The late James Herriot captured the world’s attention with his quick, self-deprecating wit in his books about life as a country vet in the Yorkshire dales of England. One of his stories in this collection starts with the voice of... Read More

Recent years have seen renewed interest in the World War II battlefields of Northwest Europe with the fiftieth anniversary of the Normandy landings in particular sparking a surge in tourism. As the D-Day veterans age, many want to... Read More

Long before SPAM became a synonym for questionable e-mail, it was a synonym for questionable foodstuffs. Maybe that’s the link, since the name describes something that’s filling and of unknown quality. Offbeat Food contains hundreds... Read More

Writing the lede (sic) to a review of this book is a daunting task when one considers the expertise of its author, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, columnist for the Boston Globe, and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of... Read More

Unlike the noise of sexual harassment in the workplace, bullying at work is referred to here as a “silent epidemic.” It can affect a person’s dignity, self-esteem, job, social relations, or health. It can even drive a person to... Read More

With a gold star, a donkey’s ear and a cow’s horn, Hayes has written an English/Spanish version of a well-loved fairytale. Arcía convinces her widowed father to marry their next door neighbor, a widowed mother of two daughters. He... Read More

Have you ever wished that you could turn back time to undo a chain of events? If you could reverse the clock, which actions in the past twenty-four hours would set a different course? Etchemendy, author of The Watchers of Space, Stranger... Read More

With its distinctive photography, entertaining fishing tales and bows to Julia Childs and M.F.K. Fisher, Trout invites readers to enjoy this book. Tennant, whose experience is as a game cook and author of several books in Willow Creek... Read More