Melissa Young has never let anything hold her back from chasing her dreams with passion and fortitude. She won the title of Miss Wisconsin USA 2005 and the pres

Yvette Manessis Corporon grew up listening to her grandmother's stories about how the people of the small Greek island Erikousa hid a Jewish family -- a tailor

When she goes looking for "something beautiful" in her city neighborhood, a young girl finds beauty in many different forms.

In this exuberant picture book about transformation through art, Mira lives in a gray urban community until a muralist arrives and, along with his paints and br

Raymond Carver meets William Faulkner in this “pitch-perfect” short story collection that captures the hopes and fears of working-class Greeks during the co