Sometimes, the best way to plan for the future is to learn from the past. For those in the mental health profession, that thinking can be particularly useful, believes clinical psychologist Roger Burt. By presenting a look at... Read More

Life’s journey inevitably ends in physical death. And the living, those friends and family left behind, inevitably have to juggle intense emotional grief with a myriad of funeral arrangements, people to contact, legal papers to locate,... Read More

“A brainless worm.” That’s what poor Markus Simonsen’s classmates call him, when they aren’t calling him Wormster or laughing at him because his father is the only parent to telephone during the sixth-grade camping trip. Markus... Read More

“No one has had the perfect childhood,” says the author. According to Mandel, not only abuse but even the unintentional inability of caregivers to meet all of a child’s needs can leave what she calls “bruises.” These unhealed... Read More

Not for women only, this book puts its subject, the depressed male, in the relationship context where a lot of good can be done for him and his loving helper. As with most illnesses and disabilities, emotional and relationship factors... Read More

“What do you want from me? I’m nothing! I’m nobody!” screams thirteen-year-old Jessica Ross when confronted by the specter of Grace O’Malley, a true-life sixteenth-century pirate queen. Despite her protest, Jessica is indeed... Read More

Vulgaria is an upscale suburban sprawl of McMansions and drunken backyard barbecues outside the monocultural metropolis that is Grand Rapids, Michigan. The hometown of President Gerald Ford and Amway is the largest city in the country to... Read More

The subtitle of Veronica Dunbar’s debut implies that most modern fiction concentrates to her dislike on “abject misery.” In this novella and the three accompanying short stories the stress is on the heartwarming. Despite conflicts... Read More