Books published by publisher New Century Press

A Kane County Christmas makes a perfect gift for those neighbors who have let you know your friendship is in trouble if you bring over another fruitcake this year. Or, wrap it up and put it under the tree for Aunt Nellie. It’s short, so she’ll be able to finish it before she nods off. Whomever you give it to they’ll enjoy the familiar elements of the Christmas story in the red-rock setting of Amy’s Star. If they’re Spider Latham fans, it’ll be a double treat. The surprise ending of Hay Ride is an added bonus. Amy’s Star is a Spider Latham Christmas novella. A new star appears over the Southern Utah landscape, complicating Spider’s first Christmas in Kanab and drawing some surprising visitors on Christmas Eve.Hayride is a short story about a Rickie, a teen new in Kanab, whose family has just come from cold, snowy, Soda Springs, Idaho. He’s having trouble adapting to the holiday in a desert environment until, on a Christmas hayride, he learns something that changes everything.

The national bestseller and winner of the American Book Award, thoroughly updated for the first time since its initial publication to include textbooks written since 2000 and featuring a new chapter on what textbooks get wrong about 9/11 and Iraq.Since its initial publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell one million copies in its various editions.What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education" beginning with the pre-Columbian period and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the My Lai massacre.In this revised and updated edition, James Loewen surveys six new high school history textbooks written since the first edition of Lies was published. In his inimitable style, he adds material to each chapter noting where the new books have gotten more accurate and where they are still fatally flawed. Loewen also writes at length about the way these textbooks treat the 2001 terrorist attacks and our "response" in Iraq. In fact, while researching this new edition Loewen made the front page of the New York Times in 2006 when he discovered that publishers were passing off as original virtually identical passages on important recent events in a number of history books. And in yet another example of the failure of American history textbooks, he found that "celebrity" historians whose names appear as authors in some cases have never read, let alone written, the texts attributed to them.

Embracing ImpermanenceIn her memoir, The Fearless Way: Mudras Mantras and Chemo - How Learning to Let Go Saved My Life, Susan Sattler shares her journey of transformation from the infusion room of the Cancer Center at Stanford University to the sacred meditation caves in Wu Tai Mountain in northern China. What she learned along the way changed her life forever.When she heard her doctor say the dreaded word “cancer,” a suicide in her psychotherapy practice and the sudden death of her mother had already led her to Yuan Miao, a Chinese/Tibetan enlightened woman who had recently come alone to the West. Miao became her teacher and friend, and shared with her the esoteric practices and wisdom of her ancient lineage, passed down to her by her Tibetan grandmother. As Susan wove these secrets into her own Western spiritual lineages, her training as a psychotherapist, and her background as a daughter of a Western medical doctor, she learned how to heal not only her body, but also her mind and spirit, as she surrendered to the reality that we can’t control everything that happens.The Fearless Way raises important questions about how to find joy in a world in which the unexpected happens, impermanence rules, and things we thought would last forever, inevitably don’t. Susan’s story will help anyone faced with loss or illness discover how to let go of the old and allow something new to arise – the dance of transformation. The book includes a series of practical exercises—incorporating mudras, mantras, breathing and visualization—and numerous examples of the imparted wisdom of Susan’s teachers. She shares information about how to maintain a healthy “internal terrain”—the environment in which disease either flourishes or flounders. Readers will have a real-life example of how to surrender the need for control, embrace impermanence, and achieve an integrated approach to healing.Susan Sattler is a Marriage, Family Therapist who has spent 25 years helping people move toward greater wholeness and unity in their lives. She earned her M.A. in Education at Stanford University, and her M.A. in Clinical Psychology at John F. Kennedy University. She teaches Eastern healing practices in classes, workshops, and retreats throughout California, and internationally for the New Century Foundation International. She lives with her husband, Gary Newman, and cat, Ink Spot, on two beautiful acres in the hills of Sonoma County, California.

"A summing up of the best of Terkel."—Herbert Mitgang, DoubletakeThe Studs Terkel Reader, originally published under the title My American Century, collects the best interviews from eight of Terkel's classic oral histories together with his magnificent introductions to each work. Featuring selections from American Dreams, Coming of Age, Division Street, "The Good War", The Great Divide, Hard Times, Race, and Working, this "greatest hits" volume is a treasury of Terkel's most memorable subjects that will delight his many lifelong fans and provide a perfect introduction for those who have not yet experienced the joy of reading Studs Terkel. It includes an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Coles surveying Terkel's overall body of work and a new foreword by Calvin Trillin.

