Tastes Better from Scratch is a solid, meat-and-potatoes cookbook that will inspire cooks at all levels. Sometimes simple is best when it comes to food, as Lauren Allen’s Tastes Better from Scratch demonstrates. Allen specializes in... Read More

In the musing science fiction novel "Geodysseus", a scientist races to uncover the truth about a vehicle that crashed in the desert. In Joe Costanzo’s science fiction novel "Geodysseus", a Death Valley find prompts fears of a Russian... Read More

A twist on liberated feminism, the memoir "The Virgin Chronicles" models romantic fortitude. Marina DelVecchio’s pointed memoir "The Virgin Chronicles" follows her adamant quest for a love that warrants sex. DelVecchio was born in... Read More

Alice Carbone Tench’s cookbook "Eating Again" couples delicious flavors with a deep sense of person and place. Tench began to cook as a means of recovering from eating disorders and her loss of identity as wife and mother. This book... Read More

"The Chronicle of the Ostmen" is a fascinating historical novel; set in the mid-ninth century, it follows as the Vikings invade what are now the British Isles. An Irish boy is kidnapped and enlisted into a Viking army in Ian McKay... Read More

Beth Kephart’s multifaceted memoir "Wife | Daughter | Self" is about the relationships that shaped who she is and how she sees herself. In these exploratory essays, Kephart writes about her marriage, her husband, her aging father, her... Read More

Informed by Kaiseki cuisine and Zen Buddhism, Malte Härtig’s "Vegan Recipes from Japan" is an elegant cookbook that reveres cooking rituals. Härtig writes: “Cooking with love. That’s the essence.” For him, minimalism is key in... Read More

In William Baer’s mystery novel, a private eye finds love, lust, jealousy, and justice as he unravels a decade-old murder case in the Garden State. Stylish and sarcastic private investigator Jack Colt takes on a cold case after its... Read More