Sexy meets satisfying in "Perfect Pairing", Rachel Spangler’s latest novel. Hal Orion, a “blue collar meets bleu cheese” food truck chef hits the big time unexpectedly. Mixed in with the other fruits of her success is Quinn... Read More

To be whole, human beings need to both “wake up” and “grow up.” But while spiritual practices leading to waking up have been around for thousands of years, the stages of growing up have only been discovered by Western schools of... Read More

"When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors" focuses on a serious problem by presenting meaningful solutions. At a time when books about conservation often and understandably focus on challenges and failures, Beth Pratt-Bergstrom’s "When... Read More

See’s voice is warm but informative—she’s sharing what she knows but not telling women what to do. Pregnancy is a time of joy, wonder, and unsolicited—even coercive—advice. The Field Guide to Pregnancy: Navigating New Territory... Read More

The undertone of a wordless answer to loneliness and doubt runs beneath its lines of elegantly crafted prose. "The Universe Playing Strings", by R. M. Kinder, is a tapestry of middle America threaded with music, as souls drift into each... Read More

As much a garden book as it is a book to cook from, "The Power of Pulses" is a lively collaboration between seedsman Dan Jason and foodie siblings Hilary Malone and Alison Malone Eathorne. Published in celebration of the United... Read More

James Joyce’s life, like much of his work, can be something of a mystery, a puzzle to untangle. Alfonso Zapico gives a thorough and masterful pictorial retelling of Joyce’s life in James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner: A Graphic... Read More

Gentle, lyrical and personal, this firsthand account of climate change will sway skeptics and inspire believers to activism. Cornelia Mutel, an Iowan ecologist, uses "A Sugar Creek Chronicle" to detail the subtle and grand changes... Read More