A Kane County Christmas contains two stories set in Kane County, Utah. Liz Adair's novella AMY'S STAR is a Spider Latham Christmas story. A new star appears over the Kane County landscape and draws some surprising visitors on Christmas Eve. Liz's brother, Ron Shook, adds a short story, THE HAY RIDE, about a new family come to Kanab from cold, snowy Soda Springs, Idaho. They are having trouble adapting to Christmas in a desert environment.

This book, along with the classic illustrations, is adapted from a book originally published in 1875. The story teaches contentment and God’s protection during times of trial.A family of frogs sat talking one evening, as frogs so often do. In the discussion the subject of how they were not happy with the surroundings in which they lived came up. Old Uncle Spotty-coat told them of his journeys to the big city. So it was voted on as a group that they would set out to find the luxury and opportunities of the big city so they could raise their kids with all the creature comforts a big city could offer. Thus begins the tale of the unhappy frogs told wonderfully in rhyme with beautiful illustrations and backgrounds. Your child will see that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side of the pond as the frog family encounters danger and adventure along the way.

In 1929, after eight years in Europe, photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) returned to New York City for what was planned as a short visit. During her absence, hundreds of 19th-century buildings had been razed to make way for dozens of skyscrapers. The unprecedented building boom inspired Abbott to give up her thriving Parisian portrait practice to photograph the new face of New York. Soon after her return, the Stock Market crashed and the Depression began. For five years, Abbott struggled to pursue her project, reserving Wednesdays to photograph New York City. In 1935, the Federal Art Project offered her support: it gave her a 145 monthly salary, a field assistant, research assistants, a secretary, and a car. By 1940, Abbott had completed "Changing New York," one of the monumental achievements of 20th-century photography.

When Susan Sattler met Yuan Miao in 2002 after a client in her psychotherapy practice committed suicide, she had no idea how profoundly it would impact her life. Later, when Susan was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, Miao would reappear to offer her a set of Tibetan practices that would alter not only her health, but her view of life itself. In Mudras, Mantras and Chemo, Susan takes us on her journey of discovery. She examines her family’s roots among Midwestern pioneers and the hardships that led them to deal with issues of impermanence. When she faces her own challenge with illness, she must learn how to embrace both the best Western medicine has to offer while opening herself up to the healing joy of surrender in the practices she learns along the way.

A groundbreaking book-and-audio set of interviews about African American life in the segregated South, now available on an MP3 audio CD.Hailed as "viscerally powerful" (Publishers Weekly) and "a multimedia triumph" (Kansas City Star), Remembering Jim Crow is a searing story of survival enriched by vivid memories of individual, family, and community triumphs and tragedies.This landmark in African American oral history is now available in an affordable paperback edition with a remastered MP3 CD of the companion radio documentary program produced by American RadioWorks.Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Project at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, this extraordinary book-and-CD set makes available for the first time the most extensive oral history ever recorded of African American life under segregation. In vivid, compelling accounts, men and women from all walks of life tell how their day-to-day activity was subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression. At the same time, Remembering Jim Crow is a testament to how black southerners fought back against the system, raising children, building churches and schools, running businesses, and struggling for respect in a society that denied them the most basic rights. This new edition of the original volume makes the recordings available for the first time in MP3 audio CDs.The audio for this new edition is on MP3 compact discs. MP3 audio books on compact disc can be played on newer CD players that support MP3 technology and accept a standard-sized CD, on any personal computer that has Apple's iTunes, Microsoft's Media Player or similar software, and on an iPod and other personal MP3 players.

CREEPY CASE SHORT STORIES: Like X-Files for Kids!In the early 21st century, a secret government agency was formed with the express purpose of investigating unusual, unexplained, paranormal activity as experienced by young Americans. This secret unit was code-named CREEPY CASE, because the incidents reported were often strange -- and many times terrifying.These are the secret case files. They are TOP SECRET: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY.Read them--if you dare.CASE # 3514: ALIENS IN THE WOODS I'm not the kind of guy who makes things up. Like-- if I accidentally come on a wasp's nest and get myself stung by one, when I tell my friends, it doesn't suddenly turn into a million wasp attack. I'm chill like that. I say what happens without a lot of drama. I hate drama. So I want you hear me and hear me good. There was something horrible-- horrible and alien -- that visited the woods behind my backyard. And one day, while I was chasing my dog-- it abducted me.