Products of the state and how to prepare them.

Alice Stevens Tipton
$12
ISBN: 978-0-943734-54-5
64 pages, exact reproduction of the 1916 original

Delightful and authentic recipes from the kitchen of a noted Santa Fe hostess of early statehood days, here is New Mexico’s first official cookbook! New Introduction by journalist Will Harrison. Chapters include New Mexico Chile and How to Prepare It. Use of Olive Oil, Wine, Herbs and Garlic. Hulled Corn and Meal, Soups, Salads, Special Chile dishes, Meats and Dulces. A wonderful gift for every New Mexican’s kitchen!

Poetry by Ruth Allison Coates
$8
ISBN: 978-0-943734-26-2
62 pages, perfectbound

Celebrated poet Ruth Allison Coates opens new windows on life's twilight, as well as the promise and miracle of memory. Thirty remarkable poems in a perceptive, deeply resonant manner come forth from one of the Midwest's most accomplished poets.

Carl Sandburg wrote of Ruth Allison Coates and Waiting for the Westbound, "Yours is a message from a deep part, having accents of rare music--a keepsake for when I want a slant of light on the dark path ahead." Ruth Coates' Breakfast with Nuns and Now Are We Here are earlier classics.

"A talented poet and a memorable collection."
— Judith Hill

John Muir
$20
ISBN: 978-0-943734-39-2
248 pages, trade softcover
Illustrations by Peter Aschwanden

Opening into our 21st Century, many social systems and ways of governing seem to fit like clothes from the back of the closet — too tight and out of date. It's time to try something different: more practical, fair and fun. The Velvet Monkey Wrench presents ways for humankind to exist on this planet, in balance, and sensibly using what our Earth has to offer.

John Muir's ideas will challenge your imagination. Legendary cartoonist Peter Aschwanden illustrates Muir’s ideas with some of his finest work.

Find here ways to create a modern, practical government structure, giving the people (finally!) the right to chose their present and their future: a blueprint for a consensual society. Complete directions enclosed.

This book fully describes a comprehensive, no-holds-barred practical plan, infused with satirical audacity and a warm, caring humanity.

John Muir (1917-1977) wrote and published the worldwide best-selling How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step by Step Procedures for the Complete Idiot. Similar ideals of personal empowerment run throughout The Velvet Monkey Wrench..

Boyhood Days in the San Francisco Bay Area of the 1920s

James Polese
$9.95
ISBN: 978-0-943734-12-5
92 pages, perfectbound
Drawings by Elizabeth Morales

The Iron Triangle won't be found on a map, but it was a real place -- with creeks and woods, fields and factories, a moonshine still and Indian middens. It was inhabited by Italian, Portuguese, Japanese and Gypsy immigrants in a time when the automobile, radio, telephones and airplanes were just coming into popular use. Here are engaging, often bittersweet stories of that fleeting time, told by a talented writer who grew to manhood there.

The Iron Triangle was a real place, a whole world of creeks and woods, factories and fields, San Francisco Bay marshes, and a confluence of great railroads. The people were real as well: Italian and Portuguese immigrant families, Slovenians, Austrians, Japanese, Gypsies -- making for the coming of age of a fresh generation of young Americans.

People of that place and time had to cope with rapid technological advances and adjust to a new language, while holding on to old country values that gave continuity to their lives. While adults worked to create the American Dream, their young sons and daughters lived and learned in a wondrous world of adventure and experience, in an all too brief era in the American story.

In Tales from the Iron Triangle, James Polese brings this unique world alive once again.

"1920s San Francisco Bay Area comes to life under the hand of James Polese. First-person stories capture the whimsical world of old Richmond through the eyes of a youngster."
— Midwest Book Review