One by one, each slipped away, escaping the overseer, to meet in the thickest part of the woods. Behind an arbor of branches, they listened to an uplifting and soul-supporting service. Or they gathered in a tumbled-down cabin around a... Read More

"-30-" is newspaper jargon to signify the end of a dispatch or story, and these fifteen essays, says Madigan, an editor and writer for the Chicago Tribune, will help readers understand what is killing the big-city papers. The Chicago... Read More

Over the last twenty years, parents and educators have looked for ways to instill confidence in children. While confidence is useful for acquiring skills and tackling problems, the process of creating confident children is sometimes... Read More

As a boy, Thomas Brooks unconsciously began to build his skills as a uniter. When an economic situation forced his (adoptive) mother Joan to make moves between neighborhoods on the North Side of Pittsburgh, Brooks journeyed miles on... Read More

Solly begins his day among underwear, arguing parents, and the constant rain of England: “…drab moorland rolled away into the distance…Everything wet. Wet and broken. And the savings gone.” Pa has used the last of the savings for... Read More

The winner of ForeWord Magazine’s 2005 Book of the Year Bronze Medal in Science Fiction Greg M. Sarwa has turned to romantic fiction for his second novel. An enchanting story of two elderly lovers trying to recapture their lost romance... Read More

Author Jamie Sutliff has woven a fast-paced tale of fantasy and adventure in multiple dimensions inhabited by humans monsters wizards elves pixies and the Nen-Us-Yok or “Spirit-Dwarf People” of Native American legend. Wielding... Read More

Protein crystallography, string theory, and RPGs: these are the things that give girl geeks an adrenaline rush. Most ride that rush alone or with male counterparts, but this collection of twenty-four essays will make them feel as though... Read More