Determining one’s purpose in life is often difficult. In "A Marked Heart", David Ball recounts his lifelong struggle to make peace between his Christian upbringing and his desires for secular success and influence. Beginning with his... Read More

Tree nymphs and a banshee are joined by anthropomorphic lizards, flowers, and monkeys in David Frankel’s unusual book, Dragons & Dreams and Other Stories. Dragons & Dreams and Other Stories is a compilation of three individual... Read More

Keith Heim’s eminently entertaining debut novel, "Circle of Shadows" is an evocative story about a fifteen-year-old runaway struggling to build a new life in mid-1940s Morehead, a small town in Alabama. Strand by strand, the young farm... Read More

In the last half century, medical procedure protocols have progressed to the point where, in the face of imminent death, “do not resuscitate” orders are common in most hospitals. In her short, insightful book, Priscilla Noble-Mathews... Read More

A straightforward account of an abusive childhood in the rural Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, this unsentimental memoir succeeds more as a chronicle of a bygone way of life than it does as the story of a strong-willed survivor... Read More

“Well begun is half done,” according to Aristotle. In the case of "A Cupboardful of Shoes and Other Stories", A. Colin Wright begins well, with his first six stories hitting high notes, but only about half of the book is well done.... Read More

Alice Breon offers a collection of delightful, lighthearted tales about her often ordinary, if oddly fascinating, personal life in Green Gravy, Monster Bread and Other Adventures. The title conveys the octogenarian’s fine sense of... Read More

“Dad, am I going to college?” Donald Bailey’s intellectually challenged son, Donald Jr., asks at the outset of LIFE: Learning is for Everyone. The answer ordained by the educational infrastructure in the Bailey family’s home... Read More