the war firsthand. Due to the
proximity of the canal to so many conflicts, large and small, this book
includes a great deal of military history in great detail. The canal
played a role in major battles, like Antietam and Gettysburg, and in
smaller conflicts, such as Ball's Bluff and Stonewall Jackson's raids
on Dam Number 5 (the dam was owned by the canal company). A fascinating
account of this transportation artery during a time of great military
upheaval.
364p - $22.95
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On
Air
by Robin
Stratton
During
the
1980s Eric Storm was Boston’s hottest radio personality, but 20 years
later he’s a full-grown beagle heavier, divorced, and out of work.
Complicating matters is Ma, whose sudden deterioration frightens him.
For his whole life she has loved him, shouted at him, praised him,
criticized him, and driven him completely nuts, and he has done the
same to her; a comfortable set of dynamics that has worked fine for
almost fifty years. Unprepared for his new role as caregiver,
he responds by becoming obsessed with a sexy young street musician
who's probably way out of his league. Then Ma slips into a coma, and
the diary she kept years ago reveals a shocking truth about the father
he never met.
178p -
$14.95
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And
Through the Trembling Air
by Michael C. Keith
A child is
declared dead but her parents believe otherwise,
a teenage boy is hunted for his precious body parts, a professor
violates his
own code of ethics for fame, an abandoned house wreaks havoc on a
neighborhood
family, an incinerated reptile mentors a human being, a deceased mother
confronts her son to right a wrong, an elderly couple scheme to cheat
the grim
reaper, and a widow struggles with the weeping photograph of a girl
whose death
she has witnessed. These are a few of the unusual themes in this
strange and
compelling collection of stories by this consummate
storyteller.
116p - $10.95
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Francie's
Fortune
by Kita Murdock
Ten-year-old Francie is looking forward to spending the summer at home
in Los Angeles as she always does, hanging out at the ice cream shop
and at her best friend’s pool. When her mother drops the news that
Francie will instead be spending the summer with her estranged
grandmother in a remote mountain town in Colorado, Francie is crushed.
Little does she know that her dreaded new summer plans will change her
life forever!
144p - $11.95
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YesterYearbooks
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Fiction
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A Portrait of Hemingway as a Young Man:
Romping Through Paris in the 1920s
by Jerome Tuccille
A
Portrait of Hemingway as a Young Man is apartly satirical,
partly serious homage to the men and women whom many regard as perhaps
the greatest literary generation in modern times. Like other writers of
his generation, the author, Jerome Tuccille grew up in the shadows of
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wolfe, Faulkner and other early 20th century
authors. The book is written with tongue firmly planted in cheek but
also with great respect for the writers portrayed in it.
124p - $13.95
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Twins of the Golden City
by Rachel Drummey
For the first seventeen years of her
life, Lena knew nothing but cruelty. Held captive in a palace in the
desert, Lena was taught to use her singular powers in combat so that
she could eventually become the champion of her despised captor, Lord
Daimonas. But when a mysterious fellow prisoner helps Lena escape, she
flees to the northern country of Aurea. There she finds sanctuary among
a group of men and women who have
powers like Lena does.
In Aurea, Lena also meets Hadrian, a boy her own age and of similar
talent. Though they quickly grow very close, the diabolical plot of
Lena's former captor threatens to tear them apart. In the face of
tragedy and temptation, Lena and Hadrian must each decide where their
allegiances will truly lie.
232p - $12.95
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Changed Through Blood
by Courtney Maxwell
A Gothic vampire tale of love that
spans the world and the ages.
340p - $15.95
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Forks in the Flowerpots
by Jojo Schroeder
North Brooktown is your
stereotypically quaint New England village fully equipped - as if
ordered from a catalog of all things New England - with lavish fall
color and hard-working residents minding the details of their tidy
lives. Newcomer Ella Sinclair finds that just beneath the picturesque
facade, the town, like all towns, has secrets. But, in stark contrast
to the color of the countryside, North Brooktown's secrets are dark.
As Ella settles into her new surroundings after the painful West Coast
breakup with her longtime lover, the town's secrets begin to unravel
after a young girl is found brutally murdered. It is the second tragic
death within a year for North Brooktown and Ella joins forces to solve
the murder with a man desperate to win her affection. Forks in the
Flowerpots opens the door to Ella's journey while she races to prevent
another tragedy from befalling North Brooktown.
