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THE ROAD HERE | $14.99
by William Snyder
Narrated by Oscar Slamp
6×9 in (152×229 mm) | 252 pages | Perfect Bound | ISBN: 9786169518037
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Willie Lyonsan. A salt-of-the-earth Midwesterner. A contradiction in terms. A misfit dropped into a speck of a town in Michigan like a riddle challenged to find its own answer.
Then came the fall. Tokyo. Bangkok…
What starts as chaos and misdirection becomes something else entirely… A tale of divine intervention, and somehow, grace. This is more than a wildly entertaining ride; it’s a deeply poetic story of redemption, soul-level love, and a life-affirming rediscovery no one saw coming.
EIGHT DAYS – Short Story| $6.99by William Snyder
4 x 6 in (216 x 216mm) | 32 Pages | Paperback | ISBN
978-616-95180-4-4
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Stitched together with wilted roses, ghost towns, motel sheets, bad decisions, and the strange people who alter the course of a life long after they disappear from it, this short story begins as a quiet arrangement in a forgotten Michigan town before spiraling into a misguided detour across the American West.
Filed from The Border Dispatch archive.
THE VILLAGE | $75by Documentary Photographer William Snyder
8.5 x 8.5 (216 x 216mm) | 257 Pages | 164 Images | Case Laminate | ISBN 9786166314236
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The Village is an immersive photographic study of daily life in a small border village in Isaan. Walking the same roads and fields over months, these photographs observe the candid rhythms of home, work, faith and community that shape life far from the cities.
This first volume introduces the foundations of that world.
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THE MOSTLY TRUE TALE OF OSCAR SLAMP
as Remembered by Willie Lyonsan
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The Road Here didn’t end where you thought it did.
The publisher of The Road Here is deep into production on the highly-anticipated sequel. The forthcoming volume — The Mostly True Tale of Oscar Slamp — is slated for release Summer 2026.
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A VILLAGE WALK: Healing Ritual | $32by Documentary Photographer William Snyder
8.5 x 8.5 (216 x 216mm) | 62 Pages | 31 Images | Perfect Bound | ISBN 9786166314489
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Ra maemod (ra, meaning dance and maemod, meaning witch – Witch Dance) is an ancient healing ritual with deep Khmer roots. With extremely rare access this Village Walk documents the ritual from the inside.
A VILLAGE WALK: The Hermit | $32by Documentary Photographer William Snyder
8.5 x 8.5 (216 x 216mm) | 64 Pages | 29 Images | Perfect Bound | ISBN 9786166314649
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The road narrowed into gravel, then into something barely deserving the name. A rutted two-track threaded through protruding boulders and thickening forest. Eventually, the trees opened just enough for us to see a scattering of makeshift outbuildings where he lives.
Once a highly regarded monk he was pulled from the monastery into the army. Special operations. Something happened. He retreated and for thirty years he’s been a hermit. This volume takes a photographic look inside.
A VILLAGE WALK: Buddha Day | $32by Documentary Photographer William Snyder
8.5 x 8.5 (216 x 216mm) | 64 Pages | 31 Images | Perfect Bound | ISBN 9786169518013
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Buddhism is observed every day in Thailand. But four days each month – following the lunar cycle – Buddha days are when laypeople closely follow the five precepts.
In this border village, many wake early to cook food for the monks and bring it to the forest temple. There is a brief service of prayers and chanting. A meal follows. Once the meal is finished, one or more monks will sit and invite discussion.
This volume captures images of the private sites where the monks live along the trail to the temple and from inside the temple during the ceremony.
A VILLAGE WALK: Blessings | $32by Documentary Photographer William Snyder
8.5 x 8.5 (216 x 216mm) | 54 Pages | 29 Images | Perfect Bound | ISBN 9786166314663
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A few minutes into this morning’s walk I heard a concentration of voices, chanting, laughter – the unmistakable hum of people gathering – up ahead. As I approached the house I realized a family was holding an annual ceremony to honor a loved one who had passed.
Then a new tractor was delivered. What unfolded then was not only a blessing ceremony for the tractor but a blessing to observe in such close, welcomed proximity. This volume is a candid peek into a moment of daily village life. Ordinary and extraordinary often fold together into one here … if you’re paying attention.
A VILLAGE WALK: Corner Store | $32by Documentary Photographer William Snyder
8.5 x 8.5 (216 x 216mm) | 64 Pages | 30 Images | Perfect Bound | ISBN 9786166315318
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In this tiny village near the Cambodian border, the corner store serves many functions. It is the tavern, the drugstore, the temple, and sometimes the place where you get your palm read.
This volume follows a daily walk to, and a look inside, Yow’s corner store – the center of gravity here.
Characters. Home. Soul.
DAYBOOK: Custom Keepsake Journal| $33by Documentary Photographer William SnyderHardcover case laminate | Cream paper interior | 162 pages | 5 x 8 inches | SKU 2370002213950
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More than a journal, Daybook is a documentary artifact, a literary object, a contemplative design piece, and, yes, a usable journal/notebook.
Custom-designed hardcover journal created slowly in a rural border village in Northeast Thailand.
Printed on warm cream paper and wrapped in a quiet, weathered cover, it was designed to feel less like a mass-produced notebook and more like something discovered and carried for a while.
Inside are 162 lined pages along with 10 black-and-white photographic interludes gathered from forgotten roads, rubber groves, temples, and village paths throughout rural Isaan. Each image is paired with a small fragment of text intended to slow the pace just enough to notice the world differently for a moment.
This is not a canned drop-ship journal. Every page, photograph, texture, and detail was custom built specifically for this edition.
Designed in Thailand by documentary photographer William Snyder.