Compass Flower Press

April has lived a good life and enjoyed being a mother in a most wonderful kennel surrounding for her first five years. The time has come for her to move to her forever home with a loving and caring...

Breakfast at Earls is as eclectic and true to life collection of short stories and memoir as you will ever find. The twists and turns from Pittman's wry sense of humor make this book a real...

When Jenny becomes permanently confined to a wheelchair after an accident and then the family moves to the country, her dreams are shattered. The excitement of city life was all that kept her spirits...

In Carrying the Banner, Jean Salter Roetter eloquently shares a bit of her young life, recounting events akin to those many people store only in their memories. There is a little piece of everyone in...

Water and Wilderness... Robinson's irreverent humor gets a workout in Missouri's back country. ...Beauty and Danger "I'd crossed a threshold, a no man's land scattered with rattlesnakes and rednecks,...

Author: Annalou MackPublisher: Compass Flower PressPublication Date: February 22, 2021Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1951960165ISBN-13: 9781951960162

Dark Music Pan, the deposed god of the world, was also the god of music. When he played his syrinx the nymphs danced for the pure joy of being alive. But Pan was a moody god and would sometimes lead...

Deadly DNAAuthor: Mike TrialPublisher: Compass Flower PressPublication Date: Oct 20, 2020Number of Pages: 132 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1951960122ISBN-13: 9781951960124

Dodger Makes A Move - 9781951960216Author: Ed HansonPublisher: Compass Flower PressPublication Date: May 17, 2021Number of Pages: 58 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

In a fragile state from post-war Germany, Kate is driven her to depart Europe and sail to the Philippines with determination, yet excitement. Now free of the consequences of war, Kate soaks up the...

In the eight stories that compose Edge of Reality. Mike Trial explores dark secrets of the human heart: loneliness, cold blooded murder, world-wide apocalypse. Using fully developed characters in a...

Author: Greg P BusackerPublisher: Compass Flower PressPublication Date: Feb 23, 2020Number of Pages: 168 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1942168330ISBN-13: 9781942168331

DR. Gehrke managed to rise above his humble beginnings to international stature in his chosen field. This biography highlights Gehrke's legacy to Columbia, MO, in founding ABC Labs, but also reveals...

The title of this volume, Gentle My Heart, was taken from one of the haiku in its pages, and is representative of what the reader will find within.Accented with creative illustration from artist Sue...

In 2021, JD Bauer receives an invitation to his fifty-fifth high school reunion. When he tells his wife Carolyn that he wants to spend time revisiting his old hometown to remember it as it was, she's...

I Am the Night is Lisa Kinser's lyrical chronicle of a younger, more free time in her life, a past of longing, giving, and searching for both adventure and true love. Lisa discovered much meaning...

She's got style, a witty sense of humor, and a winning smile! But of course-she's Angie! Parents all have certain goals in common when it comes to success in parenting-to prepare a child for a loving...

Mercedes Light and Dark is everything the title implies and more. Leaving war-torn Spain and her disapproving family behind her, Mercedes, her handsome husband Paco, and their first born son make...

In Notes From Boomerang Creek, the author showcases the world situation and nature in a mindful way, observing both with both keen intent on putting her poetic pen to the page, just as an artist...

When Joe Savage visits his declining father, Reggie, a former World War II bomber pilot in a care facility, a moment of seeming lucidity breaks through Reggie's vacant mental state with an emphatic...

A stranger in a strange land-both in China and the United States-Leta Tucker Hodge has painted for us a small slice of shared experiences of wartime life as seen through her eyes using her unique and...

Author: M Lee MartinPublisher: Compass Flower PressPublication Date: February 22, 2021Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1951960149ISBN-13: 9781951960148

Here's an excerpt from Rogue Patriot: ..."This time they're in a hurry to launch," Richardson said. He put a large red circle on the map, centered on the launch site. The circle took in all of Japan,...

"Sailor's Mail isn't just a war story, it's a love story." Sixty-three years after Homer Norris served in the United States Navy, his daughter discovered a family trunk filled with memorabilia from...

Sarah - 9781951960018Author: Mike TrialPublisher: Compass Flower PressPublication Date: Apr 15, 2020Number of Pages: 178 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1951960017ISBN-13:...

Sarsaparilla Sue is not your ordinary girl. She's smart, mannerly and thoughtful. So it's not terribly surprising that Sarsaparilla is also an amateur scientist in her room-in her spare time. But...

These mini-biographies of twenty Missourians will entice you to make field trips to the theaters designed by the Boller Brothers in Columbia and St. Joseph, to Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal,...

Hazard, Kentucky is the setting for this historical story enhanced with some fiction, amazingly well told by author Wayne Combs, the great grandson of Bad Tom Smith. "Bad Tom" Smith was a notorious...

Few people read the credits in their hymnals to learn who wrote the hymns they sing and love. Leslie Clay does. Over one hundred women are featured along with their most loved hymns in Sisters in...

Cain's poetry is sometimes stately, sometimes playful, and at other times raw and bold, yet each piece evokes a certain darkness with an outline of light, creating musical melodies with beautiful...