When your book isn’t selling…what’s an author to do?
There’s the exhilaration when your agent sells your book. Suddenly, you are real! You are going to be a published author. The contract comes. Now it is truly official. The manuscript is delivered, edited and accepted. Yes! You send in answers to an exhaustive questionnaire listing every contact you have. If you are one of […]
How to Think about God(s)
The Roman politician Cicero lived in a world of incredible religious diversity and conflict. In this short but powerful work, he dares to ask fundamental questions about the existence and nature of God that are as relevant today as they were two thousand years ago. Translated, with an introduction by Philip Freeman, Fletcher Jones Chair […]
BISCUIT, by Michael Volpatt
Co-founder of Big Bottom Market, in the heart of Sonoma wine country, puts a decidedly California twist on the American classic biscuit in 50 sweet and savory recipes with biscuit sandwiches (“Egg in a Biscuit” and the popular “Sea Biscuit”), specialty sweet biscuits (Chocolate Bacon & Apple Pie), and delectable accompaniment spreads and jams. The […]
Archipelago of Hope by Gleb Raygorodetsky
As this fine book shows, indigenous communities and lands have been among the places hardest hit by climate change–so it should come as no surprise that around the world indigenous people have been in the absolute forefront of a fight for a liveable planet. I take real comfort from the fact that the oldest wisdom […]
HYPERSEXT, Jillian Roberts PhD with Sara Au
Kids are exposed to sexual content at a younger and younger age, whether that is through the internet, advertisements, video games, or from interactions with their peers. HyperSext is a crucial resource, explaining in easy-to-understand language what exactly the psychological effects of that exposure can look like, and offering parents—and in turn, kids—the tools and […]
SHAME NATION: The New Global Epidemic of Online Hate, Sue Scheff with Melissa Schorr
In today’s digitally driven world, disaster is only a click away. Foreword by Monica Lewinsky A rogue tweet could bring down a business; an army of trolls can run a celebrity off-line; and virtual harassment might cause real psychological damage. Shame Nation: The Global Epidemic of Online Hate (Sourcebooks, October 2017) is the first book […]
CITIZEN 865, Debbie Cenziper
Pulitzer-Prize Winning Washington Post investigative journalist relates the untold story of how a group of historians-turned-investigators at the U.S. Justice Department pursued one of the last great secrets of the Third Reich, a group of killers known as the Trawniki guards, Soviet soldiers recruited by the S.S. out of POW camps, and how more than […]
GHOST IN THE GRIFFINAGE by Heather Shumaker
Adult non-fiction author Heather Shumaker’s debut middle-grade novel GHOST IN THE GRIFFINAGE, about the mid-western Griffin siblings, Meg, Will & Ariel, and their trip to England to visit their Aunt Effie and Uncle Ben, a ginormous, lovable, and drooly Newfoundland dog. Effie’s charming village has a bit of a ghost problem, which would be fine really (What […]
CYBERCIVICS: A Parent’s Guide to Helping Kids Build a Healthy Relationship with Technology by Diana Graber
Digital literacy educator and founder of CyberWise, Diana Graber helps parents teach their digital kids the skills they need to avoid the pitfalls associated with tech while at the same time learning to harness the amazing tools they have at their fingertips so they can build happy and successful lives. (Amacom/World Rights/2019)
THE PHAROAH’S TREASURE: The Origin of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization by John Gaudet
Author of Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today’s Water Wars, John Gaudet, Ph.D’s THE PHARAOH’S TREASURE: The Origin of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization, a multi-disciplinary history of how the first paper fueled the development of Western Civilization beginning in Egypt during the Neolithic period through the introduction […]