For ten years, watercolorist Mary Whyte painted the Gullah people, descendants of coastal Carolina slaves and members of a church community near her adopted home on Seabrook Island near Charleston, South Carolina. The result of that work... Read More

Poetic ruminations about randomness punctuate the action in this mystery set on the “backside” of Fairfax Park’s racetrack: “Who would be wealthy, who would be poor? Who would have fame, who obscurity?…Into each life the second... Read More

According to the Centers for Disease Control, childhood obesity has tripled in the past thirty years and recent numbers state that 12.5 million kids ages two to nineteen are obese, a stunning 17% of the population. Chef Boyardee® hits... Read More

What happens when youthful lives are saturated by corporate interests that promote consumption, competition, hierarchy, sexism, homophobia, racism, and contempt for equality? What can educators do to balance these influences? How can... Read More

Though "Eromenos" means “beloved,” this is not a simple love story. Instead, it is a story of obsession involving Hadrian, Rome’s fourteenth emperor, and his young lover Antinous, who spent his adolescence—seven years—as... Read More

Based on the author’s own experience with premature twin babies born at twenty-five weeks, this inspirational guide helps struggling parents through perhaps one of the toughest times of their lives. Noting that there was too much... Read More

While the religious community is starkly divided on the issue of environmentalism, Thomas Berry was not. A Passionist priest and self-described cosmologist and “geologian,” he came down firmly on the side of environmentalism and was... Read More

Dr. Steven Manly’s Visions of the Multiverse, begins with a welcome to “the multiple universe reality, whatever that is.” This tongue-in-cheek style permeates the conversational tone of a book that seeks to provide the layperson... Read More