Characters grope for meaning amid emotional and moral crises in complex, atmospheric stories. The lives of boys and men are fraught with imperfection and shortcomings in our intensely competitive culture. For the mostly male, mainly... Read More

Cancer is no laughing matter—except when it is, says the author in her latest novel. As a breast cancer survivor herself, Walker, a chick lit writer (Dreaming in Black and White; Dreaming in Technicolor) translates her own experience... Read More

The sleepy streets of a small Texas town bleed more than just Southern charm in "The Bitterwine Oath", a feminist coming-of-age story with a supernatural twist. Nat just wants to enjoy her last summer before she and her friends scatter... Read More

Diaries are personal outlets for many teens, a place to record secrets and observations. Sometimes they become a part of history, such as the one kept by Anne Frank. As a young woman in the American South, Sarah Morgan also kept a now... Read More

I’m not writing here to force a new version Christ on you O reader but if you know what’s good for you you will take the first chance at knowing Him that you can get. So begins this modern epistle on how to have a personal... Read More

“In coffeehouses, literary schools and styles were born and discarded, and new directions in painting, music and architecture emerged.” Novelist, sportsman, and anti-Nazi journalist Friedrich Torberg (1908-1979) presents... Read More

“Traditional art derives from a creativity which combines heavenly inspiration with ethnic genius, and which does so in the manner of a science endowed with rules and not by way of individual improvisation.” So pronounces Swiss-born... Read More

"A Transcendental Journey" is a road-tripping travel memoir that’s graced with humor, adventure, and wisdom. Stephen Evans’s eloquent memoir "A Transcendental Journey" is about his inward-looking, post-divorce road trip. Abandoning... Read More