Not everyone loves music, but everyone has at least one song that brings back memories. For Rob Sheffield, there are many those. In Love is a Mix Tape, he takes you through his life one song at a time. His experiences become more heartbreaking with each song as they focus on his late wife. Rob creates a book that bears his heart on his sleeve. It will leave you with a renewed faith in music and a need to show how much you love someone by making them a mix tape.

Welcome to North Korea in the 1990's. A place where morality is a luxury and survival is the only goal. LA Times journalist, Barbara Demick gives a very insightful look into the mystery that is North Korea. Using the knowledge she gained as a correspondent in Seoul, South Korea, she follows six defectors: a doctor, a homeless boy, star-crossed lovers, a woman who literally loves Kim Il Sung, and her daughter who hates him. Through those six, Barbara shows us so many contradictions: It is a patriarchal society, yet women become the primary breadwinners; Hatred of capitalism is learned at an early age - however entrepreneurship becomes the difference between life and death; Communism creates a classless society, but North Koreans are denied access to schools, homes, and jobs if they come from a family with a lower status. One of the last totalitarian governments in the modern world, Barbara Demick's real life North Korea rivals Adam Johnson's fictional one.