Genres

Here you will find folktales, original stories, instructional and how-to-tell books, scary stories, personal stories, and books about the process of writing. From Japanese folktales for children to Asian-American immigration and on to methods of twisting and combining stories, the world of storytelling wonders is found in this section.
Discover contemporary fiction, humorous novels, historical fiction, and young adult novels here. Follow Roger Armbrust’s reporter-sleuth as he defends the American way in Pressing Freedom, listen as Judson Hout recounts teen love, marvel at the intoxicating mash-up of every character ever written by Rebecca Demarest, or travel with frontier settlers in Sue Cato Gennings’ Living in Harmony—plus much more.
The varieties of American life are on full display in this selection of British-American, African-American, Irish-American, Mexican-American, introspective, and agrarian memoirs. From the literary humor of Jennifer Munro’s Aunty Lily to the farm dramas of Minnesota in Michael Cotter’s The Killdeer, to Elizabeth Ellis’ description of an Appalachian family’s hand-made furniture in Every Day a Holiday, the richness of our melting pot promises revelations and affirmations.
Delve into the lesson-a-page artist’s handbook, A Visual Guide to Classical Art Theory by Professor Eric Mantle, touch magic in the erotic sonnets of Oh, Touch Me There,  investigate further with the poet in the New York Review-lauded, Aesthetic Astronaut, or read along with celebrated poet-bard, Terry Wooten in his award-winning The Stone Circle Poems.
Manipulation, Character, Recovery, Predators, Marriage. Here readers can mine the wisdom of the world’s leading authority on living with manipulators (George Simon, In Sheep’s Clothing), share the highs and lows of the recovery struggle in Roger A.’s We Who Battle Demons, or Beth Ohlsson's Distilling Hope, and explore the union of two family stories into one with Gerald Fierst’s The Heart of the Wedding.
Explore ideas for better education in Professor Anthony Armstrong’s Educating Angels, consider Little Rock Nine-member Terrence Roberts' inspiring reflections in Simple, Not Easy,  be a fly on the wall as Kay Collett Goss remembers Mr. Chairman (Wilbur D. Mills) creating Medicare in the U.S. Congress, peruse other Public Policy titles, Spirituality titles, a personal testimony about the consequences of addiction, or get into the Arkansas Outdoors with trail guide Johnnie Chamberlin.