“Pour a cup of coffee, make yourself comfortable, and I’ll introduce you to some of my favorite women.” With these words of welcome, Sylvia Forrest invites readers into her life through an engaging and heartwarming collection of... Read More

Like a carefully crafted snapshot, "Into the Lens" captures a moment—specifically, the one four-hundredth of a second that, when a magical camera lens snaps, transports sisters Gwen and Daisy from a secret room in their father’s... Read More

Jack Shaw’s tale of the renewal of a California community is compelling for two reasons. First, it demonstrates how sound business principles can be applied to community development. Second, it is an exceptional example of how a... Read More

Robert Levithan, a twenty-first-century Renaissance man with a fascinating and highly urbane litany of passions and accomplishments, was moved to write about his life and worldviews on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. The result is... Read More

“How beautiful are the feet of those who bring the good news.” This passage from the book of Isaiah figures prominently and repeatedly in Osman Kartal’s novel about the hunt for a lost gospel written by Jesus himself. Those who... Read More

Samanski’s debut comedic novel, Banking on Paris, starts with protagonist Bob Johnson, a middle-aged business man, chucking his smartphone into a Parisian trash can. Samanski then backtracks to chart the path of Bob’s disenchantment.... Read More

Abuse in all of its malevolent forms drives Nancy Prudhomme’s first novel "Behind the Drapes". Sheila shares a home in the projects with three older siblings and a younger sister as well as a controlling abusive father and a submissive... Read More

Virginia author Clyde Dowell’s novel Women Can’t Play is all about the games people play. There’s the every Sunday board game of war called Risk that the book’s five black male protagonists play religiously. It provides the focus... Read More