Reeves Gilmore’s memoir "Adventures of a (Mostly) First Class Guy" is a sassy account of a man’s life. The voice in this memoir is unique and fresh: this book is pure fun. This memoir structured around the places he has been... Read More

Here is E.L. Alban’s paean for the complexity and richness of words those “filigrees of language …. like seedlings on the furrows of a field / that blossom into gardens / on the expanses of the soul.” Alban presents twenty-one... Read More

The horse-centered economy created a vast market for…such handicraft industries as…the construction of wagons carriages buggies and sleighs…beautifully functional with a different kind of wood for each part. — Samuel Eliot... Read More

Kate Franks Klaus arrived home at one o’clock on a November Saturday afternoon following a morning spent shopping at an art fair. One minute she was showing her husband the pottery bowls she’d bought, and then next minute she was... Read More

In Geauga County, Ohio, cows do indeed learn Dutch. So do horses and dogs and pigs. In this Amish settlement, the fourth largest in the U.S. and Canada, more than 1,800 households speak Pennsylvania Dutch, at home and on the farm. The... Read More

Like lifting the hood of one of the many new cars that the now-closed Cadillac plant in Detroit, Michigan rolled out over the years, opening this book gives readers a look at the inner workings of the people who built the cars that... Read More

“We’re never fully in the now, never free of the past and future. The only people who really live in the right-now are kids,” realizes middle-aged Cora, as she watches her young grandson Billy catch lightning bugs one summer night.... Read More

This exceptional book opens with a black and white photograph of a bathroom with a swirl of sticky-looking muck on the floor and a few droplets splattered across the side of the toilet. Since there is no color, it takes a moment to... Read More