Recent Releases
Lost in Lexicon
Lexicon Adventure Series Book One
By Pendred Noyce
When thirteen-year-old cousins Ivan and Daphne go on a treasure hunt in the rain one summer day, they never expect to stumble into a whole new world where words and numbers run wild. After the cousins outwit a plague of punctuation, grateful villagers beg them to find Lexicon’s missing children, who have been enticed away by dancing lights in the sky. With new friends, strange meetings, and deepening perils, the cousins must find a way to solve the mystery and return the lost children of Lexicon to their homes before it’s too late.
A Celtic Childhood
By Bill Watkins
Back in print, Bill’s book is now available in e-book format with a new introduction to the delightful trilogy
The lyrical narrative of a gifted and animated storyteller, Bill Watkins weaves a wonderful tale of misadventure and merriment.
A Celtic Childhood vividly portrays his eccentric and richly colloquial Celtic family. The fleádh nights with his family bring forth a rich understanding of young Bill’s place in Celtic history. The tales of Watkin’s boyhood as a good-natured miscreant find him disrupting weddings while dressed as a gangster, illegally operating a ham radio, and getting kicked out of Ireland for “vagrancy” while on a minstrel trail in search of his Celtic spirit and manhood.
Scotland Is Not for the Squeamish
By Bill Watkins
Back in print, Bill’s book is now available in e-book format with a never-before-read missing chapter
Rich and colorful, Bill Watkins deftly mingles Celtic poetry, history, and song with true and tall tales of his high-seas adventures and explorations of the Scottish highlands. After realizing his childhood dream of becoming a wireless operator at seas, Watkins takes his readers to the places he visits, the people he meets, and the work and predicaments he gets into. Tackling his rugged surroundings with humor and smarts, Watkins recounts the magic of his younger years of soul-searching exploration in animated detail, giving Scotland Is Not for the Squeamish the rare quality of equaling its predecessor.
Hassie Calhoun
A Las Vegas Novel of Innocence
By Pamela Cory
In this first book of a coming of age trilogy, lovely and talented Hassie Calhoun arrives in a male-dominated Las Vegas to make it as a singer. Her beauty immediately opens doors at the Sands Hotel, but that same beauty draws her into a dangerous relationship with her brooding lover, Jake, and attracts the attention of the powerful Frank Sinatra.
With her innocence and identity on the line, the road to stardom puts Hassie in several compromising situations. Cory offers a deceptively sophisticated look into the life of an ambitious young woman during the era of the Rat Pack, whose very passions impede her dreams in a way that many women could secretly relate to. The rest of the trilogy follows this engaging character through New York and London as she endures trial and error.
Our Jewish Robot Future
By Leonard Borman
Our Jewish Robot Future presents a cheeky story that visits the Garden of Eden and questions the absence of an 11th commandment: Thou shall NOT nosh thy brother. Margarita Haralson, a post-menopausal housewife determined to become pregnant in spite of her children’s refusal to give her grandchildren, narrates the story to her newborn child. This is a must read for anyone curious for an alternative, comedic take on human existence and Jewish family relations.
Backlist (alphabetical order)
A Beirut Heart
One Woman’s War
By Cathy Sultan
A memoir of fourteen years as an American living in Beirut—the last eight years during the brutal, destructive fighting in the city she loved. Even after a bullet pierced the apron that hung in her kitchen, she is determined to support her Lebanese physician husband and comfort her two small children. This is a war story from the perspective of a wife and mother.
Call to Liberty
Bridging the Divide Between Liberals and Conservatives
By Anthony Signorelli
Offers practical strategies for liberals and conservatives who want to come together and reclaim basic American principles. Call to Liberty shows how to maximize freedom with bold proposals that utilize both traditional and web-driven media and organizing methods.
Greater Trouble in the Lesser Antilles
By Charles Locks
For Captain Brian, sailor/philosopher and hero of this entertaining Caribbean novel, trouble has a way of finding him. First, his friend, Leif the Thief, is mysteriously murdered. Then the seductive Billie insists they team up to solve the crime. An entertaining mix of shady characters, sunny places, and escapist tropical fiction.
