Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Series
Vol. 9: Probably Someday Cancer: Genetic Risk and Preventative Mastectomy
Published: February, 2019 Pages: 208 Features: 10 b&w illus. Notes. Bib.
Listen to Kim Horner’s interview on KERA’s Think with Krys Boyd. more... about Probably Someday Cancer: Genetic Risk and Preventative Mastectomy
- Foreword Reviews 2019 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Winner in Health
Vol. 8: Accidental Activists: Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and Their Fight for Marriage Equality in Texas
Published: August, 2017 Pages: 480 Features: 55 color illus. Notes. Bib. Index.
In early 2013 same-sex marriage was legal in only ten states and the District of Columbia. That year the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Windsor appeared to open the door to marriage equality. In Texas, Mark Phariss and Vic Holmes, together for sixteen years and deeply in love, wondered why no one had stepped across the threshold to challenge their state’s 2005 constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage. They agreed to join a lawsuit being put together by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLD. more... about Accidental Activists: Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and Their Fight for Marriage Equality in Texas
- Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist, 2018
Best Seller
Vol. 7: Shoot the Conductor: Too Close to Monteux, Szell, and Ormandy
Published: August, 2016 Pages: 336 Features: 50 b&w photos. Notes. Index.
UNT College of Music and UNT Press co-sponsored a talk by Anshel Brusilow and Robin Underdahl on their book, 2015 more... about Shoot the Conductor: Too Close to Monteux, Szell, and Ormandy
- Foreword Reviews 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Winner in Performing Arts & Music, Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference Book Manuscript Competition
Vol. 6: Life with a Superhero: Raising Michael Who Has Down Syndrome
Published: July, 2013 Pages: 288 Features: 25 b&w photos. Notes.
Please visit Kathryn U. Hulings’s new website to learn more about her book, Life with a Superhero: Raising Michael Who Has Down Syndrome. more... about Life with a Superhero: Raising Michael Who Has Down Syndrome
- Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference Book Manuscript Competition
Best Seller
Vol. 5: Finish Forty and Home: The Untold World War II Story of B-24s in the Pacific
Published: April, 2013 Pages: 408 Features: 39 b&w photos. 1 map. Notes. Bib. Index.
Finish Forty and Home was selected as a title within the Best of the Best from University Presses 2012 program and presented at the annual American Library Association conference. You can view the C-SPAN BookTV video of the program featuring this title (at the 1:02:45 hour mark for a seven-minute discussion). more... about Finish Forty and Home: The Untold World War II Story of B-24s in the Pacific
- Main Selection of the History/Military Book Club, 2011
- Selected for "Best of the Best" from University Presses, ALA Annual Conference, 2012
- Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference Book Manuscript Competition
Vol. 4: Birthing a Better Way: 12 Secrets for Natural Childbirth
Published: August, 2010 Pages: 384 Features: 7 b&w illus. Gloss. Notes. Bib. Index.
Birthing a Better Way: 12 Secrets for Natural Childbirth presents a fresh, proactive, and positive approach to why you may want to consider the safest and most satisfying kind of birth–natural childbirth–especially in these times of overused medical interventions. Kalena Cook, a mother who experienced natural childbirth, and Margaret Christensen, M.D., a board certified obstetrician-gynecologist, have written this much-needed book for expectant mothers and their caregivers, imparting proven safe or “evidence-based” information with compelling narratives. Think of What to Expect in Natural Childbirth meets Chicken Soup for the Natural Birthing Soul! more... about Birthing a Better Way: 12 Secrets for Natural Childbirth
- Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference Book Manuscript Competition
Vol. 3: Saving Ben: A Father's Story of Autism
Published: August, 2009 Pages: 192 Features: 25 b&w illus.
Each year thousands of children are diagnosed with autism, a devastating neurological disorder that profoundly affects a person’s language and social development. Saving Ben is the story of one family coping with autism, told from the viewpoint of a father struggling to understand his son’s strange behavior and rescue him from a downward spiral. more... about Saving Ben: A Father's Story of Autism
- Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference Book Manuscript Competition
Vol. 2: See Sam Run: A Mother's Story of Autism
Published: May, 2008 Pages: 192 Features: 22 b&w illus. Bib.
Thousands of children are diagnosed with autism each year, with a rate of occurrence of 1 in 150 births, compared to 5 per 10,000 just two decades ago. This astounding escalation has professionals scrambling to explain why the devastating neurological disorder, which profoundly affects a person’s language and social development, is on the rise. Are we simply getting better at diagnosing autism, or is a modern health crisis unfolding before us? more... about See Sam Run: A Mother's Story of Autism
- Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference Book Manuscript Competition
Best Seller
Vol. 1: William & Rosalie: A Holocaust Testimony
Published: August, 2007 Pages: 192 Features: 25 b&w illus. Bib essay.
William & Rosalie is the gripping and heartfelt account of two young Jewish people from Poland who survive six different German slave and prison camps throughout the Holocaust. In 1941, newlyweds William and Rosalie Schiff are forcibly separated and sent on their individual odysseys through a surreal maze of hate. Terror in the Krakow ghetto, sadistic SS death games, cruel human medical experiments, eyewitness accounts of brutal murders of men, women, children, and even infants, and the menace of rape in occupied Poland make William & Rosalie an unusually explicit view of the chaos that World War II unleashed on the Jewish people. more... about William & Rosalie: A Holocaust Testimony
- Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference Book Manuscript Competition