Homestead Press welcomes author Jeannette Holtham and her new book, Taking Restorative Justice to Schools: A Doorway to Discipline. Holtham knows of what she speaks: As founder and president of the Youth Transformation Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, she has facilitated scores of restorative justice conferences and trained educators, prison staff, law enforcement, and lawyers.

From the back cover:

"The global restorative justice movement is here to stay. Around the world, even the most dangerous, high-risk schools are reducing discipline problems by up to sixty percent. Complementing your current school discipline practices with this simple, step-by-step restorative justice model will help you reach youth on a core level at a critical time in their young lives, when it’s still possible to stop and reverse negative or destructive behavior."

Find out more at the YTC website.

Del Hayes follows up historical fiction with heartfelt nonfiction, on a subject close to home. In Happily Ever After: A Tribute to Marriage from a Fifty-Year Veteran, Hayes attempts to restore to marriage the respect and admiration he believes it deserves. Having recently celebrated his own fiftieth wedding anniversary, Hayes can speak from experience. Personalizing the book with his own marriage story as a case study, Hayes shares the secrets—and not-so-secrets—of enjoying a successful marriage. In doing so, and examining the causes and effects of current attitudes about marriage, Hayes reveals marriage as the best path for true happiness and discovering one's full potential as a person.

Filled with humor and humility, Happily Ever After is at once a candid memoir about an enduring marriage, and a love letter to the "sacred institution."

Del Hayes made his debut with this historical romance that received five-out-of-five stars in the 2006 Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Contest. Described by the judges as "a very sweet love story," The Old Man begins with just that—a mysterious old stranger in a tavern—and ends with an ending sure to surprise any reader. Using the War of 1812 as a backdrop, it is an epic story of political ambition, revenge, but most of all the love of a lifetime, love at all costs. Eschewing the earnest, bodice-ripping style of most romances, Hayes has fashioned a smart, compelling love story with fascinating historical context.