Lil Falcon may need help with her physics homework, but when it comes to battling unseen evil forces, she gets all A’s. In Awakened, the prequel to Betrayed, Lil discovered that she is not an ordinary teenager, but a nephilim—a... Read More

Food photographer and award-winning blogger Béatrice Peltre brings together a delicious array of recipes in her cookbook, La Tartine Gourmande. Based on her blog by the same name, Peltre’s book is a lovely blend of personal... Read More

Surrounded by works of Spanish Colonial art, rare books, and manuscripts, Ecuador-born art collector and philanthropist Paloma Zubiondo has created a perfect world for herself in her Laguna Beach, California, home. But the reclusive... Read More

“Seventy-five years after its inception, Fallingwater affirms architecture’s prospect to engage the lyrical and visceral dimensions of human experience that arise from a direct engagement with nature.” So writes John M. Reynolds in... Read More

George Washington is quoted in "Cultivating Conscience" as saying, “Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.” This duality in human nature, and the connection between conscience and public policy, is masterfully examined... Read More

Loss of unstructured time and personal identity often follows the idealistic marriage ceremony, making women vulnerable to automaton behavior. The mundane aspects of maintaining a household and family can override one’s perception to... Read More

Good poetry makes readers think beyond the obvious. Each word within a line is a building block in the foundation of one stanza and then another. Like the shaping of a Bonsai tree, poets trim extraneous words and syllables until... Read More

The difficult transition home from combat deployment is made more troublesome by society’s lack of understanding that the return to civilian life does not mean that one has given up identifying oneself as a warrior, says Dr. Charles W.... Read More