Comprehensive lesson plans for Bible educators are deftly organized and their importance thoroughly explored. Q. E. Hammonds’s book of Bible study outlines, "Life Lessons from the Word", helps educators organize important lessons about... Read More

In popular legend there’s a curse: “May you live in interesting times.” Luke Kim’s life has misfortunes, and the distinguished Korean-American physician has certainly lived in interesting times. In "Beyond the Battle Line", he... Read More

It is a Tuesday morning in November, and Diana Wagman’s fourth novel could take place only in Los Angeles. Winnie Parker, a thirty-eight-year-old single mom, has been waiting for a rental car outside a service station. Her mother is... Read More

The first openly transgender employee of an Orthodox Jewish institution, Joy Ladin endured media glare and controversy when she made the transition from male to female. In this poignant, intimate, and often lively memoir, she describes... Read More

Although animal adventures are a perennial favorite in juvenile literature, the most notable books are those that stretch beyond the story and truly reach, engage, and teach readers about the world and about themselves. "A Place for... Read More

Inmates of Texas’s Death Row live in 10 x 6.5 foot cells. In winter the temperatures plummet and officials delay turning on the heat so that the prisoners shiver in their cells. In summer it can get up to 120 degrees, yet air... Read More

“The reason I have so much respect for the principles in the Bible is that they work, not sometimes, but every time,” Ron Travis writes. “I have attempted to incorporate Biblical principles into this book by putting everything to... Read More

A thousand years ago Norse society spread through colonization and raiding. The tenth century settlement of Greenland was founded and ruled by Eric the Red a man kicked out of Norway and Iceland for murderous deeds. Greenland’s... Read More