• Cheyenne Saturday - Richard Jessup
  • The Bloody Medallion - Richard Jessup writing as Richard Telfair
  • Chuka - Richard Jessup
  • The Cincinnati Kid - Richard Jessup
  • The Branch Will Not Break - James Wright
  • Roadmap Through Bullying: Effective Bully Prevention for Educators - Julie Nicolai
  • The Definitive Brother Juniper - Father Justin 'Fred' McCarthy
  • Portrait of an Artist with 26 Horses: Empty-Grave Vanilla Edition - William Eastlake
  • The Tales of Yot - Adam Nicolai
  • The Shaggy Man of Oz - Jack Snow
  • The Magical Mimics in Oz - Jack Snow
  • The Silver Princess in Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson
  • Armchair Locomotion - Jen May
  • Grin and Bear It - George Lichty
  • The Strange World of Mr. Mum - Irving Phillips
  • Brother Juniper - Fr Justin McCarthy
  • Brother Juniper at Work and Play - Fr Justin McCarthy
  • Brother Juniper Strikes Again - Fr Justin McCarthy
  • Battle Cry - Jen May
  • Inside Brother Juniper - Fr Justin McCarthy
  • More Brother Juniper - Fr Justin McCarthy
  • Well Done, Brother Juniper - Fr Justin McCarthy
  • The Whimsical World of Brother Juniper - Fr Justin McCarthy
  • The Ecumenical Brother Juniper - Fr Justin McCarthy

Available Print Books and eBooks

Battle Cry

Jen May

ISBN
(paperback) 978-1-62089-017-2
Across cultures, the warrior sounds: grieving, hurling, releasing anguish and might. This book is a reckoning in poetry of violence today, the personal and the accidental, the purposeful and the horrific. Capturing time as a domestic violence survivor, a witness, a mother and a fellow traveler, Battle Cry’s author leads us on a tour of the unimaginable. Yet Jen May brings the reader through, somehow reconciled to love, hope, and possibility.

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Jen May is a poet warrior. As a former police officer, she has witnessed much grief and inhumanity. As a writer, she refuses to give up hope. Jen May is a founding member of Open Sky Poets in the Fox Valley, Illinois region. You may have seen her read at an open mic at A-Town Poetics or Harmonious Howl. She has been a featured reader at Waterline Writers, Lit by the Bridge, and Mutual Ground’s Survivor’s Art Show. Jen has previously served as editor of two fine arts magazines, Byzantium and Towers. Most recently, she has been published in the Journal of Modern Poetry 17: Poetry of Protest. Visit her blog www.JenMayPoems.com for posts on the arts, charity, compassionate humanism, words, writing prompts, and poetic form. Look for her next book Midnight Birdsong, coming soon.



Armchair Locomotion

Jen May

ISBN
(paperback) 978-1620890165

Armchair Locomotion is a collection of poems of new observation and heightened movement. Whether for contemplating ideas while at rest or moving mindlessly, author Jen May manages to turn image to the surreal and action to dream.

This debut collection is comprised of a journey through days and seasons, urban to landscape, from the sterile to the emotional.

May has a talent for fresh images, in “Renewal,” for example: mist covers everything like secrets and wears a frost bandage the next morning.

Extraordinary.

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Jen May is a poet warrior. As a former police officer, she has witnessed much grief and inhumanity. As a writer and warrior, she refuses to give up hope. Jen May is a founding member of Open Sky Poets in the Fox Valley, Illinois region. You may have seen her read at an open mic at A-Town Poetics or Harmonious Howl. She has been a featured reader at Waterline Writers, Lit by the Bridge, and Mutual Ground’s Survivor’s Art Show. Jen has previously served as editor of two fine arts magazines, Byzantium and Towers. Most recently, she has been published in the Journal of Modern Poetry 17: Poetry of Protest. Visit her blog www.JenMayPoems.com for posts on the arts, charity, compassionate humanism, words, writing prompts, and poetic form. Look for her next book Battle Cry, coming soon.



The Definitive Brother Juniper

Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy

ISBN
(hardcover) 978-1620890134

Owners of this edition will receive access to non-DRM ebook versions of every book in the series–for free!

The Definitive Brother Juniper is the culmination of The Brother Juniper Rejuvenation Project. This 888-page hardcover (6.14″ x 9.21″) contains every single cartoon from all eight of the books in the Brother Juniper series.

The “Brother Juniper” comic strip was syndicated in newspapers for thirty years and, at its peak, ran in more than 150 dailies world-wide. The comic, created by a seventy-one-year member of the Secular Franciscan Order, received an unprecedented cross-cultural response and was the only religious-themed comic strip to garner international syndication.

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The Brother Juniper Rejuvenation Project has done pixel-level remastering of the eight-book series using the highest caliber archival materials in order to present Brother Juniper with a degree of quality never before seen. Also, the Extended Editions supply readers with a breadth of supplementary content that traditional paper publishers are unable to produce.

The creator, Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy sums up the timeless appeal of Brother Juniper: “Take someone from the Middle Ages, put him in a modern setting and you have something funny right there. He’s Catholic with a small ‘c’. He’s always trying to help people but always slipping on a banana peel. Characters like Brother Juniper, and Charlie Brown, lose the battle but win the war.”

