Perhaps the first serious collector to recognize photography as a worthy art form, Samuel J. Wagstaff acquired more than 26,000 photographs between 1973 and 1984, often with the assistance of his one-time lover Robert Mapplethorpe. His... Read More

What used to be the cause celebre of sailors, convicts, circus acts, and bikers now colors the flesh of 20 percent of Americans—yes, tattoos are suddenly hip and fashionable. With 300 striking photographs, this coffee-table-worthy... Read More

More than a few motion pictures have captivated audiences with the image of a villainous, all-powerful prison warden and, in many cases in our nation’s history of incarceration, the caricature was accurate. But beginning around 1970,... Read More

From the founder of CavanKerry Press, this delightful memoir in verse bears witness to a complicated family history of Ireland’s Troubles, devout Catholicism, fierce maternal strength, aging, death, bitterness, and love. That Joan... Read More

New England cuisine and its piscine bounty are the stars of this outdoorsy new cookbook by acclaimed cookbook author Jennifer Trainer Thompson. At least half of the profusion of color photographs are shot by the shore, and one can almost... Read More

In this award-winning fictionalized autobiography, eighty-nine-year-old writer and educator Marguerite Andersen shares her struggles with the choices she made when love for her children came into conflict with her longing for freedom,... Read More

Gentle, lyrical and personal, this firsthand account of climate change will sway skeptics and inspire believers to activism. Cornelia Mutel, an Iowan ecologist, uses "A Sugar Creek Chronicle" to detail the subtle and grand changes... Read More

This novel threads the large-scale effects of war into everyday occurrences. "White and Red Cherries" examines a period of fascist rule in Slovenia, and the communist years that followed. Through the story of a band of friends whose... Read More