Where Bears Roam The StreetsParkers exquisitely titled book is as off kilter as a Kurt Vonnegut novel, and wholly absorbing. Macleans Jeff Parker went to Russia intending to write a book about the countrys resurgence as a major global superpower under President Vladimir Putin and about the emergence, for perhaps the first time in history, of a Russian middle class. But Russia tends to resist any attempt to pin it down. In the midst of the social and financial upheaval of the

and driven the government forces from the planet

Jokes My Father Never Taught Me is both lovingly told and painfully frank: the story of a girl who grew up adoring her father even as she feared him—and feared for him—as his drug problems grew worse

and the kids have been kicked out of school and left to their own devices

resilience and dreams

Akin to Smile by Raina Telgemeier

And Ellis also harbors a second

Know if health will be a cause for concern

she thinks she knows where and howher journey will end

This book is a positive light and guide to overcoming not only addiction but the challenges and obstacles that affect us all

Ella’s resentment grows

Karen Halloway is a philosophy PhD candidate

With trademark humor