reviews

The starman reveals all... Author:  Neil deGrasse Tyson He was one of my childhood heroes.  The genius behind the popular 1980 PBS series Cosmos, Carl Sagan served up large platefuls of awe and inspiration during my awkward teen-age nerd years.  In the twenty years since his untimely death, no one has more successfully filled the man’s cosmically large shoes than Neil deGrasse Tyson.  Author of numerous books, creator of television shows and the director of the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium, Tyson may be America’s most well recognized scientist.  In a daring feat of science popularization, he attempts [...]

Collections of Loss Author: Michelle Brafman Centered around an up-scale and seemingly benign Washington, DC neighborhood, Bertrand Court takes a look at the complicated roots that bind lives and communities in both ephemeral and poignant ways. Some of the connections are nascent – lives that whisper and glide next to each other, perhaps just over the white picket fence, and some of them are all encompassing, allowing for viewpoints and sides and endless complications – heartbreak and hope, different sides of the same ever spinning coin. Each story has the timeless quality of real life – a moment stolen here and there [...]

Beer, Horror Movies, and Old Lace... Author: Matt Ferraz With fall in the air and pumpkin-spice everything on the shelves, it’s a good season to cuddle up with a kitty or two and indulge in a cozy mystery. The first in the Grandma Bertha Solving Mysteries Series, The Convenient Cadaver pits a quirky old lady with a love for horror movies and a penchant for beer at any time of the day, against a conniving killer. What ensues is a romp that is eccentric, hilarious, and tense, all at the same time, giving readers that essential dose of cozy alongside some daring shenanigans [...]