Nikki Nash’s frank, funny memoir "Collateral Stardust" is about growing up in an offbeat Los Angeles family. Nash was the sensitive oldest child in an unconventional family in the 1960s. Her father was a show-business trombonist and... Read More

Cary Gitter’s "Cammy Sitting Shiva" is a poignant, often humorous novel about learning through loss. Cammy is trying to figure out her life. Her playwriting class is the last in a string of courses intended to further her stymied... Read More

"Feed Us with Trees" is Elspeth Hay’s measured, engrossing exploration of nut trees as significant food sources, connecting sweeping concepts in world history, environmental studies, and agronomy. Unpacking food myths, the book... Read More

This heartfelt picture book is a primer on recycling with a lesson on passing along items we no longer need. Teddy accompanies his father on a trip to the dump to sort their recyclables, watch the bulldozers and trash compactors, and... Read More

Delicate and detailed colored pencil illustrations enrich this meditative picture book that encourages appreciation of, and responsibility toward, nature. A child canoes down a jungle stream; shadowy deer trek through a misty forest.... Read More

Austin Carty’s thoughtful preacher’s guide "Some of the Words Are Theirs" is about writing transformative sermons. Carty argues that writing a sermon requires proper preparation, discipline, prayer, and soulful reflection through all... Read More

Chef Chad Hyatt’s cookbook "The Mushroom Hunter’s Kitchen" compiles a range of fascinating and practical information regarding the culinary versatility of wild and cultivated edible mushrooms. A celebration of mushrooms, the fruiting... Read More

"High Desert Blood" covers the 1980 New Mexico prison riot and two brothers with the unfortunate luck of getting caught in the middle. After a failed arson attempt in service of his father’s insurance fraud scheme, Gary Williams... Read More