When I finished reading Food Heroes, the first book from noted financial exec turned chef Georgia Pelligrini, I started wondering what happened to the food heroes locally. I remember as a child going to a diner in Salem on Saturday mornings with my dad and seeing the farmers (who'd already been up for a few hours in the fields) drinking coffee, eating breakfast and discussing the weather, crops and gossip. I loved listening to these guys who made their living providing food.  

 "Once upon a time there was a young psychiatrist called Hector who was not very satisfied with himself". The beginning line from one of my favorite books of the last few years. French writer Francois Lelord has created one of the most charming, introspective characters you might ever read about in his short novel, Hector and the Search for Happiness.

In Indiana: One Pint at a Time, award-winning author Douglas Wissing takes the reader on a journey through the history of beer from prehistoric times through industrial brewing.

Andrew Schanie has deep New Albany connections plus a love for quality film. In this delightful collection, Andy delves into the secret and not-so-secret world of Hollywood trivia, screen-world scandal, and scintillating cinema.

This is the story of two girls from opposite sides of the proverbial tracks (or boroughs, since this is set in New York City) who are paired together for a video project that makes both girls look a little inside themselves to see what's truly important. Well-written, insightful and a lot of fun to read!
 

Hannibal's battle plan at Cannae became the mother of all great battle strategies—the first battle of encirclement that has been imitated (often to disastrous effect) endlessly over the past 2,000 years.

James Markert returns with a mysterious and moving novel about Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Sanatorium. The Requiem Rose began as a screenplay and has evolved into the beginning of a series that will bring the legends and ghosts of Waverly to life, and the history of Louisville to the forefront.

Described as a cross between Water for Elephants and Geek Love, this debut novel latches on to P.T. Barnum's American Museum as a setting, and the World's Thinnest Man (the eponymous Fortuno) as the protaganist to solve a mystery.

Peters' well-researched book tells the story of the individuals and institutions that made New Albany a place of refuge for escaping slaves during the 18th Century.

History/Indiana
McFarland & Co.
ISBN 0786410701
$49.95 (Quality Trade Paperback)

During the 75th anniversary year of the repeal of Prohibition, an emerging generation of Indiana craft beer brewers sat down with their friend and fellow beer aficionado Rita Kohn for in-depth interviews on the trials and tribulations of pursuing their passion.

What kind of shape would the U.S. be in today if FDR's New Deal policies were still being used? According to author Thomas Geoghegan, we'd look a lot like Germany. Germany's social democratic policies,  derided by some in this country, have produced a country that is debt-free, is one of the leading trade surplus countries in the world, offers free university education, provides universal health-care, etc...and Geoghegan says it's because the Allies set up the new Europe with the economic ideas of FDR and they've stayed true to most of them.

The author of Why We Buy and reveals the qualities that make products, spaces and services relevant to women consumers while tracing how the modern roles of women have evolved and citing the successful examples of major companies.