Why read one more memoir about a troubled childhood? Why read another story about recovery from trauma? Because in the case of "Snakes in My Dreams", the author has a powerful message: Childhood sexual abuse can be confronted,... Read More

Harvard scientists recently concluded that adding fluoride to water can probably cause significant neurological damage in children. Yet many conventional dentists would work to keep the chemical added to the water supply for benefits to... Read More

Finding your place and maintaining your identity are core values in this lovely, simply written and utterly moving memoir. The sequel to the award-winning Fatty Legs, A Stranger at Home continues the story of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, who... Read More

On December 19, 2011, a Nashville newspaper carried a story about the construction of an all-faiths chapel at the nearby Fort Campbell military base that will cost taxpayers $8.4 million. A smaller article in the same issue noted that a... Read More

Inviting readers along on a year’s journey of gratitude, Dr. Angeles Arrien, a teacher, cultural anthropologist, and author (The Four-Fold Way; The Second Half of Life) draws on a world of inspiration and perennial wisdom in this, her... Read More

For those of us in love with, or at least drawn to, the written word—be it in fiction or nonfiction—try to imagine looking at a page of words and being unable to make any sense of them. Imagine further somehow overcoming this... Read More

Every year, a deluge of new cookbooks hits the shelves, promising to give insight into fluffier pastries, richer sauces, and healthier (but still tasty) dinners. But it’s likely that few of them in the current crop will have the type... Read More

One devilishly hot July day, Robinson quotes Dean Koontz in response to her family’s depression about the weather: “Where there’s cake, there’s hope. And there’s always cake.” Thus was born “Cake Day,” designated as... Read More