The novel opens with Swain, a one-armed juggler, watching from the wings of a theater as Jonson and his boy dance atop wooden barrels. They are all performers in a small-town vaudeville circuit where a runaway donkey has been known to... Read More

A multitude of problems face the United States and other nations as they endeavor to deal with the environmental, social, and economic realities of the twenty-first century. Claude Gendreau, a Canadian-born veterinarian, thinks the... Read More

We are told at the beginning of this book that the story of Bijan and Manijeh comes originally from the Book of Kings, written by Persian poet Ferdowsi around 1000A.D. What’s exceptional about this version (in the form of a... Read More

Escaping poverty can be like trying to crawl out of the belly of a snake—the constriction of adverse forces leave many feeling frustrated, hopeless, and lost. For Ean Garrett, those forces were particularly binding: his father was... Read More

After reading deeply into the New Testament Gospels, E. Kent Rogers began to find that Jesus’s miracles were speaking to modern-day problems on many levels. With this guidebook for group study, he discusses twelve of these messages.... Read More

Love, marriage, and then baby carriage: as the nursery rhyme goes, so follow our general expectations. Yet life doesn’t always comply with our jovial plans, as Victoria Hopewell (a pseudonym) discovers in this memoir detailing her... Read More

Values, ethics, forgiveness, and the fragile thread that entwines them create both the human foundation and the ultimate conflict at the core of Doug and Sally Mayfield’s beautifully written novel, "Angle of Declination". Allie, the... Read More

Murder, betrayal, war, and passion are the obvious aspects of Sylvia Montgomery Shaw’s lyrical debut novel, "Paradise Misplaced". The first in a trilogy about the once-fabulously wealthy Nyman family starts with the murder of Mexican... Read More