This is a transcendent exploration of the fascinating people, culture, and landscape of Japan. Patricia Dove Miller’s memoir Bamboo Secrets: One Woman’s Quest through the Shadows of Japan relates experiences both harrowing and... Read More

There is holiness in the stillness and the wild, as it becomes clear in Margo Wheaton’s new collection. Her poems speak of the ways that the earth’s movements translate through human bodies. They personify winds and snows, while... Read More

For a keen birdwatcher like Lynn E. Barber, birds are a way into learning about current conservation challenges. Her "Birds in Trouble" profiles many of America’s endangered birds and gives concrete advice on how to help both... Read More

Peter Neill is a novelist, a maritime nonfiction writer, and the founder/director of the World Ocean Observatory, and he has seen local ocean problems firsthand. His goal with "The Once and Future Ocean", though, is to get the word out... Read More

"Hex" is playful and self-reflective, mixing contemporary culture with folklore. “Once there were two girls and one of them was me,” writes Sarah Blackman in her debut novel, "Hex". By turns fabulous and factual, "Hex" spirals... Read More

As much a garden book as it is a book to cook from, "The Power of Pulses" is a lively collaboration between seedsman Dan Jason and foodie siblings Hilary Malone and Alison Malone Eathorne. Published in celebration of the United... Read More

Historian Robert M. Dienesch’s latest work is an intriguing and incisive study of the transformational period in American history when the federal government retooled defense spending and foreign policy toward communist containment and... Read More

If Nancy Pearson chose to offer life lessons, moralizing, and even a bit of poemtificating about her struggles with meth addiction and depression in this latest collection, we’d forgive her. Indeed, we’d happily climb mountains to... Read More