Television shows like Prison Break and movies like The Shawshank Redemption portray a skewed version of what goes on behind the walls of a prison. Robert D. Hannigan sets the record straight with his memoir, "A Forty Year Journey in... Read More

“The old world was ripe with raw power. Energy and magic, unbridled, flowed through everyday events and objects, fuels for the tales so easily dismissed as mere legend from the comfort of safe, predictable contemporary lives,” Paul... Read More

The current economic situation will likely generate dozens of stories about failure dreams denied and expectations dashed. Because of this it is somewhat curious that author Diana Sheets decided to set her novel about a business on the... Read More

Man is the keeper of history. After all, what are history books but man’s interpretation and retelling of facts? In "So Far, So Good", historian James C. Davis steps away from exploring other people’s lives and takes a stab at his... Read More

"The Friday Night Club" can’t quite be called a coming-of-age story, as the characters are half a dozen years beyond college, but it is certainly a tale about confronting maturity. Davis Robertson must face his fears of children,... Read More

Bookstore shelves are stuffed with management motivation books, urging executives to emulate happy Seattle fishmongers or to ponder analogies about missing cheese wedges. In crafting a system that relies on positivity and support,... Read More

Who wouldn’t want a personal answering service for the daily questions that flood our minds; answers to questions about relationships, careers, spirituality, and the like; personalized wisdom delivered straight to our hearts? But where... Read More

A mother’s dying request rips her family apart in Linda Spear’s debut novel. “Find David!” orders the mother of Sarah, narrator of "I Know You by Heart". Naturally, Sarah, her dad, her husband, her sister Tessa, and her... Read More