"Finding Our Niche" is a thoughtful environmental proposal that circles ideas of reconciliation and reintegration with nature. Philip A. Loring’s thought-provoking environmental history text, "Finding Our Niche", considers the myths... Read More

By turns funny, heartbreaking, and inspiring, Barbara Brown Taylor’s sermon collection "Always a Guest" delights in the possibilities of God and faith. Made up of sermons that Taylor delivered while guest preaching during important... Read More

In Faulkner’s Shadow is a lively literary memoir set in Oxford, Mississippi, the hometown of famed novelist William Faulkner. Oxford has produced more writers than most places. There’s competition, Lawrence Wells says, to see who... Read More

A cache of handwritten recipes tucked in an antiquarian cookbook inspired this lively account of Arezzo’s history and culture. From the Etruscans to the present day, Elizabeth Romer captures the Tuscan city’s culinary traditions of... Read More

D. A. Mishani’s "Three" is a gripping novel that begins with an affair and continues through the salacious surprises and everyday horrors of contemporary dating. What pains Orna most about her recent divorce is that her ex-husband is... Read More

Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s shimmering essay collection about fantastic creatures and plants, "World of Wonders", is shot through with memories of her peripatetic life and observations about race, motherhood, and environmental issues. Fumi... Read More

Collecting Lars Brown’s three-part web comic series in color, "The Complete Penultimate Quest" uses a fantasy setting to probe deep existential questions. On a remote island, Harald prepares to go adventuring in a dungeon with his two... Read More

When Andrea L. Lingle, a Christian mother of three, learned that the baby she carried in her womb had died, her once firm faith in God turned to ashes. "Into a Reluctant Sunrise" is her story of how, despite her devastating grief, she... Read More