MARCIA'S
MARVELOUS ADVENTURE A
Cancer Survivor's Journey Through Chemo and Beyond
By Marcia Lievense
Publisher: The Cheshire Press
2011 About …
After she was diagnosed with her second bout of cancer,
Marcia Lievense began blogging about her “marvelous
adventure.” Who could be brave enough to call this
an adventure? Who could gracefully face each new side effect
and share the details with frankness and optimism? Apparently
Marcia can. And in this blog-turned-book, Marcia Lievense
turns lemons into lemonade and proves that living well is
all about attitude.
Marcia
Lievense lives in Holland, Michigan, with her husband Rich
and a Tibetan terrier named Pearl. Her two grown daughters,
Jill and Anne, live nearby in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Here’s
how The Cheshire Press helped …
though author Marcia Lievense is based on Holland, Michigan
and our offices are in Massachusetts, the publishing process
was swift and smooth. Manuscript and PDF proofs flew east
and west and within six weeks, Marcia’s Marvelous
Adventure was in the author’s hands. Following Marcia’s
direction, illustrator Don Doyle produced a line art “Marcia”
for the cover and spot drawings to be scattered throughout
the book. Now the book is available for ordering on the
Cheshire Press website and Marcia Lievense is enjoying “the
author’s spotlight.”
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BROTHERS
OF WAR The
POW Experience
Compiled by James F. Arsenault (with Nancy
Parsons)
Publisher: The Cheshire Press
2011 About …
In March 1944, 39 American G.I.s, all war prisoners of Germany,
were marched into a prison labor camp in Burzen in present-day
Poland. As the men lived together, worked together, and
learned to survive together, they bonded as brothers. When,
in January 1945, they were set on a force march zig-zagging
westward away from the closing Russian front, they cared
for one another and protected each other, surviving starvation,
illness and aily strafing and bombing. And all 39 survived
to see liberation in May. While imprisoned at Burzen, they
pledged to write their story—a story to which each
man would contribute. It took more than a half century,
but now the story is being told. Here, in this collective
memoir and in the words of the brothers of war themselves,
is their story of survival.
Here’s
how The Cheshire Press helped …
As Jimmy Arsenault went about his organizational tasks,
we supplied guidance and advice, scanned delicate original
materials, then handled pre-press and interfaced with the
printer. The Cheshire Press also assisted with promotion
and online ordering. We are proud to present this very personal
and important historical book.
YE
CANNA JOIN IN OOR GAMES Memories
of a Scottish-American Childhood
By Nancy Parsons
Publisher: Foursquare Books
2010 About …
If yours was a Scottish-American childhood, this book is
guaranteed to revive your own memories of growing up in
a Scots family. If you remember porridge…if your blood
quickens at the skirl of a bagpipe…if you dreaded
heaps of neeps served up at dinner, then your heart will
be warmed by this nostalgic and amusing memoir.
Here’s
how The Cheshire Press helped …
We helped the author/designer with ISBN and Library of Congress
numbers, as well as with specifications consistency and
uploading to our online printer. We updated the publisher’s
website and added
YE CANNA JOIN IN OOR GAMES to the ordering page.
AMERICAN
ADVENTURE:
The 1959 Journal of a Roosevelt Scholar
By Keith M. Taylor
Publisher: Garner Books
2009 About …
This a personal account of the Nottingham Roosevelt Memorial
Travelling Scholarship, August to November 1959, features
a foreward by Haven Roosevelt. A remarkable adventure story
by a detail-conscious chronicler and splendid writer.
Here’s
how The Cheshire Press helped … For
fifty years the journal, photographs, newspaper clippings
and souvenirs which author Keith M. Taylor assembled had
rested in a box. In 2009, he brought them again to the light
of day and to The Cheshire Press with the request that they
be “stitched” into a box. It was a challenging
task of organization, design and PhotoShop work but we prepared
all the materials for Taylor to supply to his printer in
Great Britain.
YOU
DON'T KNOW THE HALF OF IT
A Memoir by
By Gordon Hall
Publisher: Gordon Hall
2009 About …
Gordon Hall has finally yielded to family pressure and written
it all down—or most of it anyway. Tales of family
and home. Memories peppered with “side yarns”
and salted with Yankee wit are presented here for family
and friends who have been waiting to have these stories
told again.
Here’s
how The Cheshire Press helped …
The book was written and designed before we became involved,
but we were happy to help secure ISBN and Library of Congress
numbers, check the designer’s work to ensure that
printer’s specifications were correct, and to prepare
and upload files to our online printer. If you would like
to contact
the author and order this book just click on this link.
THE
STORY OF A LIFETIME
A Keepsake of Personal Memoirs By Ferne Eudelle Truman Smith
Publisher: The Cheshire Press
2010 About …
Ferne Smith kept a hand written story of her life and that
of her extensive family. She lived to the ripe old age of
100 years and when she passed on the family wanted to preserve
her story, and most important, in her own handwriting.
Here’s
how The Cheshire Press helped …
Ferne's diary was carefully written, by hand, in an 8-1/2
x 11 inch book. We scanned the pages so as to preserve her
handwriting, and added family photos thus creating the story
of her family for all members to enjoy.
