Every day 140348 people die and 140347 of them are not prepared for it…at least according to Second Chapter’s main character Ben Hoffman. As the book opens Ben a celebrity writer is still suffering from the death of his bride Janet... Read More

"Barefooted Soul" is the memoir of Imelda Roberts a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal Of Honor in 2006. The book with accompanying music CD is a true testament to the American spirit and the human soul as Roberts shares her stories... Read More

Pointer from the Peddler: When all is said and done my history has been that I create something I peddle it one way or another and then I start all over again. That’s the fun in my game of life. Try it; you’ll like it. Boiled down to... Read More

Silence blankets Willa’s rugged survival trek in this novel about a seventeen-year-old girl who crashes her uncle’s Cessna on a solo flight from Ontario in January. Once the storm that causes the crash subsides, Willa waits a week by... Read More

Every New Year’s Day, the Emperor and Empress of Japan host Utakai Hajime, the year’s first poetry reading, at the Imperial Palace. The poetic theme is announced in advance, and submissions arrive at the Imperial Household in the... Read More

When the author’s Indian mother and Jewish father announced their divorce, she was eleven years old and was asked to choose whether she wanted to live with her father or mother. Saltzman chose to live with her father. This book takes... Read More

“No one has had the perfect childhood,” says the author. According to Mandel, not only abuse but even the unintentional inability of caregivers to meet all of a child’s needs can leave what she calls “bruises.” These unhealed... Read More

Why that “peculiar institution,” slavery, spread and festered in a country built on freedom and how its false depiction as a benevolent system, in which loving masters cared for their hapless servants, became entrenched in American... Read More