Autumn is a time to renew and build new promises. The leaves and flowershues of purple, orange, and yellow of autumnwelcome an autumn season, a heritage for time. Trees are graceful, and the autumnal season is a time for us to reflect upon and understand the changes in season and note a pattern significant to take away a few. Autumn books is to write a few stories untold of a life experienced during autumn. The books will be looked upon as memories reserved for time. Autumn is a time to listen and write new melodies, a seasons music, an autumnal classic.

In The Complete Mushroom Hunter, Revised, Gary Lincoff escorts you through the culinary history of the mushroom and on to preparing and serving the fungi.

A magazine for literature, philosophy, and religion.

For Lisa Knopp, homesickness is a literal sickness. During a lengthy sojourn away from the Nebraska prairie, she fell ill, and only when she decided to return home didøshe recover. Homesickness is the triggering event for this collection of essays concerned with nothing less than what it means to feel at home. Knopp writes masterfully about ecology, place, and the values and beliefs that sustain the individual within an impersonal world. She is passionate about her subject whether it be an endangered beetle in the salt marshes near Lincoln, Nebraska, a forgotten Nebraska inventor, a museum muralist, a paleontologist, or Arbor Day as the misguided attempt of Eastern settlers to ?correct? a perceived deficiency in the Great Plains landscape. Here is a writer who has read widely and judiciously and for whom everything resonates within the intricately structured definition of home.