"Straight Lady" is the untold story of an iconic, underappreciated talent who helped to shape early Hollywood comedies. Chris Enss and Howard Kazanjian’s "Straight Lady" is the biography of Margaret Dumont, best known for playing... Read More

Immigrant Andrea Pons’s vibrant cookbook "Mamacita" gathers the dishes that helped her to maintain a strong sense of culture while she was away from her first home. Noting that Mexican life “revolves around the next meal,” Pons’s... Read More

A soldier with the German SS during World War II is confronted about his involvement sixty-five years later in the gripping graphic novel "The Journey of Marcel Grob". Marcel is an eighty-three-year-old retired engineer when he faces a... Read More

Mary W. Kerr provides plenty of inspiration and tips for working with worn quilts and orphaned blocks in "The Art of Make-Do Quilting". Old quilts and unfinished blocks can often be found in antique and thrift stores, prompting quilters... Read More

In the science fiction novel "Faded Glimpses of Time", relationships are strained when temporality becomes muddled. Nyah Nichol’s science fiction novel "Faded Glimpses of Time" toys with the consequences of time travel and... Read More

Sociologist Gillian Ranson’s "Front-Wave Boomers" concerns what’s facing those on the verge of “(very) old age.” Interrogating the concerns of baby boomers—a group brimming with vivacity and ideals, even as they face the... Read More

María Sánchez’s memoir concerns the inequalities that women face in the Spanish countryside, even as rural communities fade away. Sánchez works in a field that’s dominated by men: just 2.2% of field veterinarians in Spain are... Read More

A noir set in contemporary Manila, the graphic novel "After Lambana" combines elements of magic with Filipino mythology. Conrad has a terminal disease called Rose. He meets with a mysterious figure, Ignacio, who says that he can help.... Read More