New book, 'Healing Your Dog Naturally' by Nicole Gabriel, advocates natural healing for man’s best friend
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Interview: Ransom Stephens, Author of ‘The Left Brain Speaks, The Right Brain Laughs’
Author and neuroscientist Ransom Stephens speaks about basketball, creativity, and meditation in an interview about his new book on how our brains work: 'The Left Brain Speaks, the Right Brain Laughs'.
Read More »Book Review: ‘And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer And Longer’ by Fredrik Backman
Fredrik Backman's 'And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer And Longer': "It turned into a small tale of how I'm dealing with slowly losing the greatest minds I know, about missing someone who is still here, and how I wanted to explain it all to my children. I'm letting it go now, for what it's worth."
Read More »Book Review: ‘Tunes of the Twenties: The Stories Behind the Songs’ by Robert Rawlins
Rawlins is an engaging writer who obviously relishes digging out the meaty stories behind the songs he loves. His new book will delight anyone interested in music history or who loves early jazz.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Maybe This Time’ by Jennifer Snow
In 'Maybe This Time' Jennifer Snow's writing style allows readers to identify with the main characters, drawing them into the conflict and the romance.
Read More »Interview: Hannah Kohler, Author of ‘The Outside Lands’
"There are a number of ideas I was exploring in this novel: ideas of truth and fiction in war—how war is mythologized before, during and after the fact; how story-telling acts a way to cope with trauma; how the trauma of the Vietnam War was a trauma of the American family."
Read More »Hooked on a Book From Just One Line
One line or one paragraph can grab us. But can it make a book memorable? Try these on for size.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Corporate Citizen,’ by Gabriel Valjan
Gabriel Valjan's 'Corporate Citizen' is highly recommended for those who love a good mystery.
Read More »Flash Fiction: Clown
A kid dressed as a clown and an adult killer clown's paths cross on Halloween night.
Read More »Interview: Stephanie Gangi, Author of ‘The Next’
Interview with Stephanie Gangi author of 'The Next': "I went with the whole idea of a ghost as a kind of metaphor for women of a certain age, that invisibility, not to mention how marginalized you are when you’re sick. All of these things really coalesced for me in the writing of the novel, a sort of the ghost in the machine."
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