Marie Carter’s cultural history text "Mortimer and the Witches" focuses on infamous fortune-tellers and the nineteenth-century New York cityscape they occupied. Mortimer Thomson wrote for a variety of newspapers under the pseudonym... Read More
A riveting true crime story from history, Alex Hortis’s "The Witch of New York" chronicles the misogynist frenzy surrounding a notorious murder trial. On Christmas in 1843, a gruesome discovery horrified the close-knit community of... Read More
Rowena Scherer’s family cookbook, "A Taste of the World", collects accessible recipes, interesting facts, and easy-to-follow instructions for colorful, interactive cooking experiences. An organic outcropping of the eat2explore... Read More
Marcia A. Zug’s detailed social history You’ll Do covers the evolution of marriage via its economic and cultural motivators. Though the book examines other non-romantic motivations for love, such as colonists marrying Indigenous... Read More
In "The Celestial Garden", Jane Hawley Stevens reveals how gardening timed to the rhythms of the celestial bodies helps plants, and gardeners, to thrive. Stevens’s inspiring, practical book uses a potent mix of ancient wisdom, modern... Read More
Islam Issa’s "Alexandria" is an outstanding biography of a unique city, describing how the Egyptian locale changed from its founding by Alexander the Great into the modern day. “Despite its classical renown and enduring impact,... Read More
Great organizations empower and celebrate their employees, argues the enthusiastic business book "Inspiring Work Anniversaries". Filled with interesting and offbeat ideas, "Inspiring Work Anniversaries" by Rick Joi is a business book... Read More
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young’s insightful book "Wrong" investigates the political and philosophical reasons why people rely on information that they know is false. While living in Philadelphia, Young struggled to make sense of the green,... Read More