"Keeping It Halal" is compellingly relevant and paints a picture of the modern Muslim-American experience. Comprehensive fieldwork and engaging candor elevate John O’Brien’s Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American... 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

Looser’s work lovingly explores how Austen became a permanent fixture in classic English literature. Devoney Looser’s fascinating "The Making of Jane Austen" excavates the trends, politics, and tastes that shaped Austen’s legacy.... Read More

Marie Deans was a strong writer, and her words have an immediacy that nicely contrasts with the thorough biography of her life. For about three decades, Marie Deans devoted herself to fighting the death penalty, first in South Carolina... Read More

This unique novel builds a romance into Croatia’s history. A sweeping tale of love and setback, Blanka Raguz’s historical romance "Ballad for Emma" encapsulates major events in the early twentieth century. The story begins in Croatia... Read More

It’s a zig-zag journey with author Bill Esparza, redolent of chiles, citrus, and freshly made tortillas, to sample the dazzling varieties of Mexican-American cooking through sprawling Los Angeles. Forty profiles of cooks and artisan... Read More

This remarkable collection demonstrates that art, even in a form as humble as the weekly newspaper comic strip, can be transformative. Panic Fables compiles 284 comic strips from Alejandro Jodorowsky, published between 1967 and 1973.... Read More

This peek inside the massive Manhattan project is fascinating to read. In her highly readable "Polonium in the Playhouse", Linda Carrick Thomas sheds light on a deliciously eccentric piece of WWII home-front history—the transformation... Read More