In our increasingly digital world, where do newspapers fit in? And what should they provide readers? These are some of the questions journalist Mark Di Ionno sets out to answer in his new novel. The premise of the book is simple: an... Read More

“From thermodynamics we know of the strive for maximum entropy (S) of all matter. In short, matter has to spread out and dissipate into the universe…When the Lord, at the end of the sixth day, created Adam and Eve, He told them to... Read More

Holding strong beliefs about the environmental impact of fossil fuels is easy when a gas company doesn’t knock on the door with a lucrative drilling contract for your land. That’s the lesson at the heart of Stephanie Hamel’s first... Read More

Secrets can be toxic—kept too long, they can destroy a person or a whole community, as evinced in this Southern coming-of-age novel by first-time author Matt Matthews. Sixteen-year-old Isaac Lawson is still reeling from the death of... Read More

To call Leslie Ibsen Rogge merely a bank robber is doing him a severe injustice. Throughout a lifetime of masterminding bank robberies, escapes, and evasions, Rogge proves to be a multifaceted genius, a modern day Renaissance Man that is... Read More

The title play, a semi-finalist for the 2006 Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference Competition, traces the evolution of Sophonisba, a political pawn in the Second Punic War. While the premise may be obscure, the inherent tension makes... Read More

Energy, invisible and intangible, is the key to survival. David Goldstein takes this idea to a new level in his book, "Invisible Energy". The Energy Program co-director for the Natural Resources Defense Council and a MacArthur “genius... Read More

Leodine, a young girl growing up in the posh suburb of Elisabethville in 1950s occupied Africa, is shocked when she learns of her African lineage. Unable to reconcile her white identity with the existence of a black ancestor, she... Read More