Claire Bell is an eleven-year-old girl living in the mountains of Pennsylvania. Her mother Louise grapples with the difficulties of being a single mom and trying to home school Claire while providing an income for the two of them to live... Read More

In "The Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones" Helen Hemphill combines conventions of Southern and Western literature, reflecting a firm foundation of historical research. Born the day Lincoln penned the Emancipation Proclamation, her... Read More

“Christophe slid closer to his brother, and when his arm slid along the length of Joshua’s forearm, for a second it was as if Christophe had touched himself, crossed his own forearms: toucher and touched.” Strengthened by each... Read More

What works as a protective strategy for children often turns into a block that constricts full satisfaction in adulthood, according to Kagan and Einbund, therapists practicing in Southern California. (Kagan has hosted her own radio and... Read More

After naturalist John Muir ascended the tallest mountain in the continental United States, he wrote, “Well-seasoned limbs will enjoy the climb of 9,000 feet required by this direct route. But soft, succulent people should go the mule... Read More

“The perplexities of love are incomprensible to the human intellect,” writes the Australian-born spiritual teacher, Isha (born Jennifer Lee Duprei). “Love is the greatest force that exists, the only thing that exists, and yet we... Read More

The heroine of this romance, Ramona, is a thirty-six-year-old widow with two young sons, a mother and a mother-in-law who are both pillars of a local church, a sister who is the star of a local TV fitness show, and zero joie de vivre.... Read More

Sebastian Rolvenden is gifted with the written remains of his namesake grandfather’s life: a journal of sorts, a map, and letters which reveal that his vicar ancestor was much more than a religious man in his earlier days; he was a... Read More