“There be allus summat as’ll come along to spoil things.” In Thistles in the Corn, by Anne Armstrong, the idea that happiness and good fortune never last is as true for farmer Ephraim Stower’s corn crop as it is for Will Smythe,... Read More

A heartbreaking coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of China, Abdulla Kazim’s "Memories from the East" explores a traumatized man’s psyche as he prepares to commit suicide at the age of twenty-nine. Gerald Arsov watched as... Read More

The stressful world of Manhattan advertising, characterized by the unrelenting pressure to succeed, grounds the first installment of K.R. Barker’s trilogy, The Third Terrace of Purgatory: Discovery. The story opens in 1959, yet the... Read More

The first book in the Boloney’s Kingdom trilogy, Boloney the Warrior, introduces readers to an ordinary boy who will go on a journey in an unknown realm. Tony Boloney, a young schoolboy, has always wondered about his place in the... Read More

In "The Nameless", Liza Burgess crafts a heart-wrenching story of the ease of betrayal and the near impossibility of redemption. The prologue shows a woman entering an airport with her baby. Readers watch in horror as she sets herself... Read More

A co-pastor of a church in the United Kingdom, Agnes Mensah-Bonsu believes that Christians must learn to forgive those who transgress against them. Few would argue that the Christian obligation to forgive others, in the same way that... Read More

First published in Good Housekeeping magazine in 1966, Priscilla Noble-Mathews’ "The Tale of Eleazar" recounts the New Testament story of the birth of Jesus as told through the eyes of the Virgin Mary’s donkey. It begins with a... Read More

With Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan at the center of world news these days, Englishman Basil Jay has written a timely account of his 1974 “stupidly wonderful journey” through these countries in "65 Days to Delhi". Jay was then a... Read More