Death and taxes may be two of the inevitabilities of life, but for some there are options when it comes to how and when to die. In "Politics of Death", William Kirtley analyzes how Oregon’s 1997 Death with Dignity Act came into... Read More

"Bayonets and Bougainvilleas" is the memoir of a son paying homage to his father, and it is unfortunate that Brigadier General Robert Blake is no longer alive, for it would surely bring a tear to even an old Marine’s eye to know just... Read More

In The Legend of Alexandros: Titans of Chaos, two cataclysmic events change the course of the lives of three Titans: One event puts them in stasis in the Underworld for hundreds of years, and the other brings them back. In the... Read More

Ronald Reagan is most often connected to Hollywood glamour and Washington politics. The fact that Reagan spent his formative years in the American heartland, living in a string of small towns in Illinois, has been almost entirely... Read More

In "Universal Dimensions of Islam" Editor Patrick Laude compiles sixteen scholarly articles on the aspects of Islam that matter most to a Western audience in today’s particularly tense political climate. Ideas of universality,... Read More

"With One Eye Open" is a snug collection of humor—one part rant, satire, parody and spoof; one part tongue-in-cheek social commentary; one part cautionary caricature. Polly Frost, whose humor has been published in The New Yorker,... Read More

An otherworldly sailor named Isle survives a shipwreck and ends up on the shore of a lake on Earth in The Journeys of Isle. He doesn’t remember where he comes from or why he was in a crash. He tries to piece together clues about where... Read More

When 140 character tweets count as communications, writing seems a doomed art. Not so fast, says long-time writer and writing coach Lynda McDaniel. Beyond Twitter and text messages, all those digital bits and bytes on web sites, blogs,... Read More