New marketing campaign is set for Shirley Parkin Porath’s ‘Hey, Mabe!’
SALT LAKE CITY – Shirley Parkin Porath marks her publishing debut with the release of “Hey, Mabe!” (published by Xlibris in April 2016). Set for a new marketing campaign, the memoir follows the life of one woman who strives to make her mark in a “man’s world.”
Set in the early 1900s in Bingham, Utah, near one of the largest copper mines in the world, “Hey, Mabe!” charts the coming of age of an energetic, likable young woman named Mabe. Her rip-roaring town of Bingham was a melting pot of people from many nations — colorful characters who worked together, supported and helped one another as they survived mining accidents, fires, floods and avalanches, while experiencing the Depression, Prohibition and two world wars. As Mabe explores more about the fascinating place, readers watch her grow from unsure girlhood into an outstanding, confident woman who was far ahead of her time.
“Women in today’s society still struggle to be considered equal to men. People still experience accidents, natural disasters, and tests of morality and try to triumph over them. All of us need love, loyalty, and support from family and friends. These issues are timeless,” Porath says, on the book’s pivotal points.
“I hope readers enjoy reading about the ‘coming of age’ adventures of an exuberant young woman in an extraordinary environment and time period. They’ll learn many new facts and have more than a few chuckles as they look back in time with Mabe,” she adds.
A snippet from the book:
I realized that soon even the town of Bingham itself would be covered completely. Overcome with a desire to see changes — while there was still anything left to see, I joined a bus tour pretending to be “just another tourist.” But memories wouldn’t allow me to look dispassionately through the windows as other passengers did. I gazed in disbelief, wished I were the bus tour narrator, and framed words I didn’t dare speak.
“Hey, Mabe!”
By Shirley Parkin Porath
Hardcover | 6 x 9in | 522 pages | ISBN 9781514457504
Softcover | 6 x 9in | 522 pages | ISBN 9781514457511
E-Book | 522 pages | ISBN 9781514457528
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
About the Author
Shirley Parkin Porath spent much of her early life in Copperfield and Copperton, small communities near Bingham Canyon, Utah, home of one of the largest copper mines in the world. She retired after teaching elementary school for 35 years and now lives in East Mill Creek, a suburb of Salt Lake City. She and her husband of 66 years are the proud parents of three children, grandparents to 12 and their spouses, and great-grandparents to 20. In her spare hours, she reads, writes and enjoys music. Time with her family and friends is the most important part of her life.
Xlibris Publishing, an Author Solutions, LLC imprint, is a self-publishing services provider created in 1997 by authors, for authors. By focusing on the needs of creative writers and artists and adopting the latest print-on-demand publishing technology and strategies, we provide expert publishing services with direct and personal access to quality publication in hardcover, trade paperback, custom leather-bound and full-color formats. To date, Xlibris has helped to publish more than 60,000 titles. For more information, visit xlibris.com or call 1-888-795-4274 to receive a free publishing guide. Follow us @XlibrisPub on Twitter for the latest news.
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The Time Is Up. The Time Is Now.
An Essay of the Man from the North
by Rivera Sun
712 words
[Editor’s note: The Man from the North is a fictional character from Rivera Sun’s first series of novels. She has him offering essays beyond her novels.]
The time is up. The time is now. Gather the people to do the work: the healing, transformative, deepening work of building community, solutions, understanding, skills, knowledge, and hope. You must be the one to make a change, to step out of the rutted tracks of the looming train wreck that is our culture. You must have the courage to walk into the wilderness of what you don't know and embrace the solutions that will save our lives.
All quests and hero's journeys begin with this: the yearning for change; the hope of saving graces; the long shot of wished-for miracles. In each of us, our willingness to make a change begins with equal measures of fear, courage, and purpose rolled into an electric jolt to the soul . . . a spark that launches you toward danger and potential.
