Stories and metaphors grab our attention. That fact is taught as well as demonstrated in A Handboook for Parents and Church Workers with its parable about “the great green greasy river” and stories of “Joe Banana” and “Amy... Read More

Ruth Stone, born in Virginia in 1915, has published thirteen collections of poems. Winner of the National Book Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Whiting Award, and two Guggenheim Fellowships, she... Read More

Safiyyah Ar-Raheem Hines expresses the turbulent emotions created when one’s daydreams and fantasies about life and relationships hit the hard wall of reality. Hines admits that the pain of having made life choices without having first... Read More

The five years that television writer and producer Linda Schreyer took to complete her “neverending” biography of entertainment mogul Mark Damon (aka Al Harris and Marco Damone) was time exceptionally well spent. Her collaborative... Read More

Teenagers are more likely to listen to other teenagers when they are in need of guidance than they are to heed the words of grown-ups. Adults are out of touch since they were born umpteen years ago and they certainly can’t say the... Read More

Somewhere in the Pacific Northwest 130 years into the future thirteen-year-old orphan Alex Mic his trusty friend Spenser and his robot Timn (essentially a C3PO with an array of integrated weaponry) come into possession of one of the... Read More

The cruel and inhumane tactics employed by the infamous Christian Brothers in Ireland are recounted in this gripping and emotional firsthand account from one of the victims. Author Benjamin Franklin relates his harrowing life story... Read More

One of only a few books on the subject Sofie Michelsen’s All of Scandinavian Cooking is a self-published collection of Scandinavian recipes. The author who studies business and economics at Sweden’s Lund University begins with a... Read More