One morning, while watching Good Morning America, Jonathan Andrew Christian Hunter III hears experts from several New York financial institutions state that a world without debt would be Utopia. Jonathan is the chief financial officer... Read More

Plato argued that inherited knowledge determines human behavior, while Aristotle believed that people come into the world with minds as blank slates. In 1874, Francis Galton, whose cousin was Charles Darwin, used the words “nature”... Read More

“SF [Science Fiction] is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F [Fantasy] is the literature of the impossible.”-Piers Anthony Piers Anthony, author of the above quote and well known for his Xanth fantasy series, also... Read More

Teen pregnancy and runaways…sexual assault…losing a spouse to premature death…drinking to alleviate psychological pain: these are subjects the majority find depressing. A combination of all events in the same novel classified as a... Read More

Don’t Pull that Plug: the Intimacy of a Coma chronicles the heartbreak and joy of Terrell Clima’s marriage before, during, and after her husband, Ron, ends up in a coma as a result of a motorcycle accident. Early in the book, Clima... Read More

Author Richard Kownacki uses the term “eldster” to refer to people who defy society’s expectations for seniors by staying healthy and active or by functioning well in spite of disabilities. The famous artist Grandma Moses started... Read More

"Dispatched" delves into the rich, alluring world of Reno, Nevada, and Kool Klassic Nights, an annual car event in the city. With a robbery planned, a dispatch center possibly contaminated, and Rob Matthew’s dilemma between helping his... Read More

Bakersfield is located at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley in Kern County, California. About halfway between Fresno and Los Angeles, it has grown rapidly since it was founded in 1869. In Did You Say “Baker’s Field?“,... Read More