Introducing herself as a “way-pointer on the pilgrim’s trail a blaze on the tree” Jean Christian offers spiritual advice to seekers of larger truths. Using passages and quotations from numerous classic spiritual works of various... Read More

Mohammed couldn’t wait to visit New York City. He dreamed of the Statue of Liberty at night and during the day he fantasized about the grand city and all that he would do and see there. Plans were underway for the eighth grader to take... Read More

“On June 20 1934 John Webster disappeared without a trace. He simply vanished. His young friend Adam Maclean discovered clothing and personal effects but no body” Bert Nelson writes in the beginning of "The Shadow Watchers". John’s... Read More

Growing up in wartime Vietnam Thienna Ho yearned for lighter skin—as light perhaps as the other members of her family. She wondered why her own skin was dark and uneven and slow to heal. After her family emigrated to San Francisco... Read More

“I imagine a world without war a world without hate…and I imagine us attacking that world because they’d never expect it.”—Jack Handey from Deep Thoughts (1992) Handey is joking (we hope) but watch out for a group of sinister... Read More

Princess Alera the young heroine and narrator of "Legacy" lives in the mythical territory of Hytanica and is about to inherit the trappings of the Kingdom’s throne. Fifteen-year-old author Cayla Kluver shows every promise of inheriting... Read More

“Basically I’d like to find more ways where we can party with the chicks in the girls’ dorms” the author once said in a speech before a college election. “That’s really what we all want isn’t it? Uhh…I guess that’s... Read More

Matthew J. Pallamary’s well-crafted and fast-paced memoir recounts his experiences growing up poor in a violent Irish Catholic Boston ghetto. This is not a book for the faint of heart; gang violence racial tensions drugs theft and... Read More