“Never say you know the last word about any human heart.” —Henry James Author Jason Akley pushes against teetering fences that surround the simplified structure of the twenty-first-century novel, invoking the high drama of... Read More

"Riding the Storm Out" presents a cautionary message to those who think the recession is ending soon and America is in for a quick recovery. Aptly named the book uses a hurricane analogy to illustrate that America is only partway through... Read More

“Genes will only help you the first half of life…After that it’s the lifestyle you lead from midlife on that determines how well you’ll do” Dr. Chris Rao writes. The author takes a proactive preventive approach to disease and... Read More

Isaac’s Torah (Other Press, 978-1-59051-245-6) is a very funny book about very sad events. Isaac Blumenfeld suffers at the hands of the Nazis, loses his entire family when his village is invaded, and is sent to a Siberian labor camp... Read More

Todd Boss’s first collection of poems, "Yellowrocket", takes its title from a wildflower that “reeked” when pulled from the soil. The poems also wish to, and do, hold as tightly as plants to the plain earth, and to heritage, to... Read More

"Child of All Nations", (Overlook Press, 978-1-59020-099-5) written by the exiled German novelist Irmgard Keun in 1938, was recently translated into English by Michael Hofmann. It follows the hotel-to-hotel nomadism of a wide-eyed girl... Read More

“Knowledge is power” may sound cliché, but that’s the crux of what the authors present in these three discs with one intriguing title. Why is knowledge so powerful? Because it gives an advantage. And advantage is what it’s all... Read More

From Gandalf’s Shadowfax to the Lone Ranger’s Silver, horses are integral partners on the mythic hero’s journey. “Horses…have become associated in our collective imagination with aspects of the human journey at its greatest,”... Read More