Beneath the restrained tones, there’s also elation. "In the Province of the Gods" is a delicately wrought memoir that chronicles shifts in self-perception. Kenny Fries examines spiritual, historical, and cultural facets of Japan while... Read More

A passion for cocktails as they exist in the American South translates through this work. "The Southern Foodways Alliance Guide to Cocktails" is full of tantalizing recipes, beautiful photographs, and wonderful stories of the people and... Read More

The human body has nearly 700 named skeletal muscles, so it stands to reason that an ideal exercise would make use of every last one—a tall order, to be sure. The full-body-workout gold medal for sporting events may go to the swimming,... Read More

George Fell, an unsung conservationist and founder of the Nature Conservancy, finally receives his just due in this extremely detailed biography. His life stands as a testament to tenacity as the single most important component to... Read More

This travelogue is an informative look at some of the smaller islands and countries of West Africa that most travelers never encounter. Birgit Kobold and Uta Bretschneider present a tidy account of their sailing voyage in "The Most... Read More

What’s revealed in these stories, as so often in life, is that “the only thing separating well-being from danger [is] a line in the sand.” Don Waters’s second short-story collection, "The Saints of Rattlesnake Mountain", is a... Read More

The stories in this collection are funny, often poignant, and not easily forgotten. The thirteen coming-of-age stories in Scott Gould’s terrific collection, "Strangers to Temptation", share a common narrator remembering his teenage... Read More

This important teen guide performs two crucial functions: educating teens on numerous myths associated with sexual assault, and showing teens how to help both themselves and their friends. Given that teens are, according to the author,... Read More