BELOW IS A LIST OF TITLES PUBLISHED BY NPRNT PRESS
[April/30/26] nprnt press is pleased to announce the publication of:
Letters Home 80 Years Later (eBook version)
by Elizabeth Schmdit Crahan
WWII through the articles and personal letters of an award-winning journalist.
Dana Adams Schmidt was born in Bay Village, Ohio in 1915 to a German/Austrian father and a mother from a prominent American family with roots to the early settlers. He was a graduate of Pomona College in Claremont California and the Columbia School of Journalism.
This account of his life as a news correspondent throughout pre- and post-World War II is the great achievement of his sister, Elizabeth Schmidt Crahan, undertaken in the last years of her life. Her move from Los Angeles to the Mendocino Coast in 2000 involved the discovery of the letters he had written home, as she explains in the book. As a medical librarian, her skills to read critically and find special significance in written words, plus the fact that she lived through the events of the war and beyond, especially as seen through her brother’s eyes, equipped her for this project.
Dana’s mother, Margaret Adams Schmidt, plays a key role in this book because he promised to write a letter home each week while abroad resulting in 1200 letters through the war and beyond. His sister, Elizabeth Schmidt Crahan, has brilliantly intertwined the letters with his main articles giving an intimate first person account of World War II.
This book takes the reader through key events in the war, starting in Berlin in 1938 with perhaps Dana’s most significant post. His perfect command of the German language gave him an advantage in understanding the issues of the time and place. From Kristallnacht to Nuremberg, you will find a unique perspective from Dana’s own words.
This engaging book is now available wherever eBooks may be purchased.
A hard copy version was release June 21, 2022 available on Amazon, Indigo and by special order from all major book stores.
[Mar/27/20] nprnt press is pleased to announce the publication of:
Not So Long Ago…
by Marc Gregory
This engaging book is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and by special order from all major book stores. A Kindle Edition will soon be available exclusively on Amazon.
Often conversational, at turns poetic, these lyrics are the whimsical and more serious reflections of issues and events that have occupied the author’s attention.
Bittersweet takes on life, love and a few rants-in-verse on topics of social and economic justice, Not So Long Ago is a distillation of one composer’s experiences arrived at with humour, heart…and maybe a little misery thrown in!
Marc Gregory, born in Los Angles, USA, has written music most of his life, studying formally at UCLA and Indiana University.
His production/publishing company, Aubergine Productions, administers his music. You can sample his work at www.reverbnation.com/marcgregory .
In addition to being a musician, Gregory has also remained actively engaged in issues of social and economic justice.
[Dec/27/19] nprnt press is pleased to announce the publication of:
The Magic Bird’s Nest
by Josephine Chaudoin Harrison
This engaging book, a sequel to the author’s first book, The Magical Master Snowman and the Black Dragon, is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and by special order from all major book stores. A Kindle Edition will soon be available exclusively on Amazon.
Veiled in fairytale symbolism, The Magic Bird’s Nest embraces the new life struggling to be born in everyone. Polly, our heroine in The Magical Master Snowman and the Black Dragon by Josephine Chaudoin Harrison, is reborn in New Zealand. Her new life takes the reader on an amazing childhood journey that climaxes in Canada. University studies there prepare her to fulfill a recurring dream that manifests in Africa where she labors to bring clean water to remote villages. She loves the wild country and…
Polly’s adventurous spirit, intuitive perception and lively imagination make this tale of life’s challenges one to be remembered. The Magic Birds’ Nest is also beautifully illustrated with colorful textile collages and enchanting pen drawings by the author, an accomplished artist.
Josephine Chaudoin Harrison, Writer . . .
It’s very difficult to dismiss her ideas. Her enthusiasm for a strange story makes it hard to ignore.
—The Evening Post, Wellington, New Zealand
The Magical Master Snowman… this moving parable is highly recommended reading and appropriate for all ages.
—The Midwest Book Review, USA
With utmost simplicity Josephine has taken Polly and the young at heart through the rainbow as the phoenix rises from the ashes of its part to guide humanity into an age of global peace.
—Elisabeth Rafael, Teacher-Counsellor
Josephine Chaudoin Harrison, Artist . . .
Her work has literally to be seen to be believed.
—The Times, London, UK
[Oct/11/16] nprnt press is pleased to announce the publication of:
The Magical Master Snowman and the Black Dragon
by Josephine Chaudoin Harrison
This engaging book is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and by special order from all major book stores. A Kindle Edition will soon be available exclusively on Amazon.
Few children’s books of adventure and discovery approach the subject of a child’s death and what happens to the soul afterwards. Even fewer do it with such an endearing heroine and such beguiling images as The Magical Master Snowman and the Black Dragon. Part fairy-tale and part parable, encompassing life on Earth and the realms beyond, this story is one to read and remember. It is beautifully illustrated with colorful collages and over seventy pen and ink drawings by the author, Josephine Chaudoin Harrison, an accomplished, British artist.
Josephine Harrison was born in Norfolk, England. She studied sculpture at the Norwich School of Art and graduated from the University of Leicester. Her father, J.C. Harrison, was famous for his watercolors of birds.
Josephine pursued teaching and sailing careers in England, Australia and the United States. She has researched and lectured on the symbolism in legends and fairy tales. Her storytelling was a source of inspiration for students in her art classes.
Chaudoin Harrison has exhibited her unique collage art form internationally. In Biarritz, France, L’ Écho du Sud-Ouest described her work as having been created by “des doigts de fée (the fingers of a fairy).”
Josephine was an esotericist and a past president of the Theosophical Society in Florida. She chaired the Parent Advisory Council in Volusia County, Florida. Before retiring to the Pacific Northwest, she taught watercolors and meditation at Daytona Beach Community College, Florida.
Her last art exhibitions included Sharing, which focused on the environment, and An Age of Miracles, a collage of materials about miracles gathered from media reports all over the world. This exhibition traveled across Canada and the United States, and throughout New Zealand.
[Dec/1/12] nprnt press is pleased to announce the publication of:
dreams through an open window
by Raymond Shaw
This fine book is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and by special order from all major book stores. A Kindle Edition is now available exclusively on Amazon.
dreams through an open window forms an experiment in poetry: individual poems that stand on their own, but when taken together, create a whole. Shaw suggests that you read the poems in sequence, from beginning to end, to receive the full impact and overall intent of the piece, after which, you may choose to enjoy the poems as you wish.
In dreams through an open window, the author combines the ideas of the poets T.S. Eliot (in relation to meaning) and Theodore Roethke (in relation to form). The collection is a metaphorical journey, following the unfolding of a poetical consciousness from youth to maturity.
The author hopes that by reading dreams through an open window people will experience a glimpse into their own inner self and find a moment of release from their daily challenges. He recommends that you: “Dip into this collection, when you want to dream of other things.”
Raymond Shaw was born in British Columbia, Canada in the spring of 1953. He displayed a creative nature at an early age taking up music and composition and later turned to writing and poetry. In 1988 he became a freelance graphic designer and after a few years, now with a background in art history, he started researching the techniques of painting. With a growing urge to explore oil painting, he finally bought paints and brushes and began to paint.
Visit the author’s website at raymondshaw.ca to view his paintings.
Some of RAYMOND SHAW’S paintings are available for purchase at SAATCHI ART.
Please click on the SAATCHI ART link above to see his selection.
You can find music composed and performed by Raymond Shaw with his DIY musical project, General Information, available wherever streaming audio is happening, such as Spotify, iTunes, and all places good.
PLUS: General Information music videos can be seen on Youtube at the links below.