42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams collects a lifetime’s worth of the celebrated author’s notes, correspondence, and photographs, along with tributes from famous friends. Beginning with report cards and school pictures,... Read More
"On Her Plate" is a positive, woman-centered look at healthy living. Modern medicine offers women a bevy of remedies, but the medication-centric approach leaves many longing for more. The women in this book have sought and found a deeper... Read More
Mark Twain famously spent his later years writing his autobiography, which per his instructions was published a full century after his death, but he always spun stories about his life with varying degrees of accuracy. In the lengthy and... Read More
One of the important things about craft is the ability to preserve and document traditional methods and pass on cultural information to the next generation. "Oaxaca Stories in Cloth" captures the rapidly disappearing stories and... Read More
An intriguing speculation on William Clark’s involvement in a plot to separate Kentucky from the fledgling United States. In "The Unknown Travels and Dubious Pursuits of William Clark", author Jo Ann Trogdon explores Clark’s early... Read More
Like James Carter’s The Living Universe and Stephen Hawking’s and Leonard Mlodinow’s The Grand Design, Jean Paul Corriveau’s "A Personal Journey into the Quantum World" is more than a primer on quantum physics. Through a précis... Read More
Creative Crossfire:The second in a new series of books features a well-known Harvard psychologist and a baker’s dozen of his thoughtful critics. Thirteen scholars review his life’s work, and he replies to each. For those who like... Read More
When we read about life in places such as Baghdad or Gaza most of us cannot imagine a life under occupation. Lois Glass Webb’s second novel The Spectre of Death Rode the Land: A Southern Family Caught Up in the Union Invasion of... Read More