Originally published in English by Putnam in 1949, here’s a WWII concentration camp diary, replete with atrocities and terror, but written by non-Jewish Norwegian Odd Nansen. Arrested in 1942 for helping refugees flee the Nazis,... Read More

If Nancy Pearson chose to offer life lessons, moralizing, and even a bit of poemtificating about her struggles with meth addiction and depression in this latest collection, we’d forgive her. Indeed, we’d happily climb mountains to... Read More

John Reda’s relatively succinct and pointed history of the white settlement of the Mississippi Valley challenges the oversimplified and convenient notion of Manifest Destiny. Before the American Revolution, before the crowded and... Read More

This is storytelling in the tradition of Irwin Shaw or Howard Fast, full of vivid characters and rich detail. Dudley James Podbury’s "The Sons of Silas McCracken" is an accomplished and highly readable saga that traces the ambitions,... Read More

An Academics’ Choice Smart Book Award Winner, The ABCs of Yoga for Kids: A Guide for Parents and Teachers highlights the myriad benefits of utilizing yoga at home, at school, and in life in general. Children’s yoga guru Teresa Anne... Read More

The popularity of local farmers’ markets and community-supported agriculture (CSA) initiatives often involves a common question: what to do with an uncommon or abundant supply of—insert fruit/vegetable/herb of choice here—and how... Read More

Full of interesting anecdotes and behind-the-scenes peeks, this book is an authoritative resource in television marketing. Andy Bryant and Charlie Mawer’s "The TV Brand Builders" is an insightful look at television brands and how to... Read More

Human nature, animal instincts, predator, and prey all converge as the hunters become the hunted. The forest comes alive through the eyes of one very special twelve-year-old in "Lone Wolf", the second book in a series from Robin Mason... Read More