George Waldorf meets the girl of his dreams. Literally. When the woman haunts his nights materializes in broad daylight, George is compelled to uncover the truth behind his vivid dreamscapes. This premise makes Rathan Kumar’s book *Is... Read More

In The Mechanic Meets the Gardner, Susan M. Gallant puts divergent worldviews into useful conversation. Gallant believes that individuals hold within them a variety of often contradictory worldviews, and she offers two fresh archetypes... Read More

What do earth, fire, air, and water have to do with effective thinking? Everything, according to mathematics professors Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird. In "The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking", the authors draw on these... Read More

"A Real Mother" is a real pleasure. The only thing to wish for in Denise Malloy’s collection of hilarious essays is more chapters. Unfortunately, Malloy probably doesn’t have the time. Being the mother of two boys, an active blogger,... Read More

In "Surfing Summers", Turk and Kenny decide early in the beach season that this is the summer they will ride the waves on real surfboards. Due to three drownings in Seagrove the year before, the fourteen-year-old best friends have been... Read More

“In the United States alone 80% of those incarcerated have been in the foster care system. They lag behind their same-age peers by a year or more in school and even futher in terms of their emotional and behavioral controls … So how... Read More

With a wealth of entertaining and engaging comic collections and original graphic novels debuting almost every week, it’s become far too easy to ignore the reappearance of older material, no matter what its pedigree. Add in the... Read More

The relationship between fathers and daughters is deeply personal, often complicated, and lasts a lifetime within a daughter’s heart. What My Father Gave Me: Daughters Speak is written by seven female writers who are also daughters.... Read More