US sales for Amazon Media reached $3.58 billion in 2006, the first year Amazon outsold Borders in North America. Amazon is changing the publishing industry, and judging from this trend, self-publishing writers would be wise to at least... Read More

“Traditional art derives from a creativity which combines heavenly inspiration with ethnic genius, and which does so in the manner of a science endowed with rules and not by way of individual improvisation.” So pronounces Swiss-born... Read More

Lynne Viola, professor of history at Toronto University and a highly respected historian of the Soviet Union of the 1930s, has written a searing book on an immense and all too neglected human tragedy. It will leave no reader unshocked or... Read More

“The fundamental obligation of a funeral is to provide an opportunity for the living to confront their dead and to dispose of them in a way that’s other than the way we dispose of a rock or a rhododendron,” writes Thomas Lynch, a... Read More

“Where the fields are sharply green, where a wild beauty hides in the glens … for the first time I see the face of the Irish countryside.” — H. V. Morton That small island in the Atlantic Ocean exerts a strong pull on the heart... Read More

From the astute mind of Rachel Gathercole comes "The Well-Adjusted Child", considered by many to be the definitive book regarding the socialization question surrounding homeschooling. By discussing what homeschooling is—and is... Read More

This fast-paced novel could be represented in paint glass and stone as one of the bright unconventional buildings created by late Austrian architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Just as the Viennese designer favored labyrinthine spirals... Read More

A touching tribute to his mother, Craig Gallagher’s slim volume, "Peaces" (a play upon “pieces”), contains a multiplicity of insightful epiphanies interlaced with refreshingly creative imagery. Anyone interested in spirituality,... Read More