Alder Creek Editions

Books About the Systems We Share.

Alder Creek Editions publishes the work of Stephen Deason, including The Operational Reliability Series, the Mile Marker Library and the Sitting Room Series.

Fiction, nonfiction, and commentary about recovery, business, economics, and the systems that shape people’s choices. The catalog also includes practical family-care books and the growing children’s world of Küche.

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The Operational Reliability Series

The story, the system, the handbook.

Three volumes examine the institutional gaps that shape family care, from story to analysis. A companion handbook and worksheet edition sit alongside the books. The series is for the family member, friend, or partner who became the unpaid family coordinator keeping appointments, medications, authorizations, and the next handoff in one picture.

Cover of When More Help Is Needed: A Guide for You and Your Family, Book 1 of The Sitting Room Series, by Stephen Deason.

The Sitting Room Series

Guides, workbooks, and journals for the changes that ask more of a family.

Every book in the series is in large print, with pages for the person whose life is changing and for the family around them.

Küche

A bright corner of the press.

The Adventures of Noodle Monster & the Sushi Thief is a separate series of playful stories about friendship, food, and the everyday questions children know well.

Meet the Küche series
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