The setting is the Big Island of Hawaii. With its active volcano and its frequent earthquakes, it has long been the subject of Polynesian legends.

Back when I was a kid growing up in South Chicago, I never dreamed that having a Lebanese father and a Syrian mother would turn out to be an asset.

A cycle of thirteen episodes told in Story Theater form, a narrator speaking and life-sized puppets performing simultaneously.

Moments of Light Foreward by Annie Dillard. These stories prove that the mythic powers of the balladeer.

The Classic era centers of Quirigua and Copan are the eastern most outposts of early Mayan civilization.

Hawaii is a paradise, especially for real estate salesmen. But Ron Crockett, recently arrived from the mainland.

Now Mourn the Space Cadet is the second in a series set in Connor Beach.

With quiet surety, Naomi Myles cultivates a contemplative wordscape.

Imagination is man's most fearsome weapon.

The story of the cop was a made-for-tabloid tragedy.

Prelude to Hemlock is a black comedy that follows the fortunes of the young narrator.

The unusual thing about the collection Quite Contrary is the range of subgenre.

Rogues in the Gallery exposes it all: the cozy insurance ransom racket, the professional gangs of art thieves.

Rust Bucket is the first in The Rust Bucket Universe series from Boson Books.

Bache gives us an American family richly created and lovingly depicted.

Scott City is the third of three historical novels depicting the life of fictional plains adventurer.

Is there any hope for a hypereducated thirty-year-old med student.

Skip the Resume - Get the Job! takes you eighty percent of the way to a great new job.

Someone To Crawl Back To is a novel-in-stories, a collection of hearts in search of what they have always wanted or what they have eternally lost.

American essayist, philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) lead Transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century and greatly influenced the later New Thought movement.