In these harried, post-modern times, when getting accurate answers to straightforward questions sometimes seems impossible, it’s a treat to find an easy to read, high quality little book on an awkward subject. "Hey Men, Listen Up!" is... Read More

Superlatives seem so ubiquitous, over the top and meaningless of late that they’ve lost much of their power to impress and engage. So, when a book of exceptional quality comes along, as is the case with If Not Me, Then Who?, to... Read More

As an easy-to-read primer for those with little background in biblical symbolism or new age teachings on oneness and ego transcendence, this book is ideal. Craig Mooneyham, a former junior minister and Bible student, appears to have an... Read More

“I am tired,” Susan Kay writes in an excerpt from her 2008 journal, “tired of my religion, of church, of all my personal and interpersonal dysfunctions. I want to have a wider swath of life…The stale odor of my confinement is... Read More

You’ve got cancer. And so begins the manic, fear-driven scramble to comprehend, cope with, and hopefully defeat one of life’s penultimate demons. Add the very real fear of a life without erections as a side effect to victory, and one... Read More

"Scattered Pieces" opens with a bang, as Flora Season cleverly pulls the reader into a scene of breathtaking violence on the book’s second page. After playfully refusing to kiss her father in the opening paragraph, four-year-old Flora... Read More

Crack cocaine addiction seems worlds apart from the life of an upper middle-class Southern belle. At one time in her life, the author, Meg Henderson Wade, would have enthusiastically agreed; that is until the day her husband of seventeen... Read More