Few would disagree, if pressed, that the word “essential” is overused. That’s not the case with this book. The essence of James Reaney’s poetic works has been more than adequately distilled in this slim volume. Both the preface... Read More

Alice in Wonderland has inspired the imaginations of generations of readers, writers, and artists the world over. In A Is for Alice, the visceral merriment and eccentricity at play in Lewis Carroll’s original masterwork shine brightly.... Read More

Sam Case, the suave and self-important narrator of "Saving Rachel", thinks he has all he could ask for. He has a devoted wife on one hand and a secret mistress on the side. He makes ridiculous amounts of money as a software engineer... Read More

Blue Jay Girl, a Yaudanchi girl, was not ordinary. “She was a girl who went where she wanted to go. She did what she wanted to do. She was afraid of nothing,” Ross writes. By the time she has lived through nine acorn seasons, her... Read More

Parents of young babies experience sleep deprivation—nights of sleep interrupted by babies awakening every few hours to eat, and days that seem to move only from one feeding to the next. While this is natural in the beginning, author... Read More

When 140 character tweets count as communications, writing seems a doomed art. Not so fast, says long-time writer and writing coach Lynda McDaniel. Beyond Twitter and text messages, all those digital bits and bytes on web sites, blogs,... Read More

We all like to think that our mothers are saints, but when Lucille Campilongo’s children called her Santa Lucia, they made sure the rest of the world could learn how and why. The children recently published this book from a survival... Read More

Author, scientist, and grandparent Eric P. Grimsrud includes himself among those who feel they may not have done enough during their lifetimes to address the problem of global warming, and instead may have actually contributed to it.... Read More