New parents, especially new fathers, should be as smitten with their toddlers as author Michael Fertik freely admits to being when he explains that this tale was inspired by the antics of his own little boy. The adventure of Squeezy the... Read More

Readers must step into another dimension entirely in order to appreciate and receive the wisdom in Penny Gundry’s "Glimmers of Light Dancing", for it reads as though it is a long, highly developed guided imagery session. Take a few... Read More

As Neil Genzlinger noted in the New York Times, a good memoir is not just a restatement of what happened, “but a shared discovery.” Titus Plomaritis, a retired chiropractor, has lived an active and productive life, but Titus: The... Read More

The enduring lesson of all wars, reinforced in Vietnam and more recently in Iraq and Afghanistan, is that tours of duty do not end with the return home. Indeed, as Stuart Nicholls shows in this compelling fictional memoir, home may no... Read More

"My Boy Blink", by Nev White, starts out promisingly enough: A young boy and his father come upon a baby in the woods. With the parents dead at the scene, father and son rescue the newborn, who ends up going by the nickname Blink because... Read More

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. — Frederick Douglass The freedom to read is shared by millions the world over. Nothing excites the mind, stimulates the senses, or charges the spirit like a favorite book. But what if... Read More

The author of "An Essay by a Modern Humanist" claims to be a modern humanist, scholar, and practitioner of humanism, a system of thought based in science and observation and conflicted with the models of medieval philosophies dictated by... Read More

Thousands of tales are told about people who are lucky enough to find a genie bottle, but very few take the side of the genie. Naturally, a genie would rather be free, even if it means losing his or her magical abilities. Such is the... Read More