“I have moved into a closer relationship with my deafness-since learning to hear with my cochlear implant. I never realized how deaf I was until I became more hearing,” Biderman writes in this very personal book. The cochlea is a... Read More

James Mahoney, author of this heartfelt and compassionate accounting of the many hard decisions facing an animal lover, practiced as a country vet before becoming a researcher whose animals have been used in AIDS and hepatitis research.... Read More

An old Yiddish proverb tells us “alleh shlosser ken men efenen mit a goldenem shlissel”: all locks can be opened with a golden key. What a surprising adventure to read Stella Suberman’s intimate book that unlocks an aspect of... Read More

The words “truth” and “stories” in the title of this bold, subversive book should alert the wary reader and, more especially, the flummoxed library cataloguer that Ellen Douglas, after four decades of acclaimed fiction, is boxing... Read More

What is folk music? Is Woody Guthrie folk? How about Bob Dylan? The Byrds? Clifton Chenier? Are klezmer, zydeco and Celtic fiddling folk music? Luckily, there are some folks at MusicHound who have been working on these questions and have... Read More

From the acclaimed author of the novels Dream Boy and Winter Birds comes this quartet of plays, all already staged and all well received. Of the four pieces “The Borderland” is the most conventional, as married yuppies and a trailer... Read More

The study of herbal medicine can seem daunting even to the skilled herb grower. Wardwell captures the reader by prefacing each chapter with a medicine story drawn from Native American folklore. Learn one plant at a time is the first... Read More

All you need to experience a full-body herbal spa treatment is this first-rate reference. Greta Breedlove opens the mysterious door to expensive spa indulgences and takes us on a guided tour of practical health and beauty. She begins... Read More