Blind people are stereotyped and treated like second-class citizens by uninformed and misguided sighted people. Herein lies the message to be found in "The Sight Sickness", by Christine Faltz Grassman. In her preface, the author writes... Read More

Jon Beach’s "The Dawn of Symbolic Life" is a dense, but interesting book that encapsulates the author’s long-term analysis of mankind’s history and future. Beach takes a comprehensive look at the human race, seeing it as an... Read More

“I’ve got a chance now,” said author Robert Boich in the early stages of his recovery from drug and alcohol abuse. “I’m learning how to cope with all that life has to throw at me. In the past, I only had one way to deal with... Read More

Patricia G. Penny’s Not Just Proms & Parties series of short novels is aimed at reluctant readers and ESL students, but the books are suitable for any teenage girl with a busy schedule. Only 140 pocket-sized pages long, Emily’s... Read More

Thinking of traveling internationally to a place rich with cultural and historical heritage that also offers the hustle and bustle of city life? Mexico City is a destination that can satisfy explorers of art music food and artifacts... Read More

There is a woman dressed like a librarian cliché seated on a small bed. Her expression is crushed. Look at her left hand, palm up—it appears almost paralyzed, like it’s lost its grip. A laundry basket of meticulously folded pale... Read More

This goofy book will please literati and iconoclasts alike, and should engage a sustained interest as well among those who merely like to read good poetry. In it, a fictional biographer presents a series of fictional twentieth-century... Read More

Three years after publishing his first collection of short stories (Booing the Bishop, 1995), Collins? penetrating yet humorous look into human frailties and foibles is back. Each of these concisely written stories center upon a male... Read More