Melissa Thompson’s enticing Jamaican-inspired cookbook "Motherland" combines a solemn history of the Caribbean island nation with notes about its delicious food and spirited reputation. The daughter of a Jamaican father and Maltese... Read More

Lisa Beecher’s moving memoir "Living with Mr. Fahrenheit" concerns the twenty years she spent as a caregiver for her husband. Police officer Lisa Beecher’s heartbreaking memoir "Living with Mr. Fahrenheit" is about how her marriage... Read More

Steven Washington’s tender text "Recovering You" merges traditional and modern practices into a holistic approach to recovering from addiction. Trained in traditional Chinese medicine, Washington used qigong, a system of movements and... Read More

In 2013, Indigenous botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer released the bestselling Braiding Sweetgrass, a blend of scientific study and memoir that proposed complementing Western ecological ideas with Indigenous ideologies and practices. Monique... Read More

“We make a lot of mistakes, and often we take the wrong path,” writes Oscar Farinetti in "Serendipity", a whirlwind book of forty-eight essays that tour some of the best culinary mistakes to grace humanity’s palate, from Barolo... Read More

Anna Beer’s "Eve Bites Back" is a scrupulous study of the complicated creative realities of eight influential but often unheeded women writers. Beer notes that power dynamics of access and discourse make it challenging for women... 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