Andrea Cheng has written and illustrated a very unusual book, "Where the Steps Were" (WordSong, 978-1-932425-88-8), about an ordinary class of third graders, their always extraordinary questions, and the teacher who guides them. Miss D.... Read More

This couchbuster could be the tipping point for a second Freudian revolution. The first began in the privacy of a Viennese consulting room, where Sigmund Freud’s patient Anna O. coined the term “talking cure.” In a few decades,... Read More

Dr. Smith’s clinic in the Amazon is a 9-by-12-foot room with plywood walls, no ceiling, no running water, kerosene lighting and bats roosting beneath her desk. In this modest arena she delivers babies and treats snakebite, malaria,... Read More

A wild heroine is at the center of this screwball, frenetic story. Kendal Taylor’s "Once Upon an Apple Martini" is a frenetic novel powered by copious amounts of alcohol and one woman’s desperation to hang onto her job. All Calyssa... Read More

More than a few motion pictures have captivated audiences with the image of a villainous, all-powerful prison warden and, in many cases in our nation’s history of incarceration, the caricature was accurate. But beginning around 1970,... Read More