A powerful voice for integration and the oppressed, baseball and civil rights icon shows his humanitarian nature. After Jackie Robinson ended his major league career with the Brooklyn Dodgers, he became a nationally syndicated columnist... Read More

Before a vaccine existed, polio hit many communities with disability and death. This is the scenario described in Limping Through Life: A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir, a new book by Jerry Apps. Growing up on a farm in central Wisconsin,... Read More

People often wonder whether nature and nurture affect a child’s destiny in equal measure, and P. R. Slimko’s debut novel True Calling grapples with this conundrum and declares that one’s inherent nature always shows through. The... Read More

Nobody messes with NO, the title character in Pamela F. Jones Gatewood’s debut novel about African-American teens, Norphoria Jones A.K.A. NO. In 2008 Los Angeles, NO and her two best friends, Lil Mama and Joker, rule West Cali High.... Read More

Through his faith in God and years in the United States Marine Corps, William G. Lord was fortunate enough “to leave behind the pain of isolation caused by poverty.” That others seek to rise from poverty without a strong faith in... Read More

“Find a job that you love and you’ll never work a day in your life” is an old saying that Mick Haines lives by. "Born Into Fire" is the story of this self-described “normal chap” and his life as a firefighter. Although less... Read More

Mary Tabor’s Who By Fire, about a man reckoning with his wife’s death, serves up language so precise and assured that it leaves a reader breathless with its quiet force. There are no loose ends in this intricate story by an... Read More

Set against the backdrop of Nigeria, "I Rise" is the story of Elijah, a sincere romantic hero. He marries Miriam, desiring a quiet domestic life with his twin sons, only to be incarcerated as a suspect for a crime he did not commit.... Read More