In his memoir "Portrait in Red", L. John Harris pursues multiple avenues (and delightful detours) in an attempt to solve an art mystery in Paris. Harris, who attended art school at Berkeley in the 1960s, arrived in Paris on magazine... Read More

"Into the Thaw" is Jon Waterman’s gripping firsthand account of the impact of development and climate change on North America’s Arctic landscape. In his powerful memoir, Waterman documents “extraordinary changes” in the Arctic... Read More

The secrets of communication and cooperation among trees and their fungal and faunal allies are revealed in the graphic adaptation of Peter Wohlleben’s memoir "The Hidden Life of Trees". Wohlleben, who worked as a forester, narrates,... Read More

The fresh, informative essays collected in "Sex Work Today" concern challenges faced by those engaging in modern erotic labor. According to the authors in this collection, the stigma and stereotypes surrounding erotic labor often obscure... Read More

Marked by good humor, "Dancing with the Dragon" is a keen businessman’s memoir about daunting, emotionally draining challenges within the world of high-power international business and politics. Patrick Jenevein recalls lessons that he... 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

The fictions that underlie racism and how they affect the way Americans perceive reality are dissected in Sarah Lewis’s eye-opening history text, "The Unseen Truth". In his 1861 speech “Pictures and Progress,” Frederick Douglass... Read More

Prohibition-era anthropomorphic cats try to operate an illegal speakeasy in the intricate graphic novel Lackadaisy: Volume 2, a volume born as a webcomic that has seen animated treatment. In 1927 in Saint Louis, Missouri, widowed Mitzi... Read More