“I can’t see you as a teacher,” one blunt administrator told the author. Cohen encountered that attitude many times in the summer after college graduation. In spite of sterling recommendations from student teaching assignments, he... Read More

Thank you, Al Capone. Forget the glittering architecture, the kaleidoscopic public gardens, and the urbane cultural attractions. Ever since Prohibition (at least), Chicago has been saddled with a reputation as the crime capital of the... Read More

The rediscovery of forgotten women writers leaps ahead with this biography of a woman whose life defied the idealized domesticity that confined late Victorian ladies. Like the Brontës, she initially published as a man, but her... Read More

“Was John Lennon a mean bastard? A foolish prankster? A musical tyrant?” These are a few of the provocative questions that the author asks and answers in this personal account of arguably the most famous, and certainly the most... Read More

“His name is Swami Rama … my master, my guide who filled my heart with the conviction that happiness is the only wealth worth acquiring,” reads this book’s introduction, demonstrating the obvious affection and respect that the... Read More

The author runs a website called Bad Girls Press, which offers public relations advice to “intelligent, creative & wise women,” and “promotes Bad Girls and the positive work they do.” That’s a clever hook to attract... Read More

Harry Houdini declared that false mediums had plans to do him in, that they would go to any ends to stop him. “When I die,” Houdini was often quoted as saying, “the fraudulent mediums will declare the day a national holiday.”... Read More

Every child—and every grownup for that matter—knows the joy of a pristine pair of perfect new shoes. This book celebrates that joy with a rollicking rhyme about a young girl walking to school in her new, blue shoes. Lighthearted and... Read More