Our world will be saved by billions of ordinary heroes and sheroes who decide to do hundreds of humble and extraordinary actions. Hour by hour, minute by minute, we change our world by withdrawing our support, cooperation, and participation from old destructive systems. By making these shifts, we starve the monster we have become. We share with neighbors to dismantle consumer-capitalism. We gather to tell stories and unplug the corporate media. We build solar panels and shut off the switches of fossil fuels. One small action multiplied by millions of people adds up quickly to massive change. One small action done strategically by a small group of people can catalyze a hundred million more.
Change requires that we live differently. All of us must make changes: from the most committed activist who knows she must reconnect to her heart; to the average citizen who suspects he could be doing more; to the terrified investors in fossil fuels who must choose between their industry and their planet; and everyone in between. Real change is never handed to us on a silver platter, nor served by powerful people. When suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton wanted to vote, she strode into the polling place and cast her ballot. When Rosa Parks wanted to desegregate the Montgomery buses, she sat down and refused to give up her seat. When tribes among the Anishinaabe wanted to use their promised treaty rights, they walked on to the land to hunt, fish, and gather traditional foods and medicines.
All of them faced violence, danger, arrest, and even death threats. All of them organized, mobilized, struggled, and ultimately prevailed. None of them sat on the couch waiting for the right people to be put into the right offices to do the right thing. Deep, meaningful change is not handed to us. We wrest it out of the unknown and bring it into existence in our lives.
As Thomas Paine wrote, "we have it in our power to begin the world over again." Our actions, day in and day out, shape this ever-evolving world. We are the potter's hands forming the wet clay vessels of our existence. We are the weavers at the loom, casting the threads of our lives through the wool of the world. We are the stone cutter with chisel and hammer, chipping away at the hard realities that block our forward progress. With such power to shape our world comes the responsibility to wield our lives with intention and skill.
If you want change, live differently. But remember, you alone are not enough. One of our changes is that we must work together. We must reach out from our isolated lives. We must join hands with millions and take collective steps toward the future. You cannot go on a hero's journey alone. Not this time. You must ask others - many others, millions of others - to change their lives, too. Ask your family, friends, and colleagues. Use outreach and organizing tools to ask your neighbors, faith communities, and co-workers. Put nonviolent action to work to compel our society to adopt a change for justice. Mobilize to demand that institutions and industries shift their massive resources into systems that are just, fair, sustainably, and non-harming. In this way, our ordinary actions - multiplied by millions - add up to extraordinary change.
Do not wait another minute to change your life. The time is up. The time is now.
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Author/Activist Rivera Sun, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is the author ofThe Dandelion Insurrection and the sequel, The Roots of Resistance, and a nationally known movement trainer in strategic nonviolence. The essays were originally published on Dandelion Salad, and are reposted with permission.
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But listen, all those #GivingTuesday appeals you’ve gotten… who are they from anyway? And how did they get your name? :-)
And when in the world did your generosity need to become a big thing on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving?
I’m with you - I don’t get it. Who put our names on all those lists?
If you’re getting this note, it’s because you’re already a CER supporter in some way, shape or form - of our issues, or financially, morally, collegially, or perhaps a wanna be!
And I just thought rather than let all of these people who you don’t know as well as us continue to send you appeals today, for tomorrow, and then again next week and the next week, until Christmas, and then the New Year, and then you’ll get another for 2019, I’d just write to give you this link for whenever you’re ready to put your hard earned financial assets to the service of education opportunity and innovation.
At CER, we envision a nation that provides increased, quality educational opportunities that secure our nation’s freedom and future prosperity.
We believe it’s time that not only every American be given the freedom to choose their educational path, but that we must provide more direct, immediate access for Americans to increase their education and workforce skills to align with the modern needs of US business and industry.
We will be relentless in making this happen, as we have been for 25 years… if you give us the support to continue to carry out the work.
Then next year, I’ll be back to tell you about how we are matching your dollars in the marketplace, because CER will be driving a new financial model that relies on new services and new revenues to help make the difference for kids. Stay tuned!
Until then, let’s just look past the #GivingTuesday frenzy and keep it between us, shall we?
Many thanks!
Jeanne Allen, Founder & CEO
