If only Specialist Kate Brady had the benefit of the Army’s new “resilience” program, she might have been better equipped to handle combat stress more cheerfully and avoid all those hidden “thinking traps,” like jumping to... Read More

Richard R. Troxell brings new life to discussions of wage labor and unemployment in America in "Looking Up at the Bottom Line". A longtime anti-poverty activist who has lived through the marginalization familiar to war veterans (in his... Read More

In "Till the Eagle Screams", author Paul Rawlings takes the reader on a wild ride based on a series of “what ifs” that seem to have special significance in today’s political climate. Sheriff Mike Bonner has a quiet life as the head... Read More

Home may be where the heart is, but sometimes it takes a trip around the world to figure out exactly where your heart belongs. Hallie Palmer believes she is just one more step away from full-time happiness: she’s about to graduate... Read More

In Mark Zvonkovic’s chatty debut novel, set in New England during the early 1970s, junior high school teacher Larry Brown is involved with the self-absorbed Millie, an affair which appears to be going nowhere. As the story unfolds,... Read More

Disparate cultures around the world have similar stories and myths about the exploits of their gods and heroes. Joseph Campbell said one explanation for these similarities is that “the human psyche is essentially the same all over the... Read More

The Loch Ness monster stone castles cobblestone alleyways and plaid kilts often come to mind when one thinks of Scotland. Joe Dullerson doesn’t bother with such worn familiar images; he goes for the gut and the guttural in his novel... Read More

Of the author’s celebrated modernist novel, Nightwood, T.S. Eliot wrote that it possessed “the great achievement of a style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wit and characterization, and a quality of horror and doom very... Read More