Russell A. Mebane’s hope for Rape & Killing: Stories from a Strange Mind is that it will stay in readers’ minds “for all eternity.” He’s come close. This collection of short stories and essays is filled, as the title... Read More

What is politically correct or incorrect depends upon the audience and society as a whole. Ciera S. Louise’s poetry collection, "Poetically Correct", is full of bold poems that critique the skeletons in humanity’s closet. Spanning... Read More

Paul Gauguin considered his painting Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? to be his most important work. The painting depicts three questions he first pondered in Catholic catechism; Gauguin rejected religion in adult... Read More

Kids love to give free reign to their imaginations, and in "The Stone Hatchlings", little Abby’s rich creativity fills the pages. When the girl discovers two stones in her back yard she decides they are eggs and nominates herself their... Read More

Rick Taylor, a doctor by profession, proves what many readers are continually learning: the best education takes place outside the classroom. With "My Favorite Teacher Was an Ironworker", Taylor shares a heartfelt look at an unexpected... Read More

To write a fictionalized autobiography of Jesus is to risk offending some readers. Edward J. Murray is to be commended for his courage, if not his style, in writing The Memoir of a Nazarene: Jay Levi. To have Jesus, or, as he is known in... Read More

Adults, preteens, and teenagers alike will find invaluable insight and information about middle school, its dangers and pleasures, in this fun and humorous book by middle-school teacher Kimberly Dana. In Lucy and CeCee’s How to Survive... Read More

Alex Caemmerer Jr., a practicing psychiatrist since the early 1950s, claims to be “addicted to writing letters to the editor of the New York Times” about things going on in the United States. While some of those letters—and some to... Read More