In "Little Jimmy Brown", James Brown shares the highs and lows of growing up in an orphanage in the 1940s. At the beginning of the book, Brown’s birth mother, Georgia, tells her own story. She falls in love with a sailor (her sisters... Read More
If Bridget Jones earned an advanced degree in literature, her diary might read something like Ebuni Ilombu’s debut novel, "At the End of the Day". Ilombu describes the everyday trials and triumphs of a young woman in the city, using... Read More
Like many young people, Amber Breddgeforth has an ambitious goal: earn a graduate degree in business and pursue a fulfilling career. She hasn’t considered the possibility of being swept off her feet by a handsome, successful... Read More
Louise Dupont’s son Andre committed suicide in 2003 at the age of twenty-two. She wrote "Hidden Treasures" to share details of Andre’s life, including a story that he wrote as a child, family memories, and the circumstances... Read More
A Christian devotional that addresses the spiritual needs of seniors, "Golden Apples for Golden-Agers" provides daily guidance on the life-changing issues that many seniors have in common. The golden apples of the title refer to the... Read More
Determining one’s purpose in life is often difficult. In "A Marked Heart", David Ball recounts his lifelong struggle to make peace between his Christian upbringing and his desires for secular success and influence. Beginning with his... Read More
Tree nymphs and a banshee are joined by anthropomorphic lizards, flowers, and monkeys in David Frankel’s unusual book, Dragons & Dreams and Other Stories. Dragons & Dreams and Other Stories is a compilation of three individual... Read More
Keith Heim’s eminently entertaining debut novel, "Circle of Shadows" is an evocative story about a fifteen-year-old runaway struggling to build a new life in mid-1940s Morehead, a small town in Alabama. Strand by strand, the young farm... Read More