In the summer of 2004, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s security barrier violated humanitarian law. Three years later, the wall measures 252 miles and is growing. Supporters point to the fact that suicide bombings... Read More
There is something natural about poetry. Something in the descriptions, how lines flow from one to the next. It can make you want to take to the nearest patch of nature, the closest tree or blade of grass. It can recall memories of places... Read More
The book’s tone is frank but encouraging, and students and parents who use it will be better informed about how to put forth a stellar application packet. Katy Craig and Katie Kramer’s "All the Wisdom and None of the Junk"... Read More
To pigeonhole this book as a “baseball memoir” is equivalent to calling Izaak Walton’s The Complete Angler a tract on fishing. Both books far exceed the subject matter indicated by their titles, though clearly the national... Read More
Dutch Girl / Audrey Hepburn and World War II / Robert Matzen /
GoodKnight Books /
Hardcover $27.95 (400pp) /
978-1-73227-353-5 / Audrey Hepburn, with her fresh innocence, gamine ways, intense dark eyes, and boyish figure, created... Read More
Sommelier of Deformity / Nick Yetto /
Turner /
Softcover $17.99 (352pp) /
978-1-68442-144-2 /
Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Intensely dark and sardonic, Sommelier of Deformity is also, paradoxically, an uplifting and redemptive... Read More
“It seems that current immigration policy is driven by fear more than reality. For example, immigrants are being rounded up at workplaces such as farms, meat processing plants, and hotels to be sent to other countries. This aspect of... Read More
In her first novel, minister Audrey Taylor Gonzalez captures suburban Memphis in the period between World War II and the Civil Rights Movement, when, though circumstances challenged all, fairness and love were still principles that... Read More