If You Exist is a personal message written to no one living now, but rather to one of our human progeny who might find it many generations in the future. The aging narrator, like others in her generation, faces her own mortality at the same time she faces the possibility of thousands more species, including her own, becoming extinct. She speaks of “Hunters” and “Gatherers” as she has radically redefined these terms, and applies them to her concerns about the future of Homo sapiens and to the survival of life on our planet.

Lillian Moats’ latest book, The Letter from Death, features a foreword by Howard Zinn and 20 evocative full-page illustrations by David Moats. This slim volume casts a bright light on how our unexamined fear of death has, throughout history, misdirected our energies–away from the real and immediate challenges of this world and toward unnecessary war, injustice and self-destruction.

In drawing or painting faces, I nearly always start with the eyes, and by the time I feel I’ve begun to catch their expression I’ve simultaneously begun to fall in love with my subjects, no matter how distracted or angry or joyful their expressions.

MCMLXXVIII sits proudly on the shelf, reflecting, suffering, chuckling. It’s unapologetically surreal, crammed with undisguised depression and hotblooded humor. Do you dare disturb it…or let it disturb you?

As with her four previous books, Lillian Moats asks of her reader a quiet attentiveness, and amply pays back that gift. The rhythms of her writing propel us through this timeless allegory, in which we meet characters wholly familiar to us, yet encounter them in ourselves as if for the first time. Full of suspense and insight, this book will speak to readers who think about the world, about the meaning of life and death, and who seek authentic hope in an age of denial.

Powerful and poetic, Legacy of Shadows explores the psychological impact of unresolved emotion passed down through generations. Revealing the private perceptions of a mother, daughter and granddaughter in turn, Moats offers readers an intimate perspective from which to consider how we become the people we are.

This daring new literary work defies the conventions of memoir by questioning the very nature of memory and the traditional autonomous subject. Lillian Moats negotiates this complex narrative using four inner voices which challenge the distinctions between mind and body, subject and object, consciousness and the unconscious. Speak, Hands breaks through verbal bounds to transport us into the wordless realms of meditation and gesture.

The Gate of Dreams is a collection of original fairy tales reminiscent of classic fairy tale editions and illustrated profusely in silhouette. These stories, which appeal to adults as well as children, were first suggested for publication by the revered fairy tale scholar Bruno Bettelheim.

A collection of original stories appealing to adults as well as children, The Gate of Dreams is a hardcover keepsake book reminiscent of classic fairy tale editions. It includes six colorplates from oil vignettes and is illustrated throughout with lively silhouettes.