The Mystery of Lewis Carroll, Discovering the Whimsical, Thoughtful, and Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created “Alice in Wonderland.” The Mystery of Lewis Carroll, a well-researched
Any fellow reader who has their own small library and then has had to box up that library because of a move, and then in
If it ever stops raining and snowing up here in the Sierra, Jakob Arjouni’s terrific crime novel, Kismet, will be right near the top of
You thought I could pass up this National day of importance? Trains were a big part of my childhood because they were a big part
Vernon J. Sappers, born in 1917, was a prolific collector of all things relating to the Key System, the beloved San Francisco Bay Area mode
How many women would love to have the following quote as a part of their own personal journal, real or imagined? “Six years ago, on
I will add to this later today, but wanted to at least alert you to two of my favorites: Philadelphia Chickens, by Sandra Boynton —
Vaudevillean chickens? Expect nothing less from Sandra Boynton. Ms. Boynton makes bookselling easy with her loveable characters and music that will knock your socks off.
If you are a parent whose child has been introduced to poetry in school this year, you owe it to yourself and your child to
Becoming Jane Eyre is a smashing book and a welcome addition to the growing body of work on the Brontë sisters. Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre was
If you have never read Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder is as fine a place to start as any. On the other hand, if you are
“A revolution is not a dinner party,. . . . .A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”
I am happy to pass on to my visitors this notification of an important PBS show on National Day of Holocaust Remembrance, May 1st. This is
THE PHILOSOPHICAL BREAKFAST CLUB The Philosophical Breakfast Club may be the book to answer questions you never knew you wanted to ask. How did we get from
A Split Second of Light is that brief moment when (as the poet writes in an early poem) “A pinhole of light appears through the
God Bless the Gargoyles is a most unexpected treasure. At first glance, just from its cover, the average grandparent, looking for that perfect children’s book
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