*This book is available in hardcover format. Owners receive free eBook versions of all eight books in the Brother Juniper series as well.*


Portrait of an Artist with 26 Horses

Empty-Grave Vanilla Edition

William Eastlake

ISBN
(paperback) 978-1620890141
EBOOK
(Amazon) B0096R18BI
(BarnesNoble) 2940015146103
(Kobo) 1230000016149

“But,” Rabbit Stockings said, “don’t blame the white women. This is kind of an unusual happening. Just one of those weird things that happen through a misunderstanding.”

“Maybe civilization is based on a misunderstanding,” the trader said. “The misunderstanding that if you asphalt the whole world, replace nature with chrome, do everything and get everywhere ten times as fast as before, then you got progress.”

“Don’t be bitter, boy,” Rabbit Stockings said.

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Portrait of an Artist with Twenty-Six Horses is a wonderfully convoluted clash of cultures, of the city and everything that is not the city, of man and himself. It’s about sinking in the quicksand at the bottom of the arroyo or making an indelible mark in the cliff-face towering above. And this Empty-Grave release is about preserving paintings on stone instead of standing by as the rain and wind brush them away.

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WILLIAM EASTLAKE was born in New York City and spent his early years in Liberty Corners and Caldwell, New Jersey. He served in the Army from 1942 until 1946 and after the war spent three years studying and traveling in France, Italy, and England. Upon his return to this country, he purchased a ranch in New Mexico where he now lives with his wife. His chief interests are good cattle, good horses, and the plight of the Navajo Indians. Mr. Eastlake’s other novels are Go in Beauty and The Bronc People. His short stories have appeared in Harper’s, Hudson Review, Evergreen Review, The Saturday Evening Post, and other magazines, and have been reprinted in various anthologies. Eastlake received a Ford Grant in 1964, a Rockefeller Grant in 1966, a Doctorate of Letters from the University of Albuquerque in 1970, the Les Lettres Nouvelles Award for the French translation of Portrait of an Artist with Twenty-Six Horses in 1972, and the Western Literature Association Distinguished Achievement Award in 1985.

*This book is available in ebook and paperback formats.*


The Tales of Yot

Adam Nicolai (illus. Ardian Hoda)

ISBN
(paperback) 978-1620890110
(hardcover) 978-1620890127
EBOOK
(Amazon) B008M9WXQ0
(BarnesNoble) 2940014930277
(Kobo) 1230000000623

Beneath the blue sky, under the lands you’ve heard of, the Unheard-Of seeps through the soil, creeps in the muffled darkness.

A misunderstood dictator finds it.
The disfigured nurture and keep it.
Empowered by the one who has borrowed,
A scribe is bound to unleash it.

Will three tales of trouble in Ev sufficiently prepare the residents of the Land of Oz for what’s coming? Or will they stand and gape at dark clouds churning darker skies—the wistful end to their old-time lullabies?

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The Tales of Yot is a fully illustrated compilation of stories originally published in the Empty-Grave Retrofit Editions of The Silver Princess in Oz, The Magical Mimics in Oz, and The Shaggy Man of Oz.

Yot’s tales cover previously unexplored areas of the Land of Ev and set the groundwork for a new lore in the neighboring Land of Oz. A map and timeline of events are included in this release.

*This book is available in ebook, paperback, and hardcover formats.*


The Magical Mimics in Oz

Empty-Grave Retrofit Edition

Jack Snow with Adam Nicolai

ISBN
(paperback) 978-1620890080
(hardcover) 978-1620890073
EBOOK
(Amazon) B008B1HBSO
(BarnesNoble) 2940014792936

With Ozma and Glinda gone, will anyone notice that Dorothy and the Wizard haven’t quite been themselves? And can Ozma’s cousin Ozana and the real Dorothy get to the Emerald city before it is completely overthrown by legions of shape-shifting body-snatchers?

Then accompany Tote, a wooden outcast from Ozana’s picture-perfect village of Pineville, as he and Whitefinger the ex-woodcutter struggle to understand what the only flower ever to be banned from the Story Blossom Garden may or may not be trying to tell them in Nicolai’s 2012 illustrated novella, Tote’s Blemished Blossom.

This book contains the original, seventy page, fully illustrated, novella Tote’s Blemished Blossom, written by Adam Nicolai and illustrated by Ardian Hoda.

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The large 6in by 9in format print version, and all the ebook versions, are complete with every drawing from the original publication remastered and presented in crisp high-resolution.


The Shaggy Man of Oz

Empty-Grave Retrofit Edition

Jack Snow with Adam Nicolai

ISBN
(paperback) 978-1620890035
(hardcover) 978-1620890059
EBOOK
(Amazon) B007JLADQY
(BarnesNoble) 2940014306744

When a simple trip to get the Love Magnet repaired goes awry, unlikely companions Twink, Tom, Twiffle, and the legendary Shaggy Man of Oz must get their heads out of the clouds and escape the sappiest romantic drama if they hope to cross the Deadly Desert in time to foil a sinister plan.

Tag along with Ruprecht the Castaway King as he spoils Story Time, incites a Whirligig rebellion, gets a taste of infinite power, and inadvertently kicks off the beginning of the end of the world, in Nicolai’s 2012 original, illustrated novella.

