In recent years, coaching has grown in importance (and popularity) in many areas of life, well beyond its traditional role in sports. Job seekers employ coaches to refresh résumés, seek employment, or change careers; high school... Read More

“This book is based on a true story,” states Gregory Mills at the start of his awkward autobiographical novel, "Life Chooses Us". Mills’s purpose would have been better served had he written his book as a memoir—the nonfiction... Read More

“Everyone lies, everyone steals, which you already know and mustn’t ever forget.” So instructs the uncle of a young Chinese-American man as he embarks upon a career in the family business in New York’s Garment District in the... Read More

Summer camps and boarding schools are ideal settings for fiction; the removal of parents from the equation expands the possibilities significantly. That’s Not a Feeling, by Dan Josefson, combines that isolated sense of setting—The... Read More

With a tsunami about to overrun their home, the islanders of East Pukapuka stand with hands linked, facing the end that their gods have created for them. But one small girl named Butter is missing, as she desperately tries to rescue the... Read More

The inattentive browser may pass on You’re Married to Her?, mistaking it for a self-help guide about the romantic pursuit of married men—or a chick-lit novel with a plucky heroine. But she would be missing out: This slim collection... Read More

As hobbies go, eating in all of the three-star Michelin restaurants in France, plus a few other countries and a handful of American cities, beats reruns of any food program on TV. For Minneapolis attorney, wine collector, and serious... Read More

Each year, more than fifteen thousand children in the US are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. In that moment, their lives—and their parents’ lives—are changed forever. Diabetes affects all organ systems and can cause blindness, loss... Read More