“Fall down seven times, get up eight,” goes the Japanese saying. In The Priceless Gifts of Personal Failure: 13 Triumphant Thoughts on Turning Your Life Around, Barry Forbes uses this type of wisdom to encourage his readers to turn... Read More

Science fiction can fill a special role in the lives of teens, especially when independence is modeled by young heroes and heroines who don’t rely on their parents to solve their problems. This attribute is inherent in Cynthia Hey’s... Read More

Those whose downtown Los Angeles touchstone is Frank Gehry’s aluminum-clad, tornado-like Disney Concert Hall may have trouble conjuring what the area was like thirty years before that building starred in every new automobile ad on... Read More

In 1867 Philadelphia, widowed Jessie O’Hara lives a solitary life working for nuns, having lost her spouse and children years before. Friendless, she now spends much of her time running errands and reading. One fateful day, the nuns... Read More

Author Jane M. Hogg writes with a straightforward and precise style perfect for nonfiction. "Beware the Mandarins" goes beyond the standard memoir, detailing a period of corruption in British government that she experiences firsthand... Read More

“Now we, the Turks, have become the enemy in our own country,” laments a refugee leading a convoy of villagers fleeing the advancing Serbian army. Cries similar to this one spoken by a character in Omer Ertur’s stunning and very... Read More

Combining poetry, prose, and pictures, Robert Camara invites readers to receive his ideas about humanity and the interconnectedness of life. With the publication of The Truth in the Ruins of Pleasure & Desire, Camara proposes... Read More

At the start of World War I, Josef Šrámek, a young Czech textile worker, found himself drafted into the Austrian army. As part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Czechoslovakia fell under the empire’s rule, and the twenty-two-year-old... Read More