That the greatest poets receive sudden flashes of inspiration is demoralizing to mere mortals. Already so rich in talent, such poets don’t need—or deserve—the metaphorical lightning strike to the ink-filled rods that they wield to... Read More

The book’s tone is frank but encouraging, and students and parents who use it will be better informed about how to put forth a stellar application packet. Katy Craig and Katie Kramer’s "All the Wisdom and None of the Junk"... Read More

Nicely structured, well written, and authoritative, Cracking the Code is a must for any job seeker. “Qualified people aren’t getting the jobs they should because they don’t know how to interview,” writes Evan Pellett, whose... Read More

Oluwalase Babatunde Benson scales palm trees to collect nuts for oil in his small African village, alerting neighbors to approaching traffic so they can ready to sell their wares. His grandfather taught him the gift of identifying a... Read More

A beloved queen overthrown by outside forces and a novel unfinished at the time of the author’s death—both evoke our sympathy and sense of injustice. The story opens at a party in Honolulu Harbor in 1868, when the narrator, Julius,... Read More

“How a plain girl with no chin became Queen of England” is this delightful book’s subtitle. It’s the funny, eccentric story of Victoria’s ascension at eighteen years of age, featuring a zany (and nightmarish) cast of characters... Read More

We all like to think that our mothers are saints, but when Lucille Campilongo’s children called her Santa Lucia, they made sure the rest of the world could learn how and why. The children recently published this book from a survival... Read More

The form and structure of the Roman Catholic Mass is the outline for the short, interrelated stories in Kathleen M. Henry’s "Critical Mass". Henry’s exploration of the effects of the Church’s power on the lives of four Catholic... Read More