SumoKitty is back with his wise pal Kuma, the grand champion at a sumo training center. Kuma has settled into a teaching position; older now, SumoKitty wishes to “catnap more and chase mice less.” But when a puppy, Chanko-chan, is... Read More

Amir A. Rashidian’s "Cracking the Stress Secret" uses evidence-based medicine to demonstrate how one’s diet, exercise, and lifestyle choices work alongside stress management to improve their overall health. When he was nine,... Read More

Childhood friends reunite, setting off an exploration into the depths of personhood in João Gilberto Noll’s explicit novel "Hugs and Cuddles". A man boards a submarine with a friend whom he calls “the engineer.” On it, German men... Read More

Get ready to wow your guests with classic cocktails and contemporary innovations, all shaken, stirred, or otherwise concocted in around a minute, thanks to Joel Harrison and Neil Ridley’s upbeat guide "60-Second Cocktails". Harrison... Read More

In this wordless picture book, footprints lead from a child’s bedroom out into the snow. The home and landscape scenes they move through include telling details, like stacked plates that show that breakfast has passed, and dog and... Read More

Immigrant Andrea Pons’s vibrant cookbook "Mamacita" gathers the dishes that helped her to maintain a strong sense of culture while she was away from her first home. Noting that Mexican life “revolves around the next meal,” Pons’s... Read More

J. L. Delozier’s eerie mystery novel "The Photo Thief" involves a detective, a murderer, and a teenage girl with unusual gifts. Dan just lost his daughter to cancer; he’s still reeling when he’s asked to investigate a socialite’s... Read More

Luke Dani Blue’s powerful short story collection Pretend It’s My Body chronicles the aftermath of questionable decisions. A tornado picks up a young girl; when she wakes on the ground, she begins to see pictures that she believes are... Read More