Liu is the first to the wreckage, like a reporter at the scene, but his understanding moves far beyond the factual into the metaphorical. “You ask me to speak but my mouth holds back—my heart a house God remodels daily with an... Read More

With haunting imagery and consummate skill, Foote has created a masterpiece that deserves a place alongside the very best war poetry. War poetry is a genre unto itself, and poets from Thomas Hardy and Wilfred Owen to Siegfried Sassoon... Read More

Young professionals will find insight in this look at how humility can aid in a businessperson’s career growth. Dedicated to “the hot intern” and opening with the line, “If she weren’t so pretty, I wouldn’t have fired her,”... Read More

Shifts in time and from character to character parallel the motif of the swinging trapeze to reveal the circus-like perils of family relations. "Failing the Trapeze", by Susan V. Meyers, is an artfully crafted family drama. As the title... Read More

Heartbreak sucks. Corinne Mucha’s "Get Over It" is probably as close to a cure as we’re going to get. With laugh-out-loud humor matched perfectly with fantastic inked drawings, including input from her exasperated brain and exhausted... Read More

In his brief, thoughtful essays in "Something There Is", David Sayre, an engineer who has led advances in communication and energy technologies for thirty years, speaks about the encounters he has had with people all over the world who... Read More

The hunt is on for relics as the clock ticks to an apocalypse in the exciting conclusion to this elegantly written series. Baden-Powell’s Beads: Jerusalem is an action-packed thriller that is sure to entertain. Author Paul D. Parsons... Read More

Elegant, flowing prose conveys the journey of a spiritual man through struggles of racial prejudice and sexual identity. Jean-Marie de la Trinité’s novel, "The Mystic", reveals the stages of a journey to union with God through the... Read More