Award-winning author Roberts begins this text with a simple but too often overlooked reminder concerning the creative process: “…all disciplines have a craft component…” This is a practical crafting guide for first-time mystery... Read More

With the passage of the Equal Employment Act of 1972 many women found doors opened to jobs that had previously been reserved for men. Carlson was the first woman hired as a pipefitter by Minnegasco, the Minneapolis Gas Company. In this... Read More

In Samyn’s prefatory note to Captivity Narrative, she explains that the structure of the text, “is based on early American “captivity narratives,” accounts of frontier captures, which were divided…into ‘removes’ that... Read More

What do David Brubeck and Saint Francis of Assisi have in common? According to this highly informative and readable book they are both members of a music ministry which stretches back for 2000 years. Kavanaugh illuminates the long and... Read More

David Hackworth, America’s most decorated living soldier and author of About Face and Hazardous Duty, calls James Acre in the introduction “an idealistic teenager who quit college and joined the Army during a very bad war.” Acre... Read More

The holocaust did not end for Whiteley when Russian troops marched into Bergen-Belsen, saving what was left of her family from the daily nightmare of her childhood in the concentration camp. In Appel is Forever, Whiteley gives readers a... Read More

A baby’s shoe gets lost and readers follow the path of the shoe from one situation to another until it comes full circle back to its original owner. As the shoe first gets lost somewhere on Ptarmigan Mountain, Mama exclaims, “Lost... Read More

“A middle-class teacher and her working-class student face each other in a large, drafty, grimy high school. The walls had been a bilious green once, before they acquired so many smudges that they took on a dappled look. The stairs are... Read More