John Cribb’s sweeping historical novel "The Rail Splitter" covers Abraham Lincoln’s early days, charting his path from a rough-hewn log cabin to the White House. This biographical novel brings Lincoln to life, including during his... Read More

Maria Rodale’s "Love, Nature, Magic" is an intriguing essay collection about shamanic communication with animals and plants in a garden. An avid gardener, Rodale found herself wondering what some of the unwanted species found in her... Read More

A collection of Tampa Bay Times columnist and English professor Bill Maxwell’s columns, "Maximum Vantage" tackles weighty issues, including racism, civil rights, censorship, worker exploitation, environmental preservation, and carrying... Read More

Amy-Jane Beer’s memoir "The Flow" is about the drowning of a friend and how it almost destroyed her love for rivers. In 2012, Beer’s friend group set out on a New Year’s Day kayaking trip. One friend, Kate, never came home. For... Read More

Love, loss, and sacrifice are at the center of Michael X. Wang’s historical novel "Lost in the Long March". The moment orphaned Ping sees Yong, he knows she is the one. Ping is a gunsmith who joined the Chinese Red Army to make a... Read More

In Arthur Shattuck O’Keefe’s mystery novel "The Spirit Phone", historical figures try to prevent an otherworldly monster from entering the human world. When Aleister Crowley teleports into the hotel suite of Nikola Tesla, it is a... Read More

In the luminous essays of Priyanka Kumar’s "Conversations with Birds", birds are a portal to reclaiming childhood connections with nature and the lush, wild landscape of northern India’s remote mountains. Torn from her roots by a... Read More

With its stunning illustrations, "Wild Sonoma" will entertain oenophiles and naturalists as they visit Northern California’s wine country. This book is compelling in suggesting that, after you’ve sampled a juicy cabernet or an oaky... Read More