The struggles of nineteen-year-old Sophia Alface, a real-life landmine victim from Mozambique and depicted in Mankell’s previous novels Secrets in the Fire and Playing with Fire, continue in this equally eye-opening mix of “truth and... Read More

This light, enjoyable read offers thoughtful advice for women seeking romantic guidance. In this short and breezy work, Dr. Monique Rainford-Bourne offers easy-to-read advice directed at women seeking marriage. Her light tone, quick... Read More

In Leon Rooke’s imaginative, surreal world, it is always April. In "The April Poems", Leon Rooke bridges the gap between poetry and fiction with an array of poems that, while wildly experimental at times, form an overarching narrative... Read More

Born with a leg deformity that suggested he might be better suited to a less strenuous way of life than the profession to which he was born, no one ever expected John Henry to amount to much. For those who do not follow the sport of... Read More

“It has been said that more has been written about Wagner than any man who ever lived, except for Jesus and Napoleon,” writes the author. Richard Wagner was a high note in nineteenth-century music, combining personal magnetism, lofty... Read More

In his memoir "A Fine Line", Graham Zimmerman reflects on the dangers and demands that mountaineering exerts on those who feel its lure. By his mid-thirties, Zimmerman had already been named New Zealand Alpinist of the Year and awarded... Read More

Peter Schmitt’s third book of poems offers a mix of poetic virtues—clean, accurate language, unobtrusively patterned lines and stanzas—and qualities more often linked to prose. Virtually every poem in "Renewing the Vows" tells a... Read More

Innovative writer Rich Ives has filled this, his newest book, with small, often tiny stories not unlike fables or dreams. Surreal happenings are recorded in spare prose that creates mental images akin to a Dalí painting: a man stares at... Read More