The tiny West Indies island of Tobago is a “political football” that changed hands forty times in four centuries. According to one of its former governors, Tobago fell into a state of “squalor and depravity,” so much so that he... Read More

People who defeat life-threatening illnesses report feeling profound gratitude for their survival. This change in life view often opens their hearts to the humanity around them. The protagonist in Ken Jackson’s "The Fortress Walls... Read More

Young children are very self-centered, and appropriately so, according to retired social worker Sheila Hale. A major developmental task of early childhood is to differentiate oneself from others, and children do it by comparing... Read More

How far would a seventeen-year-old go for a free ride to college? Kira Donovan goes out of this world, to a place called Thera. She subjects herself to a battery of physical and mental tests in order to be one of the select few... Read More

H. Brading’s epic novel Joshua’s Key begins in the humble fishing village of Seaton, where Joshua and his father, Raymond, find themselves entangled in an adventure they’d have preferred to avoid. Kidnapped by Queen Amega of the... Read More

“The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God,” said evolutionist Charles Darwin in a statement often... Read More

“We will transform you into virtuous human beings,” claims eight-year-old Novia, an impoverished Haitian child who reaches enlightenment in Russel Frederick Ahrens’s "One Shoe and the Golden Medallion". When Maury Levet, a... Read More

For thousands of years, history has repeated the names Odysseus, Achilles, Paris, and Hector, recounting their glorious deeds in the annals of time. Women in these epics are only mentioned in brief passages, despite their influence. H.... Read More