Drawing from her Appalachian roots and degrees in nutrition, Ashley English’s "Southern from Scratch" shows how to stock your kitchen with whole-food goodness, from sweet treats in the freezer to sparkling jars of home-canned pickles.... Read More

An international adventure with a thoughtful layer of emotion, "Diamonds Are for Never" is a smart choice for young readers. When stolen diamonds begin washing ashore from Indonesia to Dubai, an elite task force of teenage spies known as... Read More

Tuscany and Provence—does anywhere else on earth deserve equal standing alongside those two glorious places? Beautiful, of course, but also fertile, temperate, and richly cultured with longstanding traditions in agriculture, cuisine,... Read More

"Mindful Me" by Whitney Stewart is a children’s guide to a relaxed, happy, self-aware life. The book provides life-changing skills of the sort that even adults seldom have. Childhood is full of overwhelming emotional... Read More

"Feed the Baby Hummus" presents a wide array of good choices that parents can make during their baby’s first year. With decades of experience as a pediatrician, Lewis knows just how challenging it can feel to make good choices in the... Read More

In Jessica Levine’s absorbing and entertaining "Nothing Forgotten", a middle-aged woman’s past intrudes upon her present, despite all of her efforts to leave it behind. Anna Stark leads a calm, seemingly happy life in California. She... Read More

Humans “imagine every adoption of their behaviors to be an advancement. I see it otherwise, as downdrift, the seepage of traits across species.” So posits the Archaeon, the 3.8-billion-year-old creature who narrates Johanna... Read More

Linda A. Curtis’s memoir captures a religious family grappling with the aftermath of one of their own questioning her faith and choosing a new path. "Shunned" is about family, self-discovery, and spirituality; it explores the... Read More