Nonfiction

Reviewed by: 

My Child Has Autism: What Parents Need to Know attempts to sum up in a single volume answers to the myriad questions that parents with an autistic child might have.

Author(s):
Genre(s):
Reviewed by: 

Spring training has begun, which also means that the corresponding flooding is about to occur:  flooding of the market with baseball books, that is.

Reviewed by: 

"As difficult as our choices are today, they will be more difficult tomorrow."

Reviewed by: 

When they literally were “just kids,” Patti Smith, poet and rock star, and Robert Mapplethorpe, photographer and sexual provocateur, showed signs of the artists they would eventually become.

Author(s):
Genre(s):
Reviewed by: 

Right off the bat, I have a confession to make: I do a weekly question and answer radio show and the idea of having ONE book that can tell me how to grow practically everything, well, it would be a

Author(s):
Genre(s):
Reviewed by: 

 Reading this book will change someone else’s life, because once you’ve become aware of the persistent and pervasive enslavement, rape, abuse, torture, and neglect of women in the world and how to

Reviewed by: 

For those of us who have endured a particularly long, cruel winter, the return of spring and the promise of fresh, seasonal vegetables from the local farmers’ market is sheer joy.  That first bite

Author(s):
Genre(s):
Reviewed by: 

Krista Tippett has spent the past decade interviewing people about religion and spiritual ethics as the host of public radio’s “Speaking of Faith.” Einstein’s God is an edited selection fr

Reviewed by: 

Crush It!, while not being a one-fits-all, is a book that covers the secret of how to turn your passion into a business. Vaynerchuck states that anyone can do this.

Reviewed by: 

“The byproduct of suffering, if you’re lucky, is appreciation. . . .
My windfall has always been a sweet tooth, the gold watch that
deflected the bullet aimed straight at my heart.”

Reviewed by: 

Those of us who grew up in the age of early television sometimes wonder whatever happened to this or that character.

Author(s):
Genre(s):
Reviewed by: 

It’s simple: stretching is essential for well being. Understanding that thought is easy. Regularly stretching, however, can be a challenge; and this book is here to help.

Reviewed by: 

Stefan Klein has written such a beautiful book that the reader can easily remain unaware that the original language was German.

Author(s):
Genre(s):
Reviewed by: 

The world of popular science writing is a fiercely competitive one, and its inhabitants attempt to ensure their own survival by choosing an audience (technically educated or not?

Reviewed by: 

Long Before Food Network personalities Rachael Ray and Sandra Lee showed us how to turn out worthy meals in record time, there was Peg Bracken, an over-stressed working mother who unapologetically

Reviewed by: 

What makes Loose Girl moving is the sheer amount of tragic honesty Cohen puts on the pages.

Reviewed by: 

How to Master Your Muck by Kathi Burns hits everything on the checklist for a well-designed book. A “how-to” title? Check.

Genre(s):
Reviewed by: 

Nat Geo Amazing! is an awe-inspiring collection of human culture, animal oddities, and true tales of wonder.

Author(s):
Genre(s):
Reviewed by: 

The Artificial Ape is a book with a plausible idea, but that is all it has.

Author(s):
Other Contributors:
Reviewed by: 

“I have always preferred,” wrote the French 19th century author Anatole France, “the folly of passion to the wisdom of indifference.”

Reviewed by: 

The United States is one of the most religious “first world” nations.

Author(s):
Genre(s):
Reviewed by: 

There are many ways to define “kosher.” The Hebrew root of the word simply means fit—food that is fitting for Jews to eat.

Reviewed by: 

Academy Award-winner Angelina Jolie is one of the most intriguing actresses of this generation—an adoptive parent, UN ambassador, and partner to one of Hollywood’s biggest heartthrobs.

Reviewed by: 

It's not often we get to hear the story from the victim of a serial killer as we do in this sensitively written account of Sanford Clark, the nephew of serial killer Gordon Stewart Northcott.

Pages