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  • Flowing Over the Land and Water

    A Settler's Reflections on the Decolonization of Self and Systems
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    We are living in a time characterized by violence in many forms, stemming from systems built upon mental models that need to be challenged. Flowing Over the Land and Water—a collection of poetic reflections—marks a threshold for anyone on a...


  • Treasure of Pearls

    Celebrating Life Lived, in Poetry
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    This collection of poems and illustrations celebrates the vision-widening joys of travel and multiculturalism while bringing to light the urgent need for tolerance, love, compassion, and respect for the old, young, and vulnerable. Author Selwyn...


  • Home is Here

    a memoir
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    Where do you come from? Where do you call home? Why? Often, when we think about belonging, we associate it with our country of birth, or the country we are raised in. This stems from the common belief that the place of one’s origin is the place...


  • Pricking Balloons

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    These poems transport the reader to an imaginative world resonating with mythological, spiritual, and existential significance. Here, with wit and irony, the poet challenges us to resist common assumptions with measured skepticism, and posits...


  • A Stroke of the Foot

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    We only get one chance on this planet. Stepping out of our comfort zones, taking risks, and making a new life where one is a stranger, are sometimes the best choices we can make. A Stroke of the Foot is a poetry collection of great beauty,...


  • Always Hungry and Perpetually Blue

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    Another page in another paper on another day on another train A raw, witty, and longing self-exploration amid a transformational love-affair with New York City, Andersson’s late night train rides are the heartbeat to her raw, conversational...


  • Ten Cities

    The Past Is Present
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    Each of us has memories that are born of particular places. When we return to those places we enter a realm where the past engages in dialogue with the present. Our ghosts from the past persist even when the places have changed, our memories have...


  • Seaside Summer

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    Seaside Summer is a sweet burst of poetry that celebrates summertime fun spent with friends and family on or near the ocean. Its words and illustrations embody many childhood summer pleasures including warm water for swimming; vast sandy beaches...


  • Murmurings

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    Living was not lost on us for the island’s millennia spoke, its nooks and crags murmuring… There are stories being whispered around us, if we but listen. Murmurings is a collection of poetry that draws upon the experiences of a lifetime spent...


  • Arcade of Memory

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    “The passing of years seems a ruse of the gods, for only yesterday I was playing in the sand.” Memory is a strange thing. A fragile patchwork of recollection. A dream that fades after waking. Arcade of Memory is a beautiful collection of essays,...