The side-by-side layout of image and story enhances the work of both the book’s creators. While a collaboration between an author and illustrator is hardly new, writer Leon Rooke and artist/painter Tony Calzetta took an unusual... Read More

Rather than seeking to conclusively prove what cannot—at this point—be proven, Brener sets out to present possibilities and explore their viability. "Something Survives" by Milton E. Brener ponders the intriguing idea that memory and... Read More

Themes of insecurity, regret, and redemption stand against the backdrop of high school and college life and will resonate with a younger crowd. From the dorms of Cambridge to the pyramids of Egypt, the banks of the Seine, and the glitter... Read More

Short chapters make this Christian meditation on life challenges an ideal bedside devotional. Rea Nolan Martin, the author of three works of visionary fiction, turns to nonfiction with Walking on Water: A Path to Empowerment. This... Read More

This disturbing thriller focuses on underground child abuse rings with eerie connections to the real world. In Michael Antony’s "The Boy in Formaldehyde", Camilla, an advocate for victims of child abuse, comes across a macabre art... Read More

The book is in its element when it aligns biblical stories to accepted historical records, particularly when it examines the exodus stories. Gijsbert Sulman’s "Facts, Fiction, and the Bible" is a massive work of biblical inquiry that... Read More

The tough, rolled-up shirtsleeves, diesel fumes, and rural sensibility of Maine’s fishing villages separate Rosa Lane’s poetry from other super-talented, MFA-bearing poets from Sarah Lawrence College. No, effete is not a word to... Read More

Historian Robert M. Dienesch’s latest work is an intriguing and incisive study of the transformational period in American history when the federal government retooled defense spending and foreign policy toward communist containment and... Read More