Book Review
Murmur of the Lonely Brook
by Shoilee Khan
In the hilly green pastures of Himachal, India, lies the Himalayan village of Rakcham, a land where tribal nomads, their lives steeped in the rituals of ancient Hindu tradition, face the difficult changes that modernity and urban...
Book Review
Fat No More
by Shoilee Khan
By the age of three months, Alberto Hidalgo-Robert was already the size of a one-year-old child. By seven years, the rotund little boy known affectionately as “El Gordito,” little fat boy, weighed 120 pounds, his dependence on food...
Book Review
Writings from the Sand, Volume 1
by Shoilee Khan
From the murky circumstances of her birth in Geneva in 1877 to her dramatic death in a flash flood in Ain Sefra, Algeria, Isabelle Eberhardt lived an unconventional life. At twenty, she unshackled herself from the “fetters” of modern...
Book Review
Easy to Love but Hard to Raise
by Shoilee Khan
In "Easy to Love but Hard to Raise" parents raising children with challenging—and invisible—mental and behavioral disabilities find an outlet to share their personal stories of overwhelming frustration as well as treasured moments of...
Book Review
The Lord God Bird
by Shoilee Khan
"The Lord God Bird" is a quiet novel with a solitary spirit. Like its protagonist, it delves into the muddiness of the human condition—the way we live and lose our lives—but does so with gentle strokes of methodical, tender...
Book Review
Takeover
by Shoilee Khan
"Takeover" marks the first installment in a new science-fiction series by Mitchell Love in which two planets collide in a colossal war. A peaceful planet, ruled by King Allawen and Queen Vountin, is threatened by an insidious plan for...
Book Review
Cream of Kohlrabi
by Shoilee Khan
In "Cream of Kohlrabi", veteran author Floyd Skloot brings together stories that tread the unknowable fringes of life. Featuring characters who in the twilight of their lives face tremendous mental and physical challenges, his stories...
Book Review
Mending
by Shoilee Khan
Avoiding cynicism and turning feverishly to the bright side requires an adjustment in attitude, but also a willingness to look at life with a selective eye. This shedding away of all that goes wrong in the everyday to make way for the...