Vivid portraits of forthright characters and a graceful landscape revive the sense of place of the American West. To write about the American West is to capture its graceful and unforgiving landscape and how it defines the people who... Read More

Intriguing premise and deeply involved relationships between characters open a new perspective on self and gender identity. In her first published novel, award-winning short story writer Laura Krughoff takes a risk by tackling some... Read More

Spiked with grotesque humor and words fashioned to probe the brain, these two novellas traverse the human inner world. Offbeat, a bit creepy, and, perhaps, even an encounter one will never forget—Colin Winnette knows how to fashion his... Read More

This fast-paced, tension-filled revisionist historical novel envisions an alternate Holy Roman Empire. Joseph H. Levie has rewritten the known aftermath of the downfall of Charlemagne’s Holy Roman Empire. In his thrilling debut novel... Read More

Veteran teacher gives valuable lessons to rookies on what to really expect in the classroom trenches. Teacher preparation programs across the country impart future educators with the latest theories on how to teach state and national... Read More

A powerful voice for integration and the oppressed, baseball and civil rights icon shows his humanitarian nature. After Jackie Robinson ended his major league career with the Brooklyn Dodgers, he became a nationally syndicated columnist... Read More

Before a vaccine existed, polio hit many communities with disability and death. This is the scenario described in Limping Through Life: A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir, a new book by Jerry Apps. Growing up on a farm in central Wisconsin,... Read More

People often wonder whether nature and nurture affect a child’s destiny in equal measure, and P. R. Slimko’s debut novel True Calling grapples with this conundrum and declares that one’s inherent nature always shows through. The... Read More