Facts about Jane Austen are reiterated again and again by biographers and yet we continue to wonder who was this woman that wrote these novels and, more importantly, what does her writing have to say about its author? Helena Kelly presents a [...]
Our brains are assholes, according to Faith Harper, PHD, LPC-S, ACS. In her book, Unfuck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-outs, and Triggers, she covers the ways our brains f*&# with us and what we can [...]
The mind can be the best friend or the greatest enemy, according to the Bhagavad Gita, and in The 3T Path, author Giridhari Das gives much insight into how to make your mind your friend. The 3T Path describes a system for living a better life [...]
A Girl Walks into a Book: What the Brontes Taught Me About Life, Love, and Women’s Work, by Miranda K. Pennington, is an interesting read. It combines the author’s story and that of the Brontes’, not only their books, but their lives, letters, [...]
Riding the Light Beam: How Any Woman Can Find the Hero Inside is a book of questions and reflections posed by author Cathrine Silver in her quest to aid others as they too wrestle with their own life’s journey. She describes many moments for her [...]
Stories move us. Stories connect us. Stories are, arguably, the most effective mode of communication. In this title, Sell With A Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale, author Paul Smith discusses the power of story and [...]
In Beauty & the Beast: Fire at Sea, soldier-turned-science-experiment-now doctor Vincent and NYC police detective Catherine are happily married and looking forward to a romantic belated honeymoon. After a decade of hiding, Vincent has [...]
After finding himself stranded in the Netherlands, Ben Coates called up a local girl he met some months earlier and, after staying for dinner, kept on staying. He not only fell in love with the girl, but with the country as well. In this [...]
Minerals have a life of their own, which readers will discover in this surprisingly riveting and integrative account of how minerals came from the stars and found themselves in our bodies. Every branch of science deals, in some capacity, with [...]
Reader, I married him. Is there a more evocative phrase in the English canon? To Charlotte Bronte fans, probably not. New York Times best-selling author Tracy Chevalier features twenty authors with their renditions of stories inspired by Jane [...]
First Entrepreneur: How George Washington Built His – and the Nation’s – Prosperity, by Edward G. Lengel, is a highly informative and interesting read regarding the life of George Washington and how his business sense helped shape a [...]
Elizabeth George writes meaty, heavy-duty novels that you can completely fall into. Such is the case with her latest release, A Banquet of Consequences, the nineteenth Thomas Lynley novel. This is definitely a book that’s easy to get lost in the [...]
In this third installment of Peter Mayle’s Caper series, Sam Levitt and Elena Morales return to Provence, this time to investigate what at first appears to be an insurance claim, but quickly evolves in to a string of unconnected crimes that will [...]
There is no word in the English language for the parent who has lost a child; though a child who has lost a parent is an orphan and a spouse is a widow or widower, there is no word for the loss of a child. Whether it be an unsuccessful birth or [...]
The Royal Stones of Eden, by Rae T. Alexander, tells the story of Mattie and David as they discover layers of hidden truths about the Stones, their guardians, and about themselves, truths that span space and time, reaching back into the depths [...]
Tosca Tonnino works in Events and Publicity at a small indie bookshop in Friday Harbor, but aspires to live a life of excitement and luxury, meeting the universe with a Ginger Rogers-like insouciance. All is well until a new hire and serious [...]
Robyn Carr’s latest novel, What We Find, takes place in Colorado, where renowned neurosurgeon Maggie Sullivan has had her world in Denver upended after a high-risk trauma surgery leaves her with a dead teenager on the table and a malpractice [...]
Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution by Rachel Moran is a combination of memoir and political commentary, chronicling the exploitative and damaging world of prostitution. Moran dispels common myths that surround the trade, which is more [...]
What if we can learn from labor and childbirth, instead of fearing it? This is the powerful question Julia S. Aziz poses in her book, Lessons of Labor: One Woman’s Self-Discovery Through Birth and Motherhood. In telling her own deeply personal [...]
The Winter Boy, by Sally Wiener Grotta, is the story of Rishana, a widow belonging to an elite society of women, called the Alleshi, who keep the peace of the land by mentoring the young men who will someday lead the scattered tribes and [...]