152p - $9.95
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Non-Fiction
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Gallo Be Thy Name
Revised Edition
by Jerome Tuccille
Published first in 2009, this book has already received several awards.
The Gallos rose from abject poverty in the early 1900s to create the
most successful wine company in the world, the Gallo family used hard
work, strong values—and crime—to find their success. In Gallo Be Thy
Name, biographer Jerome Tuccille takes readers through Prohibition and
the Great Depression, following the Gallos as they ride the turbulent
currents of history to triumph. But beneath the shiny steel surface of
the Ernest & Julio Gallo Winery swirl rumors of murder and a
sweeping story of passion and power.
244p - $15.95
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Train of Thought:
Daily Reflections & Recollections
about Europe, Riding the Rails, Fast Food, and Underwear
....15 years after the fact.
by Tony Savageau, Walter Chalkley
Present day commentary on the journals
of two travelers who took a rail trip through Europe in 1982.
212p - $12.95
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Poetry
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Aunts & Uncles
(and Other Refugees Under the Moon)
by Eric French
Through vignettes that take you to
Paris in a daydream, to a humorous spin on the landing at Jamestown,
and then back to the lonely cafeterias of elementary school - French
attempts to capture the run-off of our limitations in this collection
of poems. From a distinct voice that blends the wistful and the absurd,
often in the same poem, the reader may well come away with a broader
understanding of what defines us in the swirl of modern living.
112p - $11.95
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After Hours
by Mark Bolanowski
A selection of poems from
rising poet Mark Bolanowski.
108p - $11.95
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Young Reader
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| The Wild Bunch Series |
Set in Mansfield, Massachusetts -- A
series of stories about a group of kids who get to the bottom of some
of the town's most well known mysteries. Target audience: 2nd - 5th
grade. |
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The Mystery of the Golden Skate
by Tony Savageau
The first book in the Wild
Bunch series of mysteries. The Wild Bunch delve deep into Mansfield,
Mass. history to discover what the ghostly movements of a single golden
skate have to do with the demolition of an historic building.
108p - $9.95
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The Mud House Mystery
by Tony Savageau
The Wild Bunch returns in their second
adventure. After solving the "Mystery of the Golden Skate" the Wild
Bunch finds more mystery in this second book, "The Mud House Mystery."
Set in historic Mansfield Mass. this young adult adventure series
follows a group of young adventurers as they discover wild and
wonderful things about thier hometown and learn the lessons of working
together to solve the mysteries that confront them.
108p - $9.95
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The Sawyer Diamonds Mystery
by Tony Savageau
The Wild Bunch Return in their final
adventure. They must race against time to solve the mystery of the
Sawyer Diamonds or be trapped by time...forever.
108p - $9.95
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| The Ponies of Chincoteague Series |
A series of books
aimed at young readers from Chincoteague pony expert and owner Kendy
Allen. Each book tells a story from the life of one of these remarkable
ponies. |
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Misty's Heart of the Storm
by Kendy Allen
Heart of the Storm, a decendent of the
famous Misty of Chincoteague.
48p - $11.95
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Misty's Black Mist and the Christmas
Parade
by Kendy Allen
Black Mist, a decendent of the famous
Misty of Chincoteague, and the Chincoteague Pony Drill Team keep their
heads during the annual Chincoteague Island Christmas Parade.
56p - $11.95
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Chincoteague Cowboy
by Kendy Allen
The story of rise of a remarkable
pony, Chincoteague Cowboy.
52p - $11.95
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The Story of a Chincoteague Pony Named
Misty III
by Kendy Allen
The Great Great Granddaughter of Misty
of Chincoteague, born in 2007. She carries on the tradition of
her great great granddam Misty and her granddam Misty II in having a
map of the US, a "requirement" to carry the Misty name.
48p - $11.95
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Ember's Story: The Misty Miracle Pony
by Kendy Allen
Misty’s
September StarDust is a golden palomino pinto filly,
born on September 19, 2007. She
is the
daughter of Misty’s HeatWave and Chintoeague Cezanne.
This book
tells the tale of her remarkable birth. Born two months premature, with
no hooves to speak of and tipping the scales at just 30 lbs. (instead
of the average birth weight
of 60 to 100 lbs.), she was too weak to
stand. The vets gave her less than a 40% chance of making it through
her
first day of life.
