Today I want you to meet another one of our authors at Craftside blog. She is Hélène Magnùsson, the author of Icelandic Handknits. Hélène is a true Icelander (check out the view from her Reykjavik studio) and her designs speak to her experiences and heritage.

I hope the warmer weather has been finding you wherever you live. I, for one, cannot wait to get into my garden and start some planting for the summer season. I'm thinking lots of basil and tomatoes so that when I make my own mozzarella, I'll be eating the most delicious combination ever!

For many motorcycle enthusiasts, the machines themselves can be the greatest form of art. But what happens when you pair one of the greatest collections of vintage BMW motorcycles with one of the greatest photographers of our time? Something really special.

The transportation industry lost two giants over the past week, and Motorbooks is remembering their contributions to the auto industry. Bruce Anderson was a leader in the Porsche community and Phil Remington was a leader in auto racing. We've asked a couple of other industry leaders to help us pay tribute.

Colin Heaton, author of The Star of Africa, and other titles for Zenith Press will be the featured guest of Tom Gauthier Tuesday, February 19, during the weekly Military Author Radio broadcast. The live show accepts call-ins from listeners with questions for its guests. It is webcast at 7:30 p.m. CT at MilitaryAuthorRadio.com. Podcasts of all shows are stored at the site for listening after the initial broadcast.

As we head home from work every night or hit the road for a weekend road trip, we all dream of what it would be like to drive a finely tuned, corner-hugging performance car. The newest Motorbooks Workshop title, High-Performance Handling for Street or Track, can help you turn your ride into a corner-carving performance machine.

Chevy's Corvette is, without question, the most-recognized sports car in the world. And the Corvette has been a staple on the racing circuit since it was first introduced 60 years ago. Of the sports car racers I know, the majority drive Corvettes. Even my non-racing friends with Corvettes tell me they dream of what it would be like to really race their sleek machines. And every one of them who has seen the book agrees that our newest release, Corvette Racing: The Complete Competition History from Sebring to Le Mans, is the definitive word on Corvette's nearly 60 years of competition.

The stage is set for another great Super Bowl championship match up. Brother coaching against brother. An underdog that has mowed over its opponents all the way through the playoffs. A second-year quarterback who's proving himself before a national audience. These are among the stories of Super Bowl XLVII, set for February 3 in New Orleans. They are the just like the stories of the previous 46 Super Bowls that are recounted in The Ultimate Super Bowl Book by MVP Books.

There's a new performance car on the street. And its performance is insane. Want to know more? Motorbooks had rare behind-the-scenes access to the design and production of the all-new SRT Viper. And now we're telling the story in SRT Viper: America's Supercar Returns.Author Maurice Q. Liang was there through the entire process and shares the whole story of how this car came to be: the inside stories, the proposed possibilities, the pictures of what worked (and what didn't).

When I was a kid, my uncle bought a 1969 Camaro. I thought those "winking" headlights were the greatest thing ever! Every time I saw him, I'd run to the car. "Turn on the lights!" I'd yell. "Now turn them off!" Watching the headlight door open and close was great entertainment for a kid. As I got older, I realized the Camaro packed plenty of powerful entertainment for the driver as well. Now I'm reliving it all with the newly minted The Complete Book of Camaro by Motorbooks. It's a Camaro book like no other. The cover even has a headlight door that opens and closes, just like my uncle's car.