Lord / João Gilberto NollEdgar Garbelotto, translator / Two Lines Press / Softcover $12.95 (120pp) / 978-1-931883-79-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / João Gilberto Noll’s Lord opens with a cryptic quote from Iain... Read More

Reviewer Goes Thumb to Green Thumb with Sarah Wyndham Lewis, Author of Planting for Honeybees. Why is it that conversations about the birds and the bees are dominated by human sex, while the life and times of those flying critters is so... Read More

Matt Sutherland sets up the Children's Books USA stand prior to the opening of the fair. For a remarkable fifty-four straight springtimes, the Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF) has been held in this most delightful of Italian cities.... Read More

Pity the poor cookbook author these days. Bloggers rampantly reprint their recipes without permission or tweak them with some minor changes and call them their own; mobile devices allow shoppers to scroll through multiple recipes at the... Read More

The Vermilion Emporium / Jamie Pacton / Peachtree Teen / Hardcover $18.99 (416pp) / 978-1-68263-488-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / The magic system of Jamie Pacton’s delightful, haunting fantasy novel The Vermilion... Read More

Many of us remember being read to as children. That soothing tone, the perfected voices, the begging for just one more chapter. It was like magic to be read to, getting to listen to a world being built before your ears. Sadly, not as... Read More

It is often said that those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. A quick look around the modern world, to examples of economic collapse and rising extremism, seems to confirm this popular adage. The question then arises... Read More