In her sweeping debut, Diane C. McPhail offers a powerful, profoundly emotional novel that explores a little-known aspect of Civil War history—Southern Abolitionists—and the timeless struggle to do right even amidst bitter conflict.

Elizabeth Anne Wood is a SUNY Chancellors Award-winning Professor of Sociology at Nassau Community College in Garden City, NY. She is also Senior Strategist for Woodhull Freedom Foundation, the nation’s only human rights organization working full time to…

How to Be Your Own Sassy Heroine, by Rebecca Rodarte Are you still trying to get over that worthless ex-boyfriend? Ex-husband? Common law spouse? Are you ready to move on and transform from sappy to sassy in a few easy steps? Sure, you do! Today’s the day to Learn to...

I had no idea what the future held – whether I would be alive for one more day, or for even another hour. At that moment, the clock stopped…That was the day I began journaling. My boat had started to rock, and I could not see a clear course forward through the oncoming storm…

Six teens, at odds with each other, their goals uncertain, set out on a life-altering quest across a harsh and unforgiving continent. Pursued by lethal foes, guided only by baffling and terrifying shared dreams, the Six must find and reclaim a powerful crystal lost 500 years in the past.

For decades, Elizabeth Silva has crafted an annual holiday newsletter to family and friends, summarizing her family’s year in light-hearted, witty prose. Little do her readers know, however, of the conflict and pain behind those season’s greetings full of optimism and cheer.

My road to recovery was and has been an incredible journey. By all rights I shouldn’t be here, yet here I am still standing and still clean. Today I live in the Bay Area of California with my family and continue to work in the Substance Abuse field.

Becca Meister Fitzpatrick–wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community–is the dutiful steward of her family’s iconic summer tradition… until she discovers her recently deceased husband squandered their nest egg. As she struggles to…