The Art of Dahlov Ipcar, by Carl Little [$50.00 hardcover] – Dahlov Ipcar is best known for her vibrant collage-style paintings of jungle and farm animals. This clearly evident love of animals is due in part to the summers she spent with her family in Maine. Ipcar's talents have earned her wide recognition. Her works are included in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and the Whitney Museum in New York. Her numerous solo shows include a one-woman show at the Museum of Modern Art in 1939, when she was 21. This book represents the first retrospective publication of her work, created over a span of 70 years. At the age of 91, Dahlov still paints every day at her home in Georgetown, Maine.

Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, by Bill McKibben [$14.00 paper] – In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. For the first time in human history, he observes, "more" is no longer synonymous with "better" indeed, for many of us, they have become almost opposites. McKibben puts forward a new way to think about the things we buy, the food we eat, the energy we use, and the money that pays for it all. Our purchases, he says, need not be at odds with the things we truly value. McKibben's animating idea is that we need to move beyond "growth" as the paramount economic ideal and pursue prosperity in a more local direction, with cities, suburbs, and regions producing more of their own food, generating more of their own energy, and even creating more of their own culture and entertainment. He shows this concept blossoming around the world with striking results, from the burgeoning economies of India and China to the more mature societies of Europe and New England. For those who worry about environmental threats, he offers a route out of the worst of those problems; for those who wonder if there isn't something more to life than buying, he provides the insight to think about one's life as an individual and as a member of a larger community. McKibben offers a realistic, if challenging, scenario for a hopeful future. As he so eloquently shows, the more we nurture the essential humanity of our economy, the more we will recapture our own.