Even a cursory reading of Henry David Thoreau's immortal essay about civil disobedience reveals e...

Add to the beauty or add to the despair: Each of us has two choices every day.The choice is the...

The Secret of leading a successful life is no secret at all.Know where you want to be, set a goal...

From the pulse-pounding origin story to the fateful attack from beyond space and history that cha...

'My God, I'm full of words,' cries Warren Bluhm, the author of Gladness is Infectious, How to Pla...

'Sometimes I thought Truth had vanished from the earth,' he cried bitterly. 'Like everything else...

'If your mind needs a tonic of iron and wine, and a thorough rough-and-tumbling, try Samuel Butle...

Fear has become the motivating factor in this contemporary world of ours. Life is portrayed as a ...

Someone is kissing the women of Astor City - the police are baffled, but he's not hurting the wom...

'In the history of literature one happens, from time to time, upon a book which has been written ...

It has become almost a cliche to refer to these times with anxious adjectives: These challenging ...

A new edition of Edwin Green's 1932 'boy's novel' about the world's largest dirigible and the mys...

Echoes of Freedom Past

Edmund Filliput is a successful businessman, but he is living a dreary life on a dreary Christmas...

Edmund Filliput is a successful businessman, but he is living a dreary life on a dreary Christmas...

On an otherwise normal October day, my two golden retrievers, Dejah and Summer, began talking wit...

Every life represents a universe - the saying goes, 'When an elder dies, a library burns to the g...

There's an old Buick Riviera under a tarp in Guinevere Prudence Thompson's garage - but don't cal...

A collision at a store entrance reverberates for 70 romantic years.Fleeing from danger, a man mee...

We grow accustomed to our surroundings, to our world, to our quotidian, so much so that we stop s...

When Thomas Paine returned to the United States in 1802 after a decade and a half abroad, he wrot...

The Haunted Bookshop

Trivia

All civilized societies outlaw murder as the ultimate crime against a human. So why is deliberate...