To fish the Bering Sea in January is scarcely short of suicide—equal parts insanity, courage, and incurable love of the water. A Deadliest Catch star, Campbell Jr. writes as well as he fishes, and that’s saying something. Read More

Knitting brings two very different women together after a tragedy in this touching young adult novel. For her first young adult novel, "Close Knit", Linda Marchus borrows a favorite theme of women’s fiction: the crafting circle that... Read More

In 1532, when Christianity first came to the Andes, Spanish colonizers translated Christian texts and music into the native languages and did their damnedest to open the hearts of Andeans to the message of Christ, virgin birth, and the... Read More

Knowing what we now know about our imitative impulses, we can venture forward to the realm of culture, comfortable with the idea that to live in a place is unavoidably to live out the hopes and dreams of that place. Consider "The Glass... Read More

Interviews with some of the world’s top innovators are conducted and smartly organized by a skilled professional. For a book on innovation, what could be more pertinent than interviewing more than one hundred of the world’s leading... Read More

This collection provides invaluable background to the complex and sometimes contradictory origins and teachings of Pure Land Buddhism. The Shin Buddhist Classical Tradition: A Reader in Pure Land Teaching is a beautifully written and... Read More

Menken illustrates how kids and adults are teachers and students, and how parents are not only raising their children but also improving their own inner lives. Parenting never really ends. Instead, as Dawn Menken’s book "Raising... Read More

Deftly organized, this guide to yoga provides runners with thoroughly explained methods for avoiding injury and improving health. Runners are prone to a wide variety of injuries, and Christine Felstead, runner, yoga teacher, and... Read More