Nonfiction Books

A fast-paced account of the year Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yarn, and the people and vanishing indu...

In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch—shearing, spinning, dyeing wool—and in the process discovers...

An addictively free-ranging survey of the massive impact that the humble and loveable sheep have had on human history.From the plains of ancient Me...