Starting with the adventure of a little girl who must find and retrieve her father’s bones from the bottom of the ocean, "The Secret of the Purple Lake" is a series of five compelling stories by Yaba Badoe. Each story has the rhythm... Read More

On the Friday before Labor Day in 1999, Ute Lawrence and her husband Stan were headed to a business meeting in Michigan, traveling down one of Canada’s busiest multi-lane highways. They never made it. They were at ground zero of an... Read More

Jekwu Ozoemene’s poetry collection, "Shadows of Existence", is one with something to say. Here, the poet touches on everything from gender and abuse to poverty and consumerism. These poems focus on the African continent and on a... Read More

“When the artist is alive in any person, whatsoever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways... Read More