Already a published poet biographer and YA author Milligan has only recently turned his skills to novels for adults. "Past the Line" is his first effort in the suspense/mystery category but his previous experience in captivating an... Read More

“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” — Peter Drucker (1909-2005) "Maximizing Me" is concerned with the controllable causes of short-circuiting careers and personal lives. It counsels... Read More

“You can manage your career your way. You can put yourself in the driver’s seat steering yourself toward destinations of your choice. So make the commitment to treat yourself like a product to continually upgrade yourself and... Read More

"The Wedding Song" maps the unconventional physical and spiritual life-journey of minor league catcher Sol Bable as he grows from a struggling bachelor wannabe into a professional baseball player with loose commitments to home and... Read More

The preface to Ruth’s Skirts reads like a polite manifesto, a call-to-arms where the weapons are poems: “I’ve learned that the poem is the action and the action is the poem.” The creation of art is a political statement in and of... Read More

Bookshelves—and shelves holding audiobooks—present an increasingly wide array of options to listeners seeking to augment their knowledge of Islam’s early days. Profiles of the Prophet Muhammad in particular range from the blatantly... Read More

Machiavellian Moment: A “Machiavellian Moment,” as described by historian J.G.A. Pocock, in his 1975 book of that name, is when a nation faces such internal threats as a corrupt government, or copes with external ones, such as... Read More

Imagining one’s parents as children is an exercise too rarely done. It’s much easier for parents to empathize with children than the other way around. The author, a psychiatrist who teaches at the University of Washington (Seattle),... Read More