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Navigating the many facets of a heating planet.

Multiple-award-winning author Toni Tipton-Martin is a culinary journalist, a community activist, and the editor in chief of Cook’s Country magazine. She is the author of the forthcoming Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs, and Juice: A Cocktail Recipe Book; Cocktails from Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks, as well as The Jemima Code and Jubilee. She is a founding member of the Southern Foodways Alliance and Foodways Texas. 

Joanna Gaines, Miranda Lambert, and Alison Roman are just some of the names topping the charts.

Two forthcoming natural history titles feature birds and best practices for humans to interact with them. 

The pleasures of reading and eating combine in cookbooks focused on baked goods, vegetables, and getting better, and faster, in the kitchen.

Max Lucado is the recipient of the 2021 ECPA Pinnacle Award for his outstanding contribution to the publishing industry and society at large. He is America’s bestselling inspirational author with more than 145 million products in print. His latest book is God Never Gives Up On You: What Jacob’s Story Teaches Us About Grace, Mercy and God’s Relentless Love. 

In two new titles, the film Maurice is examined for the historical and significant role it played in gay cinema, and the TV sitcom Will & Grace gets some much deserved recognition.

Elvis is in two new books that offer a fresh look at the King of Rock and Roll. The books address the man who helped propel him to fame, the song “Hound Dog,” and the wider cultural implications of different streams of pop and rock music.

A Man of Two Faces by Viet Thanh Nguyen is slated to be published in October. While the Pulitzer Prize–winning author is known for both his novels and his works of nonfiction, this is the first time he has written a memoir. LJ Associate Editor Jill Cox-Cordova invited him to reflect on the genre, posing prompts to explore what was different about this new form and his thought process as he worked.