Colorful historical settings and insights into immigrant experiences result in a meaningful, satisfying story. A colorful saga of the wild days of the California gold rush, "Robbing the Pillars" by Kalen Vaughan Johnson chronicles... Read More

Pearl Weaver contains the best parts of Southern charm, drawing upon the story part of religious tales, and showing how those literary inheritances belong to all. If Pearl could: she would edit her life to perfection. She would trim out... Read More

This survivor’s story is less about enduring than it is about living vibrantly. Annette Libeskind Berkovits’s The Unlikeliest of Places is an incandescent biographical tribute to the author’s father, Nachman Libeskind, an eternally... Read More

For Catie Hartsfield, the day that forever changed her life began in relatively ordinary fashion. Two of her three sons are on a hike, her daughter is shopping with Grandma Rose, and Catie is enduring the company of her critical... Read More

The Two Sisters’ Café is an addictive potion of a fairy tale about two benevolent witches, the townfolk they try to save, and a young apprentice struggling to escape abuse. Authors Elena Yates Eulo and Samantha Harper Macy tell of a... Read More

“Modern American literature begins … with Moby-Dick,” asserts novelist E. L Doctorow in the lead essay of this book. Certainly, no book has a better claim to the title “Great American Novel” than Herman Melville’s... Read More

“Angels are baffled when they hear that there actually are people who ascribe everything to nature and nothing to the Divine…Yet if only they could raise their minds a bit, they would see that things like this are from the... Read More