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

A lonely dog and boy manage to connect to each other and make new friends in this touching picture book from father and son duo, Jack and Michael Foreman. Jack Foreman based the text on a poem he wrote while having a tough time at school... 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

The Middle East is unstable, war-torn, and generally hostile to the West; religious and/or civil strife, fanaticism, and militias are ever more dangerous; America is a clumsy meddler—and soaring oil prices a worldwide threat. Just how... 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