By Patricia Corrigan

978-1-933370-16-3
paper, 10 x 7
128 pages
$16.00

Science explains everything! Science is fun!

An extension of an action-packed visit to the Saint Louis Science Center, Bringing Science to Life will entertain and educate kids of all ages. Patricia Corrigan fills its pages with activities, games, hands-on experiments, word definitions, fun facts, short profiles of actual scientists and their jobs, and many other elements. Corrigan connects the world of science not only to the Saint Louis Science Center, but also to the movers and shakers of science throughout the region.

Brought to you by the Saint Louis Science Center.

By Fr. Dominic Garramone, O.S.B.

978-1-933370-05-7
paper, 5 x 7
96 pages
$12.00

Father Dominic Garramone, acclaimed author and host of Breaking Bread with Father Dominic, weaves together holiday reflections and recipes in ’Tis the Season to be Baking. In this new collection, Father Dominic relates nearly two-dozen holiday baking traditions to scripture and shows that holiday preparations can seem less like drudgery if we can see the purpose behind them. Did you know that the French meal fougasse represents the genealogy of Jesus or that two very different Christmas breads—the traditional German stollen and the more recent Saint Bede tradition of “Bambino Bread”—represent the Christ Child in swaddling clothes? ’Tis the Season to be Baking imparts such wisdom as it takes bakers, holiday traditionalists, and Father Dominic fans beyond bread yet again.

By Kevin M. Mitchell, illustrated by Kevin Belford

978-1-933370-14-9
paper, 5 x 8
128 pages
$15.00

Part humor, part practical advice, St. Louis Dad is a hands-on manual for expectant and new fathers. Learn why crawling is cute until they actually do it, why having your two-year-old mow the lawn is a bad idea, and why opinions are like Cardinal’s caps—every four-year-old has one. There are helpful tips for calming a baby, dealing with in-laws, and participating in your child’s early years.

The book describes what makes restaurants baby-friendly, and where to find them; advice on traveling with small children; potty training tips; getting and keeping great babysitters; dad-friendly things to do in St. Louis correlated to specific ages. Advice and stories from famous St. Louis Dads like Frank Cusumano, Julius Hunter, Francis R. Slay (father of Mayor Francis G. Slay), William L. Clay, Sr., Craig Hawksley, among others, are included.

By Greg Marecek

978-1-933370-15-6
cloth, 8-1/2 x 11
144 pages
$39.95

The St. Louis Hawks picks up where the well-received Full Court: The Untold Stories of the St. Louis Hawks left off. Author Greg Marecek again mined the history of St. Louis’s beloved Hawks and returned with a jewel—a coffee-table book that celebrates an important NBA team and its championship. Packed with images of uniforms, programs, rarely seen photos, and other memorabilia, The St. Louis Hawks is a passionate tribute to the Hall of Famers and colorful characters that battled the Boston Celtics annually. The book features stories about the Hawks-Celtics rivalry, not to mention bios of Hawks players and other NBA greats that graced the hardwood at Kiel Auditorium. The encyclopedic collection includes an all-time roster, a chronology of coaches, the greatest moments in St. Louis Hawks history, the all-time Hawks team, a tribute to the legendary Bob Pettit, and much more. This must-have volume for fans of the Hawks and the NBA includes an audio component—a CD with rare interviews of players and coaches, along with the play-by-play mastery of Buddy Blattner.

By Richard Winter, Susan Winter Balk, and Gregory Weeks

978-1-933370-08-8
cloth, 7 x 9-1/2
128 pages
$27.00

After more than half a century, the Anschluss still resonates in Vienna. On March 12, 1938, the Austrian capitol welcomed Hitler’s Nazis with open arms. The effects were immediate. Within days, tens of thousands of people were arrested and the city’s 180,000-plus Jews—10 percent of the city’s population—soon were placed in concentration camps. In Vienna’s Conscience, the late Richard Winter, a Viennese Jew who escaped to America in 1938, relates the complexity of modern Vienna through interviews and images, with assistance from his wife Susan Winter Balk. Beneath the beauty of the city’s grandiose architecture lies conflict within the population as it comes to grip with its past. Winter depicts this conflict through insightful interviews and striking images. The resulting portraits resonate beyond their pages.

978-1-933370-25-5
1-933370-25-4
paper, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4
144 pages
$9.99

The St. Louis Baseball Fan Word Search is packed with 130 word search puzzles containing every Cardinals player that stepped onto the playing field. An index of the All-Time Cardinals Roster is featured at the back of the book. Creative puzzles abound. Find your favorites in puzzles like Branch Rickey's Boys, La Russa's Lads, and Musial and Other Biggies. Then test your Cardinals knowledge with Strictly Southpaws, Basically Benchwarmers, Sportsman's Parkers, Blink and You Would Have Missed Them.

