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Ann Aguirre is our guest blogger during the week of April 6th. If you have any questions for Ann Aguirre, add a comment to any of her posts.

Here is more information about Blue Diablo:

 "Gritty, steamy and altogether wonderful urban fantasy."-New York Times Bestselling Author Patricia Briggs

"Right now, I'm a redhead. I've been blonde and brunette as the situation requires, though an unscheduled color change usually means relocating in the middle of the night. So far, I'm doing well here. Nobody knows what I'm running from. And I'd like to keep it that way..."

Eighteen months ago, Corine Solomon crossed the border and wound up in Mexico City, fleeing her past, her lover, and her "gift". Corine, a handler, can touch something and know its history-and sometimes, its future. Using her ability, she can find the missing-and that's why people never stop trying to find her. People like her ex, Chance...

Chance, whose uncanny luck has led him to her doorstep, needs her help. Someone dear to them both has gone missing in Laredo, Texas, and the only hope of finding her is through Corine's gift. But their search may prove dangerous as the trail leads them into a strange dark world of demons and sorcerers, ghosts and witchcraft, zombies-and black magic...

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Evan Wright is our guest blogger during the week of April 6th. If you have any questions for Evan Wright, add a comment to any of his posts.

Here is more information about Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnut's War Against the GAP, and Other Adventures with the Totally Lost Tribes of America.

From the award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author of Generation Kill, a reporter's immersion in outsider cultures-"His style owes more to Hunter S. Thompson than to any sort of political correctness" (Newsday).

From his work as a reporter at Hustler magazine, to his National Magazine Award-winning writing for Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair, Evan Wright has always had an affinity for outsiders-what he calls "the lost tribes of America." The previously published pieces in this collection chart a deeply personal journey, beginning with his stark but sympathetic portrayals of sex workers in Porn Valley, through his raw portrait of a Hollywood überagent-turned-war documentarian and hero of America's far right. Along the way, Wright encounters runaway teens earning corporate dollars as skateboard pitchmen; radical anarchists plotting the overthrow of corporate America; and young American troops on the hunt for terrorists in the combat zones of the Middle East. His subjects are people for whom the American dream is either just out of grasp, or something they've chosen to reject altogether. Sometimes frightening, usually profane, and often darkly comic, Hella Nation is Evan Wright's meticulously observed tour of the jagged edges of all those other Americas hiding in plain sight amid the nation's malls and gated communities. The collection also includes an all-new, autobiographical introductory essay by the author.

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Amy Tiemann is our guest blogger during the week of April 6th. If you have any questions for Amy Tiemann, add a comment to any of her posts.

Here is more information about Mojo Mom: Nurturing Your Self While Raising a Family - read an excerpt.

Mojo Mom helps you answer the question, "Who Am I Now that I'm A Mom?"

What is Mommy Mojo? It's the feeling you get when you're a parent at the top of your game, juggling the kids and the many facets of life, and keeping your own needs in balance. Motherhood is a tremendous gift, but it's also a huge identity shift. Becoming a Mojo Mom means bringing your self and your dreams back into focus, while still giving your family the loving attention it needs. It may sound like a fantasy, but it can be done.

Mojo Mom shows women practical ways to:

* Prepare to become a Mom without losing your identity
* Survive and enjoy the intense early years
* Save some of your best energy and creativity for your own ideas and dreams
* Reenter the workplace or take on a new path with confidence and ease
* Learn the key elements to the long-term success of your marriage
* Become a Naptime Activist-and change the world in just an hour a week
* Rise above the "Mommy Wars" between stay-at-home and working moms
* Use motherhood as an opportunity for reinvention

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Unfurled (once you start looking for this one, you will notice it in every piece of literary fiction published in the last 50 years)

Moist

Litany

Embedded

Lozenge

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What I found as I was writing What to Read When was that parents and teachers have strong feelings about how they would like to convey values to their children and students but it's not always easy to figure out how to initiate those conversations. Books can help so much to raise and educate children who are healthy emotionally, spiritually and physically. Children's literature is an underutilized tool to convey a sense of connectedness to others and of care for humanity.

A book like Planting the Trees of Kenya by Claire Novola gives a child an image of how one person, a woman from humble beginnings can improve the lives of thousands of people.

The Wednesday Surprise by Eve Bunting provides an opportunity to discuss with your child how many people the world over cannot read and what each and every one of us can do to help solve that problem.

Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco opens up conversation about prejudice and how we navigate difficult moments with humanity and grace.

My book What to Read When is, in addition to providing book titles I hope you will all love, also about those conversational spaces between the pages of the books we read to our children.