For children, Candlewick Press offers a pair of picture books on canid behavior. Walk With a Wolf, written by Janni Howker and illustrated by Sarah Fox-Davies (978-0-7636-3875-7), includes a CD version read by Alan Marriott. The story in... Read More

During the years leading up to the Civil War and in the years immediately following it, various Christian groups used the Bible either to support slavery or to condemn it. One hundred years later during the struggle for Civil Rights,... Read More

Psuedofolliculitis barbae is not a normal topic of discussion. In fact most people don’t know what it is. Though it is not usually a serious health threat this condition which causes irritated bumpy and scarred skin afflicts many... Read More

Read this book with a purring cat on your lap; if you don’t own a cat adopt one immediately! As Papa Joe says in this lush novel’s beginning “people who don’t talk to animals cannot be trusted.” Of course Papa Joe also shares... Read More

From Nefertiti to Osama Bin Laden this Spanish-language reference book chronicles the important historical political and cultural figures of this age. 112 Personajes Célebres is an update of Montaño Durán’s 100 Personajes del... Read More

Stephen Graham Jones is the author of five novels, including the award-winning The Fast Road and The Bird is Gone. With hallucinogenic lyricism and a nonlinear narrative, his new novel Ledfeather moves back and forth through time. A... Read More

As a mother and grandmother with a doctorate in education and a master’s in counselling Ruth Truman is eminently qualified to write about campus life. The author also has forty years of experience as a United Methodist Church... Read More

John D. Rigazio may be the most frustrated politician in the U.S. today for good reason. His bald statements make him look like a right-wing or maybe left-wing nut—but after qualifying these statements with five or six points he comes... Read More