While there are many cookbooks that provide recipes suitable for feeding families, the library of cookbooks for single eaters is fairly small. Stephanie Bostic, a nutritionist at the Harvard School of Public Health, adds a new volume to... Read More

One autumn several years ago, during a ferocious California storm, “a Great Pyrenees dog named Gigi welcomed eight squirmy little white puppies into the world. One of them was a female named Smudge, and Smudge was Gigi’s favorite... Read More

Jeff Bogue’s unflinching, poignant debut autobiography depicts tragedies that could have ended his life or destroyed him emotionally. Standing Alone: A Real-Life Journey…Staking Out A Meaningful Life, Through Mountains of Adversity... Read More

Faded gentry, an old mansion, past scandals, current tragedies, and sometimes a romance or two are components often found in the works of modern-day Gothic and mystery writers like Mary Stewart and Barbara Michaels. Frissons of fear are... Read More

While it is by no means a breeze to be a gay American in the twenty-first century, the United States has come a long way from the secrecy, universal shame, and code words described in Charles E. Willard’s autobiography, "Confessions of... Read More

Never invest in a private gold mine in Africa. And never, ever, work in a gold mine in a war zone. These are two of the many lessons readers should take away from Lynn D. Fausett’s memoir about his adventures in Liberia during the late... Read More

In "The Eyes of Wonder", poet Tina Emiliani offers much more than mere words: her pages are bursting with emotion, authenticity bleeds from the heart, soul, and memory of seventy years of life in her native Italy. The seventy-two poems... Read More

Novels that capitalize on the human instinct for revenge crowd bookstore shelves, filling both classic and commercial fiction with crimes of passion and hatred. David S. Wolff develops such a theme in his first novel, They’ll Pay.... Read More