A loving and sometimes painful story of siblings who must answer the question of what to do about mother. Robert Benson’s account of his and his siblings’ efforts to move their dementia-addled mother into a comfortable, secure new... Read More

Personal and human stories on the Vietnam War are matched by insightful exploration of political and military strategy. “Marines don’t allow women with legs down there,” a grizzled colonel told Beverly Deepe in 1962 when she sought... Read More

War correspondent turned yogi reveals his heart-wrenching journey from cancer and disability to health and happiness. “Chronic pain is consuming,” laments Brad Willis, author of "Warrior Pose". “It eats away at you day and... Read More

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

Early accounts of Alaskan adventures illustrate the harsh but appreciable wilderness with lyrical prose. Exotic, daunting, scenic: the words chosen to describe Alaska in the introduction to this collection are of the sort that pique... Read More

Sensuous prose teases out peculiarities in ostensibly conventional host of characters. “Life itself … just prolong[s] the inevitable” reflects a character in Flannery O’Connor Award recipient Nancy Zafris’s (The People I Know,... Read More

Alice Walker, too restless to retire, has a great deal more to say in meditations, essays, and letters. In her latest collection of short prose, we learn that Alice Walker once looked forward to her retirement with an almost voracious... Read More

Author risks alienating supporters by urging the environmental health movement to follow the example of civil rights through “collective, peaceful civil disobedience.” The Greek mathematician Archimedes, referring to levers, is... Read More