With her folksy, enthusiastic style and rich assortment of recipes, Walters could be one of the keepers of the twenty inns she highlights in this travel guide/cookbook. Walters divides her book into sections by ski lodge. Each section... Read More

When an old colleague dies in Indiana, Dorothy Martin is summoned back to the Midwest from her expatriate exile in England. Martin enthusiasts know her as a feisty, seventy-year-old widow with a quirky hat fetish, remarried now to a... Read More

Genius and madness can be very close. Or so says Dan Seagrave, the fictional voice in Baker’s Testosterone. As the title suggests, the work is aggressive, edgy, and definitely male dominated, revealing a life fueled by love and... Read More

Using the personal anecdotes and stories told by American women from all over the country about their relationships to guns, Homsher demolishes the high walls that divide the polarized anti-gun, pro-gun national debates, revealing a... Read More

Short story collections are tricky beasts, mixing many lives in a unifying style, be the tone wry, solemn, anxious, or deadpan. In this, her second collection after The Circles I Move In, Lefer might be narrating a museum’s audiotape,... Read More

Ever heard someone described as a “born salesperson”? According to the author, who has more than thirty years of sales experience, a truly successful salesperson is made, not born. With one key technique, documented thoroughly in... Read More

Can a freelance writer actually make enough to pay the bills, find creative fulfillment, and have fun at the same time? Bowerman certainly thinks so, claiming to be living proof that one need not be a “crackerjack writer to make a good... Read More

At the beginning of her work on revitalizing the self, Gibson writes, “There is nothing you can do about what interests you or energizes you. It is simply who you are. Trying to change this, not accepting this, will always result in a... Read More