Deborah Liggan’s Taking Care of Our Folks is a medical manual for the African American community, a timely book in light of the nation’s aging population and today’s crisis in heath care. Armed with the detailed medical information... Read More

Abigail Lingston, the teenaged heroine of Shirlene Obuobi’s "Devoted", lives a mundane life with her tough and caring foster mother Willy. But dreams of flying and falling terrorize Abigail and, on one occasion, her nightmares become... Read More

In a new twist on the concept of the popular movie and TV series, The Fugitive, author Valentine Cardinale’s protagonist is a former Hollywood actor whose wife was murdered twenty-two years earlier. Under suspicion because none of his... Read More

In H.K. Gilbert’s "Reporting for Duty", children and their parents get a fun-filled introduction to the White House led by Barkley, a fluffy Secret-Service dog charged with protecting the First Family. This combination read-aloud and... Read More

Many people find out only in hindsight that they have prioritized their lives amiss; only with the perspective that comes with age and time are they able to see that they should have done things differently—spent more time with loved... Read More

The form and structure of the Roman Catholic Mass is the outline for the short, interrelated stories in Kathleen M. Henry’s "Critical Mass". Henry’s exploration of the effects of the Church’s power on the lives of four Catholic... Read More

Author, scientist, and grandparent Eric P. Grimsrud includes himself among those who feel they may not have done enough during their lifetimes to address the problem of global warming, and instead may have actually contributed to it.... Read More

This deeply moving coming-of-age story, which begins in Italy just after World War I, follows the Lanzi family through the rise of Fascism and the horrors of World War II. The year 1917 finds Roberto and Luisa Lanzi and their two sons... Read More