Canoe and Kayak magazine contributing editor and paddling enthusiast Kuhne has amassed an impressive array of instruction and information for neophytes of the increasingly popular sport of kayak touring. Fledgling kayak tourists should... Read More

Defenders of the institution will be relieved; more than half of the twenty essays in Here Lies My Heart muse about why people marry, instead of why they don’t. What most of these essayists say, however, is not likely to encourage... Read More

A lot of children’s craft books look good but contain ideas that are too difficult and too time consuming for a child to execute. Here is a book that is packed with clever and attractive ideas that will be accessible and fun for the... Read More

The cover page of this elegantly presented volume describes Michael Anania’s poetic territory as the Midwestern plains and the Chicago cityscape. The territory is, however, equally if not more about jazzmen and German expressionists,... Read More

As runner-up for Poetry Society’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, this is a beautiful narrative poem about Annie Taylor, the intrepid woman who, for the first time, shot Niagara Falls in 1901. It is a wonderful book; fresh and... Read More

In his essays, American poet Yvor Winters (1900-1968) has described the poetic discipline as “the richest and most perfect technique of contemplation.” Perhaps better known and remembered as a critic than a poet, he nevertheless has... Read More

Curnan surprises readers with her understanding and method of working with the self-defeating behaviors that limit the ability of perfectionists to live joyful, loving and creative lives. Holding a doctorate degree in psychology from... Read More

Lyons admits, in Now It’s Our Turn, to feeling paralyzed by the gulf between perceived personal and global problems at the millennium’s close, yet she has authored here an energizing call to action. Speaking directly to women, she... Read More