From the Underground Church to Freedom / Tomáš HalíkGerald Turner, translator / University of Notre Dame Press / Hardcover $35.00 (352pp) / 978-0-268-10677-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / With eloquent... Read More

Flitting across the gamut from somber to triumphant, Kate Wisel’s collection of linked stories Driving in Cars with Homeless Men is a cross-sectional depiction of moving through and escaping from abusive relationships. The novel... Read More

Paul Theroux—travel writer extraordinaire, author of more than fifty books, genius storyteller behind The Mosquito Coast and other movies—is an original. You can’t travel for months alone to dozens of wayward countries unless you... Read More

Divide Me by Zero / Lara Vapnyar / Tin House Books / Hardcover $24.95 (360pp) / 978-1-947793-42-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Katya Geller has been making her living as a writer for the past twelve years, all the... Read More

And the Bride Closed the Door / Ronit MatalonJessica Cohen, translator / New Vessel Press / Softcover $15.95 (128pp) / 978-1-939931-75-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / A dark and comic family drama, Ronit Matalon’s... Read More

Savvy travelers get that way through experience. Nobody’s born with artful packing skills or an innate sense of how to lessen the effects of jet lag. That’s a lesson we learned the hard way after many years of attending three or four... Read More

From New England to the American Southwest, Louisiana’s Bayou country to the Pacific Northwest, along with a few pockets in between, the United States boasts an array of regions with distinct, acclaimed food scenes. But for its... Read More

Mr. Penguin and the Fortress of Secrets / Alex T. Smith / Peachtree Publishing Company / Hardcover $16.95 (288pp) / 978-1-68263-130-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / When hundreds of hamsters go missing, only a... Read More