This book contains the original, sixty page, fully illustrated, novella Ruprecht the Castaway King, written by Adam Nicolai and illustrated by Ardian Hoda.

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The large 6in by 9in format print version, and all the ebook versions, are complete with every drawing from the original publication remastered and presented in crisp high-resolution.


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The Silver Princess in Oz

Empty-Grave Retrofit Edition

Ruth Plumly Thompson with Adam Nicolai

ISBN
(paperback) 978-1620890028
(hardcover) 978-1620890042
EBOOK
(Amazon) B0076BM7LQ
(BarnesNoble) 2940014007238

*Note* The book contains minor content edits that were made to remove or change some distracting and very “non-Oz” words and phrases. The appendix details the changes and also contain the original unedited lines.

Prepare to shed a few pounds in Headland and get all wrapped up in the Box Wood with Randy and Kabumpo and a pair of marooned out-of-this-worlders, Planetty and her fire-breathing steed Thun.

Then dare yourself to prospect the dark mines of madness with Gludwig the Glubrious in Nicolai’s 2012 short story Gludwig and the Red Hair.

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This book contains the original, twenty-five page, fully illustrated, short story Gludwig and the Red Hair, written by Adam Nicolai and illustrated by Ardian Hoda.

The large 6in by 9in format print version, and all the ebook versions, are complete with every drawing from the original publication remastered and presented in crisp high-resolution.


Cheyenne Saturday

Richard Jessup

It’s Saturday. Payday. Workers at the railhead prepare for a night of drinking and carousing as the supply train rolls into camp—bringing with it fresh workers, additional soldiers and, most importantly, the chest containing that weeks wages. The train also brings Nathan Ellis—a Texan with his holster hung low and tied at the thigh—looking to deliver a payment of his own.

On the horizon, Goose Face and his band of exiled indians watch the railhead slowly piercing the heart of indian country. He is looking to collect on a debt—and the only currency Goose Face accepts is the white man’s scalp.

*Includes a brief photo-history of the Transcontinental Railroad.

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This book is part of the Richard Jessup Rejuvenation Project. We will be republishing all of Jessup’s books that we can, including those written under his pseudonym Richard Telfair. We aim to have nearly his entire body of work back in print by 2015. Visit www.RichardJessup.com for project updates and a complete listing of currently-published books

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Written as Richard Jessup

1954 – The Cunning and the Haunted (The Young Don’t Cry)
1955 – A Rage to Die
1956 – Cry Passion
1957 – Cheyenne Saturday
1957 – Comanche Vengeance
1958 – Long Ride West
1958 – Lowdown
1958 – Texas Outlaw
1959 – The Deadly Duo
1959 – The Man in Charge
1960 – Sabadilla
1960 – Night Boat to Paris
1961 – Chuka
1961 – Port Angelique
1961 – Wolf Cop
1963 – The Cincinnati Kid
1967 – The Recreation Hall
1969 – Sailor
1970 – A Quiet Voyage Home
1971 – Foxway
1974 – The Hot Blue Sea
1981 – Threat

Written as Richard Telfair

1958 – Day of the Gun
1958 – Wyoming Jones
1959 – The Bloody Medallion
1959 – The Corpse that Talked
1959 – The Secret of Apache Canyon
1959 – Wyoming Jones for Hire
1960 – Scream Bloody Murder
1960 – Sundance
1961 – Good Luck, Sucker
1961 –The Slavers
1962 – Target for Tonight

Film Adaptations

1957 – The Young Don’t Cry
1962 – Deadly Duo
1965 – The Cincinnati Kid
1967 – Chuka




Grin and Bear It

George Lichty

GRIN and BEAR IT debuted for the first time in 1932 and has been running in newspapers ever since. George Lichty’s “smear” style creation delivers a dose of light satire and observational humor with the morning coffee. (The cartoon is currently drawn by Fred Wagner and written by Ralph Dunagin.) The GRIN and BEAR IT cartoon was awarded the National Cartoonists Society Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award four times—1956, 1960, 1962, and 1964. The print version measures 5.5in x 8.5in with each panel weighing in at a whopping 4.1in wide. The cartoons themselves have each been digitally remastered to provide the largest, crispest panels possible. The eBook version features a Quick Link table of contents and 124 of the sharpest classic cartoons to ever hit an eReader screen.

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Lichty was born George Maurice Lichtenstein (1905-1983). At 16 he sold his first cartoon to Judge and later was the editor of The Gargoyle—University of Michigan’s humor magazine. He began his newspaper career doing cartoons and illustrations for the Chicago Daily Times and was also a contributor to Collier’s. Grin and Bear It became syndicated in 1932 and won the National Cartoonists Society Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award four times—1956, 1960, 1962, and 1964. Lichty’s style, known as the “animation smear technique,” influenced Joe Teller (of Penn and Teller) in his 2000 release of “When I’m Dead All This Will Be Yours!”: Joe Teller—A Portrait by His Kid, as well as artist Ed Ruscha.


The Strange World of Mr. Mum

Irving Phillips

At its peak, the Mr. Mum cartoon strip circulated through 180 different newspapers in 22 countries. Mr. Mum was one of the first captionless strips in mass publication and is thought by some to have paved the way for Larson’s strip, The Far Side.

