By Lucy Knisley First Second, $17.99, 192 pages The genetic offspring of a talented chef mom and an epicure dad, amazingly talented Lucy Knisley has drafted a graphic memoir of her growing up within the circle of ‘foodies’ that imprinted her love …
By Louise Aronson Bloomsbury, $24.00, 272 pages Physicians are trained to examine the human condition, and many doctors have translated their observations into classic books. Louise Aronson, who serves as an associate professor of medicine at University of California, San Francisco, is …
By Alice Munro Knopf, $26.95, 336 pages Alice Munro is a noted Canadian short story writer who does not give the reader the usual prescriptive scenario of a descriptive narrative rich in character study which culminates in a happy ending. …
By Nina G. Jablonski University of California Press, $29.95, 178 pages Noted anthropologist Nina Jablonski has taken on the sensitive topic of skin color, the first visual identifying trait gleaned by the beholder of others. With an engaging writing style, the reader …
By Duncan J. Watts Crown Business, $16.00, 368 Pages That the obvious choice is usually a quick regret is a proverb that Duncan Watts might agree with, and while it is habitually repeated that a commonsense approach is usually more effective than …
By Bruce Rogers Chronicle Books, $19.95, 144 pages Bruce Rogers does not whisper; he announces loud and clear all that you’d want or need to know about the exotic orchid. Once the queen of exquisite corsages, orchid plants have become abundantly …
By Jerry McGill Spiegel & Grau, $22.00, 192 pages Why do bad things happen to good people is an unanswerable question. A random event, a shooting by an unknown sniper, hits thirteen-year-old Jerome McGill in the cervical spine and transforms this …
By Noemie Vialard W. W. Norton & Company, $24.95, 144 pages Don’t worry if you lack garden space, now you can place all you plants on a wall. Instead of looking at your flower or veggie patch horizontally, instead think of …
By Marc Agronin Da Capo Lifelong Books, $15.00, 320 page In this youth obsessed culture, aging is a topic that is shunned. Yet all of us, if fortunate, will ultimately attain the golden years. For those lacking the experience, Dr. …
By Eric Sandweiss Oxford University Press, $39.95 240 pages Chronicled in this classic collection of Kodakchrome photos is a pictorial history of America in the years between 1938-1969. The photographs are spellbinding as they relate the changing emotions of the landscape …
By Christopher Elliott Wiley, $24.95, 209 pages Part of one’s basic education should include learning to recognize and avoid scams. Con artists parallel the emergence of new products and rely on the gullibility of the consumer. Chris Elliott is both …
By Gerard Girasole, M.D., and Cara Hartman, CPT Harlequin, $16.95, 272 pages “This book will make the fear of back pain and the panic disappear, as it will tell you what to do, why you’re doing it, and how to move …
By Joseph Epstein Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25.00, 256 pages Like forbidden fruit, why is gossip so appealingly seductive? Even when it’s known that this form of hearsay has not been corroborated, why does the listener attend to the story? It …
By Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo Free Press, $26.00, 256 pages Rapa Nui, more commonly known as Easter Island, is a small 63-square-mile island isolated in the Pacific Ocean. What makes this island so captivating are its inhabitants, somber iconic gigantic …
By Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo Free Press, $26.00, 256 pages Rapa Nui, more commonly known as Easter Island, is a small 63-square-mile island isolated in the Pacific Ocean. What makes this island so captivating are its inhabitants, somber iconic gigantic …
