A family flees from Castro’s Cuba, in this gritty, humorous novel about a young boy’s coming of age. Raul Ramos Y Sanchez’s "The Skinny Years" is a complex, humorous, and utterly absorbing coming-of-age tale set in the 1960s. With... Read More

An employee-cum-business owner utilizes his personal challenges to present an impressive new model for employee motivation. In The Entrepreneur’s Apprentice, Don Darvill describes an employee development system that he devised as an... Read More

As a distillation of many years of reading, "Unlocking Worlds" provides valuable knowledge to anyone looking beyond the next Amazon recommendation for ideas. Sally Allen’s thoughtfully compiled Unlocking Worlds: A Reading Companion for... Read More

A visionary novel of moral reckoning, destined to take its place among modern war classics. Afghanistan itself becomes an indelible character in Brandon Caro’s hard-hitting war novel, "Old Silk Road". It is an ancient land, eternally... Read More

This intriguing book suggests ways to cope with media overload and addiction. Media expert Nancy Mramor Kajuth writes in "Get Reel" that “who you are is partially the product of television and other media.” Mramor Kajuth suggests... Read More

An Iranian scientist, whose accomplishments include a presidential award and working for NASA, shares her enticing story. In "The Sky Detective", author Azadeh Tabazadeh tells an enticing story of growing up in, and escaping, Iran during... Read More

After her forty years of teaching, Smith’s keen understanding of the literary canon makes her the perfect candidate to write this humorous and insightful book. “While there are differences in what students at each grade level respond... Read More

Wain shares fascinating anecdotes about his travels around the world. Over the course of eighty years, David Wain managed to visit seventy-seven countries, marry three women, found his own business, achieve financial success, and... Read More