The Scroll of Chaos is about a young Chinese girl named Astrid Xu who has always wanted to help her mother escape her depression. When she finds the Scroll of Chaos with her little sister, Marilla, she thinks it may be the key to managing her mother’s depression; but, the scroll has other plans. Instead […]
We garden together is a really fun book! This books is packed with a ton of backyard gardening experiments that we can do together as a family and help grow our own food! I haven’t completed all the experiments but I really liked the one where you start your own beans in a baggie taped […]
How to combine a memoir, a family narrative, and a retrospective of creative art? With grace, diligence, and intense feeling, Jana Zimmer weaves the elements together. Her Holocaust story reminds us that each sequence of recollections is unique. Early pages of Chocolates from Tangier appear to reveal a series of Zimmer’s therapy sessions, a chronicle […]
Rather than a book about the civil rights struggle in Selma, Alabama, this is a story about a middle-class happy family and the everyday life therein. Because of the title of this book, the reader will be kept in suspense, hoping that this happy Brown family will be spared what befell so many Selma families […]
Charles Frazier’s name is synonymous with sweeping historical fiction that brings seemingly lost worlds to life: Cold Mountain, Nightwoods, and more. His latest, The Trackers, has some of that same feeling, but it lacks the urgency that makes his earlier novels hum. Painter Val Welch has been sent to Wyoming to paint a mural in […]
Izzy loves the art that she sees at an art museum. She decides that she would like to create her own art. So Izzy finds inspiration in the world around her to create her own art. It all starts when she looks at the sun and starts with a little bit of yellow. It takes […]
Fox and Bear live happily in the forest. Bear wants to live a simple life, but Fox is very handy and creative. This leads to Fox creating more inventions, which Bear is unsure of, and how they are creating an impact on the world around them. The artwork in this book is really cool, it […]
The book Owl and Penguin has several shorter stories about the characters Owl and Penguin, who are best friends, and how they help each other out and cheer each other up when they need it. In one of the stories, it is raining, and Penguin is outside playing, but Owl isn’t sure about getting wet; […]
Rolly Waters is listening to a story from his newest client, a nurse named Lucinda Rhodes. Rolly previously made Lucinda’s acquaintance when a previous case of Rolly’s nearly killed him. Lucinda recently lost her father, Gerry. Her father had left her a photograph of an unidentified man holding a guitar. Rolly’s knowledge of guitars is […]
Ken Kesey, the famous author and infamous explorer of inner space, once said “you don’t get anything for free. Everything causes bruises.” While he was referring to the effects of psychedelics on the brain, the same is true for life in general. People suffer life traumas that leave hidden bruises on the psyche and impact […]
