David Kherdian

In Black Mountain Home, David Kherdian returns to his poetic roots with a collection that truly captures the essence of what it means to be alive. Drawing inspiration from the lush mountainscapes of North Carolina, he takes the reader on an unforgettable backwoods sojourn as he describes nature's raw pureness with elegant simplicity.

In Black Mountain Home, author David Kherdian returns to his poetic roots with a collection that truly captures the essence of what it means to be alive. Drawing inspiration from the lush mountainscapes of North Carolina, he takes the reader on an unforgettable backwoods sojourn as he describes nature's raw pureness with elegant simplicity.

Embrace every day to its fullest...Everyday brings new feelings - some are happy, some are sad. Some days we may get really angry and other days confused. Some days we are exactly where we want to be, others days maybe not. But, no matter what is going on, it's always important to focus on what is happening RIGHT NOW.

Embrace every day to its fullest...Everyday brings new feelings - some are happy, some are sad. Some days we may get really angry and other days confused. Some days we are exactly where we want to be, others days maybe not. But, no matter what is going on, it's always important to focus on what is happening RIGHT NOW.

Awakening is about capturing the heart of those moments in our lives that impress our deepest feelings, with vivifying details that act as a mirror to stir our conscience. David Kherdian's work is clean and spare, and leaves the reader with an abiding sense of their own reality. His poetry exists in the mystic tradition of American poets such as Thoreau and Walt Whitman, poets who are often misunderstood in their own time.

James Willard Schultz was the first white man to penetrate the Blackfeet tribe, participating in their rituals, buffalo hunts, horse trading and stealing, all the while keeping notes, with the intention of one day recording their history. When his wife died he left the tribe and moved to California, where he began to write stories, novels and memoirs of his time with the Blackfeet Indians of Montana. This biography of his early years with the tribe is an outstanding adventure story and also a love story of two people, who are strangers to each other at the start, but grow in understanding and love through their devotion to one another.

David Kherdian has given us his finest, most complete, and undoubtedly final book on his Midwestern hometown. Here we have in fifty odd "chapters" the places, people, artifacts, and events, as experienced by the people of Racine during the long middle years of the last century, in a luminous way that will provide an awakening for all who were there, and not just the people of Racine, but all Americans, especially those in America's rust belt. This is the universal story of our country during a defining period of our history, when we were living the promise of America, at its egalitarian best, as a model for ourselves and a promise to the world.

What happens when the moon goes missing? Find out in this poetic picture book from a Newbery Honoree and a two-time Caldecott Medalist. The moon is full and bright in the sky. So full, and so bright, that Bear can't sleep So he steals the moon from the sky and hides it away. But the other animals miss the beautiful, glowing moon...and they set out to get it back in this tender story with luminous watercolor illustrations from a two-time Caldecott Medalist.

David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling the true story of a childhood interrupted by one of the most devastating holocausts of our century. Vernon Dumehjian Kherdian was born into a loving and prosperous family. Then, in the year 1915, the Turkish government began the systematic destruction of its Armenian population.