Various themes, including music, war, love, and faith, make up this dense array of passionate and volatile poems. In his collection "First Poem of Words", Jef Harris dives into various modes of poetic license and expression. The poems... Read More

Visceral imagery of fights among criminals adds emotion to this thriller. This debut novel from M. W. Carey is a slick, meaty crime mystery purported to recreate harrowing events from the author’s own life. Focusing on the tribulations... Read More

The intriguing premise of this novella traces the process of one transwoman’s understanding of her sexual identity. Michael M. Morisaki’s novella, "Sex Comes in Different Packages", bills itself as the story of one individual’s... Read More

Authors create a fun sci-fi world with a young hero, time travel and, of course, proper diet and exercise. Fiction can bring history and geography to life, especially for kids who are bored by the often rote memorizations of school... Read More

In Charles Simic’s early work, he’s vulgar, sublime, funny, philosophical, and irreverent. Among the most prolific and widely read poets of his generation, Charles Simic has served as US Poet Laureate and won a Pulitzer Prize in... Read More

Sherri Snelling starts off her book, "A Cast of Caregivers", with the facts: sixty-five million Americans have cared for loved ones who are disabled, ill, or dying. So it seems surprising that there’s not more information out there on... Read More

Acknowledging childhood trauma is important, but identifying the problem is often not enough to help people move beyond the pain. In her midlife memoir, first-time author Sharon Gardiner tackles both the benefits and the shortcomings of... Read More

"Autumn Winds Over Okinawa, 1945", by Pelham Kenneth Mead III, is a book in search of a genre. As presented, it is difficult to tell whether the volume is a memoir or historical fiction. Mead is a retired doctor and the son of the... Read More