“Dad, am I going to college?” Donald Bailey’s intellectually challenged son, Donald Jr., asks at the outset of LIFE: Learning is for Everyone. The answer ordained by the educational infrastructure in the Bailey family’s home... Read More

In "Almost Armageddon", a sexy Soviet assassin known as Venus (for the flytrap, not the planet) patriotically and ideologically justifies her assignment to kill Mikhail Gorbachev during the final days of the Soviet Union by arguing... Read More

The “Robinson” in the title of Kathleen Rooney’s new collection of poems refers to a persona that appears in four poems by Weldon Kees. The “Robinson” poems, as they have come to be known, are widely regarded as being among... Read More

Young people from bi- or multiracial backgrounds will find their own voices echoed and amplified in this slim volume; the book may help those from a single race background begin to understand their multiracial friends or family members,... Read More

Family man Kevin P. Martin loves 1980s music—and The Beatles and The Doors, too, it appears. In his clever, if gimmicky, new novel, "Tainted Love", Martin introduces an unlikely cast of characters whose dialogue consists of nothing but... Read More

Sarah Jean Stewart’s mystery novel, "Mapleton Murders", compellingly addresses issues of faith in the face of murder, rape, abduction, and terrorist attacks. Main character Kate Feeney gives voice to the fear and conflict that push... Read More

Many things can happen when two good friends spend a day on the golf course, but criminal activity isn’t usually among them. In "On the Hole", Jay Hewitt and Nick Landers seem headed for a fun, uneventful day on the course at the... Read More

El Capitan, Half Dome, giant sequoias, the legacy of naturalist John Muir, and the smartest bears in the world. Meet the staff at Yosemite National Park, plus its creatures, plants, and hikes. Discussions of camping supplies, climbing... Read More