Our rock & roll icons can seem other-worldly, so I am not too surprised Griffin and Dev, the aliens in "Dating an Alien Popstar," would choose to pretend to be British pop musicians.
I was a bit surprised to see this comical cover facing me when I entered our East Bank office the other day. Most of what we retrieve from the University of Minnesota's Math Library is rather dry, but every once in a while our science and math books show some humor.
My first thought on seeing the cover of "Cinnamon and Gunpowder" was that it might be about the French Revolution because of the clothing styles, and one character being a chef. I was close on the date at least!
“I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.” ― Eckhart Tolle. I am familiar with this quote, so when I first saw The Dalai Lama's Cat and the Power of Meow, I was not sure if it was philosophy or fiction.