Just Good Food For Good Friends by Dirk Hoffius ($15.00)

"This entire book is filled to the brim with unfussy, approachable cooking. In other words, the food everyone wants to eat, all the time. The only problem is that after flipping through the pages, you'll wish you could score an invitation to eat at Dirk's house every night of the week!" - Alan Sytsma

"These recipes use ingredients you are likely to have on hand to create accessible, tasty dishes that will delight your friends and family." - Peachy Rentenbach, Restaurant consultant and former owner of La Becasse in Burdickville, Michigan

"As a professional chef I have always been taught that simple is best. Just Good Food For Good Friends exemplifies this philosophy." - Chris Perkey, Executive Chef, Kent Country Club

"Dirk Hoffius set out to preserve his favorite recipes for his family and, in the process, has done us all a favor. I found several "lost" recipes that my mother used to make that I intend to pass on to my children as my own." - George Heartwell, Mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and chef de son maison

Quotes taken from book cover.

Splitting Wood by Tom Rademacher ($14.99)

For years, readers of The Grand Rapids Press have been urging Tom Rademacher to publish a book of his best works. Say hello to "Splitting Wood," a compilation of columns that spans his years at the newspaper. A native of Grand Rapids, Rademacher used imagery and his keen powers of observation to deliver exceptional stories of everyday people, and "Splitting Wood" brings it all home in a book that is nothing less than a keepsake.

Tom Rademacher has been employed part-time as a lifeguard, factory worker, silkscreener, taxi-cab driver, handyman and swim coach. He has now worked nearly 31 years at The Grand Rapids Press.

A collection of poems written by West Michigan students, originally published online by The Grand Rapids Area Council for the Humanities "Through the Third Eye" yout poetry website www.throughthe3rdeye.com.

Cultivating a Sense of Place is the first book published by Schuler Books and the Chapbook Press, using print on demand technology with the Espresso Book Machine.

Fifty some poems are presented arising from the travels of a now retired university professor. The keystone poem is one about the effect on a callow youth of the mysterious eyes of a girl who came with her parents to visit the author's childhood home. Those eyes haunted him the rest of his not yet ended life. Some of them speak of rejection, others of joy and love.

In a demon ridden southwestern Michigan township a rural reacher disappears in 1905. In 2000, Professor Tom Morgan tries with little success to find how and why. Meanwhile a mysterious man named Gerardo Salas solves the mystery. The teacher fearing arrest for a murder she did not commit escapes to the west. The apparent intervention of troublesome water demons caused hers and a string of other murders. Sharing information, Tom and Gerardo explain how and why. 

Normal Price $22.95 Schuler Price $18.75

Rhetoric and Representation in Nonfiction Film provides a clear and compelling introduction to the basic theoretical issues that ground any in-depth study of documentary film and video. Exploring the legitimacy of the distinction between fiction and nonfiction, Carl Plantinga characterizes the documentary in a new way. He examines the uses of moving photographic images and recorded sounds in documentary communication, and describes the implications of various structural and stylistic choices. He explores the notion of voice, the overall nature and functions of objectivity, reflexivity and truth-telling. Rhetoric and Representation in Nonfiction Film offers a "critical realist" perspective on these issues and thus offers an alternative to post-modernist and post-structuralist theories of the documentary.