The Interrupters

We learn how to parent from our own parents, and many of us have had that  uncomfortable aha moment when we realize that we are turning into...

Just over a hundred years ago, on March 25, 1911, 146 workers were tragically killed in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. It was the dea...

The complete subtitle of Amy Chua's 2011 memoir is: “This is a story about a mother, two daughters, and two dogs. This was supposed...

It's always fun to see how books we have read are conceptualized by filmmakers. Sometimes I am disappointed, sometimes I am baffl...

Laura Hillenbrand wrote Louis Zamperini's amazing and inspiring story in her best-selling book,  Unbroken: a World War II Story of Survi...

I know you are all busy, but it would be great if you looked at some of the great extras online. Rebecca Skloot has a terrific website ...

I didn't know when I met Karen thirty one years ago that she would become one of the most influential people of my life. We met when I w...

We are fortunate to have President Top and his wife Wendy visit our book group this month. This husband and wife were high school s...

Nonie Darwish often says "Just because I am pro-Israel does not mean I am anti-Arab, it's just that my culture is in desperate nee...

If Vincent hadn't been a failure: as a bookshop clerk as an art salesman as a preacher as a suitor Would we have ever been ...