Who better to turn to for help fighting the common cold than a physician? A best-selling author, Sahelian (Creatine; Melatonin; DHEA; among other books) teams up with Toews, editor of Nutrition Alert newsletter and contributing columnist... Read More

The attempt to inspire a love of poetry in children is a noble educational pursuit, and there is perhaps no easier poet with which to start than Longfellow. His easily accessible work is the stuff of legend and history, of forest and... Read More

Such a predicament Jane Austen created for her future biographers! When illness took her from this world at age forty-one, she left no husband, no children, no memoirs and no contemporary press coverage. Aside from her literary... Read More

A nation’s public monuments are at bottom permanent and revealing political propaganda-witness the Statue of Liberty or the St. Louis Arch. Michalski, an art historian at the University of Braunschweig, Germany, powerfully demonstrates... Read More

Anyone who’s ever supervised volunteers knows the sinking feeling when faced with one who just isn’t making the grade. How do you “fire” someone who is working without pay? This is just one of the often tricky issues facing... Read More

These twelve stories are narrated by the human detritus that forms the Polish American community in Superior, Wisconsin. In this small community, the characters make cameo appearances in each other’s lives. This is a dying community,... Read More

Many young people wonder if they are adopted, or perhaps half of a set of twins separated at birth. Hrdlitschka capitalizes on this dual fascination in her new novel for teens. Disconnected is about twin brothers, Tanner and Alex, who... Read More

If you are looking for a book to give you the shivers on a warm night, try "The Haunting of Drang Island". Slade’s first book in the Northern Frights series, Draugr was a finalist for the Small Press Book Award for young adult fiction... Read More