This exciting adventure tale teaches many valuable life lessons to those who seek earthly rewards. Kim Yost’s novel "The Life Chest: Africa" is an adventure story with deep historical background. The narrative relates a contemporary... Read More

This is a necessary exegetical resource for those who wish to understand the Koran in a pluralistic context. In his refreshing and insightful Reaching Beyond Faith, Ibn Farabi treads the waters between blind faith in and a deep... Read More

Jacob Reckless, treasure hunter and risk taker extraordinaire, is back with his pensive brother, Will, in The Golden Yarn, third in Cornelia Funke’s mesmerizing MirrorWorld series. Translated from its original German by Oliver Latsch... Read More

Pierre Culliford, better known as Peyo, is famous as the creator of The Smurfs, but Papercutz shows that he had more than just those little blue gnomes to offer in The Smurfs & Friends. The book is a compilation of some of Peyo’s... Read More

The riffing, run-at-the-mouth quality of Sandra Simonds’s acerbic, indulgent work is exactly the style to broaden contemporary poetry’s appeal. The author of three previous collections, Simonds teaches English and Humanities at... Read More

Utilizing the concept of “pre-trauma” to describe various forms of media that anticipate disaster, this book discusses apocalyptic film and literature as manifestations of collective fears about the environment. To accomplish this,... Read More

Gentle humor enlivens these short autobiographical essays, charming snapshots of one Christian woman’s life. Composed of a series of biographical short-short essays, "I Punched Myself in the Eye" details the life of a globe-trotting... Read More

This is a heartfelt memoir about a man’s quest for mental peace, another man’s pursuit for spiritual truth, and the friendship that sustained them. A Steep Climb: The War-Torn Veteran and the Un-scholarly Spiritual Eccentric by J. M.... Read More