The short stories in "Measuring Reality" recall Bradbury’s Medicine for Melancholy era as well as a Lovecraftian Gothic horror which rudely intrudes on characters living otherwise calm pedestrian lives. Carefully chosen language in... Read More

In "Love Starts With Elle" by Rachel Hauck (Thomas Nelson, 978-1-59554-338-7), Elle Garvey is living her dream. She is in love with the former football star-turned pastor of her hometown church, owns an art gallery, and has made a name... Read More

“The cloud of midlife unknowing,” Hammond writes, “brings sublime compensation in the freedom to be oneself. This is why it is so important to know who that self really is. Aging grants us license for just the sort of goofiness and... Read More

“[T]he human body isn’t just a machine that breaks down and needs its parts replaced, like an automobile; it is a magnificently intelligent, self-healing organism that is capable of creating vibrant health and well-being,” James... Read More

“Bears! Ugly, filthy bears!” a girl shouts when she steps in bear dung while picking blackberries. Her reaction toward bears changes, however, in this retold folktale of the indigenous people of western Canada and Alaska. When the... Read More

Vermeer’s Milkmaid is the work of a poet. With a myriad of quirky characters and imagery that captivates the far reaches of the imagination, Manuel Rivas crafts miniature worlds that manage to be as peculiar as they are spectacularly... Read More

The Central Intelligence Agency is a bloated, unresponsive bureaucracy that exists to serve itself and cannot fulfill its important intelligence-gathering role, which was the reason for its creation by President Harry Truman. This... Read More

The little lion cub protagonist of this story loves to wander through the fields near his home especially because his mother always goes with him. Sometimes they play hide and seek as they walk. Sometimes they talk about their family and... Read More