Southpaw
by Dennis Gilfeather
SOUTHPAW is a raw, swaggering memoir-novel hybrid that thrives on voice. Dennis Gilfeather’s narrator speaks in a furious, self-mocking, aggressively ...
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Family History Reunion Guide
by Xavier V. Nolan
Family History Reunion Guide is a methodical, practical handbook that treats genealogy not as a hobby of nostalgia but as an act of disciplined stewar...
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Library of Democracy
by Quentin P. Yarrow
Library of Democracy is an earnest, architecturally coherent meditation on the civic meaning of libraries, and its strongest quality is the seriousnes...
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Common Ground Democracy
by Quentin P. Yarrow
Common Ground Democracy is a compactly argued civic brief rather than a narrative book, and it is most effective when read as a sustained meditation o...
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Civic Foundations
by Quentin P. Yarrow
Civic Foundations is a sustained argument for public schooling as one of democracy’s indispensable institutions, and its central virtue is that it nev...
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City Harvest
by Willow McDonald
City Harvest presents itself as a practical guide to urban agriculture, but its deeper ambition is civic: it wants to persuade readers that growing fo...
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Century-Strong
by Taylor R. Yates
Century-Strong is a practical, unpretentious guide to the maintenance of a long life, and its strongest quality is also its clearest literary identity...
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Bed Care Basics
by Clara J. Zane
Bed Care Basics is, on the evidence of the supplied text, a practical manual that takes an everyday subject and treats it with unusual seriousness. It...
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Baguette to Pan Bagnat
by Lucien Delacroix
Baguette to Pan Bagnat is less a conventional cookbook than a guided tour through the cultural symbolism of French sandwiches, and it is at its strong...
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The Ant Collective
by Nora F. Mercer
The Ant Collective is an ambitious synthesis of ant biology that aims to do more than catalogue insect facts. Across its ten chapters, it builds a sus...
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Slug Signals
by Nora F. Mercer
Slug Signals is an unusually attentive work of natural history, one that makes a familiar creature feel intellectually expansive without ever romantic...
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Buried Lineages
by Nora F. Mercer
Buried Lineages is an admirably focused work of natural history and evolutionary explanation, one that takes a creature many readers dismiss as a gard...
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The Woodpecker Signal
by Nora F. Mercer
The Woodpecker Signal is an ambitious, intelligent work of popular science writing that uses one bird family to think about behavior, biomechanics, ev...
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Worms in Motion
by Nora F. Mercer
Worms in Motion is an ambitious work of popular evolutionary biology that takes an unfashionable subject and uses it to ask genuinely large questions....
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Tech Etiquette for Teens
by Emma Stewart
Tech Etiquette for Teens is a plainspoken, highly practical guide that aims to bridge a gap many families know well: the distance between adult concer...
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Action Plan for Active Kids
by Dr. Lora-Ellen McKinney
Action Plan for Active Kids is a narrowly focused parenting guide that argues, with tireless conviction, that household chores are not a domestic nuis...
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How to Cure a Cranky Kid
by Dr. Lora-Ellen McKinney
How to Cure a Cranky Kid is less a brisk parenting manual than a sustained attempt to reassure worn-out caregivers that toddler turbulence is both nor...
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Love Island Lessons
by Brielle Z. Dalton
Love Island Lessons is less a fan book about a reality series than a cultural essay about what dating has become for Gen Z, and that is both its main ...
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100 Questions That Shape Faith
by Felix Upton
100 Questions That Shape Faith is, by design, a catechetical book for readers who want Christianity explained in plain language without being flattene...
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The Harmonic Geometry of Existence
by ian hills
Ian Hills’s The Harmonic Geometry of Existence is an unusually ambitious and conceptually unified work: a book that seeks not merely to interpret a fi...
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One Inch Between Life And Death Updated And Revised Second Edition
by Steven A. Hauer
One Inch Between Life and Death: Updated and Revised Second Edition is a deeply sincere memoir that turns a single catastrophic moment into a meditati...
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They Were in Prison and I Visited Them
by Terry L. Olson
They Were in Prison and I Visited Them is an earnest, deeply felt, and ultimately moving work of Christian witness that reads like both a memoir and a...
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Living the Blues
by Fito de la Parra
Living the Blues is exactly the kind of rock memoir that reminds readers why music history, when told from the inside, can feel stranger, funnier, sad...
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The Last Viracocha
by Douglas Schofield
The Last Viracocha is the rare kind of genre novel that manages to be both exuberantly entertaining and intellectually ambitious. Douglas Schofield op...
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