Leaders require a certain element of charisma, and Gobillot sets forth to nail down that mysterious quality that anybody can emulate. According to Emmanuel Gobillot, the magic ingredient effective leaders should strive to evoke is... Read More

The universe of "Hideous Exuberance", the new novel by Stephen C. Bird, is one of demented imagination and verve. It can also be exhausting. The work lies somewhere between Harry Potter burlesque and Tolkien satire, with doses of... 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

Freshman author Madhav Gokhlay is to be congratulated for concocting a solid, tense, and quite believable political thriller involving rogue CIA operatives, industrial espionage, a dirty bomb, terrorists, and a Pakistani general who may... Read More

“Some people have no idea how it feels to be treated as nothing (like Israelites in Egypt, or Filipinos under Spanish/Vatican/American rule) by people who think they are superior,” writes Junes Almodiel in his book on the rise and... Read More

Amy’s life as a self-conscious, lonely girl changes forever when she finds an old history book about a strange world called Voluspa. The book awakens latent magical powers that transport her to this alternate realm. There, she meets... Read More

“Rain” opens John Kinsella’s new collection about rural and small town life in Western Australia’s arid wheatbelt. As the book’s opening story, it’s perhaps a common prayer or even a tease in contrast to the perennial drought... Read More

In "The Eyes of Wonder", poet Tina Emiliani offers much more than mere words: her pages are bursting with emotion, authenticity bleeds from the heart, soul, and memory of seventy years of life in her native Italy. The seventy-two poems... Read More