“I’ve always been grateful that Grandma treated you kids like you were real grandchildren.” Those words, while meant as a compliment, go a long way in understanding the lens through which adopted children must see the world and manage their emotions. They were uttered by the mother of a young....

There’s a passage in author Justin Kurian’s ambitious novel The Canticle of Ibiza where John, who has abandoned his life in New York as a high-flying financial whiz to seek answers on the mystical island of Ibiza, Spain, explains to a budding love interest, Diana, how he ditched his previous......

“I almost forgot. There’s a caretaker who lives on the property. It’s part of the deal, he comes with the house.” The realtor, talking to the Keane family of Boston who had just acquired the strange old house on the hill in Littleton, NH, built by the legendary Mr. Goodpasture,......

Billionaire philanthropist Bob Parsons, founder of GoDaddy and PXG Golf (among other successful businesses), shares his rags-to-riches story and the invaluable life lessons he learned along the way in his inspiring literary debut Fire in the Hole!  Growing Up in Blue-Collar Baltimore As a young...

Leaning On Air is Cheryl Grey Bostrom’s second novel, an exquisitely nuanced love story told with gorgeous prose and salt-of-the-earth characters as well-meaning and reassuringly imperfect as the people you know. Equally gorgeous is the story’s setting on a remote family farm in the Palouse, a g...

“We didn’t grow old together. We stayed young together.” Who’s to say — was Marc Gellman’s fairytale love affair with Barbara really that extraordinary? They were married for 40 years. She died of cancer just short of her 60th birthday. He was from Brooklyn, she from the Bronx. They met....

“The Alien Club was more than a club, it was an accidental brotherhood. We had come together in Jim’s garage attic to better understand ourselves and our environment … We were in essence aliens, and Wilder’s was as much a Martian landscape as any planet in the universe.” If you’re......

“American eugenics is often misunderstood and forgotten, yet it impacts the heritage of so many of us. These women’s voices went unheard for enough years.” On a stormy winter day in 1928, representatives of the Pennsylvania Children’s Aid Society come to collect the four Wilson children, who...

Chosen by J.R. Emerson is a riveting young adult fantasy novel that tells the story of a villainous king, shocking betrayal, powerful rebellion, and forces that unite to fight for justice. Shadow meets fire, evil rulers meet their opposition, and the underdogs face off against the privileged in this...