Love in the Elephant Tent is a memoir and the debut novel of former circus showgirl Kathleen Cremonesi. In 1988, a friend that Kathleen met in Amsterdam managed to cajole her into joining a circus based in Perpignan, France. It was there that she met...

Communicating: The Multiple Modes of Human Communication by Ruth Finnegan is a non-fiction book about the way we communicate with one another. Human communication and interaction is a fascinating topic, and Finnegan covers it well. She suggests that communication is not limited to words...

In a highly interesting and well done book in the category of cultural nonfiction, Why Do We Quote? The Near and Far of Others' Words and Voices by author Ruth Finnegan is a worthwhile read. Pulling from anthropology, cultural history, folklore, cultural studies, socio-linguistics, literary...

The Girl Immigrant by Patricia Ruiz Steele is a wonderful biography of the author's family, specifically Manuela, the author's grandmother. Manuela's family comes from Spain, and they were promised a new life, education for their children, homes and jobs, if they immigrated to Hawaii to...

Motions and Moments: More Essays on Tokyo by Michael Pronko is a collection of essays about life in Tokyo, and particularly how it deviates from the life Western people might be used to in engaging with Eastern culture. Each essay is like a self-contained explanation...

The Book of Orchid is an instructional art book written by I-Hsiung Ju, who was a Professor Emeritus at Washington & Lee University before his retirement and the founder of the Art Farm Gallery where he continued to teach the art of Chinese painting. This...

The Emerging Sensitive: A Guide for Finding Your Place in the World is a self-help book written by Maria Hill. Hill discusses a subset of the population who she and others have defined as being highly sensitive people based on Dr. Elaine Aron's DOES model....

First off, it was the book title that caught my eye: Chickens Eat Pasta made me chuckle. What a clever and humorous title. Inventive too. Then how the author, Clare Pedrick, became interested in moving to Italy intrigued me even further. Imagine being intrigued enough...

Provence, a region in France that stretches from the Mediterranean Sea to the Alps, features a temperate climate that attracts the rich and famous and has done for centuries. There is a lot of history in the area, many interesting vistas to view, and historic...

Have you ever wanted to know the date of the earliest documented snowman? Ever wondered about which world city is the least polluted? If your curiosity spans many different topics in both the natural and man-made world, then Guinness World Records 2016 is the book...