Check out The 13 and a half Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers

Need something silly?
I admit it. I totally judged this book by its cover, which features tiny pirates and a large blue bear.... ...

Crows: encounters with the wise guys of the avian world

By Candace Savage

From Aesop’s Fables to the crow dance, crows have been capturing people’s imagination for centuries. Besides myths they...

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Check out Lunch at the Piccadilly by Clyde Edgerton

Carl Turnage is a sweet middle age man caring for his last living relative, Aunt Lil, who is staying at the Rosehaven Convalescent Center after a... ...

A bereaved father's tender portrait of his daughter, Alex.

Famed sports writer Frank Deford lost his daughter Alexandra to cystic fibrosis when she was only eight years old.

In Alex: The Life...

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Mystery writer Christine Andreae (Grizzly, Trail of Murder) shares her experiences as a new hospice patient-care volunteer in the teary and absorbing When Evening Comes.  Andreae becomes...

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