Jerusalem as a Second Language / Rochelle Distelheim / Aubade Publishing / Softcover $19.95 (292pp) / 978-1-951547-06-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In Rochelle Distelheim’s absorbing novel Jerusalem as a Second... Read More

The lessons to be learned and excitement of history are too often obscured behind dates, places, and statistics—what’s missing is what lurks in the hearts of men (and women). History books would be so much more compelling if we knew... Read More

Life is a game of immersion. How willing are you to take it all in, to acknowledge both the pleasure and pain, without looking away, self-medicating, or relying on some other trick of avoidance? Of course, we all have our limits, even... Read More

Earth Almanac / Ted Williams / Storey Publishing / Softcover $16.95 (256pp) / 978-1-63586-283-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / “Writing about experiences afield is a way of reliving them,” environmental reporter Ted... Read More

August 18th, 2020, marked the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, which prohibited the federal government and state legislatures from denying any citizen the right to vote based on sex. It was a hard-fought victory for women’s... Read More

In response to challenges like climate change, economic distress, and racial polarization, our government is gridlocked; even its once respected organizations, like the FBI and the Centers for Disease Control, are being challenged by... Read More

The Sisters of Straygarden Place / Hayley Chewins / Candlewick Press / Softcover $16.99 (208pp) / 978-1-5362-1227-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Hayley Chewins’s fantasy novel The Sisters of Straygarden Place is... Read More

Put one foot in front of the other. Pay attention to this, overlook that. Seek a bit of happiness, try to live in a way that feels right. That’s basically what we all do to get by. And yet, for many of us, deep down we know there’s... Read More