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

Who would want to kill Anita Tavares, the representative of a world-famous AIDS charity based in Stockholm? What was she hiding in the luggage that went missing on her trip to the Dominican Republic? How did French journalist Mathieu... Read More

Envision the turbulent times depicted in Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, a classic that has been romanticized despite the portrayal of blatant racism and sexism, but substitute Meiji-era Japan for Civil War America. "The... Read More

“Well begun is half done,” according to Aristotle. In the case of "A Cupboardful of Shoes and Other Stories", A. Colin Wright begins well, with his first six stories hitting high notes, but only about half of the book is well done.... Read More

A pregnant woman is murdered. Her child, Grace, survives in the arms of an alien. Grace goes to live on the planet Mahlai, where she is trained from infancy to be an angel, a protector, and a soul with a purpose. This straightforward,... Read More

The life of J. Richard Steffy (“Dick” to his friends) centered on ships and shipbuilding. Though he spent most of his working life as an electrician, his childhood fascination with ships and the history of their construction remained... Read More

The Madonna-Whore Complex has been explored in countless scholarly works, each with its own take on the underlying cause, as well as the social impact of this male disorder. Kathryn Schleich’s contribution to the growing body of... Read More