Nancy Clarke with Christie Matheson. Sellers Publishing, $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4162-0639-2
In this light-hearted memoir, retired White House Chief Floral Designer Clarke shares her memories of working for first ladies from Rosalynn Carter to Michelle Obama. For 25 years, Clarke worked with the presidential spouses and their staffs on a...
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Tina Miller, Author, Christie Matheson, Author, Alison Shaw, Photographer with Christie Matheson, photos. by Alison Shaw. Broadway $35 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7679-1833-6
A Martha's Vineyard native of the old school—daughter of Black Dog Tavern proprietor Allan Miller, and herself chef/owner of the much-missed Roadhouse Café and Café Moxie—Miller celebrates the fishing and farming...
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Frank McClelland, Author, Christie Matheson, Author Harvard Common $24.95 (212p) ISBN 978-1-55832-377-3
McClelland, the owner-chef at the well-regarded Boston restaurant L’Espalier, where he offers special menus with wine pairings each Monday night, aims to help people understand how to match a wine’s qualities to a dish’s flavors....
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Christie Matheson, Author Sourcebooks $12.95 (220p) ISBN 978-1-4022-1082-2
Among a sea of new books on ""living green,"" this breezy, fun-to-read guide for eco-conscious Sex-and-the-City types sets itself apart with a supportive, winning voice that's long on common sense and well-sourced info; even better, upscale...
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Christie Matheson, Author Appalachian Mountain Club $16.95 (220p) ISBN 978-1-929173-45-7
Freelance writer Matheson, a hiker and off-road biker, expounds on the all the beauty that the Union's smallest state has to offer in this enthusiastic travel guide. With 400 miles of coastline, the Ocean State has an abundance of water routes for...
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Christie Matheson. Chronicle, $19.95 (132p) ISBN 978-0-8118-7936-1
In the most recent of Chronicle’s gift-worthy single-subject cookbook (which includes Whoopie Pies and Lemon Desserts) comes a focus on Bundt cakes, by Matheson (Flour and Salty Sweets, among others). With 50-plus recipes divided into four chapters...
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Christie Matheson. Greenwillow, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-227445-8
Was Matheson inspired by Hervé Tullet’s Press Here and its concept of analog interactivity? Or is this a case of convergent evolution? In any case, Tullet fans will recognize the sequence of commands that animates Matheson’s creations in her first...
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Christie Matheson. Greenwillow, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-239339-5
Matheson brings her interactive approach to Tap the Magic Tree and Touch the Brightest Star to a garden setting, giving readers a chance to take part in the process. First, children can “press” seeds into the ground, after which Matheson instructs, “
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Gale Gand, with Christie Matheson. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-544-22650-0
Lunch is an often-underrated meal, but in her newest book acclaimed Chicago chef and TV personality Gand gives it her full attention. Gand, writing with Matheson, starts out with simple, nutritious snacks like baked kale chips; crispy roasted...
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Christie Matheson. Random House, $17.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-593-56723-4
Matheson (Shelter) channels her coaching experience into this quickly paced, empowering contemporary novel about girls’ soccer and self-advocacy. Twelve-year-old Alex, who cues as white, feels ambivalent when she’s recruited out of her beloved rec...
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Christie Matheson. Princeton Architectural Press, $18.99 (44p) ISBN 978-1-79722-849-5
Drawing inspiration from a Gary Snyder epigraph (“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home”), alliterative and assonant rhymes effectively connect nature to home in this stirring forest ode. Spare text builds charismatically from “the forest is...”
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Christie Matheson. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-72827-210-8
A narrative of nature’s rhythms twines with terms of venery and a seek-and-find vibe in this sprightly appreciation of spring. When a gray rabbit stops visiting a field to play, a concerned scurry of squirrels begin a search. They query all the...
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Christie Matheson. Greenwillow, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-06-239340-1
Matheson takes readers on a tranquil counting and bird-watching expedition. On the first page, a checklist identifies birds that readers may spot throughout: chickadee, warbler, and bluebird among them. Matheson provides quiet, guiding observations:
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