Charming horror may sound like an oxymoron, but it is an apt description of Landis Blair’s whimsical graphic novel "The Envious Siblings". Inspired by the works of Edward Gorey, the eight macabre nursery rhymes tell tales of skeletal... Read More

Michael Foley is the ideal author for a book about the future of farming: He operates a small family farm and knows what it means to work the land. He also knows the perils that small farmers face. Foley writes with eloquence and reason,... Read More

The destructive earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster that struck Japan in March of 2011 may be growing more distant in the public consciousness, but in Kimura Yūsuke’s Sacred Cesium Ground and Isa’s Deluge, forceful twin... Read More

"Bioregulatory Medicine" turns the American healthcare system on its head for the benefit of individuals’ health. For all that Americans spend on health care, the nation is decidedly unhealthy, especially when compared to other... Read More

Designed to help its audience prepare for a lifetime of success, "Compounding Your Confidence" is an empowering self-help work. Business management consultant Jill Johnson outlines a clear, constructive strategy for the lifelong work of... Read More

A collection of high-minded inquiries into topics that have long fascinated and, in some cases, stumped major mathematicians, the book approaches math with logic and skepticism. Russell Connor’s Essays in the Foundations of... Read More

“I am blessed with a multispecies family,” Sy Montgomery writes in "How to Be a Good Creature", her memoir of life as an animal lover: “a family made not from genes, not from blood, but from love.” Following her surprise 2015... Read More

In Seth Rogoff’s melancholy novel, "Thin Rising Vapors", a man tries to step out of time in the year-round solitude of a remote Maine summer home. Monkish, Thoreau-quoting Abel is revealed only after his death by apparent suicide, when... Read More