Even and moving, the poems collected in "The Nature of Humans" acknowledge people’s shortcomings, but also celebrate their potential for growth. Functioning like exercises in self-reflection and personal evolution, the entries of... Read More
In "My Vegan Year", Niki Webster provides young adults with all of the information that they need to make healthy vegan food in season, and proffers tempting recipes for everything from breakfast to party snacks. Veganism is now a... Read More
The philosophical text "Hope" is thought provoking as it aims to bridge the gap between faith and science. David Sayre’s "Hope" is a brief but insightful volume about the relationship between spirituality, science, and personal... Read More
Home Is Where Your Books Are / In these first days of winter, my partner and I have just completed the gargantuan task of condensing our household into stacks of tidy cardboard boxes. Somewhere in the middle of this arduous process, it... Read More
There is a certain comfort derived from being fully loaded with a ridiculous number of physical books when traveling. My weeklong vacation over the Thanksgiving holiday included four adult titles and half a dozen children’s board books... Read More
Okay, sport, hungrily scanning the menu at your favorite café, would you order the Salad Only the Devil Would Eat? Considering the Devil’s svelte figure, this recipe comes highly recommended: bitterbrush, burro weed, jumping cholla,... Read More
"Caroline" is a subtle and poignant novel in which an impressionable lawyer falls in love. In Adrian Spratt’s elegiac romance novel "Caroline", a lawyer forms a relationship with an adrift woman and reckons with his disability. Nick, a... Read More
A heartwarming novel about the residents of a quaint Maine fishing village, "Talk Radio" celebrates the joys of human connection. In Ham Martin’s lighthearted novel Talk Radio, beauty is found in the ordinary, daily lives of a radio... Read More