Finally, a doomsday 2012 novel without meteors, earthquakes, tsunamis, viral epidemics, or zombies. Piero Rivolta is to be congratulated for eschewing the commonplace while taking what is quite literally a high road. Although spurred on... Read More

Memoirists often offer the lessons of their lives for the benefit of others, but few combine autobiography and advice as seamlessly as Stephen Goldstein in "When My Mother No Longer Knew My Name". Goldstein dedicated over ten years to... Read More

Why read one more memoir about a troubled childhood? Why read another story about recovery from trauma? Because in the case of "Snakes in My Dreams", the author has a powerful message: Childhood sexual abuse can be confronted,... Read More

Harvard scientists recently concluded that adding fluoride to water can probably cause significant neurological damage in children. Yet many conventional dentists would work to keep the chemical added to the water supply for benefits to... Read More

Finding your place and maintaining your identity are core values in this lovely, simply written and utterly moving memoir. The sequel to the award-winning Fatty Legs, A Stranger at Home continues the story of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, who... Read More

On December 19, 2011, a Nashville newspaper carried a story about the construction of an all-faiths chapel at the nearby Fort Campbell military base that will cost taxpayers $8.4 million. A smaller article in the same issue noted that a... Read More

Inviting readers along on a year’s journey of gratitude, Dr. Angeles Arrien, a teacher, cultural anthropologist, and author (The Four-Fold Way; The Second Half of Life) draws on a world of inspiration and perennial wisdom in this, her... Read More

For those of us in love with, or at least drawn to, the written word—be it in fiction or nonfiction—try to imagine looking at a page of words and being unable to make any sense of them. Imagine further somehow overcoming this... Read More