The moving poems collected in "Rain and Embers" focus on displacement and the search for one’s place in the world. Iraqi refugee-turned-American citizen Ali Nuri’s lyrical poetry collection "Rain and Embers" focuses on his quest for... Read More

"Goodbye Homeboy" is a touching, thought-provoking memoir about teaching at-risk youths. Steve Mariotti’s passionate memoir "Goodbye Homeboy" is about teaching low-income, at-risk youths; it argues for imparting the value of... Read More

"The Winter Sisters" is an entertaining historical fantasy in which lives change and minds open. Tim Westover’s eccentric novel "The Winter Sisters", pits Hippocratic medicine against folk remedies with tall-tale flair. The story is... Read More

"God Creates a Snake" is a subtle and humorous tale that humanizes God as fallible. Charles Peterson’s humorous picture book "God Creates a Snake" jokes about expectations and reality, excitement and disappointment; it proves that... Read More

Imagine a US president abandoning decorum during an Army-Navy football game, fleeing his security detail, and charging down to the sidelines to fire up both teams. Or using a thunderstorm as an excuse for an impromptu jog through the... Read More

The real question posed by Terence Lester’s thoughtful, inspirational Christian book "I See You" is whether we are willing to see ourselves in the faces of the poor and forgotten. Lester’s work succeeds both at comforting the... Read More

Two things have become unambiguous about Russia’s role in the 2016 US presidential election: it carried out a significant attack against the United States; and not enough is being done to prevent a repeat performance. Jake Braun... Read More

Eugen Bacon’s novel "Claiming T-Mo" is a family saga of love and magic cast in an interplanetary setting. Told across a grand, multi-generational timescale, the story begins with Novic, a priest who disobeys the accepted tradition of... Read More