Mountain Lake Press was founded in 2008 by two author-editors who cherish good writing--fiction and non-fiction alike. We offered as our first product that year the deeply thoughtful debut novel, Requiem for the Bone Man, by R.A. Comunale, M.D.
Then we published our first non-fiction offering, Safe Young Drivers: A Guide for Parents and Teens, by Phil Berardelli. In print since 1996, this renowned book on driving instruction has been highly praised by a host of experts and reviewers. For more information please visit www.safeyoungdrivers.com.
Also in 2008 we released the second and third books by R.A. Comunale. The delightful Berto's World is a collection of short stories about the youthful days of Robert Galen, the protagonist of Requiem for the Bone Man, and The Legend of Safehaven, the second installment of the trilogy, The Safehaven Chronicles, which began with Requiem for the Bone Man.
In 2009 we released the audio version of Berto's World and, in quality paperback, Dr. Comunale's second short-story collection, Dr. Galen's Little Black Bag. The book outsold the works of 90 other authors, including celebrities and bestsellers, at the annual National Press Club Book Fair in Washington, D.C.
This past summer we published, as our first hardcover and electronic editions, The Craft We Chose: My Life in the CIA, by Richard L. Holm. The Craft We Chose is an outstanding memoir by a legendary member of the Central Intelligence Agency, and it has been receiving rave reviews. Also available as an ebook and paperback is Clover, the third volume in Dr. Robert Comunale's The Safehaven Chronicles. Like Dr. Galen's Little Black Bag, Clover topped all sellers at the 2011 National Press Club Book Fair.
In September we released the electronic version of Safe Young Drivers as well as The Driving Challenge: Dare to Be Safer and Happier on the Road, Phil Berardelli's audacious blueprint for reforming aggressive drivers. And in October, we released Dr. Comunale's other four novels as ebooks.
Finishing the year, we released another book by Phil Berardelli, this one on an entirely different subject. Phil's Favorite 500: Loves of a Moviegoing Lifetime presents a wealth of movie recommendations based on his years as a TV movie critic and his lifelong affair with motion pictures. The book is available only in electronic form for a very special reason. Phil has included links to clips, previews, and selected featurettes about nearly every movie on the list, meaning readers can sample Phil's choices instantly.
For ordering information on all of these titles, please visit the Buy Our Books page.
Early in 2012 we plan to publish Safe Senior Drivers: A Guide for a Critical Time. In this urgently needed book, Phil Berardelli teams with an exceptional group of journalists and experts to provide essential information and advice to elderly drivers and their adult children. And breaking more new ground, we plan to release, simultaneously, the quality paperback, audio, and electronic versions of Adventures in the Scream Trade: Scenes from an Operatic Life. A frank and frequently uproarious memoir by Charles Long, the book presents a vivid, behind-the-scenes look at the world of opera.
Please check this page periodically for more updates.
We will continue to offer high-quality but reasonably priced books and multimedia products. Four years ago we began our business with the audacious slogan, “Home to some of America's best books.” We have honored that commitment and will continue to work to earn that reputation.
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