Trooper, a black-and-white dog with a pink nose, goes along with everything Lily dreams up, even though at times he’s quite nervous or downright terrified. But he is a true friend and everything ends up fine, probably because he... Read More

Trooper, a black-and-white dog with a pink nose, goes along with everything Lily dreams up, even though at times he’s quite nervous or downright terrified. But he is a true friend and everything ends up fine, probably because he... Read More

This collection of short stories, including a long, somewhat autobiographical piece, is a book filled with short snatches of fairly ordinary lives. These stories describe moments in the lives of various men and women. There are no real... Read More

Planning a trip with your boss? Or worse, NOT planning a trip with your boss and you end up on one anyway? There is good news and, of course, bad news. It all depends on your boss but there are several things you can do to ease your... Read More

Boston is a city of superlatives—“the oldest,” “the first,” “the largest.” And the photographs in this slick book make the most of what Oliver Wendell Holmes said is—in the most super of superlatives—“the hub of the... Read More

Romance is quite subjective. Seclusion for one person is Dullsville for another. Busy little seaports for you might be jammed little tourist traps to me. And so on. Yet Cynthia Mascott, a Cape Cod resident for only four years, manages to... Read More

Jenny Diski just wants to be alone. And who can blame her? First her dad deserts her (several times, actually), then her mom, then her sanity. She gets her sanity back, grows up, marries, has a kid and … her husband leaves her! So it... Read More

For anyone who has had chicken pox, the potential for shingles is lurking inside you. Mary-Ellen Siegel, an instructor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Gray Williams Jr. (The Fight Against Pain, The TMJ Book) explain the virus... Read More