Steve Kanji Ruhl’s "Appalachian Zen" is a memoir about a Buddhist awakening. Ruhl grew up in a trailer park in Appalachia with a deep yearning to be somewhere else. He began to practice Zen Buddhism, viewing it as a welcome contrast to... Read More

They Don’t Pay Me to Say No captures the human moments of making a movie or television show via a fascinating series of anecdotes. Dean Goodine’s They Don’t Pay Me to Say No, a memoir about working as a film and television prop... Read More

In Maggie Smith’s novel "Truth and Other Lies", three driven women make life-altering decisions about the secrets they’ve kept in order to get ahead. Megan, a young, liberal journalist, moves back into her overprotective mother’s... Read More

Leanne Hall’s exploratory novel "The Gaps" is about what it feels like to be left behind after tragedy strikes. When sixteen-year-old Yin is abducted, her community is rocked. Everyone at the elite Balmoral Ladies College is on edge as... Read More

In the probing historical novel "Shades of Betrayal", men’s virtues are tested by the atrocities of WWII. U. W. Baker’s intricate historical novel "Shades of Betrayal" follows the difficulties and successes of people embroiled in... Read More

The informative, life-affirming historical novellas "Grounded Eagles" follow three RAF pilots who are forced out of the air during World War II. The historical novellas in Helena P. Schrader’s "Grounded Eagles" concern non-flying... Read More