Get ready to dine with some of history’s most intriguing men and women in Pass the Pandowdy, Please, a slice of history centered around the table manners and cuisine preferences of over a dozen notable adventurers, artists, founding... Read More

Music writer Martin Hawkins searches for the origins of Baton Rouge blues and the man posthumously credited with establishing the sound and the town on the global music scene, in Slim Harpo: Blues King Bee of Baton Rouge. Harmonica... Read More

Both a scientific overview and blueprint for implementation, this work examines strategies for weight loss and muscle maintenance. "Lean Gains" by Jonathan S. Lee offers readers an overview of the science behind losing fat while... Read More

Accessible, funny, and insightful, Haraway’s "Early Men" earns its place in a new wave of appreciation for literary short story collections. Britt Haraway’s literary short story collection, "Early Men", provides eleven different... Read More

The collection does everything poetry should do, offering fresh perspectives on the familiar while teasing the imagination. F. Scott Fitzgerald once apologized for writing a long letter by saying he didn’t have time to write a shorter... Read More

“Call me a bigamist, if you like,” writes Michael Engelhard, a wildlife biologist and consummate storyteller whose passion for two vastly different American landscapes, separated by twenty-five hundred miles, has made him kin to... Read More

From the early days of spring through the rainy autumn season, meadows and forests are inhabited by a curious community. "Tales of the Mushroom Folk", from Signe Aspelin, peeks into the whimsical world of mushrooms, from the evilly... Read More

Inventive and original comedic touches make this riff on fantasy standards a satisfying read. Tiger BlackHawk’s morality-fueled fairy tale "The BlackHawk Meets the Tiger" is an entertaining and humorous fantasy mash-up in which a... Read More