Peter Hiller’s illuminating biography "The Life and Times of Jo Mora" tours the works of one of the most productive, multitalented artists of twentieth-century America. Containing two hundred photographs of Mora’s work and excerpts... Read More

Steven Raichlen’s "How to Grill Vegetables" is an instant classic that brims with imaginative treatments of fruits and veggies, whose natural sugars reach “supernatural sweetness” when altered with smoke and fire. Plant ingredients... Read More

In "The Kissing Bug", Daisy Hernández recounts watching her aunt die from a little known or understood disease. Years later, Hernández set out to learn more, and entered into a harrowing medical mystery. Hernández’s memories of her... Read More

Polly Samson’s escapist novel "A Theater for Dreamers" is set in 1960 on the quaint Greek island of Hydra—a haven detached from the rest of Europe, where artists roam free and unencumbered. After eighteen-year-old Erica loses her... Read More

Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s "Women and Leadership" takes a global look at women in places of power. The book examines the lives of eight prominent leaders from a variety of countries and continents, including Ellen Johnson... Read More

In Kaitlyn Greenidge’s powerful coming-of-age novel "Libertie", a freeborn Black girl’s hunger to define her own boundaries carries her across an ocean and back. The darker daughter of a light-skinned, widowed homeopath, Libertie... Read More

"Complicit" is an intense thriller whose strong women refuse to be bullied by bad men. In Amy Rivers’s thriller "Complicit", old friends are thrown together to solve the mystery of a disturbing death that reveals a long-hidden truth... Read More

The heartrending memoir "Logjam of a Beauteous Mind" is a humane account of a couple’s love for each other. Peter Simon Karp’s memoir "Logjam of a Beauteous Mind" concerns his care for his wife during her time with cancer. Karp left... Read More