by Laura | Apr 27, 2016
I recently learned of what I could tell is a very moving book about baby elephants that have been orphaned as a result of poachers slaughtering their parents for their ivory. And indeed it is. Melanie Davis of my book review team writes this review of the book:...
by Laura | Mar 29, 2016
Upon receiving a review copy of Peggy Orenstein’s latest book, Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape, from her publicist at HarperCollins, I recalled another book of hers I really enjoyed, Cinderella Ate My Daughter. Here is a look back at...
by Laura | Feb 24, 2016
Nancy Owen Nelson’s entire life has been haunted by the death of her grandmother, Nannie B Russell Chandler, who passed away only an hour after giving birth to her mother. Nancy imagines her mother, also named Nannie, grappling with the knowledge that her birth was...
by Laura | Feb 3, 2016
by Natalie Klempel Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers offers the reader a chance to experience the different aspects of body donation. There are so many different avenues that a cadaver can end up following body donation that many people do not know about....
by Laura | Jan 26, 2016
At the beginning of a new year, many of us start and are trying to stick to our new year resolutions. A common one is – Get organized! Purge what I don’t need! If this sounds like something you have promised yourself this year, here is the book for you:...