This book is a large 5.5″ x 8.5″ format and has had pixel-level remastering of all the cartoons. It contains all 121 cartoons originally published in 1954.

As a bonus, this book is a Motley Edition. It provides a 25-cartoon taste of one of Mr. Mum’s single-panel peers–Brother Juniper as he was in The Whimsical World of Brother Juniper by Justin McCarthy.

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Irving Walter Phillips (1904 – 2000) was a notable American cartoonist, author, playwright, illustrator, television scriptwriter, and educator. He was born in Wilton, Wisconsin and studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. During the Great Depression Phillips was freelancing his cartoons to thirty-six different newspapers. He served as head of the humor staff at Esquire magazine in the late 1930’s. He taught humor writing at Maripoca Tech and Phoenix College in Arizona.

The cartoon character Mr. Mum was just one of Phillips’ many creations. He wrote the script for Song of the Open Road (1944) as well as Delightfully Dangerous (1945). He wrote and co-wrote over 250 television scripts and a number of plays for Matinee Theater. Phillips provided scripts and animation work for the ABC children’s program Curiosity Shop (1971). His contributions to the cartoon world include Mr. Mum, Scuffy, and Barnaby Bungle.


The Bloody Medallion

Richard Jessup writing as Richard Telfair

Secret Agent Montgomery Nash suspects his day is headed south when his partner in espionage turns up dead. He knows it’s officially shot when he discovers that partner is a double agent. Now Monty’s bosses are convinced he’s also a defector. Trusting only his .45 and hunted by the patriots, the communists, the police, a fanatical secret society, and two dogs named Rouge and Koko—Nash goes on a whirlwind tour of Europe just to clear his name.

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This book is part of the Richard Jessup Rejuvenation Project. We will be republishing all of Jessup’s books that we can, including those written under his pseudonym Richard Telfair. We aim to have nearly his entire body of work back in print by 2015. Visit www.RichardJessup.com for project updates and a complete listing of currently-published books

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Written as Richard Jessup

1954 – The Cunning and the Haunted (The Young Don’t Cry)
1955 – A Rage to Die
1956 – Cry Passion
1957 – Cheyenne Saturday
1957 – Comanche Vengeance
1958 – Long Ride West
1958 – Lowdown
1958 – Texas Outlaw
1959 – The Deadly Duo
1959 – The Man in Charge
1960 – Sabadilla
1960 – Night Boat to Paris
1961 – Chuka
1961 – Port Angelique
1961 – Wolf Cop
1963 – The Cincinnati Kid
1967 – The Recreation Hall
1969 – Sailor
1970 – A Quiet Voyage Home
1971 – Foxway
1974 – The Hot Blue Sea
1981 – Threat

Written as Richard Telfair

1958 – Day of the Gun
1958 – Wyoming Jones
1959 – The Bloody Medallion
1959 – The Corpse that Talked
1959 – The Secret of Apache Canyon
1959 – Wyoming Jones for Hire
1960 – Scream Bloody Murder
1960 – Sundance
1961 – Good Luck, Sucker
1961 –The Slavers
1962 – Target for Tonight

Film Adaptations

1957 – The Young Don’t Cry
1962 – Deadly Duo
1965 – The Cincinnati Kid
1967 – Chuka




CHUKA

Richard Jessup

Living at the fringes of the U.S. Army, the Frontier, and themselves, the garrison at Fort Clendennon hunkers down with a rag-tag group of travellers and prepares for an Indian onslaught.

Can the Army’s most dishonorable, untrustworthy, and insubordinate group of soldiers—too rotten to depend on but not quite bad enough to discharge—band together against the common threat?

And will the notorious gunfighter—known only as Chuka—follow his gut and keep on passing through or will he unholster his six-guns to go against the very odds that had saved his skin countless times before?

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This book is part of the Richard Jessup Rejuvenation Project. We will be republishing all of Jessup’s books that we can, including those written under his pseudonym Richard Telfair. We aim to have nearly his entire body of work back in print by 2015. Visit www.RichardJessup.com for project updates and a complete listing of currently-published books

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Written as Richard Jessup

1954 – The Cunning and the Haunted (The Young Don’t Cry)
1955 – A Rage to Die
1956 – Cry Passion
1957 – Cheyenne Saturday
1957 – Comanche Vengeance
1958 – Long Ride West
1958 – Lowdown
1958 – Texas Outlaw
1959 – The Deadly Duo
1959 – The Man in Charge
1960 – Sabadilla
1960 – Night Boat to Paris
1961 – Chuka
1961 – Port Angelique
1961 – Wolf Cop
1963 – The Cincinnati Kid
1967 – The Recreation Hall
1969 – Sailor
1970 – A Quiet Voyage Home
1971 – Foxway
1974 – The Hot Blue Sea
1981 – Threat

Written as Richard Telfair

1958 – Day of the Gun
1958 – Wyoming Jones
1959 – The Bloody Medallion
1959 – The Corpse that Talked
1959 – The Secret of Apache Canyon
1959 – Wyoming Jones for Hire
1960 – Scream Bloody Murder
1960 – Sundance
1961 – Good Luck, Sucker
1961 –The Slavers
1962 – Target for Tonight

Film Adaptations

1957 – The Young Don’t Cry
1962 – Deadly Duo
1965 – The Cincinnati Kid
1967 – Chuka




The Cincinnati Kid – Tango Edition

Richard Jessup

We follow The Kid as he traverses Richard Jessup’s pithy text, calculating the odds of his life and preparing for the ultimate showdown with The Man. Then we switch gears and grip the armrests as The Kid is pummeled by Hollywood – and all its sexy, violent card tricks – in the complete text of the screenplay.

