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Prisoner of Filmore Street
by Dawn Story
Winner of Mayhaven's Award for Children's Fiction
Illustrated by Jean Spencer
All about stretching the truth—a little!
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A Week of Bunnies
by Valerie Huffman Osborn
Illustrated by Michael Osborn and Edited by Kimberly Osborn
Music by John Dee and the IQ Illinois Woodwind Quartet
Aslso Available with Audio Book— Read by the Author
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Helen, Ethel & The Crazy Quilt, Based on the 1890 Letters Between Helen Keller and the author's grandmother Ethel Orr
by Nancy Orr Johnson Jensen
Illustrated by Dawn Peterson
Also Available as Audio Book—Read by the Author
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—And for Young Adults—
A Doorway Through Space by Judith Bourassa Joy, Winner of Mayhaven's Award for Children's Fiction
A great Sci-fi adventure for young adults.
May 28, Judith Joy spoke to students at King Middle School in Portland, Maine. Joy has also been named to the Maine Libraries Conference YA panel.
 
Crossover Dribble
a novel for older children and young adults.
PJ Farris
novel featured in an article in the Illinois Reading Council Journal. Farris was also the Keynote Speaker at The Illinois Reading Council Conference.
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See Catalog for additional books and audio books for children of all ages.
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Summer Reading for Adults
Mystery/Suspense
Mayhaven's first "sleeper"—this ghost story has become a favorite with readers.
 
A Family Possessed
now in second printing and in audio book
L. W. Stevenson
Audio Book read by Brian Porter
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Mystery and Suspense
Keep and Bear Arms
a novel by Robert Auler Auler
A courtroom drama grounded in Auler's considerable practice as a defense attorney.
The Violin Player, John Knoerle's rivited novel of suspense. Winner of Mayhaven's Award for Fiction
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Harry Haines' Orphan—a mystery set in the exciting world of horseracing. Winner of Mayhaven's Award for Fiction
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A Family Possessed, A Ghost Story
by L. W. Stevenson
now in its 2nd printing and audio book
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Novels
Perfect for Summer Reading
 
Margaret Hay Van Damm's wry novel, The River Love, a late-life romance set in the steamy south
Also available in audiobook
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See our Catalog for a listing of all our books and audio books
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—Quality Publishing Since 1990—
Mayhaven Publishing, Inc. offers a variety of books and audio books, both fiction and nonfiction, for all ages.
 We thank our readers for their interest in Ten Sisters: A True Story, now available in its fifth printing (Rackley et.al).
 We also thank you for your interest in Bailey Island: Memories, Pictures & Lore, now in its third printing (Nancy Orr Johnson Jensen). Available on Bailey Island at: Land's End, and in Brunswick, ME at Gulf of Maine Books
We are happy to announce that the Illinois Radio for the Visually Impaired will be broadcasting Brian Porter's new book, Harvey's Life - Now What? Ed Walsh narrates this audio version of the book.
Mayhaven publisher Doris Wenzel was recently interviewed for an upcoming article in the Children's Writer.
Coming Soon! Crusin' Sarah by Yoli
Winner of Mayhaven's Award for Children's Fiction
A mystery for young adult.
Don't miss the 60th Season of the Playhouse Jr. at the Pittsburgh Playhouse (222 Craft Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA). The play, Five Children and It, written and directed by Yoli, will be performed each day and evening, along with Charlotte's Web. All performances are at 2:00 PM and 7 PM.
June 5-9, Mayhaven's publisher and editor, Doris Wenzel, and friend Sharon Hayes (co-founder of the Women and Children's Illinois Funding Federation), were the guests of actor/author Edward Asner, (co-author of Misuse of Power) at the Kindred Spirit Award ceremony at Disney Hall, where Asner was honored for his work and support of burn victims. We also enjoyed his afternoon performance in a staged reading of The Immigrant.
And I had a wonderful time with Loraine DesPres, novelist (Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell etc. - published by Harper), and screenwriter (TV series Dallas).
June 10, 2009—Dan Guillory, Macon Co. Conservation District-Workshop for Teachers, 8:00 AM-3:30 PM
June 25, 2009—Ray Elliott* will speak at the Glen Carbon Library at Glen Carbon, IL 6:30 PM
*Ray Elliott did not publish with Mayhaven... but at his request, we help market and distribute his books. See his bio on the author page, and our catalog for his books. (see Catalog)
August 25, Dan Guillory (The Lincoln Poems) will speak at the Urbana Rotary in Urbana, IL
See the News and Upcoming Events Page for a more complete list of events.
It is nearly summer. Watch for a listing of novels and short story books for your summer reading.
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It was a pleasure to visit a bit with Roger and Chaz Ebert at his book signing at the University of Illinois in Urbana. For those of you who aren't aware, Mr. Ebert has gifted one million dollars to the U of I for film studies. You may contribute to this wonderful endowment.
Ebert provided a blurb for the book and a mention in his column about Robert Isham Auler's popular courtroom novel Keep and Bear Arms
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Read Dan Stein's story on the Guest Author Page. We were happy that he took time out of his schedule to visit us in Mahomet.
Mayhaven thanks Ed Asner , David Selby, Loraine DesPres, Gary W. Moore, and others for taking time from their busy schedules to answer a good many questions from the five-member team of interns from the University of Illinois who researched for Mayhaven this semester. This excellent team worked hard and has provided much valuable information— and we've all had a great time Friday's at Mayhaven.
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For the Lincoln Bicentennial, Mayhaven has three new titles on the 16th President. Together, these three works offer a vivid and penetrating look at Lincoln in his lifetime and as he is viewed in ours.
Lincoln's Travels on the River Queen During the Last Days of His Life by Wayne C. Temple
 
