This dense but well-structured philosophical text endeavors to examine the cultural causes of climate change. Drawing from the Enlightenment, American culture is fiercely individualistic. But is that a constructive attitude when that... Read More

There are cookbooks from which one simply cooks the recipes, and cookbooks like Chef Sherman’s, from which one learns how and why to cook. Chef Sean Sherman’s The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen is the culmination of years of... Read More

This newly translated novel explores timeless themes of acceptance and struggle with power, grace, and insight. "For Two Thousand Years" is a profoundly moving novel that brilliantly captures the complex tensions of Eastern Europe prior... Read More

Katie Green’s memoir, "Lighter Than My Shadow", offers a personal, finely wrought examination of life with an eating disorder, as well as of the repercussions of abuse. Warning signs appear early. Young Katie seems obsessed with... Read More

Kellie Wells seems never to have met a sentence she couldn’t enhance, a list she couldn’t extend, or a story she couldn’t send airborne. The fifteen contemporary fables of underdogs, oddballs, and misanthropes in Kellie Wells’s... Read More

The line between a novelist and her creations blurs in this swift psychological thriller. "Lies She Told" blurs the line between fact and fiction to plumb the depths of a woman on the brink of collapse. Liza is a thriller writer who... Read More

Boyd paints a vivid portrait of a young woman entrepreneur’s defiant and revolutionary spirit. Natasha Boyd’s "The Indigo Girl" introduces an all-but-forgotten, real-life historical figure, Eliza Lucas, while providing a fascinating... Read More

"The Day Ends Like Any Day" illustrates the ways in which human beings carry their pasts with them no matter where they go. Timothy Ogene’s lyrical, coming-of-age novel "The Day Ends Like Any Day" follows Sam, a young Nigerian man, as... Read More