Using delicious locally grown herbs and botanicals, Mike Wolf’s "Garden to Glass" crafts unique cocktails from gardened and foraged ingredients. Wolf, a talented bartender and foraged-ingredient mixologist, brings a wealth of knowledge... Read More

A hunt for both literal and metaphorical treasures, Sandra A. Miller’s memoir "Trove" is a personal search to answer a lifetime’s worth of deep and difficult questions. Since she was a child, Miller’s eyes have always searched the... Read More

A memoir about finding oneself in the farthest corners of the world, "Bowing to Elephants" follows a path of exploration in vivid detail. Mag Dimond’s memoir Bowing for Elephants is a search for self that looks outward, rather than... Read More

A helpful reminder that no one escapes this life alive, Lori Erickson’s "Near the Exit" is a travel text and an act of religious exploration, presenting spiritual meditations from some of the holiest places on Earth. Erickson developed... Read More

Containing summer friendships, whispered secrets, and a dark, hidden truth, Felicity McLean’s "The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone" is poignant and jarring. Cordelia, Hannah, and Ruth Van Apfel’s disappearances sear through the palpable... Read More

Sam Slaughter’s 90s-themed cocktail book "Are You Afraid of the Dark Rum?" is full of delicious drinks, nostalgia, and just the right amount of corny humor. Puns and plays-on-words are abundant in this book. It induces strong 90s... Read More

In search of ultimate freedom, a broken young girl transforms after a devastating tragedy in Philip Kazan’s "The Phoenix of Florence". Choosing the path of a soldier and then a master swordsman, Onoria completely abandons her former... Read More

When their son, Hudson, begins having behavioral difficulties, Rosie and Don discover what comes with a weighty autism diagnosis. In Graeme Simsion’s "The Rosie Result", ten-year-old Hudson’s struggles to make friends and tendency to... Read More