The Hawaiian word pono describes a state of harmony and balance much like that achieved by Lauren Benton Angulo in her debut novel, Caught Inside: A Surfing Passage. Angulo’s multifaceted coming-of-age story balances the energetic... Read More

Obscurity is a hard fate to escape, something the author of "Lament in the Night" knew all too well. But nearly one hundred years after his stories were first published in Japanese-language newspapers in California, Shoson’s work is... Read More

For those who don’t mind a bit of irreverence in their Christmas stories, Dick Morgan’s The Archangel’s Gift offers one of the most endearing holiday tales to come along in quite a while. Morgan’s story is not just for kids.... Read More

Marika Pruska-Carroll offers an insightful and rewarding contention: Russia is regressing politically in the face of economic and educational progress and an ongoing social revolution. Pruska-Carroll was raised in Poland, earned her PhD... Read More

“I’m not a patient! … I’m a prisoner of war.” These few words summarize Ruth Levine’s outlook on her struggle to overcome the emotional challenges of her diagnosis of stage-four colorectal cancer. In Cancer Warrior, she... Read More

Finding a new spin on a leadership book is a difficult challenge because the category is always brimming with titles. Ruma Bose and Lou Faust have managed to add a new twist with "Mother Teresa, CEO". The authors set up the premise of... Read More

In February 2008, Joseph and Laurel Dubowski lost their twenty-year-old daughter, Gayle, when a gunman on the campus of Northern Illinois University went on a rampage inside a classroom. In one of his recollections of Gayle, her father... Read More

With over 70 million baby boomers approaching retirement age, there is no shortage of books about retiring in the “golden years.” These days, of course, the economy has forced many of these pre-retirees to re-think what retirement... Read More