Imagine an America less dependent on fossil fuels. Imagine an America producing clean energy and halting climate change. That’s the vision of brilliant engineering students Gerri Miller and Marc Garrett in L. E. Indianer’s second... Read More

One of the pleasures of anthologies is that the reader is usually exposed to new material, or at least prodded to see old material in a new light. Fragments: Poetry Ancient & Modern, an anthology selected by the pseudonymous Blue... Read More

When Judith Hannan’s eight-year-old daughter, Nadia, was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, Hannan was catapulted into what can only be called a heightened state of motherhood: “Nadia’s cancer defined my life in as exotic a way as... Read More

Alden E. C. Bigelow’s Norton’s Lament is a provocative novel with a misleading title, if one is to define “lament” as an expression of deep sorrow, a wailing or mourning. Bigelow tells the story of Joe Norton—dropping out of... Read More

In the mid-1990’s, the Celtic Tiger, as the Irish economic boom was nicknamed, roared throughout the land bringing unprecedented wealth to the populace and precipitating a development frenzy. Wrecking balls flew into old historic... Read More

It would be relatively easy to fill an entire bookshelf with books about retirement. Most of them, however, deal with investments and financial security, or where to retire. "The Couple’s Retirement Puzzle" is a different kind of book... Read More

Curious about the workings of your brain but can’t deal with neuro-terminology—dendrites, axons, synapses, and such? Terry Radford’s "Between Our Ears" compares the structure of the mind to a computer software system, using a... Read More

For many, Christianity is not the first thing that comes to mind when the word “feminism” is mentioned. However, in Mary Hunt and Diann Neu’s "New Feminist Christianity", the editors and other contributors make the case that... Read More