John Staughton, Senior Reviewer

A healing balm for troubling times, Cemetery Reflections by Jane Hopkins is a thoughtful gathering of wisdom and compassion, offered through a sensitive portrait of final resting places. Spanning graveyards from California and South Carolina to Massachusetts, Canada, and Chicago, this book is a gentle visual meditation on grief, death, and perseverance. Peppered with poetry and quotes from legendary writers and thinkers, as well as poignant personal reflections from Hopkins herself, this collection is thematically heavy, but it is also imbued with the enduring hope that we can all overcome the pain of loss.

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An eye-opening look into secrets that lay hidden for decades, Running from the Witness Protection Program by Mark Spector is a fascinating dive into a life that feels stranger than fiction. Rarely are there first-person accounts from someone who was truly “in the know” with legendary mobsters, and Spector knows how to hook a reader, revealing some of the inner secrets of mob life, along with personal anecdotes from his own youthful endeavors in organized crime. While this short work could absolutely be expanded into a longer memoir, Spector has a succinct and compelling voice that makes this a captivating […]