Perennially understaffed nonprofit organizations depend on volunteers as their backbone for getting things accomplished and for raising money. Fundraising is especially crucial in a challenging economic environment, and this makes The... Read More

One Nation under AARP is an interesting book for two interrelated reasons. First, it addresses the financial plight of baby boomers. Second, it does so in the context of the growing influence of AARP, an organization that is arguably the... Read More

When a nonfiction book defies description (and that’s not a criticism), it helps to consider the extra-long subtitle publishers currently slather across book covers. In the case of Baxter Black’s book, Lessons From a Desperado Poet... Read More

Dr. Mariana Caplan, psychotherapist and author of seven books, including Halfway Up the Mountain and award-winning Eyes Wide Open, shares her lifetime spiritual journey in search of a teacher. “The spiritual path is neverending,”... Read More

"The Blossoming of the World" has an epic title that matches its subject matter. From savoring the simple joy of eating breakfast near a sunny window to experiencing the palpable flow of divine love in a moment of dread, Brian Peterson... Read More

Each year, over 100,000 people ride the Cardinal, a passenger train between New York City and Chicago operated three times weekly by Amtrak. In his first novel, Eric D. Goodman chronicles the lives of a number of these passengers as they... Read More

Very early in Clark Blaise’s new collection, a sociology graduate student sits in Vivek Waldekar’s California kitchen and blurts the purpose of her research: “the problems of adjustment and assimilation” for successful South... Read More

Can a victim be complicit in her own oppression? In this dense and historical novel, Carlos Franz attempts to answer that question through the story of Laura Larco, a philosophy professor residing in Berlin who is called back to her... Read More