Straddling the line between hallucination, magical realism, and the ordinary hormone-fueled weirdness of adolescence, the text is sympathetic and captivating. Two tough, scrappy heroines, one young and the other old, combine to make... Read More

A Beginner’s Guide sets up introductory ideas about belief, the nature of human understanding, the Bible, and spirituality to form a basis for further exploration and study. David Saffold’s self-help book "A Beginner’s Guide to... Read More

Andreas Izquierdo’s "The Happiness Bureau" centers on a government employee, Albert Happy, whose tenderness may just redeem the role of bureaucracies. Happy is a decades-long employee of the Agency of Administrative Affairs; he runs... Read More

Moving On by Standing Still offers an open-minded and refreshing approach to understanding and dealing with the “problem” behaviors of care-dependent people. When care-dependent people are unable to express their needs in words, they... Read More