Start every morning of 2027 with a new world of fiction and art. ELJ Edition’s 2027 Your Daily Micro Tear-Away Calendar delivers a daily, bite-sized escape into stories written by diverse authors from every corner of the globe. Perfect for book lovers, busy readers, and writers seeking daily inspiration, this beautifully designed calendar turns your desk into a daily literary festival.
A stunning anthology that shines light on difficult experiences often relegated to the dark. Instead of turning away, this courageous group of authors share their diverse experiences of challenge—and growth. There is nothing linear here. Just steps forward, sideways, and back, along complex, messy, beautiful paths. These 41 incredibly moving essays will leave you deeply inspired. Oh, to dig—and to see what blossoms.
DNA testing and evolving adoption laws are blowing up family secrets. This groundbreaking anthology, curated by B.K. Jackson, with a foreword by Libby Copeland, features 28 intimate essays by acclaimed and emerging writers that probe the profound impact of encountering unknown close relatives. These poignant stories demonstrate the healing power of truth at the same time they raise the question: what does it mean to be family?
Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture & Heritage is a stunning anthology of 32 powerful essays celebrating Jewish joy. Set in New England, Los Angeles, Seattle; across oceans in Israel, Norway, Spain; in synagogues of youth, forests, and seder tables, its stories, like manna in the desert of our ancestors, sustain body and soul.
Grief and hope. Two words that aren’t used together often. Yet, through stories of nature and nurture, of reckoning and coming to terms, Charlotte Hamrick, Kim Steutermann Rogers, Ronita Chattopadhyay, Kristina Tabor, and Janet Murie powerfully weave the seemingly incongruent into deeply moving and incredibly inspiring tapestries of meaning.
What happens when 49 authors sit down to craft their experiences of living in a body? Magic! Curated by Diane Gottlieb, with a foreword by Gayle Brandeis, Awakenings: Stories of Bodies & Consciousness is truly a magical anthology of short essays, filled with trauma and triumph; pleasures and pain; challenges, resilience, and growth.
Step into the world of R.L. Stine as seen through the eyes of 14 writers. This anthology includes frightening fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction filled with all the nostalgia and childhood memories that go bump in the night.
18 poems complimented by 18 illustrations derived from the rawness within those poems emboss themselves onto a paper canvas meant for the reader to crawl into and color their emotional reaction to the work on the pages provided.
Growing Pains presents five microchapbooks in one volume. Each microchapbook threads coming-of-age anguish and popular culture references throughout, which lends for a cathartic experience of our youth through these powerful micro-chapbooks.