Vertvolta Press

In 1942, when she was 15 years old and a freshman at Garfield High School, Suma (Kato) Yagi and her family were forced to leave their home in Seattle. Executive Order 9066 required that Americans of...

"The fundamental inanity of existence has already pierced my heart, and I know now that only cakes have any savor." In a tiny room under the Parisian rooftops, a precocious student concocts a rather...

Emma Goldman, once considered "the most dangerous woman in America," was a thinker so far ahead of her time that even to a modern reader, her views sound startlingly revolutionary. This collection of...

These sixteen stories chronicle the adventures of Ashenden as he moves across WWI-riddled Europe, featuring murder, intrigue, deceptions, & the soul-crushing, often-anonymous reality of modern...

Seattle's most diverse community has a story to share with the world, a narrative of resistance, resilience, hope, tragedy, triumph, and passion. It's a story that can only be told by an area where...

Bursting with vibrancy, pulsing with culture, and beaming with diversity Seattle's southern region is unlike any other in the world. With its wide array of ethnicities, the "south end" of Seattle is...

But here is the thing with listening. At some point, it is not enough. The silence of the attentive, after all, sounds exactly the same as the silence of the complicit. Even the listener can be...

This edition returns the tale to its original form, uniting the 3 anonymously published volumes here in the Booksellers Preferred Edition. It tells the tale of god-like aspirations & too-human...

The stories in Grit and Roses trace the unsteady arc of a life spent pursuing a dream. A musician's career, filled with the hard, grueling work of perfecting a craft, the mishaps and disappointments...

Randi Jensen has brought us a fascinating and illustrative view of suicide from the inside. After 24 years struggling with her own suicidality she gives us an insightful explanation of how suicidal...

ORPHANED at birth and left in the care of a harsh world!PROPELLED from setting to setting without a place to call home!CRIMINALIZED through an unfortunate misunderstanding!OLIVER TWIST is the journey...

Read! a firsthand account of the trials and tribulations of Seattle's founding residents! Political rivalries! Native tribe encounters! Devastating fire!Imagine! a Seattle of mud and trees and nary a...

Social justice is an ideal. It's not a reality. And while there are moments that make it feel tantalizingly close, the moment that follows often punts it right back to the far distance. Growing up...

I remembered Camilla's agonized scream and the awful words echoing through the dim streets of Carcosa. They were the last lines in the first act, and I dared not think of what followed--dared not,...

Eric John Stark is Leigh Brackett's dark-skinned freedom fighter, a relentless hero who clashed with armies and rulers, sorcerers and ghosts, survived myriad hellish landscapes and deadly-strange...

Mis-Education of the Negro acts as a sharp critique and a pathway towards a new pedagogy that informed Black students about their own history and addressed their unique challenges.Author: Carter...

"The mustering-places for the regiment were appointed in New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Indian Territory. The difficulty in organizing was not in selecting, but in rejecting men. Within a day or...

Three Men in a Boat details the escapades of George, Harris, J. (Jerome), and Montmorency, a fox terrier, as their attempt at an idyllic cruise up the River Thames from Kingston Upon Thames to...

"For much of his life, Howie has assembled the lore and language of his native people, supplementing his own copious writings (more than a million words) with tape recordings and his own drawings of...

The geographic names on the Atlantic seaboard were in use for more than a century before the war of the American Revolution was fought.Just as that war was beginning the first Spanish caravels crept...