This is a common sense self-help book packed with accessible suggestions for confronting negative emotions. Carolyn Kay Jahan’s "Counseling by Carolyn" is a self-help work that suggests fundamental skills for managing negative emotions... Read More

“Architects cover their mistakes with vines; doctors with soil.” This is just one of the many pithy jokes that appear in the book Laughter Is the Best Medicine: Medical Epigrams of J.H. Goldfuss. Packaged in a canary-yellow cover... Read More

"A Voice for the Children in the Back Row" is an insightful and poignant book that describes the struggles and triumphs of teaching students with unique needs in Caribbean settings. Kathleen Robinson tells the stories of four students,... Read More

A jumble of family ties betrayals and criminal behavior relating to racehorses form the basis of Suzanne Knoebel’s novella "Heritage". Protagonist Seth Stevens first becomes a player in the thoroughbred industry when his father drowns... Read More

The self-guided journey from poverty to prosperity is a familiar one in the genre of memoir. While some people who are born into despair and oppression remain downtrodden their whole lives others rise above the fray and beat the odds to... Read More

What, you may ask, is a riffle? Author Thomas F. Eliott won’t keep you in suspense for long. In the first paragraph of the Introduction, he explains that it’s “rough water, but not enough to be classified as a white-water rapid.”... Read More

Inhabiting the strange new country of the literary Indian, the poet speaks true without being melodramatic; his poems are pointed without being maudlin. These are important poems, biting and frank. They display one of the deepest and... Read More

This book, Ignatow’s last before his death, is inundated with honesty and the quiet irony of a fine poet looking his death straight in the eye and saying, I wish it weren’t this way, but since it is, this is what I have to say. He... Read More