Written with precision and sincerity, this compilation of vignettes may attract historians searching for material. Slices of life set against the backdrop of rural America reveal the human side of one family, disclosing personal... Read More

This ode to the family cottage celebrates multi-generational family bonds with a comforting voice and often humorous nostalgia. Among the crystalline lakes of Muskoka, Ontario, three generations of the Potts family built thirty years... Read More

Upside-down fairy tales target greed as our heroes turn to villains. Fairy tales are turned inside out in Jennifer Quaggin’s book, "Terrible Tales". With the darkness of Grimm and the comedy flair of Roald Dahl, Quaggin retells popular... Read More

A board of directors that governs a nonprofit organization makes decisions that can affect whether or not that organization is successful in carrying out its mission. In fact, as Lisa Dahmus writes, “Poor decision making can cripple or... Read More

“My faith is based on some principles that I learned growing up, adjusted by a realization that those principles may be affected by other people and finally attuned to my own grasp of what is real for me personally.” With that... Read More

“To know the dog,” writes Clarice Rutherford, “you must first know the wolf.” Dogs, who have evolved to live with humans, can make wonderful companions if their humans understand them and teach them good manners for living in... Read More

In the stark beauty of Yosemite National Park, a woman mourns a broken relationship. She is walking back to her hotel when she encounters a Girl Scout troop sitting around a campfire preparing to listen to a Park Ranger’s tale. She... Read More

"Things Seen" is a slender volume of essays, so slim for a book-length work that it might be mistaken for, at a first glance, a novella or a poet’s chapbook. Though brief, the French writer Annie Ernaux’s most recent book weighs in,... Read More