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Windshift Press . . now five years old.
Windshift
Press publishes books that present the dreams and aspirations
of people who have a distinctive voice and are working to
reshape our cultural and literary landscape while strengthening
our larger sense of community. As we enter our fifth year,
we continue to offer an eclectic list of fiction and non-fiction
titles.
Translated
from the original Yiddish, From Man to Man is a collection
of the prose poems of Moshe Nadir, originally published
in 1919. This American playwright and poet is enjoying a
new renaissance, and it is no small wonder why. The work
is of tremendous depth and the translation by Harvey Fink
is an example of the same love and quest for the greater
truths of Life which Nadir shared.
With
several authors bringing out their second titles under our
imprint we our 2006/2007 publishing year will be filled
with books of exceptional quality and style.
In
this second book in the Circle series, Circle of Attachment,
author Elizabeth Gallacher takes up the life of FBI agent
Warren Marshall as he moves from the 1950's America of McCarthy
into a brief moment of hope that came with the Kennedy presidency.
His life and the lives of his European friends are again
altered significantly by these political changes.
Circle
of Attachment is an opportunity to meet up with the
characters of Circle of Beginning and see where life
and time have taken them.
The
Greatest Show on Earth is a series of poetic peeks into
conversations between creatures, humans and maybe other-worldly
friends Lenore Hellum's writing is always optimistic and
whimsically funny, riddled with metaphors that adults get
and children already know. Following on from her hugely
successful children's chapter book 9 Lives in 2005, Lenore
Hellum is set to charm us yet again whatever our age.
Requiem
for the Shadow Keepers explores the roles of fear, death,
hope, loss, love, and friendship which became powerful forces
that shaped the way the characters would come to view themselves
in society. Based on her grandfather's war, Laura Stevenson
Waldie spreads this epic WWII adventure before us with a
deft flourish.
A
Life Unbalanced is a clinical fable which describes
the destruction of the author's balance by the antibiotic
Gentamicin. Anna Jean Mallinson has used the power of her
imagination not to transform the experience but to give
it meaning. This heartwarming and universal account of what
it is like to live with, in and above disability makes for
a real page turner.
A
life of addiction is a hard thing to read about. It is an
even greater ordeal to have lived it. A Place Where Weeds
and Roses Grow is the true story of author Joan Spencer's
destructive addiction to gambling. This vividly drawn account
is difficult to put down. This book serves as a warning
to all of us, of the very real damage that can be done by
gambling to our modern social fabric, but does so on such
a personal level, that it reaches all of us - no matter
what our circumstance may be.
Gay
101: A Straight Look at Gay Life will hit the shelves
at the end of September. That's right. This book is the
result of extensive interviews with gay men and women from
all backgrounds. Sandra Janssen and Steven Coull have made
these intriguing and insight-filled surveys come to life.
The authors offer us an opportunity to fully appreciate
the "lifestyle", and find that there is really
not that much which separates all of us.
Why
Me? Now I Know! is a map for our life journey expertly
drawn for us by author Cheryl Rose MacLean. She looks at
the lives of women and offers insights on such subjects
as health, finances and spiritual growth. Her moments of
wisdom will inspire women of all ages to get through today
with grace, dignity and a large measure of success and to
reach for tomorrow with confidence.
Mel
McIlveen is set to intrigue us again with his new historical
fiction Colin Sinclair. While Falconer's Last Voyage
led us on adventures with the British Navy along the west
coast of North America, Colin Sinclair looks at the history
of the Canadian prairies during the 1850's. Through the
eyes of the main character, a Metis, the author takes us
on a very personal journey set against the historical events
of the time in the wider scope of the British Empire.
Taking
a break from her Circle Series books, Elizabeth Gallacher
looks at Canada in the decade between the wars. English
painter Edwin Emerson-Cowley begins his search for life
through painting the Canadian landscape. His inability to
choose between his English aristocratic wife and his Canadian
mistress leaves him caught in the crossfire of trying to
escape his English family and not having enough survival
skills to establish a Canadian one.
Hearts and lives are won and lost
in the pages of September Gales.
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