"Shoe Print Art" is a versatile artist’s guide which uses the shoe shape as a jumping-off point for limitless expressions of personal creativity. Karen Robbins’s colorful, friendly art guide Shoe Print Art: Step into Drawing is about... Read More

Isn’t It Kind of Funny That… is a thoughtful but brief essay collection with actionable suggestions for life improvements. The short, connected essays of Jerry Schaefer’s Isn’t It Kind of Funny That… meditate on the busy lives... Read More

Mystery stories for kids have changed dramatically in the last few decades. Characters like Encyclopedia Brown and The Boxcar Children have been replaced by wizards, vampires, werewolves, and zombies. Innocent sleuthing of creepy houses... Read More

Richard Picciuto’s poetry collection, "Moonlit Weeds", is full of quiet yet extraordinary images. This collection is diverse: There are poems about first crushes and cigarettes and others that delve into the mysticism of silence.... Read More

The boy who started life as a wooden puppet has now become a man. In this freewheeling tale, loosely based on Carlo Collodi’s 1883 classic The Adventures of Pinocchio, a grownup Pinocchio has assumed responsibility for Gepetto’s... Read More

Just past first adulthood, there is a time of contradictions and disappointments brought on by the irreconcilable possibilities and longings of the first twenty-odd years. There nothing loves you and nothing is waiting to transform into... Read More

This poet writes like a woman with a mission. Her collection resounds with an honesty that is at once brutal and determined. “You will not go hungry into a strange soil,” she writes to her jaundiced infant. A stirring proclamation,... Read More

Gerber has been called one of the great “sitters” of the literary world in that his poems, always uncompromisingly direct, also come from the kind of reflection that is associated with quiet meditation and the clear thought that... Read More