Shizumi Shigeto Manale and Richard Marshall’s delicate and heartrending narrative details the life of a young girl living in a town near Hiroshima after the bombing in 1945 and offers a message of hope and cultural understanding. The... Read More

The question of the moment in 1907 among the male majority of the Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) involved the proper attire for women for climbing. They ruled, after little debate, that “no lady climbing, who wears skirts, will be allowed... Read More

Anybody interested in prayer as a global human activity will find something to like in this collection of thoughtful, well-crafted pieces. In "How Do You Pray?", editor Celeste Yacoboni compiles hundreds of brief, first-person musings... Read More

This basic introduction to currency trading is easy to understand for the novice. According to Mazlan Abang, the currency or “forex” market, which involves buying and selling foreign currencies, is “the market with the highest... Read More

If a movie were made of Halima Alaiyan’s dramatic life of dislocation, disappointment, and transformation, it would challenge credulity. In 1948, when she was barely a year old, her village, Ibdis in Palestine, was destroyed by Israeli... Read More

One by one, Windchy harshly evaluates all the US wars and the personalities that shaped them. “Rough tough, we’re the stuff. We want to fight and we can’t get enough. Whoopee!” The war cry of Lt. Col. Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough... Read More

Thomas employs a clear, inviting tone to reveal optimism in the midst of change, binding themes of music, domesticity, and love. Belva Boroditsky Thomas, a Canadian soprano who launched her opera career in Britain, recalls momentous and... Read More

With intelligent, evocative prose, Snow has revisited the Jesus story for a contemporary audience. The debut novel from Cambridge-educated theologian Peter D. Snow seeks to reorient the story of Jesus of Nazareth for a contemporary... Read More