Bruce Smith Author Spotlight

Hidden Shelf Apr 20, 2021 13 min read Bruce Smith is a wildlife biologist and an award-winning author of five books of natural history, conservation, and outdoor adventure, including Life on the Rocks: A Portrait of the Mountain Goat, which won the National Outdoor...

Send Judah First Giveaway

Hidden Shelf Feb 25, 2021 8 min read Black History Historical Figures Martin Luther King, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Oluadah Equiano; all familiar names that have been readily adopted by American history. These Black history figures have been canonized for...

Dr. Anthony Todd Carlisle on Family Legacy

Hidden Shelf Feb 18, 2021 11 min read Dr. Anthony Todd Carlisle on Family Legacy Family When I think of family, I think of fragmentation.  I was nurtured in the Pennsylvania mill town of Ambridge, raised by my maternal grandparents, Perry and Ellen Carlisle. My...

Non-Fiction November

Hidden Shelf Nov 23, 2020 24 min read As the spring blossomed into summer and assumptions of a temporary quarantine faded into a more dismal reality, I stacked my new books back on the shelf in favor of some old favorites. I needed the familiar cadence of pages I had...

Author Spotlight Featuring Scott Ziemer

Hidden Shelf Jun 28, 2020 11 min read Basic info: Full Name:  Scott Ziemer Printed works: Jiemba & Friends Current Projects: Jiemba II, III, Background, Growing up, and a little bit about yourself: Where did you grow up? Lakewood, (Southern) California Describe...