Ananth Hirsh and Yuko Ota have created a cottage industry of cute, with the publication of Lucky Penny in spring 2016, a variety of online projects at their site www.johnnywander.com, and now a thick collection of their autobiographical... Read More

In South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s, Kellie Jones, MacArthur Fellow, illuminates the historic forces and migrations that gave rise to the groundbreaking black artists and artistic communities... Read More

Music writer Martin Hawkins searches for the origins of Baton Rouge blues and the man posthumously credited with establishing the sound and the town on the global music scene, in Slim Harpo: Blues King Bee of Baton Rouge. Harmonica... Read More

This is an entertaining, informative, and moving account of one man’s push down the Camino de Santiago. In "Taking My God for a Walk", veteran publisher Tony Collins sets off down the Camino de Santiago, using his considerable... Read More

Nothing makes love more appealing than a dash of forbidden romance, plus a generations-old rivalry. Add Spanish sunshine and stir gently. Luz de Rueda is a gorgeous young biographer, freshly returned to her aristocratic family’s villa... Read More

Christopher Steinvold merges science fiction and social satire in this quirky and highly entertaining look at first contact in the not-too-distant future. When Earth looks up one night and sees, “Coca-Cola” scrolled across the full... Read More

It all started with a visit to a garden run by local college students; seeing the colorful heirloom tomatoes, Charles Mann planted his own and began pondering how tomatoes are emblematic of New World species that spread around the globe.... Read More

This significant work clarifies the challenges that black players encountered during the pre-free agent era. Mitchell Nathanson hits a four-bagger with this richly researched biography of baseball legend Dick Allen that reveals the... Read More