Hello, Cruel World!
Melinda Wenner Moyer, a Philipstown resident, follows up her 2022 book, How to Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes, with a guide to “science-based strategies for raising terrific kids in terrifying times” that she wrote after interviewing specialists in psychology, education, information literacy, technology, business and addiction. Moyer will speak at the Desmond-Fish library at 2 p.m. on
Saturday (May 31).
Roll the Sun Across the Sky
The latest novel from Philipstown resident Barbara Linn Probst is about “a woman’s struggle to face her reckless history, with its trail of damage and deception, and her quest for the redemption that might still be possible.”
Spatial Alchemy
Olga Naiman, a Philipstown resident, blends her expertise in interior design and clinical psychology with spiritual practices to create an approach to “home transformation.” The manual includes instruction on how to harness color, texture and symbolism to “shift the energy” in your home and how to select an “emotional regulation chair,” among other tips.
To Be Worthy in Honor
Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong, a retired Current reporter who lives in Cold Spring, won the 2024 Chaucer Award for the best historical novel set in the Middle Ages for To Remain Vigilant: Book I of the Epic of Hotspur. Its protagonist is Sir Harry Percy, considered England’s greatest knight in 1399, who raised a crucial question that still resonates: Is the king above the law? The story continues in the newly released To Be Worthy in Honor: Book II of the Epic of Hotspur.