Using this Tango edition’s unique similarity reporting…

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and comprehensive dialogue matching tools we can then track the transformation of published novel to produced screenplay.

The book contains a complete comparison of all the characters, plots, as well as other interesting observations. Dialogue that the screenplay writers took word-for-word from the book is highlighted and the corresponding novel page numbers are noted. (The eBook release contains reciprocal dialogue linking as well as two complete versions of the book – one with the dialogue similarities marked and the other with no markings or links for pleasure reading.)

The parsed data in this book is a valuable tool for educators, students, novel authors, screenplay writers, readers interested in adaptations, and readers looking to dig into literature in a new and unique way.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Written as Richard Jessup

1954 – The Cunning and the Haunted (The Young Don’t Cry)
1955 – A Rage to Die
1956 – Cry Passion
1957 – Cheyenne Saturday
1957 – Comanche Vengeance
1958 – Long Ride West
1958 – Lowdown
1958 – Texas Outlaw
1959 – The Deadly Duo
1959 – The Man in Charge
1960 – Sabadilla
1960 – Night Boat to Paris
1961 – Chuka
1961 – Port Angelique
1961 – Wolf Cop
1963 – The Cincinnati Kid
1967 – The Recreation Hall
1969 – Sailor
1970 – A Quiet Voyage Home
1971 – Foxway
1974 – The Hot Blue Sea
1981 – Threat

Written as Richard Telfair

1958 – Day of the Gun
1958 – Wyoming Jones
1959 – The Bloody Medallion
1959 – The Corpse that Talked
1959 – The Secret of Apache Canyon
1959 – Wyoming Jones for Hire
1960 – Scream Bloody Murder
1960 – Sundance
1961 – Good Luck, Sucker
1961 –The Slavers
1962 – Target for Tonight

Film Adaptations

1957 – The Young Don’t Cry
1962 – Deadly Duo
1965 – The Cincinnati Kid
1967 – Chuka



The Branch Will Not Break

James Wright

ISBN
(paperback) 978-1620890004
(hardcover) n/a
EBOOK
(Amazon) B004V54SK8
(BarnesNoble) 2940012294685

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Wright shines in the Empty-Grave Extended Edition of THE BRANCH WILL NOT BREAK.

This beautifully bound 6″ by 9″ trade paperback also contains a complete word-frequency report for readers that wish to delve further into interpretation.

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The publisher has done everything possible to ensure the main body of text in this book matches its original 1963 release; this includes page size, vertical and horizontal alignment of each individual poem and its separate stanzas, verses that span multiple pages, and non-traditional use of white space.

In these forty-three poems the wordsmith weaves together visions of nature and the decay of American life in true form. Readers can further dig their teeth into interpretation and theme via the comprehensive Word Frequency Report available only in this Empty-Grave release.

Complete list of poems:
As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor
Goodbye to the Poetry of Calcium
In Fear of Harvests
Three Stanzas From Goethe
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
The Jewel
In the Face of Hatred
Fear Is What Quickens Me
A Message Hidden in an Empty Wine Bottle That I Threw into a Cully of Maple Trees One Night at an Indecent Hour
Stages on a Journey Westward
How My Fever Left
Miners In Ohio
Two Poems About President Harding
Eisenhower’s Visit to Franco, 1959
In Memory of a Spanish Poet
The Undermining of the Defense Economy
Twilights
Two Hangovers
Depressed by a Book of Bad Poetry, I Walk Toward an Unused Pasture and Invite the Insects to Join Me
Two Horses Playing in the Orchard
By a Lake in Minnesota
Beginning
From a Bus Window in Central Ohio, Just Before a Thunder Shower
March
Trying to Pray
Two Spring Charms
Spring Images
Arriving in the Country Again
In the Cold House
Snowstorm in the Midwest
Having Lost My Sons, I Confront the Wreckage of the Moon: Christmas, 1960
American Wedding
A Prayer to Escape From the Market Place
Rain
Today I Was Happy, So I Made this Poem
Mary Bly
To the Evening Star: Central Minnesota
I Was Afraid of Dying
A Blessing
Milkweed
A Dream of Burial

About the Author

James Arlington Wright (December 13, 1927 – March 25, 1980) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet. Each year, hundreds of writers gather to pay tribute at the James Wright Poetry Festival in Martins Ferry. Wright’s son Franz Wright is also a poet. Together they are the only parent/child pair to have won a Pulitzer Prize in the same category (Poetry).




Roadmap Through Bullying: Effective Bully Prevention for Educators

Julie Nicolai

Road Map through Bullying: Effective Bully Prevention for Educators is the first bully prevention book written by a current teacher in the United States and it is a guide with lessons to help teachers in grades Kindergarten through twelfth grade use best practices while collaborating with administrators, parents, and students to establish an anti-bullying community.

