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  • A Map of Time and Blood

    An Introduction to the Skinner Family Papers 1826-1850

    by Mary Maillard ...
    The antebellum letters in the Skinner Family Papers – housed in the University of North Carolina’s Southern Historical Collection in Chapel Hill – were written primarily by Tristrim Lowther Skinner; his sister, Penelope; his father, Joseph Blount Skinner; and his sweetheart, Eliza Fisk Harwood. These eloquent documents reflect a complex and densely layered world teeming with life, vibrant in their ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • On the Carpet

    The Coming of Age Letters of Penelope Skinner 1832-1840

    by Mary Maillard ...
    Penelope Skinner’s letters paint an unusually clear and vivid portrait of the lives of elite young women of the Upper South in the late 1830s. The term, on the carpet, meant, “under consideration or discussion,” and, in Penelope’s world, it specifically referred to a belle’s status as unattached and marriageable.   As this sparkling correspondence opens, thirteen-year-old Penelope (1818-1841) and ... Read more

    $20.03 USD

  • Albemarle Son

    The Coming of Age Letters of Tristrim Lowther Skinner 1833-1849

    by Mary Maillard ...
    In these vividly written letters we follow Tristrim Lowther Skinner of Edenton, North Carolina, from the age of thirteen in boarding schools in North Carolina and Philadelphia, through two years at the College of William and Mary where he studied under the brightest minds of the South, to his practical education in the “lean decade” of the 1840s when he learned the “mysterious art of farming.” ... Read more

    $28.04 USD

  • The Belles of Williamsburg

    The Courtship Correspondence of Eliza Fisk Harwood and Tristrim Lowther Skinner 1839-1849

    by Mary Maillard ...
    After the Twelfth Night Party in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1841 – thirteen years old and brimming with hopeful exuberance – Eliza Fisk Harwood wrote her close friend, “Trim” Skinner of Edenton, North Carolina, that she had danced so long she wore holes into her new satin shoes and hose. Their subsequent correspondence charts Eliza’s education, coming of age, courtships and engagement, and ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

  • Miles Tremenhere (Complete)

    There perhaps never was a more bewildered woman than Mrs. Dorriman, a lady whose mind was apt to be in an attitude of bewilderment about most things in this complex world. The problems of life weighed very heavily upon her (not only those deeper questions perplexing to scientific minds, and ranging from the consumption of gas, and its unexpected proportions in domestic economy, to the vexed ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Motet

    The darkest of Keith Maillard’s novels, Motet is “sung” in three radically different voices. Paul, a professor of musicology, is researching a sixteenth century motet and finding a nightmarish story of heresy, persecution, torture and death. Steve, a rock drummer, longs for the transformative “sainthood” of Hendrix, Joplin, or Jim Morrison, but remains haunted by a drug-related murder in Boston ... Read more

    $7.97 USD

  • Maryam of Bethlehem

    The Little Arab

    If you love the saints, you'll love to discover this one! Sr. Emmanuel writes, "Maryam has part of my life since living in Jerusalem all those years ago, and I never forgot her. I fell in love with her then and I know English speaking readers will too." Maryam's story will draw you closer to Jesus and Mary, and give you hope for Heaven! ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Two Strand River

    Boyish Leslie, a retired competitive swimmer turned children’s librarian, and girlish Alan, a fashionable hairstylist, are living parallel lives of thwarted desire, but soon they will be utterly transformed as the middle-aged shaman, Mildred McKenzie, opens the crack between the worlds and hurls them into an alternate reality. Originally published in 1976, Two Strand River is one of the earliest ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Maryam of Bethlehem

    The Little Arab

    Maryam Baouardy is a daughter of Galilee, from a very poor family. At the age of three, she lost her father and mother and was adopted by her uncle. She never learned how to read or write, but her life became a remarkable succession of supernatural manifestations, worthy of Catherine of Siena or Teresa of Avila, from the stigmata to singular battles against Satan.From where does she draw the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Fry Bread

    A Native American Family Story

    Illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal ...
    Winner of the 2020 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book MedalA 2020 American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Honor Winner“A wonderful and sweet book . . . Lovely stuff.” —The New York Times Book ReviewTold in lively and powerful verse by debut author Kevin Noble Maillard, Fry Bread is an evocative depiction of a modern Native American family, vibrantly illustrated by Pura Belpre Award winner ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Bridge

    Writing Across the Binary

    One writer's deeply compelling story of growing up nonbinary in the 1940s and '50sAs a child, Keith Maillard asked his mother and grandmother, over and over again, "Am I a boy, or am I a girl?" Neither "boy" nor "girl" quite fit. But there were no other options.In this stunning memoir, Maillard creates an intricate collage of childhood memories, exploring the contradictory and destructive forces ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Running: Difficulty at the Beginning Book 1

    Difficulty at the Beginning Book 1

    In this, the first volume of Difficulty at the Beginning, John Dupre is a student at Raysburg Military Academy, where his best friend Lyle Ledzinski is training him to be a perfect Socratic athlete: A sound mind in a sound body.Together they want to experience all of life — athletics, philosophy, beer, the quest for Truth, and most of all, those mysterious creatures that seem to come from another ... Read more

    $8.99 USD