Soon-to-be thirteen-year-olds Clare and Elsa are inseparable, even though Clare is a T-shirted blue-jeans-wearer and Elsa is always impeccably clad in the latest fashion. Unlike Clare who sometimes is sarcastic and timid, Elsa is witty,... Read More

For anyone wondering whatever happened to all the small neighborhood Rexall drug stores that were common in the 1920s through 1960s, this book answers that question and more about the Rexall era. The author is a professor emeritus in the... Read More

A striking Teton Lakota doll dressed in fringed buckskin, delicately beaded in hues of turquoise and blue, a beaded knife sheath hanging from her belt, and her long double earrings fashioned from porcupine quills, stares out from the... Read More

Michael E. Webster begins his memoir by sketching out a suicide attempt and ends it with the words “The Beginning of the End.” This is certainly a pessimistic attitude but as the reader is carried from Webster’s small town... Read More

As individual as a fingerprint and more revealing than a pastoral confession handwriting is a window to the psyche that cannot be covered over. The author writes “…handwriting will tend to be more reliable revealing a person’s... Read More

Lucy March has made mistakes; she tells readers so on the first page of this fictional memoir. But it’s all too easy to see how she came to make them. In conversational style (the reader is addressed as “you” in asides that wax... Read More

The fable of an elephant confused for something else by blindfolded people who inspect one area each can be applied to the next generation of family farms. Corn mazes, cider mills, community plots, and wine tasting rooms are all in the... Read More

“Some damages are never wholly corrected,? writes the author. Her memoir depicts a chasm within her character as a youth-an uncontrolled urge for sex-which plunged her into the abyss of misbegotten relationships, especially with a... Read More