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About the Author

Julie Nicolai, a fourth grade educator, has been fighting to eradicate bullying for years. As a facilitator and member for the Bully Task Force in her school district, she created a code of conduct form addressing bullying behaviors specifying appropriate levels of interventions and responses from teachers, administrators, and students. She has developed and directed role-playing scenarios about bullying, led student/parent/community meetings on bully prevention, and continuously collaborates with parents, students, and staff to establish an anti-bullying atmosphere in her school. She was also interviewed as a teacher representative in a Hollywood-produced documentary entitled “Bullies 101”.



Brother Juniper

Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy

The “Brother Juniper” comic strip was syndicated in newspapers for thirty years and, at its peak, ran in more than 150 dailies world-wide. The comic, created by a seventy-one-year member of the Secular Franciscan Order, received an unprecedented cross-cultural response and was the only religious-themed comic strip to garner international syndication.

The Brother Juniper Rejuvenation Project has done pixel-level remastering of the eight-book series using the highest caliber archival materials in order to present Brother Juniper with a degree of quality never before seen. Also, the Extended Editions supply readers with a breadth of supplementary content that traditional paper publishers are unable to produce.

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The creator, Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy sums up the timeless appeal of Brother Juniper:

“Take someone from the Middle Ages, put him in a modern setting and you have something funny right there. He’s Catholic with a small ‘c’. He’s always trying to help people but always slipping on a banana peel. Characters like Brother Juniper, and Charlie Brown, lose the battle but win the war.”

About the Author

Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy (1918 – 2009) expertly doodled his way through childhood in Boston. As a student at Boston College he felt the call of religious service. He heard and acted on that call by transferring to St. Bonaventure College in Buffalo. It was there that his cartooning hobby flowered and drew the attention of his peers – which resulted in the appearance of a nameless little monk in college flyers and posters. In 1942, he dubbed this cheery, pint-sized creation, “Brother Juniper.” McCarthy was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order for seventy-one years. He served as art director of the national Franciscan magazine, Friar. He also taught classes about the art of comics and humor at numerous universities and colleges; and networked with fellow comic artists by playing street football out in front of New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Rumor has it that, at eighty-four, he could still punt a football forty yards. Father McCarthy retired to southern Florida with his wife Lilly and continued to create new material for the well-traveled Brother Juniper. In a 2004 interview he is quoted as saying: I hope that my ‘little sunbeam in burlap’ will serve as an exemplar of Catholic good humor while providing us with a chuckle a week.



Brother Juniper at Work and Play

Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy

The “Brother Juniper” comic strip was syndicated in newspapers for thirty years and, at its peak, ran in more than 150 dailies world-wide. The comic, created by a seventy-one-year member of the Secular Franciscan Order, received an unprecedented cross-cultural response and was the only religious-themed comic strip to garner international syndication.

The Brother Juniper Rejuvenation Project has done pixel-level remastering of the eight-book series using the highest caliber archival materials in order to present Brother Juniper with a degree of quality never before seen. Also, the Extended Editions supply readers with a breadth of supplementary content that traditional paper publishers are unable to produce.

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The creator, Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy sums up the timeless appeal of Brother Juniper:

“Take someone from the Middle Ages, put him in a modern setting and you have something funny right there. He’s Catholic with a small ‘c’. He’s always trying to help people but always slipping on a banana peel. Characters like Brother Juniper, and Charlie Brown, lose the battle but win the war.”

About the Author

Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy (1918 – 2009) expertly doodled his way through childhood in Boston. As a student at Boston College he felt the call of religious service. He heard and acted on that call by transferring to St. Bonaventure College in Buffalo. It was there that his cartooning hobby flowered and drew the attention of his peers – which resulted in the appearance of a nameless little monk in college flyers and posters. In 1942, he dubbed this cheery, pint-sized creation, “Brother Juniper.” McCarthy was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order for seventy-one years. He served as art director of the national Franciscan magazine, Friar. He also taught classes about the art of comics and humor at numerous universities and colleges; and networked with fellow comic artists by playing street football out in front of New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Rumor has it that, at eighty-four, he could still punt a football forty yards. Father McCarthy retired to southern Florida with his wife Lilly and continued to create new material for the well-traveled Brother Juniper. In a 2004 interview he is quoted as saying: I hope that my ‘little sunbeam in burlap’ will serve as an exemplar of Catholic good humor while providing us with a chuckle a week.



Brother Juniper Strikes Again

Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy

The “Brother Juniper” comic strip was syndicated in newspapers for thirty years and, at its peak, ran in more than 150 dailies world-wide. The comic, created by a seventy-one-year member of the Secular Franciscan Order, received an unprecedented cross-cultural response and was the only religious-themed comic strip to garner international syndication.

The Brother Juniper Rejuvenation Project has done pixel-level remastering of the eight-book series using the highest caliber archival materials in order to present Brother Juniper with a degree of quality never before seen. Also, the Extended Editions supply readers with a breadth of supplementary content that traditional paper publishers are unable to produce.

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The creator, Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy sums up the timeless appeal of Brother Juniper:

“Take someone from the Middle Ages, put him in a modern setting and you have something funny right there. He’s Catholic with a small ‘c’. He’s always trying to help people but always slipping on a banana peel. Characters like Brother Juniper, and Charlie Brown, lose the battle but win the war.”

