New Releases by David Kherdian

In Long River Home, David Kherdian invites readers into the luminous landscape of his youth, a time when the silver screen shimmered with cowboys, gangsters, and dreams of being "somebody" in a world full of possibility. Growing up amid the lingering shadows of the Depression, he navigates a changing America with wide-eyed curiosity, absorbing the rhythms of family, neighborhood, and nature. Through short prose pieces and poems, Kherdian recalls the small wonders-a robin at the window, a secret fishing spot, the red fence behind the factory, the thrill of trading comics-and the larger lessons of identity, love, and spiritual awakening. His reflections blend the magic of childhood imagination with the grounding realities of immigrant life, the Armenian experience, and the forging of values that would shape him as an observer, writer, and man of the world. Part memoir, part meditation on innocence and aspiration, Long River Home captures the sweetness, wonder, and enduring hope of growing up in an earlier America-a world where heroes inspired, the sky felt limitless, and every small memory carried the promise of a life fully lived.

What is it like to come as a stranger to a new country and adapt to another culture without losing your own? For the Armenians who fled the Genocide in the early part of the 20th century. Those fortunate enough to make it to America were forced to adapt to a new home while attempting to maintain their identity. Renowned Armenian-American author David Kherdian recalls growing up in the Midwestern city of Racine and all the characters his family encountered. To Live Again is a poignant story told through poetry of the Armenian diaspora and the struggles to find a new place to set down roots. This is an important piece of art of marginalized and sometimes forgotten people who endured many hardships but became a vital part of Racine''s history.

Writing from his home in the hills of Black Mountain, poet David Kherdian shares his thoughts on the pandemic of 2020 through simple, unobtrusive verses- providing grace, prayer, and deliverance for all those in need.

Abraza cada día por completo... Cada día nos trae nuevos sentimientos, algunos son felices, otros son tristes. Unos días nos enfadamos mucho y otros estamos confusos. Hay días en los que estamos exactamente donde queremos estar, otros días puede que no. Sin embargo, no importa lo que esté pasando, siempre es importante enfocarse en lo que está ocurriendo... AHORA MISMO. Lecciones sobre la atención plena y la autorreflexión El ganador de la Medalla Newbery, David Kherdian, y la dos veces galardonada con la Medalla Caldecott, Nonny Hogrogian, han creado un clásico con el que cualquier niño puede identificarse. Tanto si es un buen día, jugando en el patio trasero haciendo pasteles de barro, como si no lo es, discutiendo con tu mejor amigo, David y Nonny ofrecen una amplia perspectiva para meditar en el ahora. Sea que se cuente antes de dormir o lo lea solo un joven lector, AHORA MISMO sin duda ayudará a que incluso los niños más ansiosos o preocupados aprendan a abrazar el momento y a dejar de lado las preocupaciones.

We are the moments that shape us... Every conversation, every minute on the job, every daydream, every chance encounter--these moments all add up to something much greater than the sum of their parts. If cultivated properly, each of these disjointed moments can spark magic within and help us become who we are truly meant to be in this world. In Becoming a Writer, David Kherdian lays out some selected memories, moments, and places in time that proved critical in shaping his soul as an editor, poet, and writer. We all have a story tell... David captures the magic of each moment of life and encourages us all to do the same. From his early childhood memories walking up and down the streets of Racine, Wisconsin with his gang of friends to crushing disappointment at the hands of overly critical school teachers... From his days as a door-to-door magazine salesman all the way to Japan on the eve of the war in Korea... From a stint compiling the works of the Beat Poets in San Francisco to decoding the raw emotion contained in his mother''s own memoirs... Becoming a Writer is more than just a memoir. In detailing the defining moments of his life, David Kherdian also provides us with a guide to help capture the magic within our own lives, put it to paper, and ultimately share it with the world.

Follow your dreams...no matter what... One day, Juna sees a dream that he knows will lead him to where he needs to be. The only problem is that the dream is so cryptic, he doesn''t even know where to start. But that doesn''t stop him. With help from new friends that he makes along the way, Juna pushes forward, inch by inch, until he and his realize what his dream was all about. From award-winning husband and wife team David and Nonny JUNA''S JOURNEY is a timeless fable told by Newbery award winner David Kherdian and lovingly illustrated by two-time Caldecott Medalist Nonny Hogrogian. Besides being a fun bedtime story, JUNA''S JOURNEY teaches the importance of working together in teams.

Poet David Kherdian describes the day to day activities of a cat as he moves from the countryside to the big city. Beautiful woodcuts complement the elegantly simple verses of this collection. In a world where everything is hustle and bustle, COUNTRY CAT CITY CAT will remind even the most stressed or anxious among us to focus on the simpler things in life. From ages 9 to 99, there are nuggets of wisdom for all in this book.

After painstaking preparations with his friend Sammy, Jason enters the big fishing contest and follows a plan to discover where the biggest fish in the pond are hiding.

Poet David Kherdian offers a retelling of poems and songs drawn from ancient Armenian texts that describe nature''s unique relationship with humanity. These songs and poems contain a glimpse into characteristically humble yet troubled world outlook. Upon reading these deeply intimate writings, we tap into out collective faith and draw from that place in us that is reserved for the essential and true--from our own unspoiled reservoir of spirit, that understands what has been lost and can yet be regained.

