Cultivating a Sense of Place: Poetry by West Michigan Youth selected and edited by Rodney Torreson, Grand Rapids Poet Laureate  $14.00

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.

Some People Have Eyes: Fifty or so Poems by Earl W. Morris $12.00

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.

Eagle Lake: Sunday Evening by Earl W. Morris $15.00

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. 

Rhetoric and Representation in Nonfiction Film by Carl R. Plantinga

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.

Thanks to the Espresso Book Machine, Schuler Books can help you save and print valuable family documents (old letters, memoirs, recipes, etc.)

A customer brought us photocopies of his great-grandmother's collection of recipes. The recipes had been written in ink and pencil on an old ledger book over many years (from the mid 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century). The original pages of the ledger book had come loose and were very brittle. We scanned the photocopies, created a pdf file for them and created a cover. We were then able to print several copies of the recipe collection that our customer gave to members of his family as Christmas gifts.