if you like the idea of giving a "good read" to someone you love, here are just a few ideas. I'm including a brief summary of what the book was about and a link to the full article where you can buy the book on either Amazon.com or Bookshop.org.

Imagine my delight when I saw an announcement of The Rainbow Atlas: A Guide to the World’s 500 Most Colorful Places. Taylor Fuller is credited as the main author, and six other travel and photography writers contribute to make this book an absolutely stunning tour of the globe’s most glowing, graphic, eye-popping vistas.

Squanto's story is not the simple story of helping the Pilgrims that I thought it was. It involves kidnappings, pestilence, politics, and power struggles.

Reading voraciously is only half the battle; remembering what you’ve read is the other. That’s where your book journal comes in. Decades after you’ve read a work, you’ll recall the basic elements of a book just by the notes you made.

The framework of the novel is based on the real “Rajah” quilt, the appliqued coverlet now in the care of the National Gallery of Australia. The quilt depicted in Dangerous Women is the only extant, historically documented quilt made by convicts.

The framework of the novel is based on the real “Rajah” quilt, the appliqued coverlet now in the care of the National Gallery of Australia. The quilt depicted in Dangerous Women is the only extant, historically documented quilt made by convicts.

The Dictionary of Lost Words is a look at not only how the Oxford English Dictionary was created under the direction of James Murray, but also how it omitted the words of women.

Given the suggestive evidence compiled from scholarly articles, popular opinion, and anecdotal evidence, I’d like to reconsider Santa’s role as a good guy. He is taking credit — with a wink and jolly guffaw — for work he doesn’t do. You’ve heard the old phrase, “Behind every good man is a woman?” Mrs. Claus is at home slaving away, paying attention to details. All Santa does is sit and supervise, then drive around in a fancy vehicle one night of the year.

Nathan Evans has made the sea shanty and whaling songs popular again. There's a reason this sing-along, rhythmic art form has lasted for centuries.

What happens when five Chinese American students receive an offer to steal back five pieces of valuable art that has been misappropriated by the best art museums of the world?

Do you keep reading a book you don't like thinking it will get better? For the first time in years, I quit, deciding that too many books await that will delight me!

Clare Leslie Hall's Broken Country is a bestselling novel dealing with love, grief, and the impacts of trauma on a marriage with a plot twist that shocks you!