Providing guidance to parents on how to raise children is an age-old tradition. Manuals are available on how to make sure that children are optimistic, happy, smart, spiritual, compassionate, gifted, strong-willed, self-confident, and... Read More

This new compilation from Grady/Spears duo is as much a travel guide as a cookbook. The authors are Texans, as are most of the destinations, beginning at the Wildcatter Ranch, about ninety minutes north of Fort Worth on the Brazos River.... Read More

There is a serial killer on the loose in the English country township of Lafferton and it has everyone, including Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler, flinching at every car that backfires. What makes this case especially baffling is that... Read More

In New Jersey, where the Turnpike vertically dissects the state, one asks “Which exit?” to pinpoint where someone lives; in Italy, knowing if one puts raisins or pignoli nuts in meatballs will do the same. In Italy, it’s all about... Read More

After the wild success of Eragon, teen writers seem to be the new sensation in fantasy fiction. Thirteen-year-old Running River is the latest voice in the cacophonous genre, penning a boy-meets-girl story. Of course, as with Romeo and... Read More

In The Inner Sky: Poems, Notes, Dreams, even a Rilke scholar will find new work within this collection of the Ger-man writer’s notebooks and less-published writings. A mix of poems, prose, and unstructured musings, "The Inner Sky"... Read More

This is essentially a how-to book for men—more specifically, a what-to-do, how-to-do-it, and why-it’s-important book, with a lot of emphasis on the importance of empathy and understanding. The author, John W. Anderson, a writer and... Read More

Carnegie Medal-winner Mal Peet has accomplished something amazing with his latest novel "Exposure"; inspired by Shakespeare’s bleak classic, Othello, he reveals the humanity that lies beneath two-dimensional celebrity. In the rise and... Read More