The recent controversy surrounding Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea does not diminish the humanitarian efforts and idealistic beliefs of others committed to helping children […]
Batters Up! A New Round of Baseball Books
Major League baseball starts next week! Nothing says Spring better than the crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd or the smell of […]
Travel to Bhutan
You may remember Bhutan as the country that prides itself on being more concerned with its citizens’ Gross National Happiness than the GDP, a country that did […]
Escaping Through The Prison Library
“Pimps make the best librarians,” is the first sentence of Avi Steinberg’s Running the Books: The Adventures of An Accidental Prison Librarian. This should pique […]
Vacation at the Airport
Posting about an author who spends a week at an airport may scare people away after all the airport shutdowns and plane cancellations of the past week. But, […]
Literary Smorgasbord for One
In an unusual take on the culinary memoir, this collection of food essays offers a different viewpoint from the many culinary books and food histories on the shelves these […]
Epically readable, Herzog’s American Odyssey
When you think ‘road trip’, you may not have in mind Brad Herzog’s interpretation. In Herzog’s original take on his trip across America, Turn Left at […]
Lions, Tigers and Bears, Oh yes!
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Thomas French’s Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives brings the world of zoo keeping to the public in this accessible […]
Think For Yourself!
September 25 – October 2 is officially Banned Books week 2010. Each year new books are challenged and/or banned across the country for reasons such […]
