Cross this grand land of ours and you’ll scarcely find a more culturally rich region than South Carolina—with its strong African and Caribbean influences, bountiful coastal waters, and three hundred-plus years of adventurous cooking... Read More

The Almost Queen / Alys Murray / Sword & Silk Books / Softcover $12.99 (270pp) / 978-1-73643-004-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / The fantasy novel The Almost Queen begins in the aftermath of eight years of war, when... Read More

Look back over the past twenty five years or so and put your finger on some of the ways society has changed for the better. LGBTQ+ rights, for example. Would you have guessed that gay marriage would be overwhelmingly accepted now, when... Read More

The Undercover Book List / Colleen Nelson / Pajama Press / Hardcover $17.95 (264pp) / 978-1-77278-187-8 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In The Undercover Book List, two twelve-year-olds forge a friendship based on their... Read More

Defy the Night / Brigid Kemmerer / Bloomsbury / Hardcover $18.99 (496pp) / 978-1-5476-0466-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / The first volume of a new fantasy series from bestselling author Brigid Kemmerer, Defy the... Read More

Today’s interview topic got us thinking: does the Republican-Democrat political divide also extend to eating meat? According to a recent YouGov survey—after correcting for variables like age, education, sex, ethnicity, household... Read More

CPB Ecstasy / It’s true, to the point of being a truism, that early reading changes lives. We readers who were ourselves transformed by library story times, bedtime stories, and flashlights smuggled under the covers with which to savor... Read More

Consider the human heart—evolutionary wonder, critical part of our anatomy, susceptible to all manner of disorder making heart disease the leading cause of death to Americans, with many hundreds of billions of dollars going to... Read More