In his first YA novel, award-winning author Brian Lee Young (Diné) bridges the generational divide between a Navajo teen at an elite prep school and his great-grandmother’s experience at a federal boarding school for Indigenous students. The book is an eye-opening call for community healing and a profound coming-of-age story.Even if it hurts to leave behind his friends and family in Navajo, New Mexico—especially his great-grandmother, Mildred—Derrick knows his scho...

A hidden world. A murdered mother. A girl who refuses to look away.Fourteen-year-old Sophia Sprite's world ended the day her parents died. Shipped off to live with her eccentric grandfather in Elwha, Washington-the man the whole town dismisses as the "crazy Bigfoot guy"-she expects nothing but loneliness and grief.Then she finds the trunk in the attic.Hidden among her mother's possessions are objects that shouldn't exist: a cloak that bends light ar...

An unmissable companion to Healer of the Water Monster, which won the American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award, this novel by Navajo author Brian Young tells the story of two contemporary young Navajo heroes—and one water monster—who must learn to work together to save their present world from the lasting hurts of their people’s past.Edward feels ready to move in with his dad’s girlfriend and her son, Nathan. He might miss having his dad all to himself, but even i...

For nearly 2,000 years the secret of Rome’s missing Ninth Legion has been shrouded in mystery, its ultimate fate argued over by generations of historians. The loss of an entire Legion – numbering around 5000 men – has been spun variously from a catastrophic defeat to an almost supernatural “mass vanishing”.“The Eagle Has Fallen” is an unravelling of that mystery. We reveal how the loss of the Ninth Legion was a truly catastrophic event: the devastating news was suppressed by Hadria...

American Indian Youth Literature Award Winner: Best Middle Grade Book! Brian Young's powerful debut novel tells of a seemingly ordinary Navajo boy who must save the life of a Water Monster—and comes to realize he's a hero at heart.When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, he knows he's in for a pretty uneventful summer, with no electricity or cell service. Still, he loves spending time with Na...

INTO FRAGILE SILVERS is a unique collection of poetry spanning over two decades. Each work represents a picture of life, as seen through the eyes of Brian Young, who has been writing poetry, essays and short stories since the early 1980’s. Brian’s unique writing style has developed and grown significantly over the years, as well as his unique perspectives of life, love, loss, hope, betrayal, family, friendship and personal growth. With words, elaborate images take shape and atmospheres are...

A black wave of terror has passed over the thriving kingdom of Larista. Mysterious invaders have swept over the land, laying waste to everything in their path and leaving ghost towns in their wake. No one knows where they came from and no one knows their purpose.Tasting nothing but defeat after defeat after, the light of hope is fading in the kingdom; but the guerilla forces resisting the invasion have received new information. The news has provided a small glimmer that could possi...

The Dolus invasion rolled over the unassuming Kingdom of Larista leaving ghost towns in its wake. It brought death and destruction in abundance and left the people of Larista without their king or his heirs. It left the kingdom reeling with the realization that they weren't alone on their isolated side of the Maker's Mountain but instead part of a world that desperately wanted and needed the life giving water they took for granted.One of the king's sons, the Prisoner Prince Alexand...

Creating Wealth (If It Is so Easy, Why Do so Few Do It?). So many people ask this question I feel it deserves an answer.We hope that this book explains the physiological reason why people struggle to move on. Of course, this is impossible unless some action is taken toward creating a better life.Many struggle to see opportunities when in fact they are surrounded by them.Why is this? This book sets out with the hope of helping people sort out what is anchoring them t...

History has often ignored the influence in modern Quebec of family dynasties, patriarchy, seigneurial land, and traditional institutions. Following the ascent of four generations from two families through eighteenth-century New France to the onset of the First World War, Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec compares the French Catholic Taschereaus and the Anglican and English-speaking McCords.Consulting private, institutional, and legal archives, Brian Young studies...

The bread you buy at the supermarket today bears almost no physical resemblance to the bread consumed just a century ago. In 1961, a quiet laboratory experiment fundamentally altered global diets forever. It completely bypassed the ancient, slow process of natural fermentation in favor of aggressive mechanical force and complex chemical additives. The goal was extreme efficiency. Traditional baking required hours of resting and specific, high-protein wheat. The Chorleywood Bread Process ut...

RUNAWAY is a fascinating account of the life and music of 60s rock star Del Shannon. From humble beginnings in the rural Midwest, this bar band guitarist rocketed to overnight superstar status when his first big hit clinched the #1 spot on the American Billboard charts, resulting in an international hit in over 20 other countries during the year 1961. Del Shannon soon followed up “Runaway” with more hits, including “Hats Off To Larry,” “So Long Baby,” “Hey! Little Girl,” “The Swiss Maid,” ...