Eighty two years ago today, Japanese bombers and fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. Hours later the US entered World War Two. Okay, you knew that. But did you know that thousands of librarians from around... Read More

Rowing to Baikal / Sixty Days on Mongolia’s Selenge River / Peter W. Fong / Latah Books / Softcover $19.95 (284pp) / 978-1-957607-22-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Peter W. Fong’s Rowing to Baikal covers his... Read More

2024—are we here already? Wars rage. An election looms. A probable candidate sits trial. I must admit: a younger me wished for better. What keeps this all from being pure doom and gloom is the possibility that this year still could be... Read More

Reviewer Karen Rigby Interviews Susanne Dunlap, Author of The Adored One / Without a doubt the entertainment industry would have been a prettier place if the #MeToo movement had gained a foothold in the early days of both Broadway and... Read More

Reviewer Joseph Pete Interviews Robert J. Nemiroff, Author of Faster Than Light: How Your Shadow Can Do It But You Can’t / The speed of light needs no introduction—it’s beyond famous, a marvel of nature, and with its uncontested... Read More

As the year draws to a close, you’ll be seeing more 2023 lists: best of, favorites, year in review—that sort of thing. A recently updated piece in New York Magazine caught our indie-book lovers eye when it tallied up the nearly 100... Read More

The Twist-a-Roo / Kathleen DohertyKristyna Litten, illustrator / Peachtree / Hardcover $17.99 (32pp) / 978-1-68263-497-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Determined not to grow bored through the impending winter, Badger... Read More

In our Thanksgiving dinner prep this week—and whenever possible—we will endeavor to remember the fact that this holiday is painful to many of the ancestors of the First Nations people living amongst us in North America. It doesn’t... Read More