With examples that cultivate empathy, "Not Weakness" is a searing, personalized indictment of how society responds to women’s chronic pain. Francesca Grossman’s "Not Weakness" is a memoir about, and an exploration of, living with... Read More

A poet as well as a pastor and farmer, Philip Britts was only thirty-one years of age when he died in 1949. His poetry and life story are collected for the first time in "Water at the Roots", a slim volume that uses his own words to help... Read More

Real characters highlight this challenging story of head-spinning dysfunction. There are times when talking is highly overrated. In "Eavesdropping", J. C. Weil creates a character who tires of all the inane chatter in the world,... Read More

Disenfranchised communities under attack and struggling for survival, using barely literate teachers, were foundational components of the phenomenal and highly successful schools in the rainforest of Acre, Brazil. Loyola University of... Read More

“The empire of facts will have its say,” Mark Slouka says. “Although Octavio Paz may have been right when he suggested that Americans have always preferred to use reality rather than to know it, we may yet have that acquaintance... Read More

“The ultimate question that stayed with me was how I could have contentment and a peaceful state of mind while not giving up my search for excellence and desires for a better future,” Abdullah Telmesani writes. In "The Balanced Way",... Read More

Born in 1922, author and playwright James Sunwall remembers the Great Depression with the vividness of childhood. His firsthand impressions of growing up in the rural Midwest inform the works in "Dodge County Fair". The main work, a... Read More

"The Bitter and Sweet" begins like a stereotypical romance novel. A young foolish heroine rides her horse into a storm and is rescued by a mysterious older man. She is immediately intrigued by him while he all but ignores her. The... Read More