Yucca Publishing imprint: 37 books

An “achingly effective” portrait of the city that inspired one of the twentieth century’s greatest authors (Booklist, starred review). No other place in any of Ernest Hemingway’s travels was as significant, professionally or emotionally, as was Paris. The gorgeous black-and-white photographs...

An exploration of the ways writers—from Samuel Beckett and Norman Mailer to anonymous individuals—used literature to remember and heal from World War II.   In Wall, Watchtower, and Pencil Stub, John R. Carpenter explores how literteray figures in the mid-twentieth-century, including Samuel Beckett,...

A young Winston Churchill embarks on a dangerous treasure hunt in the wilds of central Africa in this novel of rollicking action and adventure. A prisoner during the Boer War, Winston Churchill is offered a secret deal for freedom by African commander Louis Botha: Winston must seek out and...

“An unexpected revelation! A woman hero as a male soldier in the Civil War—truly riveting history almost long forgotten” (Mary Glickman, author of Home in the Morning and One More River). As a child, Sarah Emma Edmonds dreamed of faraway places and adventure, often picturing herself as...

This “sparkling memoir” sweeps readers along with the astounding true story of a socialite who would devote her life to her country in war and in peace (Kitty Kelley, award winning biographer).   At President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s behest, young Page Wilson left the United States to serve...

An “entertaining and enlightening” travel memoir that explores the differences between life in France and life in America (Booklist).   To make a friend is a joy. To make a friend in another country is a wonderment—a small miracle. Pardon My French follows an American couple as they embrace...

An epic tale of tragedy and adventure based on the experiences of the author’s great-grandfather as he made his way across America during the Civil War. Told by his stepmother that he alone had been responsible for the death of his mother, abandoned by his father’s earlier departure for...

This historical novel offers an “imaginative chronicle of an extraordinary woman” whose exploits across the Middle East helped create modern-day Iraq (Kirkus Reviews). A brilliant academic, mountaineer, explorer, linguist, politician, and towering literary figure, Gertrude Bell is the most...

“A true story of unfettered freedom and adventure, speed, sex, fun and drugs” by the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award nominee (Columbia County Observer). For anyone who’s heard about the 1960s, for those who remember it, and for those who can’t, this is Robert Wintner’s touching...

The acclaimed historical novelist brings to life “a heroine for all ages”—Flora MacDonald, who saved Bonnie Prince Charlie and became his secret love (Bryce Courtenay).   The Pretender’s Lady, Alan Gold’s meticulously researched novel, vibrantly portrays the life of Flora MacDonald, the...

A Kaspar Brothers novel set during the aftermath of World War II in Germany from the author of The Losing Role and Lost Kin.   It’s May 1945, the war’s just over, and Harry Kaspar, an American captain in Germany, is about to take a new posting in the US occupation—running a Bavarian town named...

A “bold and eye-opening” new theory about when Christ lived, set out with “meticulous and clear” scholarship by the author of The Jesus Mystery (Professor Robert Eisenman, author of The New Testament Code). While researching the historical Jesus, a Swedish scholar discovered a strangely...

The Pulitzer Prize–nominated author chronicles navigating the traditional western medical system during his wife’s battle with a brain aneurysm.   Brainstorm is the candid and powerful memoir of a couple’s harrowing experience of an aneurysm and their road to recovery. It is a journey of love,...

An Episcopal priest imagines how St. Paul the Apostle might counsel modern American Christians in today’s trying times.   For almost two thousand years, Christians have asked two essential questions: “What would Jesus do?” and “What would Paul say?” Saint Paul wrote more of the New Testament...