Michael R. Rosmann proves to be a unique breed of American in Excellent Joy: Fishing Farming, Hunting, and Psychology. A clinical psychologist serving rural farm communities near the Rosmann family homestead in Western Iowa, the author... Read More

“There are more than a million people living in the city of Prague whom I’d just as soon not name here,” "The Guinea Pigs" begins. “Our family is originally from the country. Our family, that means me, my wife, and two tolerable... Read More

The poems in James Vasquez’s poetry collection, "Words Jesus Spoke", take some of Jesus’ famous words, like his parables, and set them to traditional rhyming verse. Everything from the seven woes to the second coming and judgment are... Read More

Swallowing is a four-step process that usually happens without conscious thought or deliberate physical effort, even though most people swallow approximately six hundred times a day. More than ten individual body parts are involved in... Read More

Mike Smith’s first novel, "Backazimuth", is a tidy thriller set in the Arabian Desert. Bill Slade, West Point graduate and combat engineer, is a reformed drunk, with bottle-fueled misadventures scattered along the tracks of a nearly... Read More

Dr. George Dennis O’Brien agrees with the American Catholic bishops that abortion is an intrinsic evil but, after that, there is little agreement on this issue: “While it sounds harsh, abortion is an intrinsic evil, though one that... Read More

In "Hopes and Prospects", Noam Chomsky’s gritty, politically charged essays redefine the nature and practice of democracy in an increasingly unsteady world climate. Chomsky reinterprets the long held ideal that “expansion is the path... Read More

A teenage boy, on a journey to find the brother who left him in the care of their grandfather years ago, is given a mysterious book to read. In it, a “skinny boy,” not unlike himself, offers words of wisdom that explain, in a series... Read More