"The First Year" collects the fertile, knowledgeable, and imaginative observations and fiction exercises of a retiree who found and embraced his creativity. D. Burton Smith’s charming, semi autobiographical book, "The First Year",... Read More

With a play-by-play tone and copious statistics, "Pro Basketball in 1939-40" is a text made for sports aficionados. In "Pro Basketball in 1939-40", John Hogrogian, a sports history researcher and retired attorney, focuses on the... Read More

The memoir "By the Hand of God" graduates from health crises to spiritual realizations in a moving way. Wendi Landis-Talkington’s inspiring memoir "By the Hand of God" is about battling illness and pain through faith. Just before... Read More

Arne and Carlos are known for their whimsical knitting designs, and their "Field Guide to Knitted Birds" is a colorful, inspiring introduction to a habit-forming knit genre. The book’s small bird projects are all worked in the same... Read More

Informed by Kaiseki cuisine and Zen Buddhism, Malte Härtig’s "Vegan Recipes from Japan" is an elegant cookbook that reveres cooking rituals. Härtig writes: “Cooking with love. That’s the essence.” For him, minimalism is key in... Read More

Ellen Zachos is out to convert audiences with Forager’s Pantry, an inviting, easy-to-follow guide to tasty, wild plant ingredients that grow all around us, waiting to be harvested and eaten. Glowing photographs and simple yet alluring... Read More

When a hit-and-run kills a South Carolina teenager who was bicycling after dark, the fallout leads a community to ruminate. Jon Sealy’s "The Merciful" is a searing novel in which public judgments and personal reckonings spiral from a... Read More

Discussing both problems with American health care and potential solutions, Abdul El-Sayed and Micah Johnson’s "Medicare for All" acknowledges that “health insurance doesn’t make health care affordable, and it doesn’t protect you... Read More