Rill’s brilliant novel about Alzheimer’s is so well-crafted, the fully-human characters seem real. In his brilliant third novel, "An Absent Mind", Eric Rill chronicles the devastating decline of a man with Alzheimer’s and how each... Read More

A wealth of information and smartly organized chapters put a scholarly bent on this form of Eastern exercise. Simple Qigong may be a curious title for Yang, Jwing-Ming’s manual of Chinese exercises for improving health. A regimen... Read More

"Bad Blood" is a fun, old-style whodunit to engage amateur sleuths. If Nancy Drew and Sam Spade had spawned a child, it would be Alexis J. (Lexie) Smith, a smart-cookie private eye with attitude whose “discreet inquiries” quickly... Read More

This volume likely will change the way many people choose to confront death, and alter the way life can be lived today. Changing the Way We Die: Compassionate End-of-Life Care and the Hospice Movement should be required reading for... Read More

A skillful braiding of subplots and flashbacks spins the yarn of an aging cowboy on an existential journey. Charlie Quimby’s "Monument Road" is a modern-day Western saga not to be missed. It spins the yarn of Len Self, an aging cowboy... Read More

The plot of Byron’s Lane unfolds like a spring fern—one frond at a time; it is a story of intrigue to be savored slowly. Wallace Rogers’s splendid novel, Byron’s Lane, defies easy description. It is a tale of mystery and intrigue... Read More

An invaluable guide to help teachers and parents work effectively and successfully with even the most-challenging students. The Gift: How My Horse Taught Me to Teach the Toughest Children is a little gem of an instructional manual that... Read More

Educator lays a path for education as a means of finding a career. Parents should serve as the “power source” for student success, claims Academic Enhancement Tools: Power in Family Relationships Builds Student Academic Success, a... Read More