About the Author

Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy (1918 – 2009) expertly doodled his way through childhood in Boston. As a student at Boston College he felt the call of religious service. He heard and acted on that call by transferring to St. Bonaventure College in Buffalo. It was there that his cartooning hobby flowered and drew the attention of his peers – which resulted in the appearance of a nameless little monk in college flyers and posters. In 1942, he dubbed this cheery, pint-sized creation, “Brother Juniper.” McCarthy was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order for seventy-one years. He served as art director of the national Franciscan magazine, Friar. He also taught classes about the art of comics and humor at numerous universities and colleges; and networked with fellow comic artists by playing street football out in front of New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Rumor has it that, at eighty-four, he could still punt a football forty yards. Father McCarthy retired to southern Florida with his wife Lilly and continued to create new material for the well-traveled Brother Juniper. In a 2004 interview he is quoted as saying: I hope that my ‘little sunbeam in burlap’ will serve as an exemplar of Catholic good humor while providing us with a chuckle a week.



Inside Brother Juniper

Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy

The “Brother Juniper” comic strip was syndicated in newspapers for thirty years and, at its peak, ran in more than 150 dailies world-wide. The comic, created by a seventy-one-year member of the Secular Franciscan Order, received an unprecedented cross-cultural response and was the only religious-themed comic strip to garner international syndication.

The Brother Juniper Rejuvenation Project has done pixel-level remastering of the eight-book series using the highest caliber archival materials in order to present Brother Juniper with a degree of quality never before seen. Also, the Extended Editions supply readers with a breadth of supplementary content that traditional paper publishers are unable to produce.

More »

The creator, Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy sums up the timeless appeal of Brother Juniper:

“Take someone from the Middle Ages, put him in a modern setting and you have something funny right there. He’s Catholic with a small ‘c’. He’s always trying to help people but always slipping on a banana peel. Characters like Brother Juniper, and Charlie Brown, lose the battle but win the war.”

About the Author

Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy (1918 – 2009) expertly doodled his way through childhood in Boston. As a student at Boston College he felt the call of religious service. He heard and acted on that call by transferring to St. Bonaventure College in Buffalo. It was there that his cartooning hobby flowered and drew the attention of his peers – which resulted in the appearance of a nameless little monk in college flyers and posters. In 1942, he dubbed this cheery, pint-sized creation, “Brother Juniper.” McCarthy was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order for seventy-one years. He served as art director of the national Franciscan magazine, Friar. He also taught classes about the art of comics and humor at numerous universities and colleges; and networked with fellow comic artists by playing street football out in front of New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Rumor has it that, at eighty-four, he could still punt a football forty yards. Father McCarthy retired to southern Florida with his wife Lilly and continued to create new material for the well-traveled Brother Juniper. In a 2004 interview he is quoted as saying: I hope that my ‘little sunbeam in burlap’ will serve as an exemplar of Catholic good humor while providing us with a chuckle a week.



More Brother Juniper

Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy

The “Brother Juniper” comic strip was syndicated in newspapers for thirty years and, at its peak, ran in more than 150 dailies world-wide. The comic, created by a seventy-one-year member of the Secular Franciscan Order, received an unprecedented cross-cultural response and was the only religious-themed comic strip to garner international syndication.

The Brother Juniper Rejuvenation Project has done pixel-level remastering of the eight-book series using the highest caliber archival materials in order to present Brother Juniper with a degree of quality never before seen. Also, the Extended Editions supply readers with a breadth of supplementary content that traditional paper publishers are unable to produce.

More »

The creator, Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy sums up the timeless appeal of Brother Juniper:

“Take someone from the Middle Ages, put him in a modern setting and you have something funny right there. He’s Catholic with a small ‘c’. He’s always trying to help people but always slipping on a banana peel. Characters like Brother Juniper, and Charlie Brown, lose the battle but win the war.”

About the Author

Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy (1918 – 2009) expertly doodled his way through childhood in Boston. As a student at Boston College he felt the call of religious service. He heard and acted on that call by transferring to St. Bonaventure College in Buffalo. It was there that his cartooning hobby flowered and drew the attention of his peers – which resulted in the appearance of a nameless little monk in college flyers and posters. In 1942, he dubbed this cheery, pint-sized creation, “Brother Juniper.” McCarthy was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order for seventy-one years. He served as art director of the national Franciscan magazine, Friar. He also taught classes about the art of comics and humor at numerous universities and colleges; and networked with fellow comic artists by playing street football out in front of New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Rumor has it that, at eighty-four, he could still punt a football forty yards. Father McCarthy retired to southern Florida with his wife Lilly and continued to create new material for the well-traveled Brother Juniper. In a 2004 interview he is quoted as saying: I hope that my ‘little sunbeam in burlap’ will serve as an exemplar of Catholic good humor while providing us with a chuckle a week.



Well Done, Brother Juniper

Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy

The “Brother Juniper” comic strip was syndicated in newspapers for thirty years and, at its peak, ran in more than 150 dailies world-wide. The comic, created by a seventy-one-year member of the Secular Franciscan Order, received an unprecedented cross-cultural response and was the only religious-themed comic strip to garner international syndication.

The Brother Juniper Rejuvenation Project has done pixel-level remastering of the eight-book series using the highest caliber archival materials in order to present Brother Juniper with a degree of quality never before seen. Also, the Extended Editions supply readers with a breadth of supplementary content that traditional paper publishers are unable to produce.

