There are many memoirs about World War II, each with its own story of atrocities, devastation, and triumph. Memoirs help make history real; names, dates, and events are important, but it’s the personal suffering of the people involved... Read More

“I forgive you” can be easy words to say. Actually forgiving someone, however, often proves to be more difficult. Célestin Musekura and L. Gregory Jones have teamed up to provide compelling examples of true forgiveness and the... Read More

This story is like a mango: sweet, with a hard stone pit. “When you have lost…two beloved brothers on the same day, what are you? What word is there to say what you have become?” the narrator asks in this tale of “two children of... Read More

Winner of the Zerilli-Marimò prize, "From the Land of the Moon" is a young woman’s lovely and poignant account of a family, and a grandmother’s search for love. Place is central to this novel—the author’s native Sardinia, with... Read More

“In the last forty-plus years there isn’t one second I’ve lived, from absolute joy to utter heartbreak, that would have been made better by drinking,” says Rebeta-Burditt. “Not one.” As a tired young wife and mother of three... Read More

Keith Ekiss’s debut poetry collection, Pima Road Notebook, takes readers on a personal journey into the American cityscape of the desert Southwest. Set in southern Arizona, home of the Pima tribe of Native Americans, Ekiss’s poems... Read More

Gary Jackson’s poetry collection "Missing You, Metropolis" boldly takes readers where few poets have dared to tread: inside the world of comic books. Echoing the framed narratives from which he drew inspiration, Jackson presents... Read More

The mid-nineteenth century saw the rise of Spiritualism, a religion which taught that people could communicate and interact with spirits in the afterlife. Practitioners participated in activities such as séances and card readings to... Read More