“After working my way up from clerk to trader, combined with the advent of financial instruments known as index options, by age twenty-one I was a millionaire,” the author writes. Seldom since Jane Eyre’s quiet “Reader, I married... Read More

I’m not usually one to get teary-eyed. Lately, though, that is exactly what I’ve been doing. I’ve been crying at night, as quietly as I can. I’ve cried in the shower. I’ve cried as I put laundry in the washer and dryer. It... Read More

Afghan poet M. S. Adam-Zad’s "The Expression Garden" embraces a series of poetic clichés—rainbows, love poems, and flowers. Certainly, poets have made these topics new in any number of ways, but that is not the case in Adam-Zad’s... Read More

The life and times of the controversial Manhattan Project leader J. Robert Oppenheimer are lightly touched upon in this novel by writer Robert Montagnese. The author weaves his web of fiction using actual people locations and events.... Read More

Dr. Heilman opens his memoirs with a quote from Benjamin Franklin: “If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten either write things worth the reading or do things worth the writing.” These words are tough to live... Read More

Animal lovers try varied approaches to understanding and bonding with their pets. People and animals can’t converse so communication choices seem limited. Simple body language might not be an obvious choice but this technique does give... Read More

Cathialam sees that there are serious problems in today’s black communities—in America and in Africa itself. In "The African Remedy" he touches on a number of these issues from issues with hair to the corruption in African... Read More

After trudging through a day at work minding his demanding business and tending to his ailing brother Aris begins his real journey. From dusk to dawn during fitful hours of sleep he embarks on a forty-day stroll that could save his soul.... Read More