If you like learning about great American authors, or if you had to do a paper on F. Scott Fitzgerald, you’ve come to the right place.  Fitzgerald, author of The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise, The Love of the Last Tycoon, and numerous wonderful short [...]

Usually, we give you reference books or source books – books to read ABOUT something, so that you can learn.  Sometimes that gets kind of old, doesn’t it?  This edition of 7 Books is about fiction – the best stories about vampires.  They are listed here in order of publication, and there is a very [...]

You know the rhyme.  “Lizzie Borden took an axe.  And gave her mother forty whacks.  When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.”  The trail of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and her stepmother took the United States by storm in 1892, when Borden was 32 years of [...]

Who knows why, but people laugh at flatulence.  That famous scene from Blazing Saddles, whoopee cushions, and a host of other scenarios drive home the fact that, like it or not, people think farts are funny.  Granted, it’s not something you want to do during a wedding ceremony, for instance, but there are probably hundreds [...]

Maybe you like to stick to the internet and use how to videos to learn how to do things like change a tire, make a Baked Alaska, or whatever.  But for the really specific stuff, you may still have to turn to the printed word.  Submitted for your approval – 7 How-To books for things [...]

When it comes to exposing children to literature, there are two rules:  the earlier the better, and the better the more beneficial.  Once your child is 8 years old, they’ve likely learned to read and have already been influenced by popular culture, media, and their friends.  In reference to the statement above, “better” books mean, [...]

Home security is essential; we spend billions of dollars every year on home improvements and our homes also contain our most precious and valuable possessions and most of all, our families live there too!  It’s vital we take all necessary precautions to deter and prevent incidents from happening in and around the home so we [...]

Dogs are our best friends – in some cases they are the only ones who loves us unconditionally, who are happy no matter what is going on in our lives, who will cuddle with us even when our feet are stinky. Even so, it is important that we are able to communicate with our best [...]

Cover via Amazon Aristotle proclaimed that, “The law is reason free of passion”, and becoming a lawyer has been the career destination for young people from all walks of life for centuries.  It is no accident that most of the major political leaders over the last 300 years had their academic and professional grounding in [...]

Living with allergies is more than a chore for many sufferers, it can also mean the difference between life and death with some allergies deeply affecting the welfare and health of those with them.  Some allergies, such as peanut allergy, create a serious constraint on the lifestyle and eating habits of those afflicted – especially [...]