“Traveling, experiences, and food go hand in hand for me. When I travel, I try to taste everything that is typical of the country I’m visiting. My book is based on this attitude and is intended to invite you to travel through time... Read More

In the Garden Behind the Moon / A Memoir of Loss, Myth, and Magic / Alexandra A. Chan / Flashpoint / Softcover $24.95 (432pp) / 978-1-959411-54-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Alexandra A. Chan is an archaeologist, and... Read More

Talking Beauty with Fred Neveu, Author of Seeing Beauty: A Lifetime of Landscape Photography / If, like Fred Neveu, you spent much of sixty years peering through a camera lens looking for beauty, there is little doubt you would find... Read More

Toronto’s Filipino community has a friend in today’s guest, Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio. Through her educational initiative Filipino Talks, she has built bridges between immigrant Filipino families and thousands of school teachers and... Read More

The Shabti / Megaera C. Lorenz / CamCat Books / Hardcover $29.99 (336pp) / 978-0-7443-1009-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / A former confidence man confronts a haunted ancient Egyptian artifact while running from his... Read More

Hope, Always / “Now, as forever, there is hope.” These words preface beloved novelist Bret Lott’s Gather the Olives, a memoir of his time among friends in Israel and Palestine. They were written in the after—in a time when war... Read More

“I’d say that illustrating a plant requires looking at it more holistically than studying it scientifically generally does. It forces you to see and understand how the different elements come together, rather than just examining them... Read More

100 Rooms / Haya ShenhavYirmi Pinkus, illustratorGilah Kahn-Hoffmann, translator / Kalaniot Books / Hardcover $19.99 (32pp) / 978-1-962011-99-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Bright contrasting colors and funky patterns... Read More