Hilary Clinton came within reach of the U.S. presidency this year less than one hundred years after women secured the right to vote. Though women have yet to leap over this major threshold they can be found working hard in the Senate the... Read More
In her foreword, editor Jane Lahr explains her desire to recapture the imagination of the Celtic natural world through literature and art, especially as our own physical environment deteriorates. Lahr has previously edited or co-edited... Read More
Mastering the daily habits of personal care are challenging for all young children, but brushing teeth and hand washing can be real stumbling blocks for children suffering from various forms of autism. "Caring for Myself", a realistic... Read More
Finding peace nowadays seems more difficult than ever. Books like this one, which teaches young children about different peoples and cultures around the world, take a positive step in the direction of peace. The author’s gentle poem is... Read More
This exceptional retelling is worth reading for one reason: it doesn’t merely tell the story of the “star-cross’d lovers”; it raises the curtain on the story of their story, too. The book opens as a play would. In lieu of a... Read More
Romance has not loomed large for some time now in romance writer Fiona Silk’s own life. But it really takes a nosedive after she returns home one night, slightly tipsy, to find a bad poet-and former lover-sprawled provocatively on her... Read More
“Some think it was dropped stone by stone from nesting birds tidying up nearby cliffs.” The island of Rangoberra, a beautiful island in the middle of the brilliant blue sea. The story begins in a search to find an heir to the throne.... Read More
In 1992, (long before the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado) almost half of over 65,000 students in the Houston, Texas, school system stated that they did not identify school as a safe place. Since the... Read More