Quintuple winner of the Arthur Ellis Award Norah McClintock profiles a teen struggling and failing to regain normalcy after incarcera-tion for burglary and assault in "Dooley Takes the Fall" (Red Deer Press, 978-0-88995-403-8). Dooley is... Read More

The little lion cub protagonist of this story loves to wander through the fields near his home especially because his mother always goes with him. Sometimes they play hide and seek as they walk. Sometimes they talk about their family and... Read More

Sibling rivalry is an age-old theme in children’s books. Dean Haspiel and Jay Lynch give it a rousing twist with their cartoon characters, Mo and Jo. Mo and Jo, Fighting Together Forever, combines familiar sibling arguments with bad... Read More

The heroine of this romance, Ramona, is a thirty-six-year-old widow with two young sons, a mother and a mother-in-law who are both pillars of a local church, a sister who is the star of a local TV fitness show, and zero joie de vivre.... Read More

John D. Rigazio may be the most frustrated politician in the U.S. today for good reason. His bald statements make him look like a right-wing or maybe left-wing nut—but after qualifying these statements with five or six points he comes... Read More

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too—even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.... Read More

Anytime fuel prices rise, people start conserving. They purchase cars with better mileage, make their homes more energy efficient, or start recycling. These gestures, writes Hervé Kempf in his book, How the Rich are Destroying the... Read More

Given the renewed popularity of Jane Austen’s work since the BBC’s 1995 serialization of Pride and Prejudice, it is surprising that a collection of the author’s quotes hasn’t been published sooner. Austen was known for her razor... Read More