"The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook" is Becky L. Diamond’s entertaining guide to late nineteenth-century holiday sweets, decorations, and customs. Studded like a literary plum pudding with recipes, illustrations, and Christmas lore, it... Read More

Suggesting means of fostering environments that are conducive to children’s social development, Creating Social Superstars is an experience- and research-based parenting guide. School administrator Noel Schmidt’s parenting guide... Read More

Viewing movements toward women’s equality through the lens of riding horses, Eliza McGraw’s "Astride" is a charming history book. At the turn of the twentieth century, just as horse-riding began to go out of fashion for society men,... Read More

A cookbook rooted in warm memories of stories and meals shared around tables laden with comforting home-cooked food, Jan A. Brandenburg’s "The Modern Mountain Cookbook" honors both the long-held traditions of generations of Appalachian... Read More

In Leslie Gentile’s sensitive novel "Elvis, Me, and the Postcard Winter", a girl’s relationship with her mother is centered. From the Eagle Shores Indian Reserve in Vancouver Island, twelve-year-old Truly settles into life with Andy... Read More

Phyllis Gobbell’s novel "Prodigal" tells a parabolic story of homecoming in a Southern small town. Connor, a preacher’s son, is cast adrift after becoming an accomplice in the Independence Day shooting of a convenience store clerk.... Read More

Plant physiologist Rebecca E. Hirsch’s botanical reference text "A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants" explores the fascinating, often grisly world of dangerous plants. Clear and precise, the twenty-three chapters each cover a... Read More

Eve Driver and Tom Osborn’s spirited, conversational book What We Can’t Burn concerns how activism and entrepreneurship might interact in the struggle to mitigate the climate crisis. Driver and Osborn met as Harvard classmates. They... Read More