The New Testament Gospel of Mark includes a story about four devoted friends who carry a paralyzed man to Jesus for healing, only to be halted by a crowd. Undaunted, the men “dug through the clay roof … [and] lowered the sick man on... Read More

With the unemployment rate refusing to sink below 8 percent, the United States’ Great Recession marches on, leaving many people scrambling for the limited job opportunities that exist. Those in the job market during this tough time... Read More

Samuel J. Fisher is in good company in choosing to write about dreams; from Shakespeare to Poe, writers have pursued the topic, some with great success. In "The 6th Dream",the premise that Logan (the first-person narrator) is an... Read More

A grisly explosion on the outskirts of a city, resulting in human appendages sprayed for hundreds of meters, causes the narrator to remember his childhood friend, M, who disappeared years before. In interconnected vignettes, the book... Read More

I know! Let’s write a novel about nothing! Nothing? Nothin’. Zilch. Bupkis. If that sounds familiar, it is. As fans of Seinfeld can attest, it’s a great setup—as long as you can pull it off. Whether the author/hero of this novel... Read More

In different parts of the world, at close to the same time, members of the secretive and benevolent Cloister of Akhenaten are suddenly dying of what at first seem to be natural causes. As the death count rises, surviving members and... Read More

Jerry Pollock has an unusual background for one so deeply involved in metaphysical, paranormal, and Jewish messianic teachings. He earned a PhD in biophysics, and is a professor emeritus at Stony Brook University. But he is also the... Read More

This collaboration between an Inuit throat singer and a children’s librarian investigates the origins of fog. Young readers are invited to accompany a hunter on a springtime journey across the tundra, where he encounters more than he... Read More