With the biblical story of creation as their backdrop, each new natural element boasts that it is the best and the most loved, turning the peaceful garden upside down. Quarrels erupt between land and rain, plants and sun, and between... Read More

Set during the Crusades, "Balian d’lbelin" follows a heroic knight’s efforts to save the kingdom of Jerusalem. Helena P. Schrader’s riveting historical novel "Balian d’lbelin" is set during the Crusades and is filled by battles,... Read More

In the intelligent novel "The Flight of the Veil", a psychiatrist returns to childhood sites to reconcile his internal contradictions. In Bruce J. Berger’s reflective novel "The Flight of the Veil", a Holocaust survivor returns to his... Read More

"The Jellies and the Crunchers" is an encouraging picture book that promotes willingness to branch out from what one knows best. In Matt Bell’s hopeful picture book "The Jellies and the Crunchers", a mountainside town embraces change.... Read More

Set during World War II, Endō Shūsaku’s novel "Sachiko" shifts from the fated city of Nagasaki to the horrors of Auschwitz, developing versatile individual and intersecting perspectives with compassion. Christianity is not native to... Read More

In a purgatorial village that’s dwindled to nine members—all of whom were traumatized in a mountainous “city of suffering”—change is brewing. Shawn Smucker’s "These Nameless Things" is an enigmatic allegory on post-traumatic... Read More

Mjomba and the Evil Ghost is a discursive novel concerned with the heresy that it views as inherent in scholarship; it works to justify the dogma of the Catholic Church. Joseph Luguya’s book Mjomba and the Evil Ghost involves a... Read More