Born with a curse, tested in love and war, this Moon Child shines a light on life through much of the twentieth century. Supposedly born under a curse in a poor rural Mississippi community, Melissa Dukes rises beyond her neglected... Read More

Savor these rich images, valuable for street photographers and those wishing to keep alive the memory of 1980s New York. Robert Herman’s "The New Yorkers" is as much an historical document as it is art. It records a time in American... Read More

“Can you imagine the panic and religious hysteria if John Q. Public found that vampires, werewolves and demons were really out to get them?” That is the very situation that Kal Hakela and his team of commandos and magicians from the... Read More

For a guy who deals out luck in the high-stakes blackjack pits of Las Vegas casinos, most of Jude Helms’s personal fortune is bad. Lately he has lost two jobs, the first after seventeen years at the Monaco, and the next after only four... Read More

In a societal context where body obsessions coincide with alarming rates of obesity among Western children, "The Body Image Survival Guide for Parents" is a slim but highly informative guidebook, and one that should be required reading... Read More

In this revealing analysis of the legal profession, researcher Susannah Sheffer interviews long-time capital defense attorneys with the goal of answering this question: How does it feel to know that your job is to save a person’s life?... Read More

If a writer is talented (and lucky) enough in her publishing career, there will come a time when a compilation of short stories is published. Writers with long careers (twenty or more years of steady publication) may be able to publish... Read More

Set in northern California, J.W. Winslow’s Jade Beach: Mystic Adventures in Big Sur tells the tale of a woman whose miraculous return from the grave catches the attention of the paparazzi and puts her in the thick of a vicious legal... Read More