978-1-933370-26-2
1-933370-26-2
paper, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2
64 pages
$9.99

Sudoku is commonly known as a numbers game. The St. Louis Baseball Fan Sudoku, however, gives you the opportunity to play this great puzzle game by replacing the common numerals 1-9 with the names of your favorite St. Louis players. Players from every era abound in the puzzles. Try your Sudoku skills on Slaughter, Carpenter, John Tudor, So Taguchi, or the ever-challenging Bob Gibson.

978-1-933370-12-5
1-933370-12-2
paper, 6 x 9
96 pages
$19.95

Lafayette Square is the most significant historical neighborhood in the city of St. Louis. Surrounding Lafayette Park the city s first park the neighborhood's development began in earnest in the 1850s. Due to the exuberance and passion of its residents, the neighborhood has remained largely intact, surviving blight, deterioration, and neglect during the mid-twentieth century. Lafayette Square: St. Louis analyzes the importance of the neighborhood through a variety of essays that document its history, architecture, and revitalization. The book's focus is the third printing of Architect John Albury Bryan's historical essay of Lafayette Square. Accompanying the essay is a brief biography of Bryan, as well as a bibliography of his writings. Other highlights include a 1969 architectural survey of the neighborhood; National Register of Historic Places Nomination, written by Mary M. Stiritz; an essay on the history of the restoration of Lafayette Square.

By Guarione M. Diaz

978-1-933370-11-8
1-933370-11-4
cloth, 6 x 9
160 pages
$25.00

Simple and complex, global and parochial, young and old—this is the Cuban American community all at once. In his book, author Guarione M. Diaz depicts the Cuban American experience by chronicling important events, examining pertinent facts (like the impact of Fidel Castro's revolution and rule), and portraying a vibrant community with a distinctive identity. Diaz, president of the Cuban American National Council, reveals many contradictions about his subject. Cuban Americans have retained their native culture while managing to assimilate successfully into American social and political life. Diaz also looks forward to life after Castro and presents likely aftermath scenarios, not to mention an expression of hope for the establishment of a progressive government and society in Cuba. The Cuban American Experience, an increasingly timely and relevant work, will satisfy readers longing for comprehensive, clear understanding of a complicated story.

By William Barnaby Faherty, S.J.

978-1-933370-06-4
1-933370-06-8
5-1/4 x 8-1/4, paperback
128 pages
$17.95

Eminent and prolific historian Father William Barnaby Faherty, S.J., offers a unique take on the history of St. Louis with Centuries of St. Louis. This new history—his third on the city—is told through the perspective of its citizens, some prominent, all respected. From Marguerite Blondeau Guion LeCompte—the first woman to give birth in St. Louis—to the venerable sportswriters Bob Burnes and Bob Broeg, Faherty offers insights into the events and people that define St. Louis by documenting the lives of these chosen St. Louisans in context with the eras they lived in. Many facets of society are covered in this book, including education, politics, religion, sports, activism, philanthropy, and business.

By Karen Mateyka

978-1-933370-07-1
1-933370-07-6
paper, 5 x 8
176 pages
$12.00

In 1999, the restoration of the Colonel Benjamin Stephenson House in Edwardsville, Illinois, began. Henry the Stephenson House Mouse tells us about the whole process, from the purchase of the 1820 site to the finishing touches in 2006, when the historic house and grounds opened to the public. During the restoration, Henry got to know the contractors, painters, researchers, and volunteers who worked tirelessly to rebuild the house—and he provides all the inside details here! In this book, as in Henry’s articles in the Edwardsville Intelligencer, readers will find the meaning of community spirit, as Henry reveals how the good people of Edwardsville gave their time, skills, and resources to an exciting project.

Take the journey with Henry the mouse, and discover the history of an important Illinois family that helped make Illinois a state!

By Don Corrigan
Illustrated by Ed Thias

1-933370-13-0
paper, 5 x 8
224 pages
$18.00

Show Me . . . Natural Wonders is an escape manual—a guidebook to special places right in our own backyard. It shows how natural wonders can provide plenty of refuge and how they’re available right here in the heartland. Enter the pages of this book, and you will soon find yourself hiking up tall bluffs; scrambling along the banks of springs and streams; descending into the underground wilderness of Missouri’s many caves; or simply kicking back for a rest on a 500-million-year-old boulder in a country glade at sunset.

With soothing and inspiring prose by journalist Don Corrigan, and with detailed nature illustrations by renowned pencil artist Ed Thias, Show Me . . . Natural Wonders is at once both a practical how-to book and a prized keepsake. With images and descriptions of nearly 100 nature sites in the Show-Me State and adjacent areas, the book has a little something for everybody. Hikers and bikers, cavers and climbers, New Agers and environmentalists, local and regional historians, poets and prophets will all find something to take away from the experience of Show Me . . . Natural Wonders.