FROM MY SHELF TO YOURS

  • King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World

    For her new book King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World (Alfred A. Knopf 2017; $35), Joan Nathan, the multiple James Beard award winner, followed in the footsteps of Jewish traders as they circumvented the globe centuries and even millenniums ago. As they traveled, they brought the food cultures…

  • Matt Moore’s Secrets to Good BBQ

    When it comes to barbecue, geography is everything. That according to Matt Moore, author of the recently released “The South’s Best Butts: Pitmaster Secrets for Southern Barbecue Perfection.” He explains how barbecue differs in the 12 southern states he calls the Barbecue Belt. And just to end the suspense, Indiana is definitely not one of…

  • My Cubs: A Love Story by Scott Simon

    Change is an important part of life says Scott Simon, now a devoted husband and father who at one time was  happy being single and childless. But for Simon, the award winning host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday, there’s one change that’s just not going to happen. Enamored (or should we say obsessed) with the…

  • Marisol Murano’s Valentina Goldman Books Now Available as Audiobooks

    When Marisol Murano’s first novel Valentina Goldman’s Immaculate Confusion hit the shelves five years ago, readers were delighted at her heroine’s brash and completely unique voice that shone through in every short and sweet chapter. Reading the book is a lot like gossiping with your best friend–if your best friend is a no-holds-barred Latina who has recently…

  • Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo

    The spark for his second novel stems from what it means to be an adopted child from a land very far away says Boris Fishman, author of (Harper/HarperCollins 2016 $26.99) which was just named as one of the 100 best books of 2016 by the New York Times, Fishman, who was born in Minsk, Belarus…

  • Duck Season: Eating, Drinking, and Other Misadventures in Gascony, France’s Last Best Place

    When David McAninch first moved to Plaisance du Gers, a small village in Gascony, with his wife Michele and their young daughter, Charlotte, he was going full-force Francophile by indulging a dream he’d nourished for years—to become part of French village life, a move he chronicles in Duck Season: Eating, Drinking, and Other Misadventures in…

  • Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists

    Call it the case of the disappearing sculpture for that’s what started Donna Seaman on her quest to chronicle the lives and works of the seven female artists featured in her just released book, Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists (Bloomsbury 2017; $35). “I remember going to the Chicago Art Institute and seeing this…

  • Blissful Basil: Over 100 Plant-Powered Recipes to Unearth Vibrancy, Health & Happiness

    Finding a sense of peace and contentment in her life by eating healthier and follow a menu of plant based of Vegan meals, Ashley Melillo began blogging while earning her graduate degree in school psychology. Eating whole food helped Melillo deal with the anxiety and stress of her life. And she shares her food philosophy…

  • The Restoration of the Calumet Region by Kenneth Schoon

    In a time when so many issues seem insurmountable, Dr. Kenneth Schoon, professor emeritus of science education at Indiana University Northwest, has written a book about how community activists, government entities and corporations have all worked together to turn around the once vastly polluted lands and waters of Northwest Indiana. “It’s nothing short of miraculous,”…

  • Munster resident Kimberly Kay Day is a wildlife advocate.

      “This may be the last chance we have to save the elephants,” says Kimberly Kay Day, a wildlife advocate who lives in Munster and is author of The Journey of Timbo: The Indomitable Elephant, which she wrote as a way to raise money for organizations actively working to protect wildlife. Setting a goal of…