“When I decided to write this book, I knew it would not be easy; I knew that I would be oppressed continually. But I made a conscious choice to face the battle that I knew would ensue.” With that mindset, William L. Stephens boldly... Read More

Scott Nelson uses the power of the drug trade to fuel "White Monsoon". The volume contains two installments of his White Monsoon Trilogy: Morphine Base and Pure Heroin. The books are intertwined and denoted by headers on each page. The... Read More

Francee` Bouvenir’s poetry collection Child’s Dark Soul challenges readers to pay attention to the world’s injustices: racism, poverty, homelessness, and rape, among others. A Southern Poverty Law Center Wall of Tolerance honoree,... Read More

For many readers, and even some of the painters among them, abstract art prompts often-heard complaints like, “my kid could do that!” To these skeptics, abstract art is the ultimate in impractical ventures, making a title like... Read More

It’s 1949, on a Hollywood movie set where a fictionalized James Cagney is acting in White Heat, a dark gangster film from Warner Brothers. A glamorous setting, to be sure, but studio publicist Joe Bernardi sees the nitty-gritty that... Read More

Taara Kenlen has accomplished so much in her fifty-eight years. Husband? Check. Family? Check. House, car, country club membership? Check, check, and check. Her to-do list is complete, yet Taara feels something is missing. Instead of... Read More

Author Suzanne Maxwell begins her Noku’s Invaders series with The Rasken, the fast-paced story of how a young girl, Margole, finds an ancient relic with unknown powers during a dangerous and tumultuous time on the planet of Hera.... Read More

“The greatest theme in American literature,” writes Scott Russell Sanders, “is the search for right relations between humankind and nature, between civilization and wildness.” It is a theme central to Sanders’s own... Read More