“Maybe your skirts are too tight,” suggests the author, “your blouse gapes and a ‘muffin top’ layer of fat pours over the waistband of your jeans.” Glenville asserts that there’s more at stake than looks: “the fat around... Read More

“I see dead people,” said a frightened boy in the movie The Sixth Sense. This author goes that boy one better: he takes pictures of dead people. With a degree in journalism, Macy is a member of Instrumental Transcommunication ITC),... Read More

This offering consists of thirteen poems two of them prose-shorts and six stories with floss-thin connections between them. Most poems are in the form of rhymed and near-rhymed couplets. The subjects are couplehood and the reflective... Read More

The author, a former Republican Senator from Missouri, begins his discussion on faith in American politics by describing a weekly event now all but extinct: the formerly non-political Senate prayer breakfast. Once, according to Danforth,... Read More

In his compelling, but often plodding, biography of Leonidas Polk (1806—1864), the author, assistant professor of history at Georgia Southwestern State University, offers a portrait of a man whose life combined the nobility of the... Read More

Ryan Coolidge is in trouble. Though only in middle school, he faces criminal charges in the deaths of four adults at a secret government lab, and the prosecution is playing hardball. His only hope rests with his court-appointed lawyer, a... Read More

This accessible biography urges readers to celebrate the life and work of one of the most remarkable women of the Middle Ages. Born to nobility, Eleanor of Aquitaine’s (1122-1204) parents were William X, duke of Aquitaine, and Aenor,... Read More

Odysseus’s trireme (the galley propelled by oars and sails) races across the turbulent waves, while Poseidon, his long red hair trailing, looks on from the corner of the book jacket. This scene provides a glimpse of the excitement to... Read More