Books having to do with the Middle East always interest me, and especially those set in Iraq. This is a region that the author says is “older than the flood.” It is a land that has been ruled at one time or another by the...

Alesa Lightbourne’s Bad Ass Grandma: Living Large, Finding Awe redefines what it means for an older woman to be Bad Ass after all the former trappings of the rat race begin to lose their old authority. Lightbourne shows that this identity is not built through...