“Davis felt like a homicide detective trying to solve a murder without a partner or a medical examiner or even a body.” And that turns out to be the easy part. Heaps of espionage, plenty of aeronautical adventure, and a dash of... Read More
"Still Positive" is a frank, insightful memoir about living with an HIV diagnosis. Julie Lewis’s appealing memoir "Still Positive" covers decades of living with a chronic illness; it includes advice for survivors alongside a detailed... Read More
It seems that eleven-year-old Bailey is finally adjusting to living with her grandmother, Sugar, in Central Virginia when this second Bailey Fish Adventure book begins. Her mother is still away on business in Costa Rica, but Bailey seems... Read More
We’ve made the wise decision to let Emily Dickinson take over the duties of introducing this conversation between Michel Leboeuf and Kristen Rabe, reviewer of Michel’sLost Songs of Nature. Emily chose to do it in verse: “Hope” is... Read More
“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” Though this quote is attributed to Plato, it has held true across millennia as people turn to the art of poetry for comfort, for catharsis, and even as an act of resistance. Poetry sets... Read More
Sometimes the story behind a book is more interesting than the collection itself. In "Listening to Africa", Raab travels to Africa in the wake of a devastating second cancer diagnosis. Her husband and three grown children come with her.... Read More
The widely accepted estimate that forty-eight million Americans fish for fun may or may not be accurate. After all, a skeptic might ask, who’s actually doing the counting out there on the countless scenic rivers and lakes where the... Read More
Ex-U.S. Marine Sergeant and former high school football and track star Robert (Roberto “Tito”) Ortiz of Laredo Texas has completed his self-styled “autobiography” as one of his lifetime goals. Although more of a series of memoirs... Read More