This is the eighth book written about Lincoln by Temple. This nonfiction work presents Lincoln in a little known setting. Temple has been called the greatest living Lincoln historian, and is a recipient of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial edition of the Order of Lincoln, the highest honor that can be awarded by the State of Illinois (2009). You may also see him as a guest historian in Prelude to the Presidency, now playing on PBS stations across the country.
"Once again, Lincoln scholar extraordinary Wayne Temple has filled a void in the Lincoln literature with an authoritative, exhaustive, and irresistibly lively account of one of the 16th President's favorite perks: his riverboat. Any Lincoln enthusiast lucky enough to pick it up will find it impossible to set aside; impeccably researched, it reads like an adventure story. The River Queen was a witness to history. Fortunately for us, so is Wayne Temple."
— Harold Holzer, co-chairman, U. S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
Dr. Temple's book, Abraham Lincoln: From Skeptic to Prophet, has been included in the top 100 books on Lincoln. Mayhaven is pleased to have published ...Skeptic... and four other books by Dr. Wayne C. Temple. (See Catalog)
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Lincoln's Better Angel by actor/author David L. Selby
 
This moving and creative novel challenges conventional views of Lincoln.
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Selby recently portrayed Lincoln in The Heavens are Hung in Black at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. In addition, he served on a panel to discuss the Emancipation Proclamation at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
See the full review of Lincoln's Better Angel on our News and Reviews page.
“Lincoln’s Better Angel gives us a history lesson, and Lincoln’s words and actions demonstrate how he changed our way of thinking and made it possible for all of us to be the best that we can be.”
—Rafer Johnson, Author, Humanitarian, and Olympic Decathlon Gold Medal Winner
“From its opening paragraph, Lincoln’s Better Angel is touching, and at times astonishing. David Selby has created a living, breathing Lincoln, true to historical roots, yet alive and relevant in today’s world. Any student of American history will be dazzled by Selby’s interpretation of Lincoln and his plausible reactions to contemporary events. With every page, you tumble further into this amazing world, and meet a charming, wise and surprising ghost of Lincoln."
—Bob Rogers, BRC Imagination Arts, Executive Producer of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum
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The Lincoln Poems, by Dan Guillory
 
Guillory's poems, that have been called both lyrical and audacious, are based on events in Lincoln's life. Guillory, a prolific and insightful writer of both history and poetry.
"....these poems can stand on their own. ....Lincoln's voice here will have its greatest effect when it speaks of the smaller moments of a large and complex life.... Guillory's Lincoln draws simple but illuminating parallels to his and our greater preoccupations. When the lines are distilled with some flavor of a Thoreau or a Dickinson readers may feel most rewarded....
—Margaret Heilbrun, Library Journal, March 1, 2009
"Part history, part mythology, and all word music, "The Lincoln Poems" is Dan Guillory's loving tribute to the nation's first and only poet President. Guillory channels Abraham Lincoln through the ages and into the moment, breathing fire and wit and soul into his marbled memory. The results are audacious and inspired. Read these poems. Read them aloud. Give voice to your own inner Lincoln."
—William Furry Executive Director, Illinois State Historical Society
"....This is a fine book, well crafted, well produced, and complete in itself, but it also has a value to drive one further into investigating this man who, in my travels abroad, I have found is better known than any other American. A final word on the last three poems, "Contents of My Pockets, April 14, 1865"; "Bullet in My Brain, April 15, 1865"; and "Alternate Ending". These are a tour de force. I have never felt Lincoln's death more keenly than in reading this trio, after the cumulative effect of the whole book. They are unforgettable."
—A brief portion of a much longer review on The Lincoln Poems in the Illinois Times by Jacqueline Jackson, books and poetry editor, and professor emerita of English at the University of Illinois at Springfield
Watch for a new book by Guillory, published by Mayhaven Publishing, Inc.
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Introducing
Harvey's Life - Now What?
Brian H. Porter
April 30, 2009, The Skillet restaurant in Paxton, IL hosted a wine and signing party for our newest author, Brian H. Porter.
 
Porter has been writing for others most of his adult life. His wry observations of people and events are legend among family and friends, though it took a disastrous economy to push him down the literary road.
Through these tales, some humorous, some dark, the author searches for reason.
Brian Porter first presented samples of his writing as Mayhaven's guest author.
Porter lives with his family in central Illinois.
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