In My Past Life I Was Cleopatra / A Skeptical Believer’s Journey through the New Age / Amal Awad / Murdoch Books / Softcover $20.99 (296pp) / 978-1-911632-95-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Part memoir, part... Read More

It is possible that the only consistent feature across humanity is that we are all, every one of us, a bundle of inconsistencies. We have complex, sometimes even conflicting, desires and interests; we defy easy categorization.... Read More

Let’s stop the nonsense and finally admit that the notion of dieting for permanent weight loss is a hoax. Statistics show that ninety-five percent of dieters do not succeed with their goal to lose weight over the long term. And don’t... Read More

Honey Mine / Collected Stories / Camille RoyEric Sneathen, editorLauren Levin, editor / Nightboat Books / Softcover $17.95 (352pp) / 978-1-64362-074-9 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Camille Roy’s rich literary... Read More

A great book offers the opportunity to experience, to better understand, the lives of others. Through these written stories, the world becomes a more empathetic and tolerant place—one without outsiders or others—where everyone can... Read More