More »

The creator, Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy sums up the timeless appeal of Brother Juniper:

“Take someone from the Middle Ages, put him in a modern setting and you have something funny right there. He’s Catholic with a small ‘c’. He’s always trying to help people but always slipping on a banana peel. Characters like Brother Juniper, and Charlie Brown, lose the battle but win the war.”

About the Author

Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy (1918 – 2009) expertly doodled his way through childhood in Boston. As a student at Boston College he felt the call of religious service. He heard and acted on that call by transferring to St. Bonaventure College in Buffalo. It was there that his cartooning hobby flowered and drew the attention of his peers – which resulted in the appearance of a nameless little monk in college flyers and posters. In 1942, he dubbed this cheery, pint-sized creation, “Brother Juniper.” McCarthy was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order for seventy-one years. He served as art director of the national Franciscan magazine, Friar. He also taught classes about the art of comics and humor at numerous universities and colleges; and networked with fellow comic artists by playing street football out in front of New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Rumor has it that, at eighty-four, he could still punt a football forty yards. Father McCarthy retired to southern Florida with his wife Lilly and continued to create new material for the well-traveled Brother Juniper. In a 2004 interview he is quoted as saying: I hope that my ‘little sunbeam in burlap’ will serve as an exemplar of Catholic good humor while providing us with a chuckle a week.



The Whimsical World of Brother Juniper

Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy

The “Brother Juniper” comic strip was syndicated in newspapers for thirty years and, at its peak, ran in more than 150 dailies world-wide. The comic, created by a seventy-one-year member of the Secular Franciscan Order, received an unprecedented cross-cultural response and was the only religious-themed comic strip to garner international syndication.

The Brother Juniper Rejuvenation Project has done pixel-level remastering of the eight-book series using the highest caliber archival materials in order to present Brother Juniper with a degree of quality never before seen. Also, the Extended Editions supply readers with a breadth of supplementary content that traditional paper publishers are unable to produce.

More »

The creator, Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy sums up the timeless appeal of Brother Juniper:

“Take someone from the Middle Ages, put him in a modern setting and you have something funny right there. He’s Catholic with a small ‘c’. He’s always trying to help people but always slipping on a banana peel. Characters like Brother Juniper, and Charlie Brown, lose the battle but win the war.”

About the Author

Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy (1918 – 2009) expertly doodled his way through childhood in Boston. As a student at Boston College he felt the call of religious service. He heard and acted on that call by transferring to St. Bonaventure College in Buffalo. It was there that his cartooning hobby flowered and drew the attention of his peers – which resulted in the appearance of a nameless little monk in college flyers and posters. In 1942, he dubbed this cheery, pint-sized creation, “Brother Juniper.” McCarthy was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order for seventy-one years. He served as art director of the national Franciscan magazine, Friar. He also taught classes about the art of comics and humor at numerous universities and colleges; and networked with fellow comic artists by playing street football out in front of New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Rumor has it that, at eighty-four, he could still punt a football forty yards. Father McCarthy retired to southern Florida with his wife Lilly and continued to create new material for the well-traveled Brother Juniper. In a 2004 interview he is quoted as saying: I hope that my ‘little sunbeam in burlap’ will serve as an exemplar of Catholic good humor while providing us with a chuckle a week.



The Ecumenical Brother Juniper

Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy

The “Brother Juniper” comic strip was syndicated in newspapers for thirty years and, at its peak, ran in more than 150 dailies world-wide. The comic, created by a seventy-one-year member of the Secular Franciscan Order, received an unprecedented cross-cultural response and was the only religious-themed comic strip to garner international syndication.

The Brother Juniper Rejuvenation Project has done pixel-level remastering of the eight-book series using the highest caliber archival materials in order to present Brother Juniper with a degree of quality never before seen. Also, the Extended Editions supply readers with a breadth of supplementary content that traditional paper publishers are unable to produce.

More »

The creator, Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy sums up the timeless appeal of Brother Juniper:

“Take someone from the Middle Ages, put him in a modern setting and you have something funny right there. He’s Catholic with a small ‘c’. He’s always trying to help people but always slipping on a banana peel. Characters like Brother Juniper, and Charlie Brown, lose the battle but win the war.”

About the Author

Father Justin ‘Fred’ McCarthy (1918 – 2009) expertly doodled his way through childhood in Boston. As a student at Boston College he felt the call of religious service. He heard and acted on that call by transferring to St. Bonaventure College in Buffalo. It was there that his cartooning hobby flowered and drew the attention of his peers – which resulted in the appearance of a nameless little monk in college flyers and posters. In 1942, he dubbed this cheery, pint-sized creation, “Brother Juniper.” McCarthy was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order for seventy-one years. He served as art director of the national Franciscan magazine, Friar. He also taught classes about the art of comics and humor at numerous universities and colleges; and networked with fellow comic artists by playing street football out in front of New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Rumor has it that, at eighty-four, he could still punt a football forty yards. Father McCarthy retired to southern Florida with his wife Lilly and continued to create new material for the well-traveled Brother Juniper. In a 2004 interview he is quoted as saying: I hope that my ‘little sunbeam in burlap’ will serve as an exemplar of Catholic good humor while providing us with a chuckle a week.



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