Books

Carol Mitchell’s A Good Haunting Expands the Literary Conversation About Motherhood

Carol Mitchell’s A Good Haunting Expands the Literary Conversation About Motherhood

By: Blake Daniels Motherhood in Carol Mitchell’sA Good Haunting: Stories is not presented as a single emotional state or a predetermined destiny. It can be loving, frightening, complicated, joyful, sacrificial, unwanted, or all of those things at once. Across nine speculative stories, Mitchell places women and families in extraordinary circumstances

When the Enemy in Your Garden Starts Talking Back

When the Enemy in Your Garden Starts Talking Back

How Steve Weinstein Turns a Backyard Feud Into a Comic Fable in Nuts To You A retired lawyer declares war on the squirrels raiding his vegetable garden. Then the squirrels start answering him. That is the unlikely feud at the center of Steve Weinstein’s comic novel Nuts To You. Pincus

How Football, Faith, and Compassion Could Transform Youth Drug Prevention

How Football, Faith, and Compassion Could Transform Youth Drug Prevention

By: Elowen Gray A New Approach to Prevention For years, substance abuse prevention has focused heavily on warning young people about the dangers of drugs. But author and youth advocate Elizabeth Mago believes prevention must go deeper than awareness campaigns and fear-based messaging. Her upcoming book, Kick Out Drugs, Kick

The Power of the Unnoticed: Barbara Hynak Finds Strength in Soft Voices

The Power of the Unnoticed: Barbara Hynak Finds Strength in Soft Voices

By: Janice O’Brien In a world filled with lions, warriors, leaders, and ancient prophecies, it would be easy to assume that power belongs to those who can command attention. Barbara Hynak’s Roars Across the World asks readers to look again. Some of the novel’s most important inhabitants are among its

How a Single Decision Became a Turning Point in a Journey of Resilience

How a Single Decision Became a Turning Point in a Journey of Resilience

By: Marion Welch Most people spend their lives waiting for change. They wait for the right moment. They wait for circumstances to improve. They wait for fear to disappear. They wait for permission. They wait for someone to rescue them. And while they wait, life keeps moving forward without them.

The Sweetest Little Book of Ancient Terrors

The Sweetest Little Book of Ancient Terrors

A good title can sell a joke before the first page turns. Necronomicon Nursery Rhymes is one of those titles. It is absurd, specific, and instantly vivid. You can almost see the book before opening it: a forbidden text redesigned for story time, a grimoire with rounded corners, an occult

Chanmattee Reimagines Christmas Traditions in The Arabian Santa – Mustapha The Great

Chanmattee Reimagines Christmas Traditions in The Arabian Santa – Mustapha The Great

The children’s holiday story places Santa Claus in an Arabian setting, where camels, desert villages, elves, and an unexpected ability to fly shape a Christmas Eve journey centered on generosity and remembrance. Christmas stories have long relied on familiar imagery: snow-covered villages, reindeer, toy workshops, and Santa Claus traveling through