FOREWORD’S LIT HIT—INDIE BOOKS THAT’LL BLOW YOU AWAY / A standing ovation is the only reasonable response to Dov Waxman’s The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know, as well as heartfelt thanks for addressing... Read More

Deep Past / Eugene Linden / RosettaBooks / Hardcover $25.99 (336pp) / 978-1-948122-37-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Science writer Eugene Linden’s fiction debut Deep Past is an intriguing, science-minded... Read More

Add this to the reasons experts warn us not to spend too much time with smart phones: By heavily relying on Google Maps and other navigational apps, you will definitely weaken the area of your brain that controls your sense of direction.... Read More

Restaurants rock! Find another business that combines such a panoply of pleasures: exquisite food, hip bar scenes, edgy architecture, engaging employees who serve you, and that indefinable special sauce that elevates a dining experience... Read More

The Conviction of Cora Burns / Carolyn Kirby / Dzanc Books / Softcover $16.95 (296pp) / 978-1-945814-84-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Carolyn Kirby’s The Conviction of Cora Burns finds twenty-year-old Cora Burns... Read More

FOREWORD’S LIT HIT—INDIE BOOKS THAT’LL BLOW YOU AWAY / And the Lit Hit goes to Eric Gorges’s A Craftsman’s Legacy: Why Working with Our Hands Gives Us Meaning, a delightful study of the theories, practices, demons, and angels... Read More

In the late 1800s, the wonders of electricity transformed the American landscape—streetlights, streetcars, engines in factories—in perhaps human history’s greatest game-changing technology. And in the following handful of decades,... Read More

The Gifts We Keep / Katie Grindeland / Ooligan Press / Softcover $16.00 (256pp) / 978-1-947845-06-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / In her novel The Gifts We Keep, Katie Grindeland layers revelations over... Read More