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Trailer Tuesday: ‘The Backyard Parables’ by Margaret Roach
Margaret Roach‘s The Backyard Parables is both a spiritual and scientific field guide for the modern gardener. The book gives reader a glimpse of her spiritual practices, but also includes many...
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Trailer Tuesday: ‘Saturday Night Widows’ by Becky Aikman
When Becky Aikman‘s husband died, she was not ready to be a widow, and certainly not ready to give up on finding happiness again like some of the widows she had met. Aikman decided to form a group of...
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Trailer Tuesday: ‘The Girls of Atomic City’ by Denise Kiernan
Oak Ridge, Tennessee didn’t exist until the American government bought land in the hills of Tennessee in 1942. Soon, 75,000 people were living and working in Oak Ridge, many of them young women just...
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A working mother’s call to arms
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In, about the challenges that women face in the workplace, has certainly struck a chord with many people. Though her critics say Sandberg is out of touch with...
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Trailer Tuesday: ‘Heaven’s Lessons’ by Steve Sjogren
When Steve Sjogren, author of Conspiracy of Kindness, flat lined and then revived on the hospital operating table, he experienced a peaceful time he attributes to God. When he awoke to a world of pain,...
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Trailer Tuesday: ‘The Victory Season’ by Robert Weintraub
After the second world war’s end, baseball players left the trenches for the baseball field and the modern era of baseball began. Players like Jackie Robinson emerged as one of baseball’s greatest...
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Trailer Tuesday: ‘Gulp’ by Mary Roach
Have you ever noticed that most people talk a lot about cooking but rarely discuss what our bodies do with those gourmet meals? Mary Roach has, and she’s taken on the digestive process in her new book...
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Trailer Tuesday: ‘Frozen in Time’ by Mitchell Zuckoff
In 1942, a U.S. cargo plane crashed into a Greenland ice cap. Days later, a rescue plane crashed in the same area as well. All nine men aboard survived. Then another rescue plane sent to find the...
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Trailer Tuesday: ‘The Boys in the Boat’ by Daniel James Brown
Author Daniel James Brown was lucky enough to meet Joe Rantz before his death for several interviews that led to The Boys in the Boat. This dramatic true story features Joe Rantz, an Olympic Gold...
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Monday contest: America the beautiful edition
The Fourth of July is coming up next week, and we felt the need to celebrate with a mammoth contest. We’ve been saving up some great American history books that range from presidential bios to cultural...
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Trailer Tuesday: ‘Manson’ by Jeff Guinn
Forty years after the murder of Sharon Tate, it would seem that everything about Charles Manson has already been reported. Jeff Guinn proves this all wrong in his new book, Manson, which uncovers...
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Monday contest: Shopping season’s opening day
So it’s the Monday after Halloween, which means the stores are putting away the orange and black in order to roll out the red and green (sorry, Thanksgiving, you’re only important to retailers in the...
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Trailer Tuesday: ‘Furious Cool’ by David Henry and Joe Henry
Since his death in 2005, Richard Pryor has been named as the No. 1 comedian of all time by Comedy Central and continues to influence the American comedy scene to this day. In Furious Cool: Richard...
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Best Books of 2013: #26-50
2013 is winding down, and it’s time to celebrate the year in books! With so many notable titles published this year, picking our top 50 was a real challenge. The full list will debut for the first time...
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