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.

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.

In this short captivating memoir, Kherdian takes us on his long journey to become a writer: a journey of self-discovery and deliverance to a life he could not believe he would ever achieve. Following him, we often forget what he is searching for, but what does become apparent are the revealing patterns of his life that unfold uncontrollably, as determined by his fate, that he must uncover before he can realize his true destiny. This little book, a writer''s testimony, also becomes a reader''s story, as we move through and beyond Kherdian to find where each of us stands, for none of us can avoid the journey of our lives, and why we turn to artists, whose visions often provide a lens by which we can see ourselves.

In his long anticipated poetic memoir, internationally acclaimed author and poet David Kherdian continues his poetic reflections, focusing on the city of his youth, Racine, Wisconsin during the 1930''s and 40''s. The poems and prose explore the bittersweet childhood and adolescence of the now 84-year-old author: a time when the second generation of Armenian-Americans experienced not only the Depression and the war years, but also the anguish of dual identity, deracination, and discrimination. Meanwhile their impoverished parents, mostly peasants from the old country, were going through the trauma of genocide memories and survival in a strange land. The poems and prose of Root River Return spring from an ancient tradition and bear its stain. The poems are filtered through Kherdian''s sensibilities that are uniquely Armenian, but welded to an American tongue and the solid background of his Midwestern beginnings. Kherdian addresses his life through these poems, digging beneath the events of each experience, pushing them into the light, and revealing their meanings.

----- Table of Contents ----- - Foreword - Conference Program 2014 - Electrotherapy: Gurdjieff, Harharkh and Tesla, Poster Presentation: Debbie Elliott - Seminar Beelzebub''s Tales, "France," chapter xxxvii - To Try and Fathom the Gist: Robin Bloor - On Objective Science in Beelzebub''s Tales and its - Meaning for Us: John Clarke - Compassion: Required in Order to Become Aware of Genuine Being-Duty: Russell Schreiber - Seminar Beelzebub''s Tales, "Religion," chapter xxxvii - The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three: Cynthia Bourgeault - Divided Attention and the Search for Self: Stephen Aronson - Hypnosis, Hanbledzoin and the Flu: Jack Cain - The Being-Obligolnian-Strivings as Practice: George Bennett - Seminar Meetings, "Professor Skridlov," chapter x - Poetry: David Kherdian - Where do we go from here? - Index"

A sleepless bear hides the moon, much to the displeasure of his forest animal friends who miss dancing under its light in this new picture book by a Newbery Honoree and a two-time Caldecott Medalist. Full color.

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.

A classic of Chinese literature, this beloved folktale is part adventure story, part spiritual allegory—now reimagined by a National Book Award nominee Part spiritual pilgrimage, part historical epic, the folk novel Journey to the West, which came to be known as Monkey, is the most popular classic of Asian literature. Originally written in the sixteenth century, it is the story of the adventures of the rogue-trickster Monkey and his encounters with a bizarre cast of characters as he travels to India with the Buddhist pilgrim Tripitaka in search of sacred scriptures. Much more than a picaresque adventure novel, Monkey is a profound allegory of the struggle that must occur before spiritual transformation is possible. David Kherdian''s masterful telling brings this classic of Chinese literature to life in a way that is true to the scope and depth of the original.

Meet Alvin Tolliver, a quiet boy who seldom fits in with other kids. He doesn''t have any real friends, and he likes spending time alone in the forest near his home. Becoming a nature tracker is his dream. Life begins to change for Alvin when he meets four special people from whom he learns important lessons about the natural world. First, there''s Crazy Eli who is laughed at by everyone because he''s different. Then, Old Joe Krensky, the fabled wilderness guide, enters Alvin''s life. Next comes Hannah the Bird Lady who rescues hurt animals and seems to like them better than people. Lastly, Alvin meets Philip Sunbear, the famous Indian tracker that few people have ever seen. Hecause of his new friends, Alvin discovers that he''s not really alone in the world. Even more, he learns that the world is more magical than he ever realized.

Poetry. David Kherdian is the author or editor of over fifty books, which include poetry, novels, memoirs, and children''s books as well as critical studies, translations, and retellings. His numerous awards include a Newbery Honor Book, the Jane Addams Peace Award, the Friends of American Writers Award, and a nomination for the American Book Award. With simple and assuming means, like one of the great Armenian artisans who built the acclaimed original Christian churches, Kherdian creates the very life of the neighborhood of his childhood, and at the same time lets us see into the mind and spirit and heart of the poet himself -- Aram Saroyan.

An award-winning author''s uncompromising and brutally honest inside story of the powerful Gurdjieff Work of self-transformation. Offers a stirring account of spiritual transformation, as well as a warning of the real dangers inherent in being a member of any spiritual group Acclaimed author David Kherdian tells us the inside story of the powerful Gurdjieff Work of self-transformation. He describes his interaction with the hierarchy of various groups involved in the Work and tells the inspiring story of his own awakening that will resonate deeply with anyone involved in disciplined spiritual practice. Drawing on his own decades of intense study and application of Gurdjieff''s philosophy, Kherdian offers us a stirring account of spiritual transformation, as well as a warning of the real dangers inherent in being a member of any spiritual group.

A young boy relates his special friendship with his Armenian uncle.