These accounts of mental illness are like a beacon of light, sending out messages of recognition and acceptance. Though everyone seems to know someone who suffers with some sort of mental illness, it continues to be a taboo subject.... Read More

Tate succeeds in luring the audience by narrating as much from the heart as from the head. Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader is an immersive, fluid, and genre-bending collection of commentary, essays, and exposition of the self, a beautiful... Read More

"Big Food Big Love" is a mouthwatering must for anyone who wants to master cooking, and devouring, Southern fare. "Big Food Big Love", by Heather L. Earnhardt, invites cooks from across culinary traditions into the generous joy of... Read More

Viva the camera as a weapon against those who seek to alter history. Indeed, memory and truth are happily captured in a photo. For nearly fifty years, on hundreds of assignment for Life and other magazines, Ted Polumbaum traveled the... Read More

This examination of a near plane crash shows that while people may fall, true heroes always work to rise again. Emilio Corsetti III explores how quickly real-life heroes can be recast as villains, in "Scapegoat", which follows a pilot... Read More

Jaap Scholten has done an extraordinary job of recording and presenting the stories of a persecution almost forgotten. In "Comrade Baron", Jaap Scholten explores a harrowing history little known in the English-speaking world. With a... Read More

This book proves to be a cornucopia of delights, and a vibrant presentation of the frenzy and hoopla that characterized Paris in the 1920s. "When Paris Sizzled" is a cultural historian’s foray into Parisian lore and culture. Mary... Read More

This is a unique, refreshing, and even hopeful look at the interplay between faith and government. Faithonomics: Religion and the Free Market, by Torkel Brekke, makes the argument that the absence of government involvement is best for... Read More