Synthia SAINT JAMES

The legendary Synthia SAINT JAMES recently celebrated 50 years as a vibrant and popular artist with a publication of her memoir. After two U.S. postage stamp commissions and her work with UNCF (United Negro College fund) and International work with HBC’s (historical black colleges), her social practices bursts with vibrancy and storytelling.

HARLEY AND ME

Bestselling author Bernadette Murphy re-discovered herself in mid-life by facing her fears with Orgasmic benefits in the Bestselling book HARLEY and ME

THE STRAND

(THE JUDGE IS AT IT AGAIN) When his former lover is caught up in a national frenzy as the press and the networks rush to judgment, condemning her for child molestation and Devil worship, the Judge feels compelled to step forward to help his old flame…

AN ARTFULL LIFE

An ARTFULL life is an amazing coffee table book for automobile aficionados. Chronicling the work of world-renowned artist, Harold Cleworth.

IKEBANA SERIES

Memorials to nature’s beauty and the environmental destruction by humans.  Stunning handmade paper sculptural depictions of 25 floral arrangements of the Ohara School of Ikebana.

UNREAL FOR REAL

Unfolding like a greatest-hits collection of coming-of-age adventures, Unreal for Real follows artist Adam Mars from wild adolescence into wilder adulthood. 

Emily Henderson's STYLED

The New York Times Bestselling author of the book with Secrets for Arranging Rooms, from Tabletops to Bookshelves and we love how she adds art.

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Ripped Bodice
Exposing the World of Romance at America’s ONLY all romance bookstore right here in LA – The Ripped Bodice, Part 1

Exposing the World of Romance at America’s ONLY all romance bookstore right here in LA – The Ripped Bodice, Part 1

Located in Culver City, when I walked into their shop I was immediately transported into the world of romance. The bright, airy, frilly, ballerina pink store is furnished with Victorian-like settees and romance books.

The Wandering Song, Tia Chuca Press
“The Wandering Song” Central American Writing in the United States, prelude by Leticia Hernández-Linares

“The Wandering Song” Central American Writing in the United States, prelude by Leticia Hernández-Linares

The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States, Tia Chucha Press, 2017 (Northwestern University Press distributor) Prelude by Leticia Hernández-Linares LA MISIóN, SAN FRANCISCO November 28, 2016 HOME WAS BEHIND US, always somewhere else. Born...

Luis Rodriguez at Tia Chua Press
The Wandering Song: New literary anthology from Tia Chucha Press – The press that began with Chicago Poetry, and poet laureate emeritus Luis Rodriguez

The Wandering Song: New literary anthology from Tia Chucha Press – The press that began with Chicago Poetry, and poet laureate emeritus Luis Rodriguez

The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States is a multi-genre collection of poems, short stories, essays, memoir, novel excerpts, and creative nonfiction. The book showcases writers who render a multiplicity of experiences as refugees from the wars of the 1980s to those who barely remember the homeland, or who were born in el norte.