On September 11 2001 the Twin Towers in New York City were destroyed by two planes hijacked by terrorists. This atrocity perpetuated an iconoclasm that completely changed the sixty-year isolationist and untouchable feeling of the... Read More

"Sagaponic Lane" peeks beneath the personal emptiness of the Hamptons’ adulterous idlers and the summering arts crowd. Driven by efficient dialogue filtered through a largely sympathetic character this insiders’ revelation of frailty... Read More

“My kingdom will survive only in so far as it remains a country difficult of access, where the foreigner will have no other aim, with his task fulfilled, but to get out.” —Attributed to King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud (1876-1953) Today... Read More

One of life’s most perilous journeys is the one taken upon the road of self-discovery. Bernice Friesen has mapped one such voyage with distinction in The Book of Beasts. When an already dysfunctional family suffers a stunning blow, a... Read More

“Knowledge is power” may sound cliché, but that’s the crux of what the authors present in these three discs with one intriguing title. Why is knowledge so powerful? Because it gives an advantage. And advantage is what it’s all... Read More

“You will always, always teeter between believing you have all these wonderful stories to write and worrying that the wonderful stories will not be very interesting,” the author writes. In Courage & Craft, Abercrombie provides... Read More

Peter Schmitt’s third book of poems offers a mix of poetic virtues—clean, accurate language, unobtrusively patterned lines and stanzas—and qualities more often linked to prose. Virtually every poem in "Renewing the Vows" tells a... Read More

A considerable amount of care and attention has gone into the production of Reverend Michael Alan Paull’s anthology, A Collection of Anecdotes and Personal Reflections on Life. The book includes fifty-six one-page textual entries... Read More