Young people from bi- or multiracial backgrounds will find their own voices echoed and amplified in this slim volume; the book may help those from a single race background begin to understand their multiracial friends or family members,... Read More

In the conclusion to My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop, Emily St. John Mandel says, “Things happen in independent bookstores that don’t happen in the other places where we buy books.”... Read More

Jim Northrup is the most insightful and humorous person on the Fond du Lac reservation in northern Minnesota. And Fond du Lac is to Northrup what Lake Wobegon is to Garrison Keillor or Yoknapatawpha County was to William Faulkner. Fond... Read More

Thurgood Marshall is well-known for his successful work as an NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) lawyer who won landmark court rulings such as the often celebrated, Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka,... Read More

The publishing industry typically represents glitz as a function of metropolitan sophistication and Hollywood fame, yet in "Where the Heart Lives", Mara Purl strategically presents a glamorous alternative to big-city vibrancy. In the... Read More

Even just a quick riffle through the pages of Zen Gardens: The Complete Works of Shunmyo Masuno can cause a healthy lowering of one’s blood pressure. Seeing such tranquil spaces in our generally chaotic world offers an escape to an... Read More

Born in 1908, Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh used his camera and a keenly sensitive eye to chronicle the epic known as the twentieth century. Karsh’s portraits of some of the most celebrated men and women of recent times... Read More

Limits haunt the pages of "The Visioneers" and the minds of its titular scientists. In the 1970s, when the visioneers’ narrative begins, the world was facing the idea of a future defined by constraints: limited space, limited... Read More