This presentation of a vast variety of perspectives on addiction recovery and prevention deserves a wide audience. For those battling addiction, serenity is often an elusive or unattainable state. In Pathways to Serenity, a broad-ranging... Read More

While playful and witty, this narrator allows us to be rooted in the rich soil of Chinese history and culture. Sharon Winters’s "Cutted Chicken in Shanghai" is a delightful and dryly humorous marriage of memoir and travelogue with... Read More

This exceptionally well-argued political treatise provides food for thought to both ends of the political spectrum. Cautioning against what he perceives as America’s flirtation with socialism, Gurdip Sidhu’s concise, well-argued... Read More

Amid the chaos of drugs and jazz, Lewis finds insight into the way we recall the past. “How hard to write about this, to sort out the memories. To make decisions about how much honesty, where, and when. I see things now so differently.... Read More

Discussion of abstract tai chi concepts helps develop a deeper understanding of the philosophy behind the practice. Yang, Jwing-Ming has written more than thirty-five books on martial arts, the latest an informative overview of the... Read More

A wealth of information and smartly organized chapters put a scholarly bent on this form of Eastern exercise. Simple Qigong may be a curious title for Yang, Jwing-Ming’s manual of Chinese exercises for improving health. A regimen... Read More

Collie’s natural, conversational style maintains high literary standards. Disillusionment and discouragement threaten to derail a young woman’s aspirations in her first year of college in this revealing look at the reality of... Read More

Crime, mania, violence, and revenge spin together in this whirlwind of a thriller. Everyone knows at least one couple for whom jealousy and possessiveness outweigh the benefits of affection or security, yet the unhealthy fixation keeps... Read More