"Valter of Salt Lake City", a chef’s lush memoir, shares a generous philosophy of food. A decadent chef’s memoir, Valter Nassi’s "Valter of Salt Lake City" celebrates the culinary and philosophical grounding that led to his lasting... Read More

Stacey Simmons’s The Queen’s Path is a self-help guide to women’s sovereignty that exposes patriarchy’s hostility toward women and suggests ways to break free of cultural and social expectations. Arguing that women are burdened... Read More

Queer romance and time travel blend together in J. M. Frey’s novel "Time and Tide". After a painful breakup with her girlfriend just before a planned trip to Spain, Sam boards the flight alone. The plane crashes. When Sam wakes in the... Read More

Written in time with Lake Powell’s water level decline, Life After Dead Pool is Zak Podmore’s clear-eyed but hopeful assessment of the potential restoration of Glen Canyon. After years of severe drought, Lake Powell’s plummeting... Read More

Set in the Canadian tundra and propelled by a twenty-five-year-old mystery, Gerard Beirne’s exquisite novel "The Thickness of Ice" is a love story that’s also about culpability and redemption. Jack, Wade’s best friend and a... Read More

Indicting Canada’s parliament, banks, health-care system, and media for failing to protect protesters’ rights, "210° Celsius" is a passionate contemporary polemic. Barry W. Bussey’s contemporary political text "210° Celsius"... Read More

The allegorical novel "The Alchemy of The Beast" follows as a once-busy woman redefines her sense of what’s ordinary. An unexpected trip to Central America is healing for a young entrepreneur in Alyssa Noelle Coelho’s allegorical... Read More