Make it she
did. Against all odds. Read this uplifitng tale of an unstoppable
little pony.
48p - $11.95
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History Books
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Fulfilling part
of the company's preservation mission, BMP gets long out of print
histories back into print and available to interested readers and
scholars. |
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Every Day But Sunday
by Jennie F. Copeland
>> The definitive book
on the history of Mansfield, Massachusetts. Put back in print by the
Mansfield Historiacal Society.
295p - $19.95
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Sharon, Massachusetts - A History
Historical Society Edition
>> An anniversary
edition of the popular "red book" history of Sharon, Massachusetts.
355p - $24.95
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| The Nation Divided Series |
BMP is bringing the historical
documents of the American Civil War
into print with several series of books segmented into topic areas.
"Historical Perspectives from a Nation Divided" seeks to bring
differening points of views to events and lifestyles of those on both
sides of the conflict. "Serving a Nation Divided" seeks to bring
regimental histories and historical recollections from both the North
and South. |
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Historical
Perspectives from a Nation
Divided: The Battle of South Mountain
Reprinting
narratives from participants in the Battle of South Mountain in
Frederick County, Maryland during the American Civil War. Lavishly
illustrated with period maps, photographs, and illustrations. Reprints
items from: MILITARY REMINISCENCES OF THE CIVIL WAR by JACOB COX first
published in 1900; THE LIFE, PUBLIC SERVICES AND SELECT SPEECHES OF
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES by J. Q. HOWARD originally published in 1876; THREE
YEARS IN THE SIXTH CORPS, A CONCISE NARRATIVE OF EVENTS IN THE ARMY OF
THE POTOMAC, FROM 1861 TO THE CLOSE OF THE REBELLION, APRIL, 1865 by
GEORGE T. STEVENS, originally published in 1866; A LIFE OF GEN. ROBERT
E. LEE by JOHN ESTEN COOKE originally published in 1876; and HISTORY OF
KERSHAW'S BRIGADE by D. AUGUSTUS DICKERT originally published in 1907.
108p - $10.95
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Historical Perspectives from a Nation
Divided: Richmond to Appomattox
Collecting two books written soon after the evacuation of Richmond and
the end of the Civil War at Appomattox. One account, The Falling Flag: Evacuation of
Richmond, Retreat and Surrender at Appomattox, was written
by Edward M. Boykin, a Confederate. The other accounts are from the
Union point of view and come from the book The Fourth Massachusetts Cavalry
in the Closing Scenes of the War for the Maintenance of the Union, from
Richmond to Appomattox.
108p - $10.95
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Historical Perspectives from a Nation
Divided: Volunteer for Service
Collecting two books written by those who volunteered for service
during the American Civil War...one from the North, another from the
South. The books reprinted are: Adventures
and Reminiscences of a Volunteer or A Drummer Boy from Maine
by George T. Ulmer, Company H, 8th Maine Volunteers; and Reminiscences of a Rebel
by The Rev. Wayland Fuller Dunaway, D.D., Formerly Captain of Co. I,
40th Va. Regt., Army of Northern Virginia.
124p - $10.95
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Serving a Nation Divided: Eleven
Days in the Militia During the War of the Rebellion being a Journal of
the "Emergency" Campaign of 1862
Reprinting
the book Eleven Days in
the Militia
During the War of the Rebellion being a Journal of the "Emergency"
Campaign of 1862 by Louis Richards (writing under the name
"A Militiaman" and retelling the short time Richards was in the 5th
Ward Guards called up to protect Pennsylvania after Lee had marched
into Frederick, Maryland and was heading north to the border. An
interesting slice of history.
48p - $7.95
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Serving a Nation Divided: Rhode Island
Artillery Narratives
Collecting three books detailing the actions of various batteries of
the Rhode Island Artillery during the American Civil War: Reprints:
Diary of Battery A, First Regiment, Rhode Island Light Artillery by
Theodore Reichardt, Written in the Field; Campaign of Battery D, First
Rhode Island Light Artillery, in Kentucky and East Tennessee by Ezra K.
Parker, Late First Lieutenant Battery E, First Rhode, Island Light
Artillery; and The Rhode Island Artillery at the First Battle
of Bull Run by J. Albert Monroe, Late Lieutenant-Colonel First
Rhode Island Light Artillery. Illustrations and period photos are also
included in the text
162p - $12.95
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