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Introducing the New Herstory Member-Donated Book Series
As of May 2009, we began a new book series by members who began and completed books in our workshops, who chose to publish under the Herstory imprint, donating all production costs and all proceeds to help us to offer quality workshops to those who might not otherwise be able to afford them. Watch our calendar of events for book signings and other celebrations.
Download order form here to purchase items by mail.
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The Teller in the Tale: A Half-Jewish Child in Nazi Germany by Elizabeth Heyn is the story of a half-Jewish child growing up in Nazi Germany. It traces its way through her miraculous late escape in 1941 just three weeks before the German borders close, to her coming of age as a refugee in Franco’s Spain, and finally to her attempts to become a typical American teenager. Rich in the not usually documented details of everyday life for one who falls between the cracks —neither Jewish nor Gentile and thus subject to different rules — this is also the story of a mother and daughter who, due to the circumstances in their lives, need to adjust to their too-closeness, even as they find their own ways.
$14.95 |
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Love Song at the End of the Day: A Journey into Alzheimer’s by Muriel Weyl- This unexpectedly optimistic memoir is a testimony to living life to its fullest, written with compassion and humor. Throughout this “love song”— which only deepens as we move from diagnosis into daily living with Alzheimer’s— we find remembrances of a sixty-two-year relationship in the everyday moments that weave through this work. It is ultimately a celebration of the human spirit, a bedside book for anyone who is connected to a sufferer from memory loss.
$14.95 |
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VOICES: Memoirs from Herstory Inside Suffolk County’s Correctional Facilities, Volume One
Memoir is about the past and nowhere is this shadow more present than in the prisons, where one pays for what cannot be rewritten. Magazine contains excerpts of stories of childhood, of mothering, steps and missteps.
$14.95 |
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VOICES: Memoirs from Herstory Inside Suffolk County’s Correctional Facilities, Volume Two
Our second issue of Voices, in expanded journal form, is set up not only to give the women whom our society incarcerates a face, but to raise the most important questions facing families undergoing cycles of imprisonment, rupture of relationships, and closed doors. Through these stories and family letters, a rich picture emerges, not only of the real lives of the women we find behind bars, but of what a compassion-based writing project can do in terms of re-creation of family, new relationships, new directions and the slow building of new skills. This collection provides a wealth of facts for students of criminology, sociology and law – even as it becomes an eloquent outcry for all of us, first to bear witness and then to find ways to act in the interest of restorative justice and granting our proper humanity to all.
$14.95 |
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Latinas Write/Escriben, Volume1
The only bilingual magazine on Long Island for Latinas writing about their own lives. Turn the pages and land in a Mexican jail, a Guatemalan earthquake, a filthy bathroom in an opulent mansion in the Hamptons, an alienating kindergarten classroom and a picturesque Mexican village.
$ 10.00 |
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Latinas Write/Escriben, Volume 2
More stories from our Latina writers.
$ 10.00 |
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