A great memoir offers the-rest-of-the-story appeal, and when the CIA, 9/11, waterboarding, whistleblowing, scapegoating, coverups, and federal prison all factor in, the page turning reaches hyperdrive. John Kiriakou spent fifteen years... Read More

"Anchor Up" is an engaging and worthwhile work not just for athletic administrators but for all business leaders. "Anchor Up" by Tim Selgo is a firsthand account of a collegiate athletic director’s exceptional career. While most of the... Read More

In the first few years of the sixteenth century, in Orvieto’s splendid medieval cathedral, Luca Signorelli painted The Last Judgment, a sprawling, shocking fresco of muscled nude men, bared buttocks, horrific violence, antichrists,... Read More

For middle-grade readers, Geraldine Mills’s "Gold" is an adventurous postapocalyptic novel about two brothers discovering the world around them—and by extension, their own past. Twin brothers Starn and Esper live in a world covered... Read More

"Crossing Ebenezer Creek" is a poignant historical novel about the meaning of freedom and the heartache of dreams. In it, Tonya Bolden has woven a haunting Civil War tale. The novel starts with an eerie reference to ghosts, ghosts that... Read More

Maud Macrory Powell’s *City of Grit and Gold *is a historical novel that places a family conflict at the center of a political battle, raising questions about privilege, duty, and assimilation. Twelve-year-old Addie lives with her... Read More

In this touching and heartbreaking novel, a young girl struggles to fit together parts of her life while dealing with a traumatic brain injury, navigating the mazes of family, friendship, and personal identity. Lorna Schultz... Read More

Elana K. Arnold’s "What Girls Are Made Of" is realistic fiction at its most touching, following one young girl’s struggles to make her way through the world using a broken frame. Her attempts to free herself from that limitation, and... Read More