Shelf Life

July 21, 2026

The New Fit: How To Own Your Fitness Journey in Your 40s, 50s, and Beyond

If you haven’t made your New Year’s Resolutions yet or you’ve already broken them and are looking around for goals you might actually be able to keep, consider Aaron Leventhal’s The New Fit: How to Own Your Fitness Journey in Your 40s, 50s, and Beyond (Triumph Books 2025). A former soccer player who played professionally…

May 19, 2026

Agave spirits explored in new book

Mezcal is a spirit shrouded in mystery, writes Tess Rose Lampert, author of “The Essential Tequila & Mezcal Companion: How to Select, Collect, & Savor Agave Spirits.” In some ways this mysteriousness is a result of its murky history that goes far back in time. Mezcal’s origins are unknown but it most likely dates back…

April 15, 2026

Children of Darkness and Light: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell: A Story of Murderous Faith

“a compelling story of the destruction and vileness [the protagonists] set in motion and the efforts to finally bring them to justice.” “By the end of 2019, Chad and Lori’s swath of destruction was nearly complete, and they enjoyed their freedom, living their best island life in Kauai. The tribulation was coming soon, and once…

April 12, 2026

The Lula Café Cookbook: Collected Recipes and Stories

After almost a quarter of a century as executive chef and co-owner of Lula Cafe, Chef Jason Hammel has written his debut cookbook about his popular restaurant in Chicago’s trendy Logan Square neighborhood. The Lula Café is often described as trailblazing with boundary-pushing new dishes gracing the menu every week and Hammel is credited with…

March 31, 2026

The Atlas of Art Crime

“On New Year’s Day in 1984, three men dressed in overalls hung a ‘Work in Progress’ sign at the front of St. John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta to prevent anyone from entering the church. Inside the cathedral is a breathtaking array of ornate decorative elements: intricate carvings, stunning paintings, and a whole lot of bling. Two…

March 29, 2026

Tough as a Mother: Women in Sports, Working Moms, and the Shared Traits that Empower Us All

This is the book we needed when our kids were little, and we were first encountering all of the obstacles that working moms face in their lives,” says Jenn Hildreth, who, with Aimee Leone, wrote Tough as a Mother: Women in Sports, Working Moms, and the Shared Traits that Empower Us All (Triumph Books 2025).…

March 28, 2026

Heartwood delves deep into a search and rescue mission

“Heartwood explores the many components of what a hunt for a missing person entails, pulling all the threads of the multiple facets of the investigation together to tell a fascinating story . . .” “We’ve searched over 4000 acres so far. At about 5000 acres, give or take, we start to get into what’s called…

March 8, 2026