As a thought experiment, ask yourself how close the USA might be, exactly, to becoming another quasi-, tin-pot democracy led by an authoritarian figure, along the lines of Putin’s Russia and Erdogan’s Turkey? What types of damaging... Read More

Learn the logic behind strange creature names through this collection of humorous, clever, and often downright absurd monikers from the animal kingdom. Interactive notes, glossaries, and activities make this a fun choice for... Read More

Katherine Snow Smith muses on the vicissitudes of life in her essay collection "Rules for the Southern Rulebreaker". Smith’s twenty-two essays follow a loose chronology. The daughter of a prominent Southern journalist, Smith also... Read More

Chris Schapdick found his passion in tiny house building and made it a second career. With "Building Your Tiny House Dream", he turns his attention to mentoring others through the building process. The book’s warm, openhearted style... Read More

Ed Rosenthal’s gripping "Salvation Canyon" is about a desert hike gone wrong and a transformative, face-to-face confrontation with death. Rosenthal, a sixty-four-year-old real estate broker and poet, was no newbie to solitary desert... Read More

In his novel "The King of Taos", Max Evans chronicles the lives of friends who wile away their days drinking in a local bar and thinking up ways to make a little money in their tourist-heavy New Mexico town. Set in the 1950s, Evans’s... Read More

Whatever wilds you conquer or quests you undertake, the most complicated excavations are those that are internal; so a team of adventurers learns in Jean-Baptiste Andrea’s breathless and heartbreaking novel, "A Hundred Million Years... Read More

If you are in tune with using food as medicine, "Spice Apothecary" will earn a prized place on your shelves. In it, Bevin Clare summarizes the healing properties that are inherent to various plants and traditional remedies within many... Read More