Tag Archives: books

April is Autism Awareness Month and national award-winning children’s author and parenting/autism expert Julia Cook recently answered questions about her new book 'Uniquely Wired: A Book About Autism and Its Gifts' that focuses on a young character named Zak who has autism.

'Magic and Miracles: 100 Years of Moving Imaging Science and Technology' comes from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and is a highly recommended (4 star) hard cover reference book is full of visual technology history. 

This Walt Disney Pictures’ fantasy film, adpated from the 1962 award-winning Madeleine L'Engle novel, has good intentions with young characters challenged to “be a warrior” for the Light, but is notably underdeveloped and comes recommended with reservations (2.5 stars out of four).

An interview with Peter Stamm, author of 'To The Back of Beyond'

In 'Fear' Dirk Kurbjuweit takes an existential look at family

First diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 16, in 'Mental: Lithium, Love, and Losing My Mind' Jaime Lowe looks at her 20 plus years taking lithium and the drug itself.

I’ll never give up writing and editing, but I would like to pursue some documentary projects and possibly create a radio show or some other way to reach larger audiences.

New technology in 100 years may be so unrecognizably advanced, it’s impossible to predict its effects. Still, it’s safe to say that books will stick around for a long time to come. Book lovers, rejoice!

Great novelists are artists, floating above the earth like butterflies. Writers of non-fiction are common laborers stumping along in steel-toed work boots, looking to raise a scaffold.

Jeffrey Hillard, a professor at Mount St. Joseph University, has written a new book titled 'Shine out of Bedlam'.