Clear language and thorough explanations make this book widely accessible, especially for the adoptive and foster parents of traumatized children. Children who experience abuse, neglect, or other traumas during their formative years... Read More

Anyone standing on the precipice of a big change and needing guidance and reassurance that much of how we experience our lives is within our control will find it here. When Kathryn Kemp Guylay and her young family relocated to Sun... Read More

Since the early 1980s, documentary filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson has crossed the border between the United States and Mexico to tell stories, and she recounts those experiences in "The Haunting of the Mexican Border". She writes about the... Read More

Honors student falls for professor. Honors student kisses professor. "Break Your Heart", by Rhonda Helms, is the story of a stereotypical crush on a college campus with the potential to end a career. Academic ethics is the villain in... Read More

This brilliant thriller centers on an abducted teen who’s not the “average” victim. Take nearly everything that’s ever been written (fictionally or not) about what happens to kidnapped girls (they often end up dead) and toss it... Read More

This high-level discussion of how to engender brand loyalty deserves to be a seminal work on the subject. So many books written about brand loyalty address the same basic premise: that brands need to form strong emotional bonds with... Read More

An engaging, at times playful, overview of the major art movements through history, all placed in historical context. Martin Kemp, emeritus professor of the history of art at Oxford, as well as an expert on da Vinci, has several... Read More

Plato’s Cave is a dive bar in this allegory of an allegory, where love, loss, and motherhood force a bartender to come of age. An ode to the process of finding oneself in the fray of love and loss that is early adulthood, The Drunken... Read More