By Heather Pisani-Kristl | La Mesa Reads In American fiction, colorful police investigators, detectives, forensic pathologists and lawyers ply their...

By Heather Pisani-Kristl We’ve all heard about the benefits of mindfulness meditation, but how many of us have sat down...

By Heather Pisani-Kristl | La Mesa Reads When condolences, comedy, and legislation can be tweeted in 280 characters, the long-form...

By Heather Pisani-Kristl | La Mesa Reads This summer, it’s been impossible to avoid media coverage of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong...

By Heather Pisani-Kristl | La Mesa Reads As we noted in June, the theme of the library’s Summer Reading Challenge is...

By Heather Pisani-Kristl | La Mesa Reads On the surface, reading memoirs is a curious pastime. We latch on to...

By Heather Pisani-Kristl Political demonstrations, refugees detained at airports, city sidewalks lined with tents, and people displaced by far-away wars...

By Heather Pisani-Kristl Veterans Day was originally known as Armistice Day for the cessation of fighting between Allied forces and...

By Heather Pisani-Kristl | La Mesa Reads Like most political campaigns, the current presidential race has been replete with hilarious...

By Heather Pisani-Kristl | La Mesa Reads In her June release, “Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War,” nonfiction writer...