“Have you ever been so thirsty…that you cannot take another step, you cannot even think. That is how thirsty you must be in the desert before you allow yourself the most tiny ration of water. Just a taste really, only enough amount... Read More

Todd Shimoda’s novel is a quiet marriage of an intricate literary effort and over 400 Hokusai inspired line drawings which pepper each page. The novel follows the life of curator Keizo Yukawa, a young professional who has left his... Read More

“Threads of Time” and “Recollections” are surely too modest a title and subtitle for this remarkable memoir. Part quest, part odyssey, part spiritual self-exploration, the book is always more than a record of events. Fueled by an... Read More

Bluebeard’s Last Stand, an entertaining mystery novel, is the latest installment in the Gil Yates Private Investigator series by Los Angeles author Alistair Boyle. Gil Yates is an unlikely hero, a plant-collecting, 90’s dad who... Read More

If in a fit of silliness Ayn Rand had written a Harlequin romance, the result might have been something like what Margaret Nicol has come up with in Enemy of the Average. There’s much to complain about’silly title, stilted dialogue... Read More

Leaving a successful academic life in the United States for a deeper understanding of life, John Robbins decides to embark on a journey through Asia. His search ends in Tibet, where he spends three years as a Buddhist monk. Sharing the... Read More

Whether the subject of divorce is broached suddenly or emerges as an inevitable conclusion to an ongoing situation, the parties involved are never quite prepared for all that will come next. There are volumes of books on the subject of... Read More

On Zeandale Road in the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas, I can look out over the prairie and grain fields on either side of the road and see just a few hundred yards away the remnant of the right of way of the long-vanished Manhattan,... Read More