Food is much more enticing and digestible if prepared from scratch in one’s own kitchen. This doesn’t have to be an overwhelming task, as long as you plan ahead and organize your week’s cooking to include healthy and nutritious ingredients. Chay Wike’s The Kitchen Commune...

If you are looking for a fun, fact-filled book that will give you ideas of non-traditional careers, then Quirky Careers & Offbeat Occupations of the Past, Present, and Future by Marianne Jennings is the book for you. Each job includes information about the job, followed...

Whether seeking a job, working at a child or adult care facility, looking for a place to rent, or even considering becoming a part of a reality TV show, background checks are now the norm. While background checks are part of the process, the irony...

Set apart from a host of contemporary political critiques, Psychosocial Political Dysfunction Disorder of the Republican Party employs a mode of analysis through the lens of widespread neuropathology. Daniel Brubaker’s approach is more persuasive than many texts grounded in political history, which detail institutionalized corruption...

Poetry has all too often been pushed aside or completely ignored as nothing more than a difficult genre to understand. We Are Poetry: Lessons I Didn’t Learn in a Textbook by Kym Gordon Moore is something different and shows how poetry teaches us many things...

Quilts serve many purposes from nostalgia and creative fun from hanging it on your wall, giving it away as a gift, or as a special body wrap. When creating a quilt, you can let your imagination run wild when choosing the styles, patterns, and various...

Deep Disinformation by Ashley Parker Owens examines how artificial intelligence can create disingenuous news, videos, and photos, how these fake or manipulated items can deceive those who read or view them, and what that means for today’s world. Chapter titles include Who Creates Disinformation, How...

Noah William Smith provides a useful guide to planning wisely for the year ahead in his work 2024… Your Year of More. The author encourages readers to embrace new experiences and feelings. He promotes adapting to changes the way we did during the pandemic, resting...

Physics Theories United by Bobby Dee Ticer summarizes the laws of physics succinctly. The varied and exciting history of physics, its personalities, and its concepts are brilliantly described. Ticer’s work begins with Newton’s work relating to gravity. Ticer discusses the second law of thermodynamics...

If you enjoy WWII history or anything about the U.S. Marine Corps, Our New Zealand Home: The USMC in Wairarapa by Mark Sydney Pacey is for you. Pacey sets the stage by first discussing the political and strategic situations in Europe and the Pacific theaters...