“In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, heavy for the vintage.” Steinbeck’s quote is the farmworkers’ equivalent to what brews in "A Democracy of Ghosts", John Griswold’s fictional... Read More

With top-notch writing and a suspenseful story S.K. Whalen’s Rooke’s Island is well suited for both children and adults. Protagonist Margery Mutters is independent intelligent and interesting—women with this holy trinity of... Read More

Thinking of traveling internationally to a place rich with cultural and historical heritage that also offers the hustle and bustle of city life? Mexico City is a destination that can satisfy explorers of art music food and artifacts... Read More

Planet Backpacker: Across Europe on a Mountain Bike & Backpacking on Through Egypt, India & Southeast Asia-Around the World (The Wandering Press, 978-0-9821344-0-5) details the four-continent, twenty-country, five-month-long... Read More

If you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel. This is a common argument in self-improvement books these days, and one that forms the basis of Dr. Leslie Torburn’s Stop the Stress Habit: Change Your Perceptions and... Read More

“Were you surprised that MySpace had to remove 29,000 sex offenders from its lists?” the authors ask? Dr. Ruth, who turns eighty this year, has kept abreast of the Internet age, its benefits and dangers. This book, her thirty-second,... Read More

The title of this book comes from the Japanese word dorobo which means thief, but little children often can’t pronounce it properly, resulting in dororo. Of course, the name fits protagonist Dororo, as he is both a young child and a... Read More

The double standard has been around, it seems, since Adam and Eve. After all, they both took bites of the apple, but only one has taken a sound thrashing for it ever since. In her exploration of the double standards we see every day,... Read More