These stories are both gorgeous in their array and, collectively, are a compelling picture of a national identity built on diversity and survival. From Romanian-born psychiatrist Michael Segal comes "The Psychiatrists of Phoenix Street",... Read More

A bullied kid embarks on an unexpected extraterrestrial sojourn and learns to cope with the unexpected. Through vivid writing and high-tension scenes, "Supernova" presents a bullied protagonist who visits another planet while he is... Read More

Milton succeeds in establishing a sense of impending disaster—a race against the clock—as a horrific kidnapping is seen through a parent’s eyes. Two twelve-year-old girls are abducted from a Caribbean island to be used as sex... Read More

"Tom" is a fictionalized account of Christie Moore’s grandfather. It focuses on his experiences as a British soldier in World War I and how the war reverberates throughout his life. The fact that tragic battlefield experiences plague... Read More

Addictive behaviors like overeating, binge drinking, substance abuse, and smoking all have a breadth of potential remedies available, including well-known twelve-step programs, self-help guides, medical treatments, and psychotherapy. Yet... Read More

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover I had not lived.” These famous words by... Read More

The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief, but the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.—Hilary Stanton Zunin, Grief Expert Everyone feels grief during their lives, including... Read More

By now many of us have learned the wisdom of reducing, reusing, and recycling. Few people, however, understand the beauty and usefulness of a true life of gleaning and sorting through the refuse left behind by others to find food, art,... Read More