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Storyteller and mythologist Michael Meade believes the world can fall apart. But he says it will never end. Meade believes that the real world isn't the only reality. By connecting to the eternal, Meade says we'll find that our true role in life is to make a positive impact on society. Meade works with military veterans, the homeless and disadvantaged youth to promote mentoring, storytelling and social connection. His new book is The World Behind the World. He spoke on September 11, 2008 at The Elliott Bay Book Company. The event was co sponsored by Elliott Bay and the Seattle based Mosaic Foundation.

I Thought I Could Fly: Portraits of Anguish, Compulsion and Despair Bellevue Literary Press blpress.org/ $22 Trade paper ISBN: 978-934137-09-3 144 pages Nonfiction "Evocative images, eloquent testimony--a frank and often inspiring exploration of the experience of mental illness." --Peter D. Kramer, author of Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind and Listening to Prozac A tree's bare limbs against a grey sky, a young woman's vintage slip, the view beneath a bridge's span. Charlee Brodsky's stark black and white photographs combine with a concise collection of moving personal narratives to form an eloquent ensemble of tragedy and hope in the struggle to cope with mental illness. Charlee Brodsky is a documentary photographer and a professor of photography at Carnegie Mellon University.

I Thought I Could Fly: Portraits of Anguish, Compulsion and Despair Bellevue Literary Press blpress.org/ $22 Trade paper ISBN: 978-934137-09-3 144 pages Nonfiction "Evocative images, eloquent testimony--a frank and often inspiring exploration of the experience of mental illness." --Peter D. Kramer, author of Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind and Listening to Prozac A tree's bare limbs against a grey sky, a young woman's vintage slip, the view beneath a bridge's span. Charlee Brodsky's stark black and white photographs combine with a concise collection of moving personal narratives to form an eloquent ensemble of tragedy and hope in the struggle to cope with mental illness. Charlee Brodsky is a documentary photographer and a professor of photography at Carnegie Mellon University.

The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang Coffee House Press http://www.coffeehousepress.org In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America, but their history remains largely unknown. Driven to share her family s story after her grandmother s death, Kao Kalia Yang s memoir is a tribute to the remarkable woman whose spirit held them all together. Beginning in the 1970s, as the Hmong were being massacred for their collaboration with the United States during the Vietnam War, Yang recounts the harrowing story of her family s captivity in Laos, the daring rescue undertaken by her father and uncles, and their narrow escape into Thailand where Yang was born in the Ban Vinai Refugee Camp. When she was six years old, Yang s family immigrated to America. She evocatively captures the challenges of adapting to a new place and a new language, and also gives voice to the dreams, wisdom, and traditions passed down from her grandmother and shared by an entire community.

I Thought I Could Fly: Portraits of Anguish, Compulsion and Despair Bellevue Literary Press blpress.org/ $22 Trade paper ISBN: 978-934137-09-3 144 pages Nonfiction "Evocative images, eloquent testimony--a frank and often inspiring exploration of the experience of mental illness." --Peter D. Kramer, author of Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind and Listening to Prozac A tree's bare limbs against a grey sky, a young woman's vintage slip, the view beneath a bridge's span. Charlee Brodsky's stark black and white photographs combine with a concise collection of moving personal narratives to form an eloquent ensemble of tragedy and hope in the struggle to cope with mental illness. Charlee Brodsky is a documentary photographer and a professor of photography at Carnegie Mellon University.

I Thought I Could Fly: Portraits of Anguish, Compulsion, and Despair Bellevue Literary Press $22 Trade paper ISBN: 978-934137-09-3 144 pages Nonfiction A tree s bare limbs against a grey sky, a young woman s vintage slip, the view beneath a bridge s span. Charlee Brodsky s stark black and white photographs combine with a concise collection of moving personal narratives to form an eloquent ensemble of tragedy and hope in the struggle to cope with mental illness. "Evocative images, eloquent testimony--a frank and often inspiring exploration of the experience of mental illness." --Peter D. Kramer, author of Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind and Listening to Prozac Charlee Brodsky is a documentary photographer and a professor of photography at Carnegie Mellon University.