A cookbook rooted in warm memories of stories and meals shared around tables laden with comforting home-cooked food, Jan A. Brandenburg’s "The Modern Mountain Cookbook" honors both the long-held traditions of generations of Appalachian... Read More

As a young woman in 1972, Liese Greensfelder took what was supposed to be a short-term summer job working on a sheep farm in the mountains of rural Norway. She recounts what happened instead in her engaging memoir "Accidental Shepherd".... Read More

Pithy and persuasive, "Seeking Fairness at Work" helps to make contemporary workplace issues feel tangible and easier to address. H. Hasl-Kelchner’s leadership guide "Seeking Fairness at Work" covers the unwritten company rules that... Read More

A significant resource for collectors, "Cigar Box Lithographs: Volume VI" focuses on cigar box label depictions of Native Americans. Written by a collector of cigar boxes since the 1950s, Charles J. Humber’s "Cigar Box Lithographs... Read More

Alternative Schools in British Columbia, 1960–1975 is a comprehensive and cogent history of a movement that prompted progressive changes in Canadian education. Harley Rothstein reviews the birth, decline, and legacy of the alternative... Read More

Eric Cook shows off the bold flavors and spirit of multicultural New Orleans and his Gris-Gris and Saint John restaurants in the vibrant cookbook "Modern Creole". Cook grew up crabbing, hunting, and fishing in south Louisiana, developing... Read More

Métis storyteller Chris La Tray’s expansive memoir "Becoming Little Shell" began as a compassionate inquiry into his father’s rejection of the family’s Native American heritage. Haunted by questions of identity after his... Read More

An Armenian child of refugees muses on ancestral stories as vehicles of connection and identity in this moving picture book. Though far from the places her ancestors called home, she embraces the traditions they passed down to her, such... Read More