“There was something about Thailand: It sucked me in,” Michael Schemmann writes of his love affair with the country and, later, a woman. Schemmann once spent a blissful ten days in Chiang Mai during a stopover from Tokyo to... Read More

God has always sought a close relationship with mankind, beginning with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. This relationship, however, quickly soured as the first couple succumbed to temptation, isolated themselves from their creator,... Read More

Remote areas, such as swamps, often serve as habitats for mythic, legendary creatures. Such is the setting for Larry McCollum’s fictional tale of "Brutus", the Swamp Man. Brutus is the child of English colonists who paid pirates to... Read More

Mental illness within a family is frightening, especially for young children who witness parental behavior they don’t understand. Author Texanna Fernandez attempts to explain the family consequences of bipolar disease, which can cause... Read More

The story of one remarkable person is often the story of a family. Carolyn Dungee Nicholas’ book, Hilda, about her mother, Hilda Howland May Minnis Mason, pays homage to Hilda’s rise from humble origins in segregated, rural Virginia... Read More

A single woman needs a variety of tools to spark and maintain a new relationship when she’s crossed the fifty-year threshold. In Flirting After Fifty, co-authors Barbara Bellman (Reaching Woman and Hitting the Right Nerve) and Susan... Read More

The history of the Hebrew people, the courageous and ingenious Maccabees, the Holocaust, and the never-ending conflict in Palestine provide the backdrop for Avraham Y. Anouchi’s multi-generational novel. The Hidden Scroll follows two... Read More

Katie’s Way, a steamy, breezy romance novel, has all the usual elements of the genre: sexy man meets sexy woman; man and woman have frequent lusty involvements; their relationship teeters, but a happy ending follows. Author Gwendolyn... Read More