Israeli and Palestinian Voices
A Dialogue with Both Sides
By Cathy Sultan
Begins with an account of Ms. Sultan’s adventure-ridden trip to Jerusalem and Ramallah to interview individuals on both sides of the conflict. The detailed interviews form the body of the book, followed by a primer on the conflict’s history. A book to open eyes to the human realities of life in Israel-Palestine.
The Litigators
By Lindsay G. Arthur Jr.
A woman living near a toxic waste site, recently treated with genetically engineered microbes, develops a mysterious neurological illness. At a neighborhood church supper, she meets a passionate young lawyer who decides to seek justice for his new client by taking on the largest law firm in Minnesota. The battle brings together three tenacious lawyers and their clients in a way that forever changes the lives of all.
The Once and Future Celt
By Bill Watkins
Twenty-one year old Bill is stranded in a Gypsy camp with an injured foot, cared for by the beautiful, unattainable Riena. The Gypsies, or Romany, suffer a negative reputation in Britain, a notion that Bill’s stay challenges. With his prowess on the fiddle and keen interest in their culture, the Gypsies—and Riena—grow to accept him. Bill discovers that his Celtic roots may not be so different from the misunderstood Romany.
The New Writer’s Handbook 2007
A Practical Anthology of Best Advice for Your Craft and Career
Preface by Erica Jong
Edited by Philip Martin
An anthology of 60 cross-disciplinary articles to refresh and upgrade any writer's skills, with advice on craft and career development. Offers expert how-tos on writing and marketing techniques, short pieces on creativity and professional issues and overall encouragement. For aspiring and experienced writers.
The New Writer’s Handbook, Volume 2
A Practical Anthology of Best Advice for Your Craft and Career
Preface by Ted Kooser
Edited by Philip Martin
The New Writer’s Handbook is back! The New Writer’s Handbook, Volume 2, continues in the vein of its highly praised predecessor, The New Writer’s Handbook 2007. Library Journal, in its Starred Review, said the inaugural edition “surprises and satisfies.” For the second edition, Scarletta Press decided to drop the year from the title because the advice of highly respected, bestselling authors is timeless.
Tragedy in South Lebanon
By Cathy Sultan
Cathy Sultan combines compelling history and vivid personal interviews to relate the lives of the oft-ignored civilians of southern Lebanon and northern Israel during the July war of 2006. Throughout the book, these narratives of mothers, soldiers, activists and ambulance drivers on both sides are memorable for their detail, honesty, and the deep sense of tragedy they relate.
Ultimate Breakthrough Planning
The Business Funnel Approach
By Mike Ferrell
It’s virtually impossible to hit a target you can’t see! And yet that’s what most business owners try to do by using the traditional approach to business planning. Tried and untrue, the traditional model is flawed: it creates a static document—not an active process—to grow a business.
Long-time business consultant Mike Ferrell’s new book, Ultimate Breakthrough Planning, shows business owners how to create and successfully execute business growth plans.
Willow in a Storm
By James Peter Taylor and Kathleen Murphy-Taylor
In this raw, unflinching memoir, James Peter Taylor recounts the events of his unusual life, over forty years of which were spent incarcerated. Mentally and sexually abused by his adoptive father, Taylor receives a life sentence at age 30 when he kills a man during a robbery. He manages to survive in prison, despite rampant violence, in part by playing a woman’s role. Decades later, a reformed Taylor is released, bolstered by his marriage to the book’s coauthor, a former social worker.
Written on the Knee
A Diary from the Greek-Italian Front of WWII
Diary by Dr. Theodore Electris
Edited and translated by Helen Electrie Lindsay
Introduction by Louis de Bernières
During the Greek-Italian conflict of World War II, Dr. Theodore Electris, newly married and idealistic, was called up to the Greek-Italian front in the remote mountains of Albania. Homesick, hungry and desperately missing his young wife, Chrysoula, he kept an intimate journal to preserve his experiences for her.
Yankee Invasion
By Ignacio Solares
Yankee Invasion: A Novel of Mexico City centers on one of the most traumatic periods of Mexican history: the 1847 American invasion of Mexico City, which resulted in Mexico losing nearly half its land. Abelardo, the narrator, is haunted by an act of resistance he committed against an American soldier. Now an old man, he also recalls his painful love for his fiancée—and her mother. Originally published in Mexico as La invasión, author Ignacio Solares is one of Mexico’s most respected writers and academics.