Marylee MacDonald’s wide-ranging short-story collection finds its settings in foreign lands and distant places around the world, from a beggar’s apartment building in a maze-like neighborhood on the outskirts of Prague, where a... Read More

Slatton has created a beautiful, heart wrenching tale of humanity during the Second World War. When her beloved Ariel is lost, the angel Alia chooses to fall, taking on a human body in Paris on the eve of war. She befriends the city’s... Read More

Readers will get lost in Madelyn’s brooding narrative and pressured life, feeling the chemistry with her young teacher. In her third book, Amanda Grace has once again created a thoughtfully drawn female who will make readers want to... Read More

Intimate, vulnerable memoir chronicles Cuban-American cultural anthropologist’s coming-of-age as she travels the world in search of “home.” “However much I long for the island I once called home, I’m not beholden to any one... Read More

Anthropologist challenges notion that human ancestors were defined by “killer ape” aggression; weapons reflected problem-solving abilities. In his new book, "Rough and Tumble", anthropologist Travis Rayne Pickering argues that, while... Read More

Standing before a crowd of aspiring writers some twenty-five years ago, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Scott Card admonished, “Nobody ever woke up and decided ‘today I’m going to be evil’.” Outstanding advice, as crime... Read More

“Elders may move more slowly and with less energy, but…they are capable of clear and profound thinking…fate doles out predictions for our golden years. We have to blindside the handicaps, albeit temporarily, and find sunshine.”... Read More