The narrator in Bill Peters’s first novel, "Maverick Jetpants in the City of Quality", often suffers from a “Moth-In-Sink Feeling.” This is a sensation that the book’s online glossary (maverickjetpants.com/glossary) defines as... Read More

Advertisements make persuasive cases for giving to international aid agencies. In "Beyond Good Intentions", Tori Hogan offers a firsthand account of what such donations, as well as those from governments and businesses, actually provide.... Read More

Categorizing Brian Gast’s inspirational work as a “business book” undersells its universally applicable message. This is the story of an entrepreneur who achieved the kind of success most people only dream about, only to realize... Read More

Happiness may seem elusive because we are not looking for it in the right places. That is George Myerson’s premise in this inspiring compilation of ninety-nine excerpts about moments of joy described in personal writings in journals,... Read More

Henning Mankell is best known as a crime writer. "The Shadow Girls" is a novel about a different sort of crime: the treatment of desperate immigrants in the country where they hoped to find safety and freedom. Tea-Bag, from Nigeria,... Read More

"Centerville", a quiet novel by Karen Osborn, begins with a terrific bang, the shockwaves from which touch every part of the story until the very end. On an idyllic Saturday afternoon in 1967 in this pleasant Midwestern town, the lives... Read More

Religion can be damaging, while spirituality is freeing. So contends Johnston, whose Faith Beyond Belief introduces us to a host of religious practitioners, people whose countercultural faith relegates them to the margins of the... Read More

“69752. That was his phone number … he had it tattooed there, on his left forearm, so he wouldn’t forget it. That’s what my grandfather told me. And that’s what I grew up believing. In the 1970s, telephone numbers in Guatemala... Read More