In the early 1930s a Hollywood business manager named B&246; (pronounced “Boo”) Roos challenged himself by reining in about a hundred spendthrift actors and even a few directors. Known to his tax-sheltered and happy clients as... Read More

There is a long American tradition of eccentric health-conscious iconclasts from John Harvey Kellogg to Dr. Bronner and Adelle Davis. Like them Don Tolman a health lecturer author and researcher combines erudition a passion for healthy... Read More

The mythical battle for civilization and humankind alike is depicted in this almost theatrical tale of the angel Michael and the fallen Lucifer. Author and philosophy professor Raymond Dennehy offers this well-written yet misguided... Read More

With characters as varied as an aging widower in Ireland and a pimp in New York City, Irish playwright and novelist Miriam Gallagher’s collection of short stories provides a taste of desperate life on two continents. Her lonely... Read More

In 1975, Pol Pot gained control of Cambodia, “a country of sugar palms, whispering grasses, and bright sunshine.” Arn Chorn-Pond, whose biography this is, was eight years old. He lived in a prosperous village in northern Cambodia... Read More

When students at a Vermont middle school noticed that breathing the air made them feel ill, they also realized the buses sat outside with idling motors mornings and afternoons. Upon discovering that the fumes contained twelve different... Read More

“Here is his jacket, / with zippered-up hood, / that covers his face / just the way it should,” a little boy narrates while helping his beekeeper grandfather, known around town as the Beeman. The boy continues the invitingly rhyming... Read More

It is nine in the morning and Lily just isn’t in the mood for her morning routine. When we first meet her, she stands beside a table piled high with waffles, croissants, danishes, and toast, but none of it pleases her. Arms folded,... Read More