The literature of war has long included works that resonate with teenagers, from Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage to Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl. Adding to such a beloved canon would be a tough feat, but setting... Read More

In "My Only Sunshine", author Lou Dischler creates an anti-hero’s antihero, Charlie Boone, sets him in a family of criminals, and then sends him on a dark and humorous romp. Dischler stages this coming-of-age story in the Louisiana low... Read More

Fear and suspicion were the norm in sixteenth-century Spain and Portugal, a time when Christianity was the only recognized religion. To step outside the laws of the church was to invite the heavy hand of the Inquisition, and any... Read More

Nearly a decade after 9/11, that day’s events continue to reverberate through American life. The Homeland Security Act bestowed unprecedented powers upon federal, state, and local governments in the name of fighting the war on terror.... Read More

The defining moment of a young boy’s life is usually not associated with a teenage sister except perhaps when her horribly disabling accident cripples a boy’s ability to retain an unburdened outlook of the world. Jon Pineda turns a... Read More

Proposing a provocative and radical approach to Christianity, The Final Testaments, Volume 3, argues that human beings are captive spirits who must reject the God of Genesis if they are ever to find their way back home to their true... Read More

War, as a topic, lends itself to unending discussion, research, debate, and analysis. Historians argue over past strategies, methods, and the results of battles waged over several centuries. Roger J. Spiller’s collection, "In the... Read More

Sometimes a novel reaches out and grabs readers by the throat, riveting them to the action, despite the discomfort caused by the subject matter. Alex Markman almost pulls this off with his third novel. Set in Canada during the mid 1990s,... Read More