by Laura | Jan 13, 2016
The Power of Music As Confucius wrote in The Book of Rites, “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” Music can fuel our imagination, fill us with emotion, and inspire us to move to its beat. Music can heal and connect us. In The Power...
by Laura | Jan 12, 2016
Get ready to take a great ride with writer, political activist and social organizer Gloria Steinem in her new memoir, My Life on the Road. In it she gives an up close and personal account of her “lifetime of travel, activism and leadership,” and a profound story of...
by Laura | Jan 8, 2016
Not Your Mother’s Book….On Being a Woman is the first in a series by Dahlynn and Ken McKowen, co-authors of the Chicken Soup for the Soul franchise, and ghost creators of many more Chicken titles. With this expertise, they make the perfect team to for an anthology...
by Laura | Dec 8, 2015
I recently had the pleasure of corresponding with a lovely Chinese woman named Zhang Jingjing about the book, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie Chang. It tells untold stories about the lives of the migrant factory population in China. I...
by Laura | Dec 1, 2015
The New York Times’ list of notable books of 2015 brought to mind some of my favorite books we reviewed here in 2015. Here are just five of my nonfiction favorites of 2015: 5 Nonfiction Favorites The Unspeakable and Other Subjects of Discussion: Author,...
