Heys’ crisp and concise writing takes corporate history to a new level. The creative men behind one of the country’s most innovative electric utility holding companies are spotlighted and their four decades of research and... Read More

Fear-induced habits—self-doubt, resistance to change, judgment of others—keep people from living carefree lives, says Deborah Duda in her engaging second book, Lighten Up: Seven Ways to Kick the Suffering Habit. Duda lived a... Read More

Renowned surrealist painter Rex Sexton is also a highly regarded writer, imbuing his fiction and poetry with the same startling vision and mastery he displays in his artwork. His newest novel, "Paper Moon", dazzles with words, just as... Read More

The universe of "Hideous Exuberance", the new novel by Stephen C. Bird, is one of demented imagination and verve. It can also be exhausting. The work lies somewhere between Harry Potter burlesque and Tolkien satire, with doses of... Read More

A crisply written novel, "What Happened to Tasha Blue?" charts the response of family, friends, and neighbors after the title character, a high-school student, vanishes from the deserted outskirts of a working-class New Mexico town in... Read More

Even though "Ramblings of a One-Eyed Garbage Man" is written in brazenly blunt English, there is an artistry and music to Jim Hart’s collection. This assemblage of free-verse poems is written from a variety of perspectives that are... Read More

As E. A. Rappaport’s "The Lesser Evil" opens, Toth, a talented young wizard, seeks to persuade the stodgy Wizard’s Council to recognize his new discovery—a method of animating dead skeletons—as a valid new “school” of magic.... Read More

The author of "An Essay by a Modern Humanist" claims to be a modern humanist, scholar, and practitioner of humanism, a system of thought based in science and observation and conflicted with the models of medieval philosophies dictated by... Read More