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CATALOG OF BOOKS BY JAIYA JOHN
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CLEAR MOON TRIBE. A NEW NOVEL COMING APRIL 2015! Twelve 18-year-olds encamp on a
mystical island. They have come to enjoy the paradise, with its ocean shores, spectacular waterfall, and
crystal clear lagoon. The island has other ideas. As human souls encounter island spirit, lives that have
been touched by foster care, homelessness, delinquency, and trauma face a reckoning. Through
adventure, conflict, passion, and friendship, a tribe is born. The true purpose for their challenging
childhood journeys is revealed in ways that will transform their lives forever. Clear Moon Tribe is a
coming of age revelation. A healing story, bathed in cultural myths, fables, and legends. Its words will
tattoo your heart: hilariously, poignantly, unforgettably. Fall deliriously into a new tribal language. It all
began that summer, on an island, beneath a provocative clear moon.
Habanero Love is a wildfire sweeping through the heart, clearing the way for the romantic and the
Sacred in us to sprout anew. This epic Love poem blazes with passion and unbridled surrender. It is a
mythic Love story. A naked declaration. A revelation that the Love we fall into is a current within
Divine Love Itself. Our hearts yearn so achingly for a reason: Love is the carriage taking us to the
mystic territory that is our Sacred home. Habanero Love is a carriage on fire. Taste these words. They
are divine dark chocolate and scorching red pepper. You have never burned like this before. When
Love’s mood strikes… become a match. 2014 • First edition • Hardcover • 192 pages • $27 • ISBN 978-09713308-9-4 • poetry / romance / spirituality
Fresh Peace: Daily Blossoming of the Soul is a compilation of heart-stirring reflections and stories from
Jaiya John’s Fresh Peace: Daily Inspirations, a free e-publication. Now Jaiya, who has shared his deeply
resonant messages with hundreds of thousands worldwide, gathers together these healing words for
those who cherish and yearn for a lasting inner Peace. Stroll through this garden of Sacredness and feel
your soul awaken to its own true and flowering fragrance: the unmistakable perfume of Peace. Renew.
Refresh. Rediscover the essence of your life. 2013 • First edition • Hardcover • 216 pages • $27 • ISBN
9780971330870 • inspirational / spirituality / philosophy
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Father to Son: Ode to Black Boys is a spoken word testimony to the phenomenal journey of African
American people. A dying father’s inspired and hopeful last conversation with his 17-year-old son
serves as the context for this uplifting and powerful narrative. Jaiya John’s compassionate voice weaves
a rich kente cloth tapestry of Love, celebration, challenge, and honor. Father to Son, with its rich
rhythmic wordplay, flavored with a gumbo recipe for Self-Love in both males and females, frames the
journey of African American boys into manhood. Here is a role call for the spirit warrior in us who
wants our families to be whole. Come beat the drum. 2014 • First edition • Hardcover • 74 pages • $23 •
ISBN 9780971330887 • poetry / African American / child & family
Lyric of Silence. A Poetic Telling of the Human Soul Journey. Lyric of Silence is a reunion with an old
friend: the divine uniqueness we came here to be. Like a bay window in spring, we open, and bright new
glory rushes in. Poetry, parable, and inner conversation have all been brought to this union fire, kindling
for our illumination flame. 2010 • First edition • Hardcover • 240 pages • $27 • ISBN 9780971330856 •
poetry / spirituality / philosophy
Legendary: A Tribute To Those Who Honorably Serve Devalued Children. This second edition, enriched
with new material, is Jaiya John’s celebration of teachers, social service professionals, advocates,
guardians, parents, counselors, mentors, and the like. Those compassionate souls who honorably
serve youth devalued by society due to material poverty, heritage, language, family separation; or
challenges with learning, behavior, mental health, or physical ability. Here are poems and poetic
stories to awaken your spirit, massage your heart, and remind you of the reasons you do this work.
Your service touches lives, and miracles are born. Your grace endures forever. Are you experiencing
COMPASSION FATIGUE, VICARIOUS TRAUMA, BURNOUT, DISILLUSIONMENT,
DOUBT, LACK OF APPRECIATION AND SUPPORT, LOST DIRECTION, FEAR,
EMPTINESS? You deserve relief. LEGENDARY is well water drawn from the very soul of your
compassionate endeavor, offered back to you in your own yearning voice. Come here and drink to
your replenishment. Regain your spark of purpose. Word by word, renew your wholeness, your humanity, and your vital
health. Take a dose daily. Soon, you will be breathing freely again, like the first time you answered your sacred calling. 2014
• First edition • Softcover • 216 pages • $18 • ISBN 9780991640102 • poetry / youth social services & education
Beautiful: A Poetic Celebration of Displaced Children. The many fictional voices of displaced children in
Beautiful are inspired by youth Jaiya John has worked with over a lifetime. This second edition contains
eight new poems. Beautiful is much more than a source of inspiration. Its words reveal the majesty and
vulnerability of all children. It is an empowerment anthem for youth, a resource for those who love, care
for, and work with these purposeful souls. Child light shines through these pages, asserting the demand
of our young for their dignity, while portraying their limitless power to heal, grow, and flourish. A
poetic companion to Jaiya John’s Reflection Pond, Beautiful is the kind of treasure we polish repeatedly, its
truth seeping into our compassion. Struggle and triumph. Solitude and belonging. A journey of
sunflowers toward the sun of selfhood. In these pages we find Beauty born. 2013 • Second edition (First
edition 2008) • Hardcover • 200 pages • $27 • ISBN 9780971330863 • poetry / child & youth
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Reflection Pond: Nurturing Wholeness in Displaced Children. Jaiya John has shared time with thousands
of uprooted children through his global human relations work. Reflection Pond offers us a looking glass
for what these youth have whispered into his spirit. They have shared their need for reflection ponds:
people, places, and experiences through which their own beauty and purpose are reflected back to
them. Through allegory and parable, poetry and prose, Jaiya John draws from the natural world
around us to unveil the magical inner life of children and youth. Here is a revelatory positioning of
the human mirror. In its face we glimpse magnificence. 2007 • Softcover • 244 pages • $18 • ISBN
9780971330825 • child & youth development • nonfiction
Black Baby White Hands: A View from the Crib. July 15, 1968. In this fateful moment, a Black baby
becomes perhaps the first in the history of New Mexico to be adopted by a White family. Here is a
brazenly honest glimpse into the mind and heart of that child, a true story for the ages that flows like
a soulful river—separated from his mother at birth, placed into foster care, adopted, and finally
reunited with his biological family in adulthood—an astounding journey of personal discovery. Jaiya
John has opened the floodgates on his own childhood with this piercing memoir. Black Baby White
Hands, a waterfall of jazz splashing over the rocks of love, pain and the honoring of family.
Magically, this book finds a way to sing as it cries, and to exude compassion even as it dispels wellentrenched myths. This story is sure to find itself well worn, stained by tears, and brushed by
laughter in the lap of parents, adolescents, educators, students and professionals. 2005 • Revised
Second edition (First edition 2002) • Softcover • 350 pages • $18 • ISBN 978-0-9713